November 20, 2025
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Agentic AI Platforms: Gemini 2.0/2.5 vs OpenAI’s o3 & o4-mini What You Can Actually Do Now

Agentic AI Platforms: Gemini 2.0/2.5 vs OpenAI’s o3 & o4-mini What You Can Actually Do Now

Tubelight Talks05 mins

Agentic AI Platforms: Google’s agentic stack has moved from demos to developer docs Gemini 2.5 Flash (price-performance “workhorse”), Computer Use that operates a web browser end-to-end, and Gemini Robotics models that plan and control real robots. OpenAI, meanwhile, has leaned into small, reasoning-centric models—o3/o3-mini and o4-mini—aimed at fast coding/math and cheaper deployment. Together, they sketch…

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Sodium-ion steps up: CATL’s Naxtra brand, mass production from Dec 2025

Sodium-ion steps up: CATL’s Naxtra brand, mass production from Dec 2025, and what segments it could replace vs LFP

Tubelight Talks04 mins

Sodium-ion steps up: CATL has introduced Naxtra, its new sodium-ion battery line, with mass production set to begin in December 2025, positioning the launch alongside its next-generation fast-charging technologies. Early company briefings indicate an energy density of around 175 Wh/kg—comparable to LFP—combined with fast-charge performance and reliable operation across extreme temperatures, from –40°C to 70°C. …

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India’s battery capacity to 100 GWh by 2026?: What that means for grid storage and e-mobility

India’s battery capacity to 100 GWh by 2026?: What that means for grid storage and e-mobility

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India’s battery capacity: At recent storage and renewables shows, industry experts pegged India’s installed battery manufacturing capacity at ~60 GWh today, with a pathway to ~100 GWh in 2026 as new lines from cell gigafactories and pack integrators come online. Treat that as directional (not guaranteed), but the implications for the power system and transport…

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Class 6 Girl Dies After Being Punished With 100 Sit-Ups: Maharashtra Tragedy Raises Big Questions

Class 6 Girl Dies After Being Punished With 100 Sit-Ups: Maharashtra Tragedy Raises Big Questions

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Class 6 Girl Dies: A heartbreaking incident from Maharashtra’s Palghar district has shocked parents, teachers, and the entire education community. A Class 6 student from a private school died nearly a week after she was allegedly forced to perform 100 sit-ups as punishment for arriving late to school. The case has now triggered a detailed…

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Accidental Blast at Nowgam Police Station in Srinagar Kills Six, Injures Twenty-Seven

Accidental Blast at Nowgam Police Station in Srinagar Kills Six, Injures Twenty-Seven: High-Level Investigation Begins

Tubelight Talks06 mins

On the night of 14 November 2025, a tragic and powerful Blast at Nowgam Police Station in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir. The blast took place during what was supposed to be a routine and controlled inspection of explosive materials. The incident claimed at least six lives and left more than twenty-seven people injured, most of…

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Malaria Vaccine at Scale: R21/Matrix-M & SII Supply

Malaria Vaccine at Scale: R21/Matrix-M & SII Supply

Tubelight Talks06 mins

The R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine—developed by the University of Oxford with Matrix-M adjuvant from Novavax and manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII)—was recommended by WHO in October 2023 and prequalified in December 2023, unlocking UN procurement and Gavi financing. By October 27, 2025, 24 African countries had introduced a malaria vaccine (RTS,S and/or R21)…

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Healthtech Inflection:

Healthtech Inflection: Oral GLP-1s Move Center Stage—Novo’s “Oral Wegovy” Filing and Lilly’s Orforglipron Plans for India

Tubelight Talks05 mins

Healthtech Inflection: Oral GLP-1s just crossed a threshold. Novo Nordisk has submitted oral semaglutide 25 mg for FDA review as a pill formulation of Wegovy, backed by OASIS-4 data showing ~16–17% weight loss and improvements in cardiovascular risk factors; fresh analyses landed at ObesityWeek 2025. Eli Lilly meanwhile confirms plans to bring its oral GLP-1…

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Helion’s “Orion” Fusion Plant: From PPA to Pouring Concrete—What Must Go Right by 2028

Helion’s “Orion” Fusion Plant: From PPA to Pouring Concrete—What Must Go Right by 2028

Tubelight Talks04 mins

Helion’s “Orion” Fusion Plant: Helion has begun site work on its first grid-connected fusion plant, Project Orion, in Washington state. The company says it remains on track to honor its power purchase agreement (PPA) with Microsoft for first electricity by end-2028, with Constellation Energy as power marketer and transmission manager. Orion targets ≥50 MWe after…

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Amaravati Quantum Valley: New hub pitch, partners (IBM/TCS), and 2030 targets—signal vs substance

Amaravati Quantum Valley: New hub pitch, partners (IBM/TCS), and 2030 targets—signal vs substance

Tubelight Talks05 mins

Andhra Pradesh is pitching Amaravati Quantum Valley (AQV) as India’s first quantum tech park. The formal centrepiece is an IBM–TCS partnership to deploy an IBM Quantum System Two in Amaravati—envisioned with a 156-qubit Heron processor, which would be the largest quantum computer in India on go-live. IBM’s newsroom and TCS’s release confirm the plan and…

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IIIT-Naya Raipur’s 6G “Cell-Free” Prototypes:

IIIT-Naya Raipur’s 6G “Cell-Free” Prototypes: DST-Funded Demo for Ubiquitous Connectivity Across Rural and Urban India

Tubelight Talks06 mins

IIIT-Naya Raipur’s 6G: India’s march toward 6G now includes a concrete cell-free network prototype from IIIT–Naya Raipur (IIIT-NR), funded under the Department of Science & Technology (DST) translation programme. The project—titled “Implementation and Prototype Design for Ubiquitous Connectivity Using Cell-Free Communication in 6G Environment”—targets a live demo in which dozens of distributed access points (APs)…

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