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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Boosted by powerful new artificial-intelligence tools, Silicon Valley startups are running leaner than ever, spawning new benchmarks like revenue-per-employee and even talk of the billion-dollar, one-person company. AI coding products like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, along with AI tools for sales, marketing and other functions, have reduced the need to hire, some founders and Silicon Valley insiders say.

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cement division in 2023 after 12 years at BCG. In 2024, Abhishek Malhotra, who has worked at McKinsey and Kearneyover 10 years, joined RPSG Group as president and strategy head.

₹250- ₹270.Now let’s talk of the present. Today, India is the world’s fourth largest economy and is eyeing the number three spot. Our per capita income has crossed $3,000.

Tata Steel, India's second-largest steelmaker, aims to source half of its iron ore requirements from captive mines after 2030, down from 100% now, as steep premiums in mine auctions make relying only on leased blocks economically unviable—prompting the company to consider open-market purchases and imports to secure ore.“We will certainly look for at least 50% captive so that the operations are stable, but between 50 and 100 will probably depend on the economics,” Tata Steel chief executive officer T.V. Narendran told Mint on the sidelines of a business event on Saturday, 21 February.The shift comes ahead of the expiry of its leases in Jharkhand and Odisha by FY2030 under the amended Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, which mandates auctions for allocation of mineral blocks—which will raise raw material costs at India's oldest steelmakers, as also its peers.The steelmaker will look to buy iron ore from the open market post 2030 when its long term leases of captive iron ore mines end.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: The cost of deploying and running artificial intelligence (AI) applications is falling at an exponential pace, potentially making AI tools affordable at scale across India sooner than expected, according to Sam Altman, co-founder and chief executive of OpenAI, one of the world’s most valuable startups. Altman also dismissed the idea that companies like his would “kill" software and technology services firms, even as AI automates large parts of their core work.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : India has put forward a framework for how the country's artificial intelligence startups and the world’s frontier labs should build and deploy inclusive AI.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Financial advisor Douglas Boneparth chuckled when he saw the sharp selloff last week in wealth management stocks over concerns about tax planning updates to an artificial intelligence tool from fintech Altruist. Boneparth, who has been using Altruist’s AI-powered Hazel platform for several months, says the market was finally waking up to something he has been experiencing firsthand: AI is beginning to transform the wealth management industry.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. JPMorgan Chase’s board of directors gathered late last year at Morgan’s, an English pub on the 13th floor of the bank’s ritzy new skyscraper. When a tray of Guinnesses was served, the people overseeing America’s biggest bank noticed a familiar face floating on the foam: Jamie Dimon’s.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: The traditional red carpet at the India AI Film Festival and the AI Impact Summit this week had a distinctively digital sheen. Amidst the usual chatter of cinematography and casting, a new breed of exhibitors, AI platform developers, are spending the week pitching a radical proposition to India’s creative core: the end of the ‘producer hunt’.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Entertainment industry entities are launching new ventures and verticals that aim to either back films for the big screen or programming for streaming platforms even amid the risks of volatility in the movie business, plateauing OTT subscriptions and unsold content inventory. Entrepreneur Ananya Birla launched Birla Studios this month to produce films in Hindi, Gujarati and Malayalam, among other regional languages, and in English.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Lightspeed-backed Exponent Energy, a maker of batteries and equipment that allow rapid charging of electric three-wheelers, is setting up a subsidiary that will offer an innovative pay-as-you-go financing model to help expand its business across the country, according to top company executives. The finance subsidiary, Exponent One, will allow operators of autorickshaws to repay loans based on vehicle usage and their daily earnings instead of fixed equated monthly instalments.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As the government allocated funds to develop talent in the animation, visual effects, gaming, and comics (AVGC) ecosystem in the country, experts say the sector faces serious disruption from artificial intelligence, which may shrink job opportunities in some of these categories. In the organized sector, including feature films and OTT series, the impact will be incremental but irreversible as AI will increasingly be embedded into pipelines to reduce turnaround time, manage costs, and optimize post-production, particularly in VFX-heavy projects, according to experts.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The logo-obsessed Chinese consumer who powered a decade of luxury growth is disappearing. In their place: a new generation that wears their shopping savvy as a badge of honor.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Moltbook, a social network designed specifically for artificial intelligence (AI) agents, has rapidly gained attention since its January launch. Unlike traditional chatbots that respond to prompts, AI agents are autonomous systems that can use tools, follow multi-step plans and execute tasks independently.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The chief executives of the largest U.S. banks together raked in $258 million in compensation for 2025, after a strong economy and buoyant Wall Street propelled their businesses to record levels.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Berkshire Hathaway’s filing of its fourth-quarter equity holdings expected Tuesday will be scrutinized for any moves by Warren Buffett and his investment lieutenants during Buffett’s final quarter at the helm of the company. Buffett handed the reins to new CEO Greg Abel at the end of 2025, but remains chairman.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India's fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector majors faced a challenging quarter with the implementation of the goods and services tax (GST) rate cuts and the country's new labour codes being the key levers controlling the outcomes. GST 2.0 was expected to boost consumption, as consumers waited for price cuts to kick in from September.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI: India’s largest farm derivatives exchange, National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Ltd (NCDEX), has appointed Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) as its technology vendor, as the bourse prepares to enter the equities market. India’s largest software exporter will build the IT systems required for NCDEX to launch an equity cash segment by the end of 2026 and an equity derivatives segment by March 2027.