TCS bets on 8,900 AI deployment engineers to defend India’s IT services model
TCS bets on 8,900 AI deployment engineers to defend India’s IT services model

Tata Consultancy Services plans to build a team of up to 8,900 forward-deployed AI engineers and is looking for acquisition targets in AI and cybersecurity, chief executive K Krithivasan said. The move is India’s largest IT firm answering the question …

AI has triggered the biggest gas-plant building boom in history, and a quiet fight to stop it
AI has triggered the biggest gas-plant building boom in history, and a quiet fight to stop it

The AI build-out has done something the fossil-fuel industry could not do for itself. It has set off the largest-ever construction boom in natural gas-fired power plants, the Associated Press reports. Aging coal plants are being kept alive past their r…

Zhipu’s founder says frontier AI should stay open to everyone. His own government may disagree.
Zhipu’s founder says frontier AI should stay open to everyone. His own government may disagree.

The founder of China’s most prominent AI lab has made an unambiguous case for openness. Frontier AI should stay broadly accessible rather than controlled by a select few, Zhipu’s Tang Jie wrote in an internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg. His argument in…

Meta spent a year being punished for its AI spending. Then it told investors how it would get the money back.
Meta spent a year being punished for its AI spending. Then it told investors how it would get the money back.

Meta has had a miserable year on the market, flat while the Nasdaq-100 climbed 18%. That changed abruptly, with the stock posting its best week since early 2024, CNBC reports. Shares rose about 6% on Friday and roughly 15% across the week. The move was…

The AI race has quietly stopped being about who has the biggest model
The AI race has quietly stopped being about who has the biggest model

For years the industry ran on one assumption, that the biggest model wins. That belief is now breaking down, CNBC reports. Companies are choosing models by task, cost, and control instead of benchmark position. The frontier still matters, but it is no …

AI bosses say demand is ‘almost unlimited’. The market is no longer taking their word for it.
AI bosses say demand is ‘almost unlimited’. The market is no longer taking their word for it.

Executives building the AI boom are unwavering. Demand is effectively bottomless, they say, even as the stocks that ride on it wobble, CNBC reports. Pat Gelsinger, the former Intel chief now at Playground Global, put it plainly. He thinks of AI demand …

Most Americans now say the public should own half of the big AI companies
Most Americans now say the public should own half of the big AI companies

An idea that sounded radical a year ago is now a majority position. Nearly seven in ten Americans support forcing AI companies to transfer half their stock to a public sovereign wealth fund, CNBC reports. The figure comes from a Verasight survey of 1,6…

Chinese developers are climbing the firewall to pay more for GPT-5.6, and doing the maths on why
Chinese developers are climbing the firewall to pay more for GPT-5.6, and doing the maths on why

OpenAI’s new GPT-5.6 models are winning praise from an unlikely group. Users in mainland China, where the service is blocked and reachable only by VPN or third-party proxy, told the South China Morning Post the models are worth the extra cost. That is …

Cure cancer, cage the chatbots: Congress’s contradictory week on AI
Cure cancer, cage the chatbots: Congress’s contradictory week on AI

In the space of about ten days, US lawmakers introduced a small mountain of artificial-intelligence legislation. The bills, rounded up by Nextgov/FCW, pull in two opposite directions at once. One set treats AI as a tool the government should be deployi…

Beijing flagged Claude Code as a back door, and Chinese coding tools are lining up to take its place
Beijing flagged Claude Code as a back door, and Chinese coding tools are lining up to take its place

Beijing’s cybersecurity warning against Anthropic is expected to speed up a shift already under way. Chinese developers are moving to domestic coding tools, analysts told the South China Morning Post. China’s National Vulnerability Database, overseen b…