Enterprise and tech firms increasingly rely on third-party certifications and awards to benchmark culture and people practices. Each program uses distinct methodologies—from employee-driven surveys to fact-based audits—to assess areas like trust, leadership…

Recently, Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani said at the company’s recent AGM calling GCCs “critical clients,” demystifying the popular view of Indian IT’s rivalry with GCCs. In fact, IT companies now view GCCs as high-value clients and revenue streams, given…

Once seen as the safest bet in the economy, the bachelor’s degree has quietly lost its promise—and nobody warned the kids. For the first time in modern history, a college degree apparently no longer guarantees a professional job. New data from a study titled…

From Black Box to Trusted Partner: A UX guide to building confidence in GenAI.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have leveraged AI to enhance their capabilities with a newly established off-campus supercomputer named Betty.  The primary AI system was supplied by NVIDIA and constructed according to their reference specifications…

With the Llama 4, Meta’s newest series of open-weight AI models, only achieving some critical acclaim and reflections on part of the company, Zuckerberg seems determined to pull the company back into the AI game. Word about Meta is back in the AI business…

As client expectations evolve, IT firms are moving beyond traditional business process outsourcing (BPO) to embrace platformisation – provision of wider services under a common platform. Enterprises today are no longer satisfied with siloed services. They…

Scenario: A radiologist is looking at your brain scan and flags an abnormality in the basal ganglia. It's an area of the brain that helps you with motor control, learning, and emotional processing. The name sounds a bit like another part of the brain, the…

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Casey Newton, founder and editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. I’ll be guest hosting the next few episodes of Decoder while Nilay is out on parental leave, and I’m very excited for…

OpenAI, which is expected to launch its GPT-5 AI model this week, is making updates to ChatGPT that it says will improve the AI chatbot’s ability to detect mental or emotional distress. To do this, OpenAI is working with experts and advisory groups to improve…

A team of researchers led by scientists from Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital has harnessed AI to design synthetic proteins that activate a key immune pathway. This is aimed at enabling large-scale generation of T cells.  The research…

Telangana is aiming to hit a significant milestone in its economic and innovation journey by targeting the establishment of 100 global capability centres (GCCs) by 2025–26, state IT, industries and legislative affairs minister Sridhar Babu Duddilla wrote…

Some shifts in tech are loud. Others, like this one, are a silent walk back to a familiar ground. Over the past few weeks, developers have been gradually admitting that they’re switching back from the AI coding tool Cursor to the integrated development environment…

xAI’s new Grok Imagine tool is an AI image and video generator that encourages users to make NSFW content. In contrast to rival generative AI video tools like Google’s Veo and OpenAI’s Sora, which try to block users from generating anything seedy, the Grok…

Back-to-back AI-led product releases by AWS indicate that the company is doubling down on software development. At its DevSphere India 2025 event in Bengaluru, the company introduced a new AI-led approach called the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC).…

Policy as Code is emerging as a key area of focus for application security teams in the age of cloud-native software development. But implementation can be daunting.

Google DeepMind is releasing a new version of its AI “world” model, called Genie 3, capable of generating 3D environments that users and AI agents can interact with in real time. The company is also promising that users will be able to interact with the worlds…

Google DeepMind has announced Genie 3, its latest AI world model capable of generating interactive 3D environments in real time while preserving visual consistency.  “Given a text prompt, Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds that you can navigate in real time…

OpenAI has released two new open-weight language models—gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b—under the Apache 2.0 license, offering developers access to models that perform on par with proprietary systems in core reasoning and tool use benchmarks, while being optimised…

Access begins today through an invite-only research preview aimed at academics and digital creators, allowing DeepMind to gather safety feedback before broadening availability.