L’Oréal Innovist Deal: Beauty Giant Buys Majority Stake in Bare Anatomy Parent
L'Oréal, the world's biggest beauty company, has bought most of the Indian startup Innovist, which owns Bare Anatomy and Chemist…
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Crizac ForeignAdmits Acquisition: Study-Abroad Firm Buys 37.41% Stake
Crizac, a study-abroad firm, bought a 37.41% stake in ForeignAdmits, an AI edtech startup, for about Rs 1.25 crore on…
What Is GLM-5.2? The Chinese AI Model Making Silicon Valley Sit Up Again
GLM-5.2 is a new, free Chinese AI model from Z.ai. On some coding tests it beats GPT-5.5, and it costs…
Klarna and Affirm Both Made Profits — So Why Did Their Stocks Go Different Ways?
Klarna and Affirm both made a profit. But one stock went up and the other went down. Here is why…
US-Iran Oil Deal: 60-Day Licence Reopens Iran Crude, But a $5-10 War Premium Stays
After breakthrough talks in Switzerland, the US granted a 60-day licence for Iranian oil sales. Oil prices have fallen, but…
Keir Starmer Resigns as UK Prime Minister: “My Party Is Finished”
Keir Starmer has quit as UK prime minister after less than two years in the job. Here is a simple…
Big AI Deals This Week: Getty + OpenAI, DeepMind + A24, and Samsung Goes All-In
Three big AI deals this week show real money flowing into AI. Getty's photos go inside ChatGPT, Google DeepMind teams…
Sakana AI Fugu: Multi-LLM System Matches Anthropic’s Frontier Models
Sakana AI's new tool Fugu joins many AI models into one team. The company says it matches the best models,…
Indian Economy This Week: 8th Pay Commission, Core Sector, FDI, Monsoon
A plain-English roundup of four big India economy updates this week: the 8th Pay Commission starts collecting pay data, core…
India-US FTA: Piyush Goyal Draws a Red Line as USTR Greer Lands in India
A plain-English guide to the India-US FTA talks: USTR Greer visits New Delhi, Piyush Goyal draws a red line on…