From QNu Labs’ Rs 200-crore raise and leadership changes at Snap to payments moves by Jio Payment Solutions and Pluxee, YourStory brings you today's headlines and the latest news across sectors. Quantum cybersecurity startup QNu Labs raised Rs 200 crore in a Series A1 round led by the National Quantum Mission and Speciale Invest, with Sony Innovation Fund, Gaja Capital and Artha Ventures participating. The company will expand R&D and go-to-market in India and overseas. Ajit Mohan has stepped down as Snap’s Chief Business Officer and will return to Singapore to spend more time with his family. Snap has named EMEA President Ronan Harris as Chief Commercial Officer as part of the leadership changes. Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon has resigned after three years in pretraining roles across OpenAI and Anthropic, warning that top labs are racing toward self-improving superintelligence without adequate safety focus. He said the industry’s private misgivings about risks are greater than public statements suggest. Jagriti Sewa Sansthan’s Women’s Centre of Excellence in Deoria, Uttar Pradesh, is helping women build sustainable digital businesses through incubation, mentorship, market access and ecosystem building. The story traces Jagriti’s evolution from vocational training to enterprise support across Purvanchal. In an interview, IBM Distinguished Engineer Rahul Rao said AI delivers value only when employees can integrate it into everyday workflows, supported by governance, data and infrastructure readiness. He added that flexible architectures are needed to balance performance, energy efficiency, and cost across environments. Cooling-as-a-service platform Circolife raised $4.5 million, Rs 40.45 crore, in a pre-Series A round anchored by Bharat Jaisinghani. Other participants included Nitish Mittersain, Intelliquity Ventures, Sumit Jalan, Siddharth and Anand Ladsariya, Anant Goenka, Sky Impact Capital, and the S N Damani and Vyom Wealth family offices. The company said proceeds will fund fleet expansion, national rollout, and its AI-augmented IoT platform. Founded by Abhishek Murarka, Tushar Patil and Devanshu Mishra, Circolife offers subscription-based cooling for businesses. According to the company, it has about 10,000 active subscriptions across five cities and targets 40,000 units in 24 months. It added that connected sensors enable predictive maintenance, supported by in-house service teams and refurbishing facilities in Mumbai and Delhi. Wipro has launched a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Command Center in collaboration with CrowdStrike to help enterprises shift from tool-driven security to a risk-led operating model. The centre uses Wipro Intelligence solutions, CyberTransform and CyberShield, with the CrowdStrike Falcon platform to unify endpoint, cloud, exposure and AI security with SOC-based detection and response. Wipro said the centre will translate security signals into business risk intelligence. CrowdStrike’s Daniel Bernard s
