Waaree Clean Energy Solutions is vertically integrating across solar, specialty gases, and data centers to supply India's semiconductor and AI infrastructure needs. The company announced new data center subsidiaries and partnerships while expanding production capacity, with Q1 FY26 revenue up 31% to 4,597 crore. Nebius is seeing contracted annual revenue per gigawatt of data center capacity rise from $6 billion to potentially $40 billion by 2027, driven by AI demand and premium pricing for managed infrastructure.
Google Chrome is rolling out new features to improve research and studying, including cross-device tab switching that remembers scroll position and form progress, plus expanded Gemini AI capabilities to analyze podcasts, videos, and other media to generate summaries and interactive quizzes.
Starbucks plans to close 250 stores in the US and Canada this week, representing a 1% reduction in its North America portfolio as part of CEO Brian Niccol's turnaround strategy. The company is simultaneously remodeling other locations and reported strong third-quarter same-store sales growth of 7.9%, exceeding Wall Street expectations.
Google is rolling out Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS models that can clone voices from 30-second samples and perform scripts with controllable accents, emotion, pacing, and dialogue. The technology supports over 100 languages, offers 2,000 production-ready voices, and includes safeguards like consent verification and SynthID watermarking. The models are available in Gemini Notebook, Google Vids, and through the Gemini API for developers.
Wall Street analysts criticize AI capital expenditure by Meta while praising Apple's restraint, though some argue heavy investment is necessary for innovation. Meanwhile, Indian company Waaree is building an integrated supply chain from solar to semiconductors to data centers, capitalizing on parallel growth in AI infrastructure. Market analysts expect AI infrastructure stocks to drive significant S&P 500 earnings growth in 2026 but anticipate slower capital spending as datacenter buildout completes in 2027.
IIT Delhi researchers have developed India's first indigenously designed micro-GPU architecture for embedded applications, demonstrating programmable graphics rendering on an FPGA platform. The scalable processor is intended for industrial displays, navigation systems, and affordable visualization devices, with plans to migrate to 65nm ASIC technology.
India's outsourced software industry expanded 9.5 percent, reaching a market value of $239 billion, demonstrating continued growth in the global IT services sector.