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Indian hospitals face ABDM Health Information Provider integration in 2026: HFR registration, ABHA linking, and FHIR R4 health records, set against the NABH 6th edition's digital-health push and the DPDP Act
A wave of 2026 laws made age assurance a shipping requirement for apps, not a nice-to-have. This is what Google Play Age Signals and Apple's Declared Age Range API actually require on Android and iOS, the region
India notified the DPDP Rules in November 2025, with core obligations 18 months out and penalties up to ₹250 crore. The data-residency and multi-region cloud architecture Indian teams should build now.
India's fitness app market reached $521M in 2025 and is projected to pass $2.9B by 2034. What it costs to build a fitness or wellness app in India in 2026, the features that matter, wearable integration after the Google
AI legal tools hallucinate on 17 to 33 percent of queries, so the legaltech you build has to be grounded and verified. A 2026 build-versus-buy guide for Indian law firms and in-house teams, plus how eCorpIT ships it.
How to integrate Google Play's Age Signals API in Android: the SDK setup, the checkAgeSignals flow, userStatus values, error handling, and what US and Indian age-assurance laws now require of app teams.
Amazon Q Business stops taking new customers on July 31, 2026, and AWS points users to Amazon Quick. This playbook covers the BYOI migration path, what does not carry over, and Quick Suite costs.
A readiness checklist for governed autonomous desktop agents: sandboxed runtimes, least privilege, human approval gates, audit trails, and evaluation, mapped to the ServiceNow Project Arc and NVIDIA OpenShell stack.
Microsoft put Mistral's open-weight Medium 3.5 into Foundry and Azure Local on July 21, 2026, from cloud to fully disconnected. How regulated enterprises should choose a deployment mode, and what control really buys.
In 2026, transcription dropped to $0.0045 a minute while enterprise conversation-intelligence seats run past $1,300 a year. For Indian SaaS, BPO and sales teams, a custom meeting-intelligence app is now a real
Ambient AI scribes cut burnout from 51.9% to 38.8% in 30 days, but time savings are modest. A build-vs-buy guide for Indian hospitals: vendor pricing, multilingual accuracy, ABDM, and DPDP consent.
Anthropic's HIPAA-ready BAA covers Claude Enterprise, the API and Claude Code with zero data retention, not Cowork or Pro. A 2026 guide to the covered surfaces and the compliance work that stays on you.
Indian enterprises lead on moving AI agents to production, but governance lags. A build-and-govern playbook using Gartner's autonomy-level model and a production-readiness checklist, with an India lens on DPDP and cost.
India's data centre numbers get quoted interchangeably, but 1.9 GW of capacity, $120 billion in commitments, and a $1.7 billion market are three different things. Here is how to read them before you decide where to host
Apple's age rating questionnaire started asking about social media capabilities on 9 July 2026, and answers become mandatory in September 2026. That question is the visible tip of an age-assurance stack that also
Meta replaced conversation-based pricing with per-message billing on 1 July 2025, service conversations have been free since 1 November 2024, and a carrier-managed RCS launch will be rejected outright without a direct
Google published its 15 July 2026 policy announcement with a 30-day compliance clock. The clarification that matters most is one sentence long: your third-party AI integrations are now explicitly covered by the User
India's GCC count hit 2,117 in FY26, inside the range forecast for 2030. That changes the build-versus-partner maths: breakeven headcount, entity load, DPDP exposure, ramp time and exit cost.
The four Labour Codes took effect on 21 November 2025 and changed what counts as wages. Every Indian payroll system has to be rebuilt around it. Here is how that lands on a build-versus-buy call, with current prices.
India now has an apex AI governance body and a standing expert committee, both constituted in April 2026. Neither is a regulator. MeitY's stated position is to use existing legislation wherever possible.
Microsoft now runs two managed Postgres services on Azure. HorizonDB's preview limitations list decides most of these choices before any benchmark does, and one of those limits rules it out for Indian workloads entirely.
Most Indian companies hold years of personal data collected before the DPDP Act. Section 5(2) says you owe those people a notice. Here is how to find that data, send the notice, and erase what you cannot justify.
