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India's NPCI Creates Tech And Innovation Unit

India’s NPCI Creates Tech And Innovation Unit

NPCI has created NPCI Tech Solutions to work on AI, blockchain and digital infrastructure, with eKYC Setu and a ticketing platform among its assignments.
The Business AI Reality: Adoption Is Common, Profit Is Not

The Business AI Reality: Adoption Is Common, Profit Is Not

Surveys show widespread business AI use but few companies report significant profit impact; workflow redesign, skills and governance remain barriers.
A First AI Video, Made In One Evening: Rules I Learned The Hard Way

A First AI Video, Made In One Evening: Rules I Learned The Hard Way

Thorsten Meyer describes building a hand-drawn AI video engine, then using human review, measured changes and automated checks to improve it.
Weight Space Programming And The Experiment That Put AI In The Editor’s Seat

Weight Space Programming And The Experiment That Put AI In The Editor’s Seat

MIT CSAIL researchers report AI reading, writing and editing neural network weights without training; a separate account describes mixed local tests.
JP Morgan Payments And Mastercard Invest In Agentic Commerce Startup Firmly

JP Morgan Payments And Mastercard Invest In Agentic Commerce Startup Firmly

JPMorgan Payments and Mastercard joined a $15 million Series A for Firmly, which also launched an AI-powered conversational shopping product.
How To Make Sense Of AI’s Financial Signals Across Markets

How To Make Sense Of AI’s Financial Signals Across Markets

AMD’s data center revenue rose to 64% of sales as Australia raised rates, citing AI investment. Hong Kong passed new crypto tax-reporting rules.
What Neural Network Weights Let AI Do—and What They Don’t

What Neural Network Weights Let AI Do—and What They Don’t

MIT researchers report that GPT-6 Astra read, repaired and wrote small neural networks by editing weights, with clear limits and unreviewed results.
AI Repairs AI: GPT-6 Astra Targets A Loop Through Weight Edits

AI Repairs AI: GPT-6 Astra Targets A Loop Through Weight Edits

Researchers report GPT-6 Astra improved Qwen3.5-0.8B math scores by editing two weight tensors, without gradient descent; the results are early and unreviewed.
Next-day Securities Settlement, Tokenisation And The Transformation Of Europe’s Financial Infrastructure

Next-day Securities Settlement, Tokenisation And The Transformation Of Europe’s Financial Infrastructure

The ECB says Europe plans to move securities settlement to T+1 on Oct. 11, 2027, as it updates infrastructure and develops tokenised finance.