Shamil Khan

TCS’s hiring rebound and prior layoffs highlight India’s inability to measure AI’s true impact on employment, as entry-level roles vanish without a trace.

Circles built an AI-native telco stack on OpenAI's platform, achieving a 22% ARPU increase and 9% churn reduction with a multi-agent concierge that resolves 65% of support issues autonomously.

Pathos AI acquires global rights to JSKN016, a promising TNBC drug, from Jiangsu Alphamab in a deal valued at up to $2.09 billion, aiming to use AI to compete with established therapies.

OpenAI's GPT‑Live voice system achieves human-like conversational rhythm by streaming audio continuously, with a dedicated media path and asynchronous reasoning.

The Bayreuth Festival’s 150th anniversary staging of Wagner’s Ring cycle used AI to generate real-time visuals, but the result was a disjointed, unmoving spectacle that left singers stranded behind a screen and drama in tatters.

When a CEO found her AI-drafted speech too safe and generic, it exposed a critical flaw in using generative AI for leadership messaging: the technology's tendency to produce statistically average text that erases the human judgment and emotional candor essential for inspiring teams during challenging times.

DeepSeek's V4 Flash model disrupts the AI market with 99% lower costs than Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8, intensifying the industry price war and fueling the commoditization of AI.

A source close to Moonshot AI has denied a report that the Kimi chatbot maker will file for a Hong Kong IPO this month, though the company's long-term listing ambitions remain unclear.

IIM Calcutta's proposed AI-first Online MBA for working professionals integrates artificial intelligence across the curriculum, offering a full degree and alumni status without career breaks.

SpaceX's first earnings since its $86 billion IPO will show if Starlink's profits can support Musk's AI ambitions, with capex set to surge and shares under pressure.

The Guardian's Football Weekly panel unpacks how artificial intelligence is transforming player recruitment, fueling transfer gossip, and challenging the intuition of traditional scouts.

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter AI model, becomes the top Chinese text model on Arena.AI and ranks second for vision, intensifying the open-weight AI race.

Andrew Stein’s Disruption arrives Off-Broadway with a top-tier cast, but its outdated AI insights fail to match the pace of modern technology.

Google’s massive Visakhapatnam data centre could source clean energy from farmer-owned agrivoltaic systems, turning a power challenge into a rural prosperity engine.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman criticizes Google's AI Overviews for failing to deliver value to publishers, revealing tensions over a $60M deal and declining search traffic.

An IIT Hyderabad MTech student’s hybrid physics-ML tool helps small manufacturers slash cold-forging defects, winning a gold medal and a job in Japan.

India's Munich consulate deploys an AI avatar, Sarathi, to deliver video advisories on visas and passports, signaling a shift toward automated, visual-first diaspora communication.

Apple's worst single-day stock drop since 2020 hands the world's most valuable company title back to Nvidia, as AI-driven chip shortages cripple iPhone and Mac production.

IIT Kanpur unveils a six-month online certificate course in AI and machine learning for business analytics, starting October 3, 2026, aimed at bridging India's AI skills gap.

Singer Madhubanti Bagchi, fresh off recreating the iconic Rambha ho for Dhurandhar, dismisses AI music tools as stupid and more annoying than unnerving, highlighting the irreplaceable value of human artistic judgment.

Silicon Valley VCs defend the AI funding frenzy as a necessary catalyst for building infrastructure and driving breakthroughs, even as valuations soar and warnings of a bubble grow louder.

A $2 million deal for Jerry Falade's debut crime novel collapsed after his agents said they could no longer authenticate the manuscript, amid broader debates over AI use and racial bias in publishing.

OpenAI has slashed prices for its Luna and Terra AI models, dropping Luna's cost by 80% and Terra's by 20%, as it battles Anthropic and Chinese competitors in a heating AI market.

Indian stocks, especially IT shares, are rallying as global investors flee overcrowded AI bets, with the Nifty IT index posting its best month in years.

Duke University researchers have built Raygun, an AI that compresses proteins to a fraction of their size while keeping them functional, opening new possibilities for gene therapy and drug delivery.

As China pushes AI at scale, workers from Wuhan taxi drivers to Beijing cinematographers face wage collapse and replacement, prompting rare government acknowledgment of social tensions.

Reddit's Q3 revenue forecast of up to $870 million, driven by a 70% jump in advertiser count from AI tools, overshadows slowing U.S. user growth and search referral volatility.

OpenAI has updated pricing for GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna on Amazon Bedrock, matching first-party rates and integrating with AWS commitments, while Sol pricing remains unchanged.

A Harvard Business Review roundtable with Kate Niederhoffer and Thomas Davenport uncovers the hidden organizational dynamics—trust, work redesign, talent, and judgment—that determine AI adoption success.

Citadel has purchased most of Situational Awareness's public stock portfolio following an AI-driven market rout that erased massive gains for the hedge fund.