Missed a day? It’s all here.

$3bn did nothing. India builds its AI. Visas drop 41%. Outlook naps 19 hrs. Bots ignore 'stop'. Get a goat.

Why $3bn school grants and other well-meant policies changed nothing · India backs Sarvam to build homegrown AI models · Visa curbs squeeze universities that relied on foreign students · Microsoft Outlook outage hits 70+ countries for about 19 hours

Nvidia's king falls. Gold rolls over. Delhi guards tenders. US homes hit 2010 lows. Zurich sours. A bot cares.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns; shares close 4.3% lower · Gold loan rollovers may hide stress in India's ₹22.5 lakh crore boom · Trade deals could squeeze Make in India's public procurement edge · Inside Jensen Huang's fall: a spy scandal and a 'feudal' Nvidia

India booms at 6.5%. Nvidia swoons on one man. Junk pays 18%. Bots build firms; labs draw the line.

India grows 6.5% a year as hotels fill and foreign money returns · Nvidia's CEO probe shows how much markets lean on one man · The end of cheap money is squeezing America's weakest borrowers · AI agents let start-ups run with no staff and prototype in days

Bank bots fake an offer. Oil under $100. 100m Chinese in debt. mRNA cuts relapse 42%. Humanity: mixed results.

HDFC Bank AI agents invented a fake offer; Kotak and Axis hit too · India's lenders wire AI agents into loans before the guardrails land · Oil slips below $100 as midterms raise hopes the Iran war fades · Sasmit Patra: UPI needs a backup switch before AI agents pile on

Nvidia’s single point of failure. India’s paperwork. AI’s trust problem. Big Tech’s empire. Hackers want keys.

Nvidia board probes Jensen Huang after affair and China spy claims · Signing FTAs is the easy part for India's exporters · Tighter AI rules can push staff to hide their AI use · Your AI chats are less private than you think, and how to limit that

Teens fly. Embryos get ranked. VCs back 14-year-olds. Bots need guards. Bets never expire. Childhood, sold.

Gen Z founders and teen pilots skip the entry-level job ladder · Would you pay for the best baby? Embryo screening and liberal eugenics · Lightspeed's Mohapatra: jagged AI needs young founders, specialist VCs · Indian firms want on-site security engineers as AI cyber threats rise

US fears AI. Patna, 9th, eats the Louvre's lunch. Servers gulp 945 TWh. Bots eye jobs. Hackers cook fridges.

Why does America hate AI? Gillian Tett on the US and Asia attitude gap · Bihar Museum ranks 9th in world list, ahead of the Met and Louvre · Green groups embrace AI even as they warn of data centre costs · Why AI should not replace junior White House economists

Bubbles are bets. Privacy sells, old emails too. Banks bankroll yuan. AI hacks 73%. A yes needs eye contact.

Jeff Yass: There is no such thing as a stock-market bubble, even in AI · Private AI rises: Eternal's Dark.ai and the startups selling privacy · Wall Street banks pile into dim-sum bonds, building a global yuan · AI math breakthroughs may crack encryption before quantum computers

China splits, stocks crush homes, junk hits 18%, hackers test with ₹1. AI profits? Still buffering.

Stocks beat home prices in every US state over 40 years, after tax, a WSJ study finds · China's K-shaped economy: world-class tech on top, weak jobs and demand below, James Crabtree finds · CERT-In flags 'critical' AI-driven attacks on Indian banks, NBFCs and fintechs · Yields on CCC junk bonds hit 18%, up from 12.5% in January

Servers borrow, voters balk, orbit beckons, hackers sprint. Who checks the honesty box?

Martin Wolf: AI buildout at 3.6% of US GDP raises the risk of a bust · AI is speeding up hacks. Are banks in India and abroad ready? · After a blue wave, data centre fans look to space · Tim Harford on what stolen sweets and parking fines say about cheats

Fake hires, hot freezers, dear bonds, shaky G7, proud China. Kids get stock. Grads don't.

Binance says fake job interviews opened the door to its $6.3bn heist · AI's borrowing bill is rising as bond buyers demand more · Europe's supermarket freezer hacks: what we know so far · AI is shutting the door on new hires, not pushing workers out

Stats lag. India ages and juggles. Markets wobble, crypto cracks, staff coast. Who works?

