Charging restrictions add EV roadblocks; Tata 1mg’s pet care play

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To curb user harm from AI-generated deepfakes and synthetically produced content, the IT Ministry has proposed draft amendments to IT rules that mandate labelling and prominent markers to ensure users can distinguish AI and real content.

Meanwhile, YouTube plans to help viewers better manage their time instead of mindlessly scrolling. The company has added a new feature that enables users to add a time restriction on watching short videos. Doomscrolling begone!

Elsewhere, top AI assistants misrepresent news content in nearly half their responses, according to new research published by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC.

The study assessed AI assistants in 14 languages for accuracy, sourcing, and ability to distinguish opinion versus fact. The bots included ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity, Reuters reports.

ICYMI: Amazon Web Services went down earlier this week, crippling thousands of services from some of the biggest companies on earth. The outage shows the fragility of the global economy. 

Lastly, here is what it feels like to live in the world’s smartest cities in 2025.

In today’s newsletter, we will talk about 

• Charging restrictions add EV roadblocks
• Tata 1mg’s pet care play
• Fashion empowering acid attack survivors 

Here’s your trivia for today: In what city would you find the most famous street named "La Rambla"?

Insight

Charging restrictions add EV roadblocks

Earlier this month, proposed amendments to the National Building Code sent shock waves across the electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem for introducing stringent regulations that might stall the adoption of EVs in the country.

Citing fire safety concerns, the provisions permit EV charging only at the ground level, or within the first basement level, if allowed, and that too in compartmentalised spaces not exceeding 200 square metres. These provisions are expected to throw a wrench in the urban mobility landscape that is increasingly becoming electric.

Infrastructure concerns:

• In urban cities in India, many apartment complexes and office spaces have partnered with charging operators to set up the infrastructure in basement-level parking spaces to encourage and facilitate wider EV adoption—a key factor contributing to India’s 2030 goal of achieving 30% EV sales.
• While historically EV sales in India have been led by two-wheelers, four-wheeler sales are gradually picking up in the country owing to mature charging infrastructure and a wider range of EV models. However, the provisions will make customers more apprehensive about purchasing electric vehicles.
• Blanket restrictions on EV charging infrastructure in these zones risk slowing adoption and undermining the collective effort to reduce urban emissions and meet sustainability goals, according to S Raghav Bharadwaj, Founder and CEO at EV charging startup Bolt.Earth.

News

Tata 1mg’s pet care play

Online pharmacy player Tata 1mg has entered the pet care segment with the launch of PawnNPurrs, a new category for pet medicines and supplements available on its existing app.

The expansion marks the company’s move to extend its healthcare offerings to include pets, reflecting the growing demand in urban India.

Branching out:

• The Gurugram-based player plans to leverage its established strengths in sourcing, supply chain, and cold-chain logistics to ensure safe and timely home delivery of pet care products.
• The service will focus on Rx-led(those that require a prescription) assortment, including pet medicines and supplements. This will also extend to food and grooming assortment from the top brands.
• The service will be rolled out pan-India across 22,000 pincodes, with plans to make the products available across Tata 1mg’s retail stores and other sales channels. There are no plans to develop a separate app for the offering so far.

Social Impact

Fashion empowering acid attack survivors

In 2009, in the corridors of Bengaluru's St John’s Hospital, while organising an art therapy session for disabled children, Kulsum Shadab Wahab came across a woman whose face told a story of horrific violence. She was an acid attack survivor, a term unfamiliar to Wahab at the time.

That encounter in the hospital ignited a movement that has now reached the runways of Milan Fashion Week, empowered over 123 survivors across India, and created a global community of allies fighting for justice and dignity for acid attack survivors through her fashion brand, Ara Lumiere. 

News & updates

• Job cuts: Meta is cutting roughly 600 positions out of the several thousand roles within its Superintelligence Labs artificial intelligence unit, Axios reported on Wednesday. The cuts will affect the company's Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) unit, product-related AI and AI infrastructure units, according to the report, which cited an internal memo.
• Robo taxi: Chinese tech giant Baidu said on Wednesday that its robotaxi unit will start test drives in Switzerland in December, as firms race to get their vehicles on European roads.
• Cyberattack: The hack of Jaguar Land Rover, owned by India’s Tata Motors, cost the British economy an estimated 1.9 billion pounds ($2.55 billion) and affected over 5,000 organisations, an independent cybersecurity body said in a report published on Wednesday.

In what city would you find the most famous street named "La Rambla"?

Answer: Barcelona

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