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How China is redesigning higher education, and should India follow?

As AI reshapes job skills, China is redesigning higher education around technology and labour-market needs. Should India adopt parts of its approach without sacrificing academic autonomy?

How AI is turning big tech into industrial giants

AI is reshaping more than software—it's transforming Big Tech into infrastructure giants. Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta are investing billions in data centres

Chinese startup Moonshot's AI model escapes testing sandbox: Researchers

AI ​models are typically run in isolated 'sandboxes' during cybersecurity tests to block access to external information and assess their ability to solve problems independently

OpenAI flags possible critical cybersecurity risk in upcoming model Astra

Preliminary ​evaluations over the past several days, along with outside expert assessments, indicated Astra may be capable of performing increasingly sophisticated cyber tasks autonomously

Blue Cloud Softech's US arm signs $150 mn AI infra deal with SpaceX Int'l

Blue Cloud's US subsidiary will provide AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, telecommunications and data centre solutions to SpaceX International under an 18-month agreement

AI data centres' volatile power demand strains equipment, threatens grids

As the AI boom accelerates, these technical problems suggest added costs and unforeseen reliability problems, with even a few minutes of lost uptime hitting data-center developers' revenue

Samsung studying consumer AI use to shape future smartphone experiences

Samsung Electronics is closely tracking how consumers are adopting and using artificial intelligence (AI) in their everyday lives, with the company relying on feedback from local markets to shape future AI experiences, a top Samsung official said. Samsung Electronics Corporate EVP, Head of Customer Experience Office, MX Division, Jay Kim said Samsung's goal is to make AI work seamlessly in the background, enabling users to complete tasks effortlessly without having to think about the underlying technology. "We are now focusing on how consumers are adopting AI, reacting to it, and using it. We are getting a lot of feedback from local markets, and we will gradually apply the learnings. I would say that we are in an early stage in terms of understanding how AI actually helps consumers' lives every day," Kim said. South Korean electronics company Samsung first launched Galaxy AI on the Galaxy S24 device in 2024 and had focused it on three principles -- meaningful features, ease of acces

How do you excel in tomorrow's workplace?

In this session, Gaurav Agarwal talks about AI, its impact on the future of the workplace and provides career tips to the B-Schoolers. >

Centre asks Meta to act against deepfakes, probes role of algorithms

Government may seek legal opinion on further action against Meta after reviewing outcome of recent meetings; other digital platforms could also come under scrutiny

OpenAI pauses work on new Astra model to boost safeguards over cyber risks

The ChatGPT maker said the unreleased model may cross its 'critical cybersecurity threshold' and develop zero-day exploits autonomously

Best of BS Opinion: India must hold the line on climate action

Today's opinions examine India's climate diplomacy lessons, vaccine resistance amid medical advances, AI's real-world limitations, RSS outreach to Gen Z and the growing threat of cognitive warfare

AI is transforming tech, but its wider revolution is still delayed

Despite its promise, AI remains a collection of narrow conveniences and hidden algorithms for most people

US vaccine policy risks undermining use of tech to advance medical science

Flaws in US vaccine policy could make it impossible to leverage technology in optimal ways to advance medical science

Alibaba plans to charge big users of its next open-source AI model

Alibaba plans to ask major commercial users of its upcoming Qwen open-source AI model to share revenue, mirroring rival Moonshot's licensing strategy as Chinese firms refine their monetisation models

New OpenAI device to be hockey puck sized with unique look, cost over $300

The product, essentially a smart speaker without a display, will be shaped like a doughnut that's roughly the size of a hockey puck

Best of BS Opinion: Stock exchange closing auction system needs review

The day's opinion highlights flaws in closing auctions, the funding challenge in digital payments, humane KYC, cognitive warfare and everyday gender discrimination

SoftBank Group posts lower drop of 18% in Q1 profit, gain on Intel stake

SoftBank's Q1 profit beat estimates, driven by gains on Intel and ByteDance investments, as investors tracked its growing AI bets and OpenAI exposure

Nandan Nilekani on the impact of AI: Small firms, not big, to create jobs

Nilekani said large companies would likely become "net job losers" as AI automates routine tasks, while employment would increasingly come from small firms

Can the India-US tax treaty survive an AI-dollar deluge in the digital era?

India's AI ambitions demand a rethink of the India-US tax treaty to clarify taxation of cloud services, AI subscriptions and cross-border digital revenues

Sebi to leverage WhatsApp for AI-enabled safe investing awareness campaign

Markets regulator Sebi plans an AI-enabled multilingual WhatsApp campaign to spread verified safe investing information as part of its 2026-27 digital transformation agenda