US-India Tech News Update for December 16, 2025

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This episode provides an AI-generated summary of the latest news in the US and India tech and startup industries.

This is a fully AI generated summary and audio briefing of news in the US and India tech and startup industries. In tech news, Skana Robotics has rolled out a distributed decision‑making algorithm that lets fleets of autonomous underwater robots share sensor data instantly, boosting navigation safety and cutting mission overlap for offshore inspection and subsea maintenance. The solution scales to large fleets and is already attracting ship owners and oil‑and‑gas operators. Turning to funding announcements, D2C food brand WickedGud closed a fresh 2.2 million‑dollar round to deepen its omnichannel push, adding new noodle products and expanding into 5,000 stores. Early‑stage ed‑tech startup CuePilot AI raised 1.8 million dollars to power its voice‑first platform across 130 schools in India and Southeast Asia, with plans to reach a thousand schools worldwide. AI‑driven material‑discovery firm Novyte Materials secured a pre‑seed of about 0.47 million dollars to accelerate its generative‑AI platform for specialty chemicals and aerospace composites. Industrial B2B platform Magma added a $3 million tranche to its Series A, bringing the round to $8 million as it expands into five key…

Topics covered

• US-India tech news
• startup funding
• autonomous technology
• ed-tech
• B2B platforms
• electric vehicles

Keywords

• Skana Robotics
• WickedGud
• CuePilot AI
• Novyte Materials
• Magma
• Oben Electric
• Paytm Payments Services
• tech news
• startup funding

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Organizations: Skana Robotics, WickedGud, CuePilot AI, Novyte Materials, Magma, Oben Electric, Paytm Payments Services