Shamil Khan

India's Coforge secures a $230 million, five-year deal with a major European client for an AI-led business transformation, marking a significant step in enterprise AI adoption.

Roper Technologies raised its full-year profit forecast, betting on strong demand for AI-integrated software, offering a bright spot amid a 24% stock decline this year.

Harvard research shows junior employees who critically engage with AI gain sharper skills, while passive users risk stagnation and over-reliance.

Alphabet's first-ever cash burn, driven by soaring AI investments, rattles investors and raises tough questions for Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon ahead of their earnings.

Maharashtra becomes the first Indian state to mandate AI training for all school teachers, with a September 30 deadline to complete the 'AI Saathi' course on DIKSHA.

Anthropic is exploring mandatory 10b5-1 trading plans for all employees after going public, a governance-first approach that could set a new standard for AI startups entering public markets.

Alphabet's 80% cloud revenue growth couldn't stop a 3% stock drop, highlighting investor fears over AI costs and geopolitical turmoil.

Jeff Bezos is personally driving an AI-centric overhaul of Prime Video, known as Lighthouse, to improve recommendations and showcase Amazon's AI capabilities to over 200 million users.

U.S. stock futures fell Thursday after Alphabet and Tesla earnings revived concerns over massive AI spending without clear returns, while a jump in oil prices to $98 a barrel added to market jitters.

Elon Musk plans to produce an AI-generated version of The Odyssey using Grok Imagine, challenging Christopher Nolan's film and claiming superior historical accuracy.

Sundar Pichai defended Google's AI roadmap during an earnings call, emphasizing ecosystem scale over single-model delays and teasing a monthly cadence for Gemini 4.

Alphabet's Q2 earnings expose a growing divide: cloud revenue surges on AI demand, but the core search business shows unexpected deceleration, raising stakes for CEO Sundar Pichai's strategy.

Amazon has reduced its artificial general intelligence workforce as part of a strategic shift toward core AI initiatives, following key leadership departures and a consolidation under SVP Peter DeSantis.

The consulting industry faces a reckoning as AI threatens the billable hour, erasing $100 billion in market value from giants like Accenture. Yet a deeper shift is underway: firms are betting that human judgment and client trust will become premium assets in an automated world.

As the AI trade becomes the most crowded ever, BlackRock’s Helen Jewell identifies healthcare, Latin American, and UK equities as true diversifiers. These sectors show near-zero correlation with AI momentum and trade at historic discounts.

Meta is testing StoryKit, an AI-powered app that generates personalized children's bedtime stories from photos and chosen themes. The pilot, restricted to adults, marks another step in Meta's consumer AI expansion amid ongoing privacy and trust concerns.

The Punjab government has approved a Rs7.4 billion state-owned cloud system to power AI and digital governance. The GPU-based infrastructure aims to secure public data and eliminate dependence on external cloud providers, marking a major step toward technological sovereignty.

Google's AI search overhaul is keeping users inside its ecosystem, causing a dramatic drop in traffic to external websites. As AI Mode replaces traditional links, the open web faces an existential threat from the very company that once championed it.

Delhi's winter pollution hits hardest in the morning, when children exercise. New research shows shifting sports to late afternoon cuts PM2.5 exposure by up to 40%. AI forecasting could make this dynamic, predicting the safest hour daily.

Tesla is set to report its first quarterly cash burn in over two years as AI and robotics investments surge. With free cash flow expected to hit negative $3.3 billion, investors are scrutinizing when robotaxi and Optimus bets will pay off.

Global markets pivot from AI to oil as Middle East tensions and a potential ceasefire sway investor sentiment. Chip stocks rebound but face a valuation reckoning amid geopolitical uncertainty.

Apple’s trade-secret lawsuit against OpenAI lands just as the AI firm prepares to launch its first hardware device and a blockbuster IPO. The legal battle threatens to delay product launches and spook investors, raising high stakes for CEO Sam Altman.

Nine Entertainment is cutting 30 jobs at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, citing extreme AI disruption. The move aims to evolve newsrooms toward digital-first, data-informed roles amid falling subscription revenue and AI-driven traffic loss.

A photograph of a bird in Brazil, altered by AI, sparked false scientific debate about species migration. A new Nature article warns that such subtle manipulations are corrupting ecological datasets and misleading researchers worldwide.

Cory Doctorow’s new book introduces the “reverse centaur”: a person conscripted to assist a machine. He argues big tech is pushing AI not to empower us, but to replace workers and inflate a bubble. A sharp, satirical must-read on the real economics of artificial intelligence.

Google has released AlphaEvolve, an AI agent that automates code optimization using evolutionary algorithms. The tool is now generally available on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, but it requires a mathematically strict evaluator script, limiting its use to well-defined problems.

United Imaging Intelligence is resisting pressure for rapid AI deployment in healthcare. Co-CEO Zhou Xiang warns of immature technology and side effects, prioritizing patient safety over adoption metrics.

Moonshot AI has temporarily stopped new signups for its Kimi K3 model after a surge in demand overwhelmed its GPU capacity. The move highlights both the model's strong reception and the infrastructure challenges facing Chinese AI firms.

Alibaba unveils Qwen 3.8 Max, a 2.4 trillion-parameter AI model, amid China's escalating AI competition. The open-weight release aims to rival top U.S. models while local startup Moonshot AI grapples with surging demand for its Kimi K3.

The robots crunched every stat, predicted a tidy French win, and completely missed the wild, messy, brilliant truth—a wounded England team that played like they had nothing to lose. Sometimes the numbers lie, and the human spirit doesn't.