Artificial Intelligence

Only 1% of engineers work in FDE roles despite rising AI demand: Report

While companies globally are increasingly citing AI adoption as a reason for job cuts, demand is growing for a specialised engineering role in the IT industry

Updated On: 23 Oct 2026 | 12:09 PM IST

What Eternal’s Dark ai promises

Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal is developing Dark.ai, a privacy-focused AI assistant that promises encrypted conversations and user-controlled memory. With a global launch targeted for the end of 202

Updated On: 23 Oct 2026 | 11:48 AM IST
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AI data centre backlash threatens Australia's $70 billion investment boom

Of the 40-plus large centers planned or under construction in Sydney and Melbourne, just 23% have confirmed publicly that they have secured electricity supply or grid connections

Updated On: 23 Oct 2026 | 9:31 AM IST

OpenAI shifts valuation to $1.25 trillion as funding talks near final stage

The ChatGPT maker shifted the value discussed in the talks by $150 billion, from $1.4 trillion

Updated On: 23 Oct 2026 | 9:09 AM IST

What is PHP? Why are governments and businesses worldwide going offline?

A critical security flaw in the programming language underpinning much of the web has prompted a global rush to patch vulnerable systems

Updated On: 23 Oct 2026 | 8:43 AM IST

Microsoft develops AI tool that can diagnose 'sequentially' like doctor

A Microsoft AI tool that mimics doctors' step-by-step diagnostic process outperformed general physicians on complex medical cases and emergency room scenarios

Updated On: 23 Oct 2026 | 8:30 AM IST

What are AI neolabs and why are they betting on safe superintelligence?

Superstar AI researchers are leaving tech giants to build independent research laboratories. Interestingly, one theme is emerging as central to the objectives of some of these labs

Updated On: 22 Oct 2026 | 5:02 PM IST

UK tax authority plans digital ambassadors to counter AI misinformation

HMRC plans to deploy digital ambassadors on platforms such as Reddit and make official guidance easier for AI models to access, amid concerns that chatbots are spreading inaccurate tax advice

Updated On: 22 Oct 2026 | 10:25 AM IST

Chinese-linked hackers use AI to compromise firms globally: Microsoft

Microsoft said the incident demonstrated how threat actors were using AI agents to automate existing attack methods and attempt to compromise multiple organisations at greater speed

Updated On: 22 Oct 2026 | 9:29 AM IST

Can AI keep your secrets safe? Eternal's dark.ai to offer encrypted chats

Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal plans to launch dark.ai, a privacy-focused AI assistant for founders, researchers, businesses and governments, globally by the end of 2026

Updated On: 22 Oct 2026 | 9:26 AM IST

AI-led IPOs may add up to $100 billion to India's market-cap: Goldman Sachs

The investment bank estimates that 25-50 per cent of nearly 70 mid-to-late-stage private AI companies could go public in the next two to five years.

Updated On: 21 Oct 2026 | 12:15 PM IST

The great bull-market in India is over; prefer bonds, cash: Marc Faber

Foreign investors, Faber said, will reduce their exposure to markets around the world. "That is one reason I am reasonably positive about the US dollar," he added.

Updated On: 21 Oct 2026 | 11:13 AM IST

DeepSeek unveils open-source tool to cut AI operating costs for businesses

The service, called DeepInfer, is software DeepSeek uses to make its models run faster and use computing resources more efficiently

Updated On: 21 Oct 2026 | 10:29 AM IST

AI to spur Southeast Asia's digital economy to $368 billion, shows study

Online spending across the region will rise about 17% this year to $368 billion, a report from Google, Temasek Holdings Pte and Bain & Co. showed

Updated On: 21 Oct 2026 | 9:19 AM IST

Anthropic may spend $750 billion on computing costs as IPO plans advance

The artificial intelligence firm had a net loss of $80.7 billion in the first half of 2026

Updated On: 21 Oct 2026 | 8:41 AM IST

Anthropic reports net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026

The loss, up from $13 billion a year earlier, was driven by $72 billion in accounting charges tied to changes in the ‌value of financial instruments Anthropic issued to raise ​money

Updated On: 21 Oct 2026 | 8:30 AM IST

Agents turned off alerts, weakened system that flags AI misbehavior: OpenAI

In a blog post Tuesday, the company said that it is assessing whether such cases are indicative that its AI models have a wider propensity to avoid being monitored

Updated On: 21 Oct 2026 | 8:29 AM IST

Global stocks fall as AI spending concerns resurface, oil prices surge

Global equities declined as concerns over AI infrastructure spending resurfaced after a weak South Korean IPO, while Brent crude topped $111 amid renewed geopolitical risks

Updated On: 20 Oct 2026 | 11:15 PM IST

Visa teams up with billing firms to enable AI-driven invoice payments

Visa is partnering with BILL Holdings and Billtrust to pilot AI agents that can initiate and complete business invoice payments using tokenised credentials without human authentication

Updated On: 20 Oct 2026 | 10:02 PM IST

China's CXMT swings to profit as AI demand fuels memory chip price surge

Chinese chipmaker CXMT expects a sharp turnaround in profit for the first nine months of 2026 as AI-driven demand pushes up memory chip prices and boosts global sales

Updated On: 20 Oct 2026 | 9:56 PM IST