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Alibaba Group to raise $10 billion by selling shares for AI expansion
The new share placement comes as the Chinese company ratchets up quarterly capital spending to almost $10 billion, aiming to safeguard its position in a fiercely competitive global AI arena
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Time to evaluate AI's risks to institutions amid growing strategic concerns
Frontier AI is emerging as a systemic operational and geopolitical risk, underscoring the need for India to build stronger AI evaluation, oversight and resilience frameworks
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Skill ministry, Amazon launch nationwide cloud, AI skilling programme
The nationwide initiative will target 150,000 learners for foundational cloud and AI training, with 10,000 participants receiving intensive, job-ready skills
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Juicy yields pull junk bond 'tourists' towards high-grade AI debt
The fact that investment-grade rated projects are tapping junk debt investors to get at least some bond deals done underscores the feverish competition for capital
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Nvidia AI server prices set to rise over 15% amid soaring chip costs
The price hikes will go into effect on systems shipped early next year and will impact systems including those with the flagship Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell chips
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How Meta decides when AI can remove posts and when humans step in
Meta's automated systems do not send every flagged post to a human reviewer at the same stage. Its technology helps determine which content should be reviewed by people and in what order
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As AI changes pricing, IT firms see uptick in outcome-based deals
AI is pushing Indian IT companies towards outcome-based pricing, with newer deals increasingly linking payments to measurable business results
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AI lifts demand for flexible office spaces as firms seek workplace agility
AI-led hiring and workforce uncertainty are boosting demand for flexible offices, as enterprises favour scalable workspaces and GCC expansion drives leasing activity
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AI firms sharpen privacy pitch as enterprises demand control over data
Here is how OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are approaching data privacy as businesses demand greater control over sensitive information shared with increasingly capable AI models
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Use AI to reach credit invisibles: RBI DG Shirish Chandra Murmu to banks
Share of fresh businesses entering formal credit system fell to 42 per cent in FY26 from 52 per cent in FY23 even as outstanding commercial credit grew 14 per cent
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Indian workers embrace AI, but shadow AI puts firms' IP at security risk
Employees are using personal AI accounts alongside enterprise tools, creating security and compliance gaps, said cybersecurity experts
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Cerebras launches new server chip, system designed to speed AI chatbots
Cerebras makes AI hardware and chips that compete with Nvidia and targets the portion of AI called inference, the computing process of generating an answer in a chatbot such as Anthropic's Claude
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OpenAI slows model training to bolster security after Hugging Face hack
The AI research lab behind ChatGPT said it paused its model testing for two weeks and is adding other AI systems to monitor the activities of AI agents in testing
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Best of BS Opinion: Emigration must be aligned with global skills demand
Today's opinions examine skilled overseas migration, workplace child care, India's youth employment challenge, AI governance in finance and a civilian account of war-torn Beirut
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How to embrace AI: Indian IT firms gear up for the reskilling challenge
AI could disrupt millions of jobs even as it boosts productivity and creates new opportunities, forcing India's IT industry to rethink hiring, reskilling and business models
 "How to embrace AI: Indian IT firms gear up for the reskilling challenge")
Governing the AI elephant
AI is changing too fast for rigid, specific regulations to stay useful for long, but Sebi and RBI papers offer some guardrails for India Inc
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AI's fast-growing, lucrative jobs leaving women behind across the globe
Women with AI backgrounds accounted for just 13% of executive positions in the industry, compared with about 19% in non-AI sectors, according to a LinkedIn analysis
 "AI's fast-growing, lucrative jobs leaving women behind across the globe")
New factories, aircraft, AI hubs to test Tata group's funding muscle
In the first of a two-part series, Business Standard examines the funding needs of Tata Electronics, Air India, Agratas and Tata Digital - and the role Tata Sons may play in financing them
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Indian startups chase emerging global market with physical AI robots
Ati Robotics plans a US manufacturing plant, while Addverb and Novus Hi-Tech are developing physical AI robots for industrial and defence applications and exports.
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Why AI stocks could crash even if AI succeeds: ECB explains the risk
The ECB said AI can boost productivity and profits, but rising economy-wide risks could still trigger a stock correction, with a US tech sell-off potentially spreading to European markets
 "Why AI stocks could crash even if AI succeeds: ECB explains the risk")