Why AI is not yet showing up in productivity data · India's ageing shift needs a three-track policy reset · India's three trade-offs: fuel prices, rates and foreign money · Elliott warns of FOGO as bear-market alarm bells ring

Bots do maths, errands and discounts. Junk and pensions do damage. Hard hats on.

Europe's pension systems strain; UK welfare bill forecast at £431.3bn · Junk debt rout hits CCC borrowers and the funds that bet on them · OpenAI and Anthropic say AI disproved the exponential time hypothesis · OpenAI's discounts lure customers from Anthropic before its IPO

India wins messily. Jobs, loans, grids, wards strain; bots rank, shop. Trust barometers.

Hemant Mohapatra: India misses targets but its rise is inevitable · AI could plug hospitals' money leaks, if boards measure it · Wall Street gets choosier about funding the AI build-out · AI's job hit so far looks like a Big Tech story, not an economy one

Hackers loot, Intel sinks, AI builds AI, watches nag, Vizag frets. Who minds the gate?

North Korea-linked hackers steal $6.3bn from Binance in record heist · India saw 369 million cyber incidents in a year. Is it AI-ready? · From Vizag to Thane, data centres meet local pushback · Intel's record crash caps a week when the AI trade cracked

Poor climb, labs beg, vendors pledge. Ads fade, IPOs swell, coins vanish. Grip tight.

World Bank: 496 million Indians left poverty between 2011 and 2023 · India's deep-tech push needs labs, postdocs and buyers, not just cash · Fintech body UFF drafts a code for tech vendors after cyberattacks · Alphabet's ad slowdown and Anthropic's IPO test the AI money machine

Labs lease chips, bots brew drugs, Fed waits, China chills, Norway frets. Oddballs win.

What makes a great investor: luck and an unusual temperament · Norway weighs if its $2.3tn oil fund can drop Big Tech on ethics · Anthropic says Claude drafted 35,000 antibody designs in a month · Snowflake CEO: AI labs risk a capacity bust, not a bank run

China pops, credit wheezes, zombies nap, waists shrink, kids unplug. Capex keeps eating.

China's AI stocks crash 40% as US neocloud debt stress spreads · India's zombie firms drop to 14.2% of listed companies, D&B finds · Fed expected to hold as markets see 73% odds of a December rate hike · Weight-loss drugs reshape spending as 1 in 10 Americans take GLP-1s

Doom lists, Meta sells, debt piles, swaps stall. Staff walk, bots get cops. Who pays?

Anthropic IPO filing: $800bn compute bill, founders keep control · Indian IT firms pitch tools to police rogue AI agents · Banks pull back from dollar swap trade, sensing RBI disapproval · Meta plans $95bn share sale, with Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom as anchors

Paris owes, China discounts, India builds, AI bills us all. Ambulances fly first.

IIT Madras's ePlane plans electric air ambulances before air taxis · India's private capex pipeline hits ₹99.7 lakh crore, up 39% · India makes 20% of the world's data but hosts 3% of data centres · France's 10-year bond yield tops 5% as investors weigh euro contagion

Debt wobbles. Hype soars. France strains. Bugs bite. IT trims. Scrap pays. Smell travels.

CoreWeave's debt pile tests whether the AI build-out can be financed · SpaceX-Tesla merger and Anthropic IPO: how investors price AI · TCS and Infosys: AI tops 10% of revenue, yet pricing bites · France's riots meet a debt squeeze, and youth want the system fixed

Shells sell. Code cracks. AI plays doctor. Every ledger still needs a reader.

India's arms exports to Europe soar on Europe's rearmament · PHP2Shell flaws expose the old code behind 7 in 10 websites · India's October PMI hits four-month high as hiring stalls · Tech Mahindra ties up with SpaceX's AI arm to modernise old software

Bots borrow logins, proofs pile up, risk throws a beach party. Trust pays the price.

Big US banks curb AI agents after unauthorised account access · AI researchers leave OpenAI, DeepMind to build startups in India · AI stocks drove $138bn in gains for US public pensions, WSJ finds · AI bull market is no dotcom bubble, argues Bloomberg’s Nir Kaissar

Patch the code. Hedge AI. China hoards cash. Ask the bot. Risk finds a new address.

