Chinese President Xi Jinping has launched a diplomatic offensive ahead of his proposed September 24 visit to the United States, traveling to Kyrgyzstan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit…
Researchers introduced SA-GNN, a low-rank adapted spatially attentive graph neural network, achieving R² = 0.95, RMSE = 6.8, and MAE = 4.2 µg/m³ for fine-grained PM2.5 forecasting on a new mobile-sens…
India launched the second phase of its semiconductor mission with a US$13 billion budget to build an industrial ecosystem spanning chip design to manufacturing, aiming to reduce import dependence and …
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, proposed in an essay that 40% of jobs in an AI-driven future should be reserved for humans even when machines are more capable, sparking debate on job reservations…
LinkedIn's Hiring Assistant (LIHA) lets hiring teams review 80 percent fewer profiles while improving candidate acceptance rates by 66 percent, according to Prashanthi Padmanabhan, Vice President of L…
A new study from NGO Shipbreaking Platform and T&E finds that between 2019 and 2025, only 5% of EU ships' tonnage was dismantled in Europe despite sufficient domestic capacity, with 66% of tonnage bea…
OpenAI has begun rolling out advertisements inside ChatGPT, starting with users in India in late August 2026, following launches in the USA in February 2026 and Europe in early August 2026. The ads, m…
Vietnam is urging Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics to expand investment in artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and R&D, aiming to become a regional innovation hub. Senior officials met with execu…
ITW Universe will produce the India vs Afghanistan T20I series in New Delhi from September 13-17 using FIFA World Cup host-broadcast standards, including AI-stabilized POV cameras, volumetric free-vie…
Data annotation work tied to artificial intelligence is creating thousands of jobs in Karur, India, according to a New York Times report, with local firms employing workers to label data for AI models…
India accounts for 5.8% of global Claude.ai use, ranking second only to the United States, according to the fourth Anthropic Economic Index report based on ~1 million conversations in November 2025. I…
Avoca, a Series B startup backed by Kleiner Perkins, Meritech Capital, and General Catalyst with $125M raised and a $1B valuation, is hiring a remote Deployment Engineer in Bengaluru, India, to deploy…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens in India on August 19, 2026, a dedicated experience for users aged 13 to 17 with stricter safety defaults, parental controls, and Study Mode. The rollout includes fea…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on August 15, 2026, that India targets 100 GW of nuclear power by 2047 to fuel AI, semiconductor, and data centre growth, with five new reactors commissioned thi…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Saturday that his government will provide free online coaching for competitive exams, weeks after youth-led protests forced Education Minister Dharmend…
The Trump administration has deployed an AI-powered 'detective border' system to intercept goods illegally transshipped to evade US tariffs on Chinese products, with over 40 countries named as partici…
AI companies are hiring thousands of gig workers across more than 50 countries to record hand movements and physical tasks using wearable cameras and sensors, paying as little as $2.60 an hour in Indi…
A United Nations Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva overlooked AI's impact on elections, focusing instead on disinformation and deepfakes, despite evidence that AI embedded in electoral admini…
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is deploying artificial intelligence to crack down on tax underreporting, Chairman Shafqat Mahmood Langrial announced on August 11, 2026. The AI tools, third-party d…
Stripe data shows AI companies are expanding globally, with the 100 largest reaching 120 markets on average by their third year and drawing 48% of revenue from outside their home markets. Mexico led g…