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Mint's queries.The launch of Mounjaro by Eli Lilly in March 2025, followed by Wegovy and Ozempic from Novo Nordisk, has pushed India’s GLP-1 drug market past ₹1,000 crore within a year, according to pharma intelligence platform Pharmarack. Yet, awareness among the broader population remains limited.

Lenskart, are also entering the fray with smart glasses aimed at real-time translation and contextual assistance.The logic is simple: if traditional smartwatches have become commoditized health trackers, AI-powered wearables could revive demand by becoming what founders describe as a “second brain”, devices that remember conversations, assist with speech, translate in real time and even complete tasks through voice commands.“AI-first wearables have the potential to revive a slowing category by transforming devices from passive trackers into intelligent companions that deliver real time health insights, personalization, and secure authentication,” said Anshika Jain, senior analyst at Counterpoint Research.Market projections reflect that optimism. The AI wearables segment in India generated $1.7 billion in revenue in 2023 and is projected to reach $12 billion by 2030, according to Grand View Research.

About a month ago, I built my first app. It was a simple speed-reader Chrome extension that is designed to display text one word at a time so I can read an article faster than normal.

India’s economy is growing fast. The speedometer looks impressive. The engine, however, is increasingly running on debt.

Before the enactment of India’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), there was very little talk of turnaround professionals. Yet, they were deployed in many companies, not as external consultants, but as individual key managerial personnel (KMP).

The AI Impact Summit held last week brought many members of the global technology royalty to New Delhi. It also featured the launch of India’s first multi-billion parameter large language model, saw announcements of big investments in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and ended with an international declaration on the need for democratic diffusion of AI. Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla set the cat among the pigeons by saying that AI may destroy the software services and business processing outsourcing businesses that are so important to the Indian economy.

Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is looking to replicate its mobile data tariff strategy in smart eyewear — betting on aggressive pricing and scale to bring artificial intelligence (AI)-powered glasses to a wider audience, analysts and industry executives in the know said.JioFrames AI smart glasses, unveiled last year at RIL's annual general meeting, are expected to hit the market in the next 2-3 months, an industry executive said, adding that prices are likely to be significantly lower than the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses that are available in the market. Analysts expect Jio Platforms to price its smart glasses below ₹10,000, roughly a third of the starting price of the Gen 1 variant offered by market leader Ray-Ban Meta, which sells at around ₹30,000.Smart glasses combine traditional eyewear with built-in speakers, microphones and AI features, allowing users to listen to music, take calls, capture photos and access digital assistance without pulling out a phone.The market for smart glasses has started heating up, with companies such as Lenskart and AI platform Sarvam also looking to launch these products.

On 27 February, India’s statistics ministry is expected to release the second of the three major macro-economic variables—retail inflation, GDP and Index of Industrial Production—currently being revamped. As with last month’s inflation number, the new GDP series will have a new base year (2022-23) and feature extensive changes in methodology and coverage to better reflect the state of our economy.Globally, decision-makers rely on economic statistics as a dashboard to frame policy.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Ever wanted to buy an outfit or accessory the minute you saw it on a streaming show? Such impulse purchases are now possible thanks to Shop the Look, an interactive e-commerce feature that lets you buy those items directly while watching a show. JioHotstar has launched an in-stream feature that allows viewers to explore and purchase what’s called on-screen looks in real time without interrupting playback or leaving the app.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Work is full of time-sucking, tedious or annoying tasks, particularly when you’re on a computer. I used to spend hours on stupid chores like reorganizing someone else’s messy spreadsheet.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Last week, Amul launched Sarlaben, an AI-powered digital assistant for dairy farmers in Gujarat. It will benefit over 3.6 million milk producers, most of them women, across more than 18,500 villages.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The AI capability we unlocked today is based on a tool—PaperBanana. Academic researchers spend countless hours manually creating methodology diagrams, system architectures, and statistical charts for their papers.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. OpenAI has cut ties with one of its top safety executives, on the grounds of sexual discrimination, after she voiced opposition to the controversial rollout of AI erotica in its ChatGPT product.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Hindi language filmmakers who have increasingly begun to bank on the trend of ‘spiritual sequels’ – films that may be similar in tone or theme to an earlier hit, but not a direct continuation of the plot, or even those that feature the same cast – may be in for legal challenges. Film production and distribution house Eros International Media has filed a suit in the Bombay High Court against filmmaker Aanand L Rai and his production house Colour Yellow Media Entertainment LLP.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Once in a while, a book comes along that articulates exactly what you have been thinking for years. Why Personal Finance is Broken and How to Fix It by John Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai, two distinguished academics with deep knowledge of both Western and Indian financial systems, is precisely such a book.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : India’s scale and growth, combined with increasingly sophisticated capital markets, have helped Warburg Pincus’s India franchise to become the firm’s largest investment destination outside US, senior executives said at a media roundtable in Mumbai on Wednesday. “India is the largest private equity destination for us outside the US.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The budget reaffirms a defining feature of India’s economic strategy over the past decade: growth anchored in reform, investment and macroeconomic credibility. Rather than announcing isolated measures, it presents a coherent growth compact built on multiple pillars to strengthen its foundations while adapting to a complex global environment.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BENGALURU: Quick commerce platforms are pushing shoppers to buy in bulk to lift order values, but analysts warn the discount-heavy tactic may deepen, not solve, their profitability challenge. Swiggy Instamart and Zepto are doubling down on bulk-purchase and planned-order features, betting that nudging customers to buy more per order will raise average order values (AOV) and improve unit economics.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman delivered her ninth consecutive Union Budget speech on Sunday, at a time when global geo-economic upheavals weigh on India. While each Budget speech reflects the economic context of its moment, its emphasis and vocabulary also shift over time.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Finding comfort in the stock market is not easy right now. Prices have risen faster than dividends, and yields have declined across much of the market.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. So iPhone buyers aren’t waiting around for better artificial-intelligence features. For Apple that is both good and bad news.