Shamil Khan

Zoho's Classes 2.0 embeds AI in lesson planning, grading, and a guarded tutor to ease teacher burnout and compliance woes in India. The platform is free for government schools, with a paid tier for private institutions.

CoreWeave is exploring put options and other derivatives to hedge against a potential decline in DRAM and storage chip prices, a move that underscores the financial risks cloud providers face from long-term supply deals.

OpenAI outlines five practical steps for enterprise leaders to manage AI investments as workflows shift from chat to autonomous agents. The focus: measuring useful work per dollar, not just token price.

Wall Street banks are capitalizing on an AI infrastructure boom, with executives calling it a 'super cycle' that's driving record fees from IPOs, debt, and advisory work. But as tech stocks wobble, the sustainability of this spending spree is under scrutiny.

IBM shares crashed 25%, wiping out $70 billion in market cap, after CEO Arvind Krishna conceded the company "faltered" on AI. The warning signals a brutal realignment as enterprises prioritize infrastructure over legacy software.

The MIT JARVIS Challenge pitted student teams against a four-week sprint to build a jet engine using AI. Results show AI accelerates design but can’t replace engineering judgment or hands-on manufacturing—the winning team trusted fundamentals over algorithms.

Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow sued Google for using copyrighted books to train Gemini AI without permission. The lawsuit reveals internal Google warnings of up to $100 billion in fines and seeks to halt the practice.

D-topia, a cozy puzzle game from Marumittu Games, masks a sharp critique of AI-driven optimization. Set in a utopia where an AI maximizes happiness, the game questions whether a frictionless life is worth living.

The United Kingdom is torn between chasing AI investment and fearing its risks, as the Bank of England plans to relax capital rules while its governor warns of a market correction. Meanwhile, OpenAI faces lawsuits and leadership exits that threaten its IPO dreams.

Wall Street is gripped by a paradox: AI uncertainty is rising, but both bulls and bears are more convinced than ever. A record 82% of fund managers see the AI trade as crowded, yet half dismiss bubble fears, setting the stage for a turbulent earnings season.

Twenty-six former Meta employees have filed a lawsuit claiming the company's AI software disproportionately targeted workers with disabilities or on medical leave for layoffs. The case highlights the risks of algorithmic bias in employment decisions.

Google's I/O Connect India event brought a wave of AI tools: ATL Saathi for teachers, on-premise Gemini cloud, and open security protocols. The move targets India's education and regulated sectors with a focus on data localization.

British recruitment firms are slashing costs and pivoting to temporary contracts as the Iran war and AI-driven efficiencies crush permanent hiring. Major players Hays, PageGroup, and Robert Walters reported falling net fees, with Europe weakest, while the Americas and Asia show resilience.

UK banks are shut out of Anthropic's powerful Mythos AI model, used for cybersecurity. Government AI adviser Harriet Rees warns the country must urgently build its own AI infrastructure or risk falling behind.

Rashi Desai’s analytics career has transformed as AI agents democratize technical skills. She argues that the future belongs to those who combine business judgment with AI literacy, not just query-writing.

TSMC is on track to report its fifth straight quarter of record profit, fueled by insatiable AI demand for its advanced chips and packaging. With revenue already at a new high, all eyes are on Thursday's earnings call for updated guidance and capex plans.

Oil prices spiked above $84 as clashes near the Strait of Hormuz threatened supply, while Asian markets fell sharply, led by an AI stock sell-off. The twin shocks are testing investor confidence in overvalued tech shares and raising inflation fears.

Hackers are weaponizing AI to launch sophisticated attacks, forcing companies to divert AI-driven profits into cybersecurity. The result: a never-ending arms race that could erode the productivity promise of artificial intelligence.

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son claims AI will require $5 trillion in annual investment by 2040, dismissing bubble concerns. He also predicts a world run by 100 trillion autonomous AI agents.

China's AI-native app market exploded to 499 million monthly active users, an 85.4% jump year-over-year. Doubao, Qwen, and DeepSeek lead a transformative shift in consumer AI adoption.

A 30-month study of over 26,000 Chinese students reveals that AI tools like Qwen improve homework efficiency but cause exam scores to drop by 20%, with effects worsening over two years.

The University of Chicago Law School is banning laptops and smartphones for first-year students to develop critical thinking without AI. The move comes as the legal profession faces 100% AI exposure and after an AI lawyer won its first trial.

A new attack called Ghostcommit embeds malicious instructions in PNG images to trick AI coding assistants into leaking secrets. AI reviewers overlook the payload, allowing poisoned pull requests to slip through. The technique exposes critical gaps in tool-level security for agentic workflows.

Ant Group has open-sourced SingGuard-NSFA, a safety model for AI agents that detects prompt injection, data theft, and more before action. It covers 133 languages and runs in 50ms.

Zhipu AI is pivoting to AGI research with its new 'Touch High' plan, prioritizing long-horizon tasks, autonomous agents, self-training, and safety. Founder Tang Jie’s internal letter signals a strategic shift away from commercialization in China’s competitive AI market.

China's export growth dipped slightly in June, yet the AI boom continues to fuel semiconductor demand, offsetting weakness in traditional sectors. With tariff uncertainty and sluggish domestic consumption, the economy remains precariously balanced.

Tata Consultancy Services is building a team of up to 8,900 forward-deployed AI engineers and actively seeking acquisitions in AI and cybersecurity, betting that artificial intelligence will create new business rather than undermine its outsourcing model.

As AI computing costs skyrocket, corporate giants are dominating basic research, reversing a decades-long shift to universities. This revival of the Bell Labs model could yield huge economic dividends but stirs antitrust and innovation quality debates.

Forthright Securities launches Hong Kong’s largest offline investment hub with a dedicated AI terminal, blending human advisory and machine intelligence to serve record wealth levels.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns that enterprises adopting AI risk losing proprietary knowledge, paying for intelligence twice. His 'Reverse Information Paradox' highlights how every prompt and correction feeds AI providers' learning, eroding competitive edges.