India’s central bank warns that AI disruption and geopolitical fragmentation are elevating external shock risks, even as domestic banks show record-low bad loans. Stress tests reveal hidden vulnerabilities that could surface under adverse scenarios.
Global markets gained $7 trillion in H1 2026, overcoming a $9 trillion Iran war shock. An AI surge in Asia and a yen crisis are reshaping risks, while gold and tech giants falter.
Stockholm’s Fika Jobs raised $4M to replace resumes with AI-led video interviews. Candidates create a single profile, and employers browse clips, paying only on hire. The model promises to uncover hidden potential but risks amplifying bias by revealing appearance upfront.
IIT Bombay and SBI Life Insurance have established the Bharat AI & Cyber Innovation Hub to create homegrown AI-powered cybersecurity solutions for India’s insurance industry. The initiative aims to reduce foreign tech dependence while training the next generation of specialists.
China’s leadership held dual meetings to address the widening gap between its thriving AI and export sectors and sluggish domestic consumption. The talks highlighted new growth drivers and structural risks, with calls for expanded imports and investment.
OpenAI GPT-5.4 and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B are now available on Kiro inside AWS GovCloud (US-West). The launch brings advanced agentic reasoning and open-weight efficiency to air-gapped, regulated environments.
The US stock market’s second-half outlook hinges on AI spending returns, stretched earnings targets, and a hawkish new Fed chair. Investor caution is rising after June pullbacks.
India is poised to shape the AI era with unique strengths in talent, regulatory openness, infrastructure, and clean energy. The country must now move from potential to scaled deployment to become an indispensable global AI node.
A sealing drive in Gurgaon’s DLF phases has left tenants scrambling. A new AI platform, StayPe.ai, and local brokers are offering free, verified housing leads to help those evicted with just hours’ notice.
Meituan has released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion-parameter AI model trained entirely on Chinese chips, marking a milestone in the nation’s push for semiconductor independence. The open-source model rivals DeepSeek’s latest but uses home-grown hardware for both training and inference.