Building a digital insurance product in India in 2026 means designing for a six-hour incident clock, 180 days of log retention and a regulator now auditing quote flows for dark patterns rather than trusting
The RBI's draft Guidance on Regulatory Expectations for Data Governance runs to 63 paragraphs across 6 chapters and covers 11 categories of regulated entity. Here is the engineering work it implies.
India launched SAHI, its national strategy for AI in healthcare, and BODH, an IIT Kanpur and National Health Authority benchmarking platform, on 17 February 2026. BODH lets you train on real patient data you never see
Banking, insurance and lending drown in documents. Here is how intelligent document processing automates KYC and claims for Indian BFSI in 2026, what accuracy to expect, how AWS, Google and Azure compare, and how
The digital rupee stopped chasing UPI on volume and became programmable money. Here is how fintech teams integrate e-rupee wallets, conditional welfare tokens, offline NFC and cross-border CBDC rails in 2026.
NPCI's OC-215 guidelines cap balance checks at 50 per day, account lists at 25, and status checks at 3 per transaction. Here is how to re-architect a UPI app around the limits: caching, webhooks over polling, AutoPay
Prompt injection in agentic browsers like Atlas and Comet has no reliable fix, and Atlas stops working on 9 August 2026. Here is a rollout decision and 7 controls, from isolation to DLP, for security teams.
MCP connects AI agents to your internal systems, and 78% of enterprise teams already run it. But 43% of public servers had command-injection flaws. What a production-grade custom MCP server needs in 2026, and how
A senior engineer's guide to building a real estate or proptech app in India in 2026: market demand, must-have features, real cost tiers, RERA and DPDP compliance, and where AI actually helps.
India's NPCI is designing a Unified Agent Protocol so AI agents can be registered and authorised to make UPI payments, pending RBI approval. For fintech teams, prep starts now: identity, limits and logs.
India's Account Aggregator network spans 1,120 regulated entities and 450 million fulfilled consents. A technical guide to the consent artefact, ReBIT APIs, FIU eligibility and the DPDP consent manager overlap.
Most private LLM pitches in India misread the law. DPDP mandates no blanket localisation; RBI's circular allows offshore processing if data returns within 24 hours. Here is what the rules say and what the GPUs cost.
Penalties reach ₹250 crore and full compliance is due 13 May 2027. Vendors quote ₹15 lakh to ₹2 crore. Here is what DPDP compliance actually costs a startup, and which line items you can build yourself.
Agents run heavy queries across your whole organisation. If the data is fragmented, the agent is guessing. Here is what the data layer needs before an agent is worth deploying.
Supabase direct connections top out at 500 even on the largest instance, while the pooler reaches 12,000. DPDP prohibits tracking and targeted advertising directed at children. Five architecture rules for EdTech apps
India crossed 100 crore ABHA-linked health records in May 2026, doubling in 15 months. An app that is not ABDM-certified is built for a network it cannot join. What M1 to M4 require, and where the cost goes.
Stanford found RAG-backed legal tools still hallucinate 17-34% of the time. Here is what an enterprise RAG knowledge assistant costs in 2026, which retrieval setup actually works, and how eCorpIT builds one.
Z.ai's GLM-5.2 is the strongest open-weight coding model of 2026 and a third of Claude Opus 4.8's input price. Self-hosting it is another bill: 753B parameters, 1.5 TB of weights, a GPU node rented by the hour.
A payments MVP in India runs ₹4,00,000 to ₹8,00,000, a lending platform ₹6,00,000 to ₹15,00,000, and neo-banking ₹8,00,000 to ₹20,00,000+. Regulatory compliance adds 20% to 40% on top. The rules are not a review step
iOS app development in India runs $8,000 to $90,000 and up in 2026, with engineering rates at $25 to $60 per hour and MVPs shipping in 4 to 8 weeks. The number moves on integration scope, not screen count. Here is what
Sarvam AI became India's newest AI unicorn at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by HCLTech's $150 million bet. What sovereign AI, data residency, and 22-language models mean for enterprise buyers in 2026.
India's National Health Authority is rolling out Smart Doctor, an AIIMS-built clinical decision support system, across nearly 70,000 hospitals. What it means for healthtech builders and hospital CIOs.
