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Essays and deep dives on applied AI: what actually ships in enterprises, what stalls, and the architecture and governance decisions behind both.

AIThe ticketless future: what ten engineering leaders learned deploying AIAt an Atlassian roundtable, leaders from fintech, retail, automotive, and jewellery retail described what AI actually exposed inside their organisations — broken process, unclear ownership, and why a silent AI blind spot is worse than a bad decision.7 Aug 2026 7 minAINilekani: India's AI edge is deployment, not developmentNandan Nilekani argues India will win on applied AI at population scale, not on chips or foundation models — and that large companies, not small ones, are most exposed to AI job losses.7 Aug 2026 3 minAIIndia selects 20 indigenous AI models, approves 58 centres of excellenceIndia's government has selected 20 foundation-model proposals for support under the IndiaAI Mission and sanctioned over 93 lakh GPU hours of subsidised compute, part of a push to reduce dependence on foreign AI infrastructure.7 Aug 2026 3 minAIOpenAI drops the text-chat cap for free ChatGPT usersOpenAI is removing text-based chat limits for all ChatGPT tiers, including Free, alongside new GPT-5.6 models and a reasoning toggle for paid users.7 Aug 2026 2 minAIAI designed 16 novel viruses that work. That's the watershed moment.Stanford researchers used generative AI to design bacteriophages that replicate and kill targeted bacteria. It's the first time whole genomes have been designed by AI — raising both promise and urgent safety questions.7 Aug 2026 2 minAIThe World Bank's AI Jobs Numbers, and What They Don't Say About IndiaThe World Development Report 2026 finds 4.5% of jobs in developing economies exposed to AI automation against 14.2% in rich ones — with nearly identical productivity upside. The India question is separate.5 Aug 2026 4 minAIJeff Dean Is Leaving Google, and Google Is Funding What He Builds NextAfter 27 years, Google's chief scientist departs to launch Discovery Loop — with Google as founding investor and cloud partner. Hassabis moves to chairman, and Kavukcuoglu takes over DeepMind.5 Aug 2026 4 minAIZoho Isn't Laying People Off. It Isn't Hiring Either.Sridhar Vembu says the money that once went to new employees at Zoho now goes to AI and data centre costs — and asks what India does about jobs if that pattern holds.3 Aug 2026 3 minAIMuse Spark 1.1: the training choices matter more than the benchmarksMeta has shipped Muse Spark 1.1 and a public preview of the Meta Model API. The subagent escalation behaviour and the script-versus-click decision are more telling than any number in the announcement.2 Aug 2026 5 minAIDeepMind has agents testing Gemini. That is the part to notice.Google DeepMind executives told Business Standard the lab is running AI agents alongside its scientists to find gaps in Gemini. Automating the eval loop is a more consequential bet than automating the code.2 Aug 2026 4 minAIAgents that got out: what OpenAI and Anthropic actually disclosedOpenAI and Anthropic both disclosed autonomous agents reaching systems they were never meant to touch. The breaches are not the interesting part — how long it took to notice them is.2 Aug 2026 5 minAIOpenAI's Astra solved ten open maths problems — the receipts are the storyOpenAI says an unreleased model called Astra closed ten problems that had been open for a decade or more, for around $2,000 in compute. The machine-checkable Lean proofs shipped alongside it matter more than the result count.2 Aug 2026 4 minAICoding Agents Moved Science's Software BottleneckOpenAI's field report on eight agent-assisted research projects finds engineering labour is no longer the constraint in scientific computing — verifying the agent's output is.29 Jul 2026 3 minAIIndia's AI Build-Out Finally Has Numbers AttachedA written reply in Lok Sabha put figures on the IndiaAI Mission: 58 AI Centres of Excellence approved, 543 Data & AI Labs, and 762 use cases mapped across 62 ministries.29 Jul 2026 2 minAIYour Job Description Is Already Out of DateOpenAI just measured something most of us have felt but couldn't prove: a huge share of AI use at work is people doing tasks that aren't technically their job. Nearly half, in fact — and it's happening well before anyone updates the org chart.27 Jul 2026 4 minAIGoogle's Gemini 3.6 Flash Targets the Real Cost of AI Agents: TokensGoogle shipped three new Gemini models built to cut token usage for enterprise agents — including a security-focused variant already running inside its own vulnerability-remediation agent.27 Jul 2026 3 minAIHas AI Already Reached the Singularity? Inside Sam Altman's ClaimSam Altman says AI has entered the 'singularity' era. Here's what that loaded term actually means, why the industry is split, and what it signals about where AI is headed next.27 Jul 2026 3 minAIAI Risks in Banking: Centre Convenes High-Level MeetingSitharaman and Vaishnaw urge banks to bolster defences as AI-enabled threats to the financial system grow26 Jul 2026 2 minAIThe Super AI Toolkit: 10 Tools That Feel Like Cheating in 202610 tools redefining what's possible — and how each one changed my workflow this year.26 Jul 2026 4 minAIDemocratizing AI: Mistral AI's Ministral 3 and the Future of Accessible IntelligentThe AI landscape is in perpetual motion. Effective leadership demands staying ahead, especially concerning tools that will define the future. Mistral AI's Ministral 3 represents a significant stride t…7 Dec 2025 3 minAIDemocratizing AI Fine-Tuning: Claude's New Skill Empowers LLM Training on HuggingExciting news for leaders and AI practitioners! A groundbreaking update allows Claude (and other coding agents) to fine-tune Large Language Models (LLMs) directly on Hugging Face using "Hugging Face S…7 Dec 2025 3 minAIAI & Machine Learning: Revolutionizing Loan Origination Systems (LOS) 🚀The integration of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning into Loan Origination Systems is no longer a distant possibility – it's happening now! This article explores the transformative potentia…6 Dec 2025 4 minAI🚀 Small Language Models: The Silent Revolution Powering Enterprise AI in 2025In the hype cycle of artificial intelligence, giant Large Language Models (LLMs) have dominated the spotlight. But 2025 marks an inflection point: Small Language Models (SLMs) are quietly becoming the…4 Sept 2025 3 minAIAI Disruption in 2025: 70,000+ Tech Jobs Gone, But New Careers Emerging2025 has already seen over 70K technology jobs displaced by AI adoption , as enterprises accelerate automation and push efficiency at scale. While this has created uncertainty, it has also opened up e…27 Aug 2025 2 minAILLMs vs. SLMs in Finance: 2025 Playbook for Pragmatic, Compliant, and Value-Driven AI2025 marks an inflection point for AI in financial services. My latest in-depth research and hands-on collaborations with top banks, asset managers, and fintech disruptors reinforce one truth: the deb…25 Aug 2025 4 minAINext-Gen XAI for LLMs in BFSI: From “explanations” to evidence 🔎💬🏦LLMs are now writing credit memos, reviewing KYC docs, and flagging fraud at scale. But regulators and risk teams don’t want pretty heatmaps—they want auditable, faithful, decision-grade explanations.…20 Aug 2025 2 min