5024: Founders, investors gear up for a ‘SaaSocalypse’; Cognizant shrugs off AI fears; and Govt expands startup definition to include deep tech firms

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In today’s Tech3 from Moneycontrol, we look at the government expanding Startup India definition to formally include deeptech firms with longer benefit windows. We also track rising fears of a SaaS reset as AI reshapes software, Cognizant’s decision to pay full bonuses amid IT services uncertainty, Fractal Analytics delaying its foundation model launch due to a GPU crunch ahead of its IPO, and Alphabet’s plan to sharply ramp up capital spending as the global AI race intensifies.

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