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Visa, Mastercard and Ant are trying to standardise how payment systems identify AI agents
The three payment firms are working on a shared 'Know-Your-Agent' framework as autonomous software begins making purchases on users' behalf.
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UIDAI has opened Aadhaar face authentication to native apps with a new SDK and sandbox
The toolkit adds native Android and iOS integration, liveness checks and a testing environment for entities building face-authentication services.
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India has joined a 6G security initiative with a target of shaping global standards, not just deploying networks
The government's 6G strategy is increasingly about patents, standards and trusted infrastructure rather than simply being early to launch a service.
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A Delhi High Court PIL is targeting infinite scroll and autoplay, not just harmful content
The petition argues that engagement-maximising design itself should be examined as a regulatory issue, especially for young users.
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Adyen is expanding in India as global payment firms rethink the UPI market
The Dutch fintech sees long-term opportunity in cross-border commerce and India’s fast-growing digital-payments ecosystem.
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Pune Police will use AI to predict congestion during Ganeshotsav
The Trafficure platform will analyse patterns in real time and help officers redeploy personnel before bottlenecks worsen.
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Fintech is moving from payments to agentic AI, tokenisation and quantum
Global Fintech Fest 2026 puts emerging technologies at the centre of the next phase of digital finance, with inclusion and trust as the policy test.
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UPI could have reached deeper into Asia. India stopped the Alipay+ link
A proposed cross-border payments connection ran into the hardest question in digital infrastructure: how much convenience is worth giving up control over financial data?
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India wants its official systems to run on one clock
New Legal Metrology rules make IST the common reference for legal, administrative and commercial systems. The change takes effect after 180 days.
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IT hiring is coming back. The mix of jobs has changed
Active demand in IT services has reached about 57,000 roles, an 18-month high. Nearly 60% of the openings are for mid-senior and senior talent.
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US judge rules Pentagon’s Anthropic blacklisting unlawful
The ruling found unlawful retaliation and due-process failures in the Pentagon’s treatment of the AI company.
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More than 100 companies call for a defensive surge against AI-driven cyberattacks
OpenAI, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and others warned that AI-enabled hacking could become far more widespread in the coming months.