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Global investors shift bets to Chinese AI amid fears of Wall Street bubble

Chinese AI chipmaker MetaX Integrated Circuits, founded by former AMD executives, jumped 700% in its Shanghai market debut last week

OpenAI, xAI, Google sued for training chatbots with 'pirated books'

The lawsuit, filed by an author-journalist, alleged that the companies copied and used protected literary works to develop large language models that power commercial chatbots

US visa curbs, AI surge shape cautious outlook for Indian IT in 2026

India's USD 280-billion IT industry heads into 2026, balancing visa-related headwinds and global trade uncertainty against its biggest-ever push into artificial intelligence and the rapid expansion of global capability centres (GCCs). Heightened scrutiny of the US H-1B visa programme - including a proposed USD 100,000 fee for new visas and concerns over a potential 25 per cent outsourcing tax - has complicated cross-border delivery for Indian firms, even as companies accelerate efforts to reduce reliance on onsite staffing. The US remains the sector's largest export market. The visa proposals triggered market volatility in late 2025, disrupting travel plans and denting IT stocks, before partial clarifications offered limited relief. Fresh concerns have since emerged around social media screening and unpredictable processing delays. Analysts warn that sharply higher visa costs could add hundreds of millions of dollars to expenses for large IT firms, reinforcing the shift toward ...

Routine jobs will be lost as new tech gains ground: Narayana Murthy

Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy said AI and other new technologies will eliminate routine work, but productivity gains can create jobs if workers learn to use and master these tools

India regains favour, China slips to underweight allocation: BofA survey

BofA's Asia Fund Manager Survey shows India regaining a mild overweight as a diversification play against AI-led markets, while China slips to underweight on stalled momentum

Axiado raises over $100 million to scale AI-driven security globally

Digital infrastructure security firm Axiado has raised over $100 million in an oversubscribed Series C+ round to expand globally, deepen India-based R&D

How thieves used Google Maps to carry out robberies in three states

Police say the gang used Google Maps to randomly pick houses in multiple cities, carrying out burglaries across Jharkhand, West Bengal and Bihar before being arrested

OpenAI reports better margins on business sales amid push for AI dominance

The ChatGPT creator set off the modern AI boom, but it has yet to show a profit, one of the main indicators for investors concerned about a bubble in the industry

Job transition with AI will not be as dramatic as feared: Susan Athey

Susan Athey talks about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the workforce and the economy and how interoperability is important for competition in the digital space

Best of BS Opinion: Sebi reforms to make things easier for investors

From Sebi's investor-friendly rule changes and PM Modi's West Asia tour to debates on power grid reform, shrimp exports and a Zomato biography, here's today's Best of BS Opinion.

Business that's hiring as AI race hots up: GCCs outpace IT giants

GCCs outpace traditional IT giants in taking in talent as they pivot from basic operations to strategic AI, marking a decisive shift from maintenance to modernisation

Image editing spurs an industry as digital identities turn more fluid

The surge in user-generated content, especially on social media platforms, has accelerated innovation in photo-editing tools

Why do AI chatbots use 'I'? The design choice behind humanlike bots

Some researchers believe the popular interactive tools should act more like software and less like humans

Abundant intelligence, skilling to shape AI future: Microsoft India head

Unmetered intelligence, human-supervised 'digital colleagues' and continuous skilling as the key safeguard amid big shifts will shape an AI-rewired future, Puneet Chandok, President, Microsoft India and South Asia has said outlining his top predictions. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during his visit to India earlier this month had announced plans to invest USD 17.5 billion here to help build infrastructure and sovereign capabilities for the country's AI-first future - the bold commitment marking the tech giant's largest investment ever in Asia. Chandok said AI has moved beyond hype, delivering real impact today. "...the next phase will be defined by how responsibly, inclusively, and thoughtfully we scale it," Chandok told PTI. His headline predictions for the rearranging world and frontier AI include intelligence moving from being scarce to abundant, with compute increasingly translating directly into cognition for organisations, in an era of "unmetered intelligence". AI 'agents' wi

India must lead in AI while prioritising empathy in tech adoption: Ambani

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani on Saturday said India must become a world leader in artificial intelligence, but stressed the need for greater empathy in adopting new-age tech. The Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries said the largest Indian corporate is at the "doorstep" of solving India's energy challenge with solar energy and storage solutions. Speaking at an event here on the occasion of the International Human Solidarity Day, Ambani said RIL's telecom arm Jio has catapulted India into the digital mainstream of the world by laying the foundation with its services. "... of course we need AI. We (India) must become world leaders in AI. But above all, we need empathy and compassion even more," Ambani said. "By combining intelligence with empathy, prosperity with purpose, India can present a new model of development to the rest of the world," the richest Indian said. He said there were many "disbelievers" about the telecom business even within RIL. In an apparent refe

AI double-edged sword in education: Expert calls for ensuring data privacy

Artificial intelligence is a force multiplier in the education sector but unethical use of AI tools for cheating, data and privacy breach is a matter of concern, according to educationist Shishir Jaipuria. Jaipuria, Chairman of the Seth Anandram Jaipuria Group of Educational Institutions, said the purpose of education is to nurture knowledgeable, skilled, conscientious and emotionally strong individuals who go on to make a positive impact on society, but the rat race defeats it and pushes students to take extreme steps. The advent and prevalence of artificial intelligence has been a watershed moment in the history of human progress. AI is not just transforming industries, but also reshaping the jobs of the future. Its integration and application in the education sector will have far-reaching implications," Jaipuria told PTI. AI platforms allow schools to map each child's learning style, identify the learning gaps, and recognise the strengths and weaknesses to optimise learning ...

Slop: The four-letter word that is a war cry against low-quality content

This four-letter word is a compelling verdict on the sprawling glut of low-quality content now clogging screens and social media feeds everywhere

No formal policy yet on AI use in courts, Centre tells Lok Sabha

The Supreme Court has also constituted an Artificial Intelligence Committee to explore the use of AI in the judicial domain

GlobalLogic sees higher conversion rate of AI PoCs to deployment

GlobalLogic says 40-50% of its AI pilots move to production, far above global averages, as enterprises focus on agentic and physical AI for real business gains

Now, you can pin chats in ChatGPT on web, Android, iOS: Here's how it works

OpenAI has rolled out pinned chats in ChatGPT across web, Android and iOS, allowing users to keep important conversations fixed at the top for quicker access