Is China falling into Japan’s lost-decade trap? · PHP2Shell, eMudhra, PingCAP: one week, three security scares · California’s one-time billionaire tax may lose money, study finds · Want to short the AI boom? Futures on chip rental prices are coming

AI paper losses, Ellison pledges, Dubai stalls, sulphur runs dry. Lenders keep score.

Anthropic's IPO filing: hot growth, a huge loss and a narrowing window · CoreWeave's bond yield and CDS: an early warning for AI debt? · France's debt trouble and a lopsided world economy: lessons for India · Microsoft's exit from an Nscale lease is a reality check for neoclouds

Rockets rise, wires lag, desks empty, streets burn. All want the upside. Few survive it.

India can build anything, and its founders are starting to · India’s solar boom is testing the grid · Ares and Gemes: AI debt looks safer than it is · Chris Miller: data centres need protection from drone warfare

AI cracks Enigma and picks locks. Humans still can’t close a loophole or settle a fee.

America’s $10tn AI data-centre boom is starting to fray · Sebi’s gold-fund curbs leave a gap as savers pile into bullion · India’s new UPI fee is reviving the case for cash · AI agents breach Indian systems as Schwab locks them out

Dr Doom calls a boom. International Banks call India. A PhD's 2,300 calls hit voicemail.

A Princeton PhD sent 2,300 job applications and still has no offer · Dr Doom turns optimist: Roubini says India's moment has arrived · Foreign banks bet ₹1.32 lakh crore (about $13.7bn) on Indian lenders · Nilesh Shah: Hindustan Zinc shows what IDBI Bank's sale could achieve

Everyone wants a cut: AI, robots, fund managers. Old friends just want a text.

Driverless 18-wheelers are already rolling on Texas highways · Tesla's flying Roadster dazzles, but key details are missing · Rising AI costs squeeze Indian SaaS firms from both sides · IMF: an AI bust would hit growth in rich and poor countries alike

Burn, ration, return: AI's three moods. India adds a fourth: rules that hold.

J.P. Morgan: India is becoming investors’ default non-AI bet · Accenture sells AI to clients, rations Claude for its own staff · Supreme Court: Yes Bank’s ₹8,415 crore AT-1 write-down stays quashed · Fairfax plans a ‘global Indian bank’ from IDBI, keeps its CEO

Rates rise, IPOs pause, hedges lock in. Calm is now a luxury.

IMF: three risks keep global finance on edge · IDBI sale would be India’s 13th strategic disinvestment · RBI rules turn rupee hedging from a trade into a commitment · Boden: AI agents will bypass banking apps, so banks must engage

Banks pay fines, importers pay hedges, Gen Z pays in waiting. Change sends no invoice.

Why keeping up with change feels harder than ever · China’s weak economy is creating a lost generation · Blackstone’s Jon Gray: India is the second-easiest place to list · How the RBI’s six forex measures aim to steady the rupee

Fridges overheat, diamonds cool, voters fume. Value sits with whoever holds the switch.

Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, causing fires and food losses · Craig Tindale: India is rich in dollars but short of key materials · Craig Tindale: RBI rules starve India’s factories of affordable credit · Andy Kessler: how the AI data-centre boom ends

Banks hedge AI. Workers hedge Monday. Africa hedges Moody’s. Growth now needs a seatbelt.

Banks try to offload the AI data-centre debt they just underwrote · The Sunday scaries are real, and they’re getting worse · Workers are ‘loud working’ to hold on to their jobs · Brinjal, buffalo, bacteria: how India makes firms pay for nature

AI agents are loose. Who pays? Who hires? Who stays solvent? Who needs the knife?

An Anthropic AI model sent Philadelphia police a false murder tip · Trials suggest many operations work little better than placebo · TCS hires ahead of demand with a bigger bench and more subcontractors · Papa CJ: Gen Z wants what every generation wanted

Money tightens, the rupee buckles, AI faces a $20bn reality check and even robots stumble.

Pimco: US 10-year yields could hit 6%, a first since 2000 · Gearoid Reidy: the world isn’t ready for a Japan with interest · RBI moves to support the rupee at 96.78, curbs forex derivatives · Gillian Tett: five ways to tell if market trouble lies ahead

AI props growth. Stories prop stocks. Cheese props diplomacy. None is a guarantee.