Enterprises are deploying AI agents fast, but 88% had an agent-related breach last year and only 21% have mature governance. eCorpIT's AI agent security service closes that gap with assessment, red teaming, guardrails
JADEPUFFER exploited a critical Langflow flaw (CVE-2025-3248) and used an LLM to chain reconnaissance, theft and database extortion with no human operator. A breakdown of the attack and a 2026 defense checklist
India now regulates AI cancer-detection tools as Class C under CDSCO, with an October 2025 draft guidance and DPDP data rules. How eCorpIT builds clinical AI aligned with CDSCO and DPDP requirements.
India's DPDP Rules took shape in November 2025, the Consent Manager framework activates in November 2026, and full compliance lands May 2027, with penalties up to Rs250 crore. eCorpIT builds fintech and healthcare apps
MeitY's IT Amendment Rules 2026 took effect February 20, defining synthetically generated information, cutting the takedown deadline to 3 hours from 36, and mandating AI labels. What platforms and brands must do.
With 34,000 subsidised GPUs, homegrown models like Sarvam, and DPDP Rules now notified, India is steering enterprise AI toward sovereign infrastructure. Here is what CTOs need to plan for in 2026.
Apple Intelligence is free on supported iPhones, but iOS 27 caps server features like image generation and lifts those caps for most iCloud+ plans. We break down the 50GB to 12TB tiers, US and India pricing, and which
Discounting is a race to the bottom. Here are seven retail and D2C technology plays Indian brands can run in 2026 — from AI on WhatsApp and ONDC to credit-on-UPI, retail media and RTO reduction — each with the 2026 data
Call Context in iOS 27 surfaces confirmation codes and booking details during business calls, processed entirely on device. Here is what the new Phone AI means for business privacy, IT observability, and DPDP compliance
A guide to Apple Intelligence in India with iOS 27: what arrives on day one in English (India), which features are US-only, and why Hindi and regional languages still wait.
How the iOS 27 Passwords app fixes weak and compromised logins in one tap, using Apple Intelligence and Safari and the W3C change-password standard. What you need, where it works, and the key security questions.
CDSCO regulates AI diagnostic software as a medical device, DPDP's health-data rules bite by May 2027, and 84 crore ABHA IDs anchor India's health-data layer. A data-architecture playbook for clinical AI teams.
DPDP Rules 2025 took effect on 14 November 2025. Consent manager provisions apply from November 2026 and broader obligations bite on 13 May 2027. This checklist maps what Indian SaaS and fintech teams must build.
AI use among Indian clinicians tripled to 41% in 2025, yet pilots stall in the ward. The five healthcare AI deployment mistakes hospitals make in 2026 - and the fixes that get them into production.
From MIT's 95% pilot-failure finding to Gartner's agentic AI warnings, here are 7 AI delivery lessons for enterprise teams: scoping, grounding, evaluation, cost control, governance, and DPDP-ready privacy.
India introduces AI in schools from Grade 3 in 2026-27 under NEP 2020. Here are 7 EdTech AI wins, from DIKSHA 2.0 to AI skilling across 18,000+ schools, plus the DPDP child-data rules founders must meet.
Export controls now decide which AI models and chips an enterprise can legally run. A 2026 field guide for CTOs and compliance teams on model choice, sovereignty, and the EU AI Act.
Clinical AI is moving from pilot to deployment across Indian hospitals, but two regulators stand between a model and the bedside: CDSCO for device safety and the DPDP Act for patient data. Here are the seven hurdles
From 2026-27 India teaches AI from Class 3 under NEP 2020. Here is a playbook for EdTech founders: aligning to the curriculum, complying with DPDP children's-data rules, and building for low-infrastructure schools.
India is moving healthcare AI from pilots to regulated deployment under CDSCO and DPDP. Here are six steps to classify, license, and run an AI medical-software product compliantly in 2026.
Quick commerce now sets the pace for Indian retail, but its 18 to 35% commissions can quietly kill a D2C margin. Here are nine practical playbooks for 2026 founders, covering channel mix, dark stores, ONDC, pricing
AI agents are reaching production faster than the controls around them. The seven governance layers enterprises need before scaling agents in 2026, mapped to the EU AI Act, NIST, OWASP and DPDP.
India's public cloud spend will hit $17.5 billion in 2026, and the bill is dollar-linked while revenue is in rupees. Six rupee-economics moves to cut your AWS bill, from GST input credit to commitment hedging.
