🚀 Daily Tech & AI Update – Stay Informed, Stay Ahead (Jan-29 and 30-2026)

🚀 AI & Tech Launches / Product Updates

• Pocketful launches Pocketful GPT — India’s first AI-powered trading assistant to make stock and investment decisions smarter and easier, marking an early wave of AI in personal finance.

• Google’s Gemini AI adds JEE Main practice tests in India — AI now powers mock exams for engineering aspirants, significantly expanding educational use cases of generative models.

• Google DeepMind opens access to Project Genie — a new AI world generator that creates interactive virtual environments from simple prompts, highlighting generative AI moving into creative spaces.

💼 Funding, Acquisitions & Corporate Moves

• Apple acquired Israeli audio AI startup Q.ai — bolstering its AI capabilities in next-gen audio processing technology, accelerating differentiation in consumer AI experiences.

🧠 AI Integration & Workforce Initiatives

• Protean eGov Technologies begins AI-First transformation internally to build a future-ready workforce, signaling how enterprises are operationalizing AI across functions.

🌍 Government & Technology Policy Moves

• Karnataka Innovation Act enables a tech regulatory sandbox — designed to let startups test emerging technologies under regulatory oversight, a major policy push for safe innovation.

🇮🇳 Strategic National Infrastructure Expansion

• Dell & Nvidia partner with NxtGen to build India’s first AI factory — expanding national AI infrastructure and large-scale compute capacity to support startups, enterprises, and research.

🔐 Cybersecurity & Risk Developments

• U.S. cyber agency chief uploaded sensitive files to ChatGPT — triggering an internal DHS review and highlighting serious data security risks in using public AI tools for sensitive information.

📈 Market & Sector Movements

• U.S. stock markets closed lower as AI spending pressures tech valuations, notably dragging Microsoft shares amid investor concerns about AI investment returns; this reflects market sensitivity to AI ROI signals.

🎓 Education & AI Adoption Trends

• India’s classrooms driving new AI education patterns — highest usage of Google’s AI tools seen in education in India, reshaping how AI products are adopted globally.

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