Nouriel Roubini: the world is in turmoil, so why is the global economy still chugging along? · Mint Explainer: Why is Elon Musk’s Starlink at war with Indian telecom giants? · 20,000-plus people shift as IT firms buy GCCs and captive tech carve-outs · India’s aspirational middle class gives it a demographic edge, says Verlinvest CEO Roberto Italia

Gen Z says the deal is broken. AI could test it everywhere.

Gen Z’s squeeze needs new words, and a lot more talk · How BorderPlus is turning India’s talent surplus into a global workforce · RBI chief: a failed India–US trade deal would do ‘some’ damage · Acemoglu: AI will replace only about 5% of human work in 10 years

Money is in the hospitals and the AI labs. Diesel lingers. Someone still pays.

Wall Street’s $10bn India hospital bet sparks a fight over bills · AI is junk food for the mind, an essay argues · Indian banks move from buying AI to owning a piece of it · Indian Railways is 99.6% electrified, but diesel isn’t going away

AI writes prescriptions, bonds sell off, and dinosaurs still fetch millions.

AI can now prescribe acne drugs in Utah · Japan Inc sours on China; can India gain? · Cognizant targets mid-sized firms as AI squeezes big deals · NPS Swasthya: a health savings fund plus top-up cover

Plague fears in Siberia, AI agents go rogue, and Sebi busts ‘assured’ returns.

Suspected plague death at a Siberian lab · OpenAI’s agents hacked dozens; lawsuits follow · Why OpenAI’s safety-report lead quit · Sebi busts Growpital’s ‘assured’ farm returns

AI borrows on hope; India pays by UPI but rarely invests, and insurance rewards quitting.

Is circular financing in AI a problem? · Trading AI compute like oil · Spence: a ‘pretty big’ shock is possible · Insurers pay more for quitting than dying

RBI urges caution, French bonds wobble, and a few sharps cash in on world events.

Every Cure: using AI to find new uses for drugs already on the shelf · Noel Tata seeks the video and minutes of the meeting that reappointed Chandrasekaran · India goes FTA shopping at the G20, with Piyush Goyal working the room · RBI governor warns against complacency amid external headwinds

A study coach for teens, an outsider for HDFC and a $2tn AI listing: promise, with caveats.

AI Tool of the Week: this ChatGPT feature helps teens study without doing their homework for them · Bagchi’s appointment as HDFC Bank’s MD reflects RBI’s preference for external candidates · Dodging ‘SaaSocalypse’: AI’s enterprise moment may belong to IT services · Everyone wants your attention, and media is changing because of it

US long rates hit a 24-year high, AI fakes outrun the facts, 3,000 jobs land in Hyderabad.

DoorDash to create 3,000 jobs in Hyderabad · Fiscal deficit hits 41.9% of FY27 target · Chandra’s family firm lands 2nd TVS deal · Punjab campuses burn on WhatsApp rumours

Savings forgotten in India, lent to the owner in the US; Gen Z pays £30k to go viral.

Wood: US 10-year yield may be capped at 5–6% · IRDAI takes aim at the commissions behind insurance mis-selling · Mid-sized IT firms are turning AI cost cuts into new revenue · Nobody’s money? ₹1.1 lakh crore of family savings lies unclaimed

India compounds talent and capital; the world audits the AI boom and its debt.

IITM Unicorn Frontier Fund I hits ₹450 cr first close · IIT-JEE topper Nitin Gupta now studies mosquito brains at IIT Kanpur · Three IITs are building medical schools. The real target is not more doctors · Indian executives are gaining clout in US boardrooms

India bets on cheaper AI and fuel. The world’s lesson: what you show, ship or see can be taken.

Sarvam: India will be AI’s biggest user in five years · Govt weighs a ₹20,000 cr fund for frontier AI · Gadkari: a pure-ethanol car at ‘₹25 a litre’ · YouTuber flaunts gold online; burglars strike

Two worlds, one trade-off: in India and America alike, companies are trading payroll for AI chips and data centres.

India’s GCCs: fewer seats, bigger say · Tata Sons reappoints Chandrasekaran · RBI vets Bagchi for HDFC Bank’s top job · What higher yields mean for your money

Four stories: markets, boardrooms, banks and orbit.

US 10-year Treasury yield at 5.183%, up 1.046 points over the past year · Oracle on the hook to pay Project Jupiter investors even if the New Mexico site has no power · Leaked document shows which Oracle cloud roles were cut · Google's Project Suncatcher readies its first test of AI chips in orbit