Stonepeak and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board plan to buy up to 26% of Castrol India at a premium, following a US$10.1 billion deal to acquire control of Castrol from BP. The move could shift ownership dynamics and growth plans for the Indian lubricants leader.
U.S. auto safety regulators have opened a defect probe into about 179,000 2022 Tesla Model 3 sedans after a petition claimed their emergency door releases are difficult to locate and use during power failures, raising fresh questions over the brand’s minimalist door design and real‑world crash safety.
TikTok has agreed to a new U.S. joint venture that moves control of data, algorithms and moderation to an Oracle‑backed investor group, aiming to end years of ban threats from Washington. ByteDance keeps a smaller stake while U.S. partners front security and oversight.
Truecaller has rolled out a free voicemail service for Android users in India, bringing AI-powered transcription, device-side storage, and built-in spam filtering to everyday phone calls. The move aims to replace old-school operator voicemail with a smarter, app-first experience that works in 12 Indian languages and helps users ignore nuisance and scam calls without missing important messages.
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Tata and Intel have signed a strategic alliance to build a silicon and compute ecosystem in India, covering fabs, advanced packaging and AI PCs. The tie‑up positions Dholera and Guwahati as key hubs for Intel products and next‑gen AI compute across PCs, data centres and automotive.
IBM is set to acquire data‑streaming specialist Confluent in an 11 billion dollar deal to build a smart data platform for enterprise generative AI. The move aims to link real‑time data, hybrid cloud, and AI agents so large companies can run faster, smarter applications with cleaner, connected data.
Cloudflare has restored services after a brief dashboard and firewall outage that disrupted Coinbase, Claude AI, LinkedIn, Zoom, and key trading apps. The failure, linked to a firewall rules change rather than an attack, again exposes how a few infrastructure players can shake global markets and everyday internet use.
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