🇮🇳 India's $200B AI summit disaster

Employment for 15-29 year-olds in Irish tech fell 20% while boomers saw 12% growth. The AI replacement wave is real and it's starting with literally anyone who just graduated.
Why it matters: Congrats class of 2026 - your job was automated before you even applied!! The "learn to code" era just became the "compete with code" era. (source)

Bill Gates and Jensen Huang ghosted India's flagship AI event after traffic chaos, terrible planning, and someone trying to pass off a Chinese robot as Indian tech (bruh??).
Despite the circus, they secured $200 BILLION in AI commitments - including $110B from Reliance and $100B from Adani.
Why it matters: India's speedrunning from "IT support" to "AI superpower" but forgot to upgrade the actual infrastructure first. Classic. (source)

India's biggest conglomerates are building renewable-powered AI data centers with their own energy assets. Jio's launching 120 MW facilities THIS YEAR.
Why it matters: While the West argues about GPU allocation, India's just... building their own everything. The AI race went global and nobody told us. (source)

European stocks dropped 0.7% as investors realized AI might actually destroy traditional businesses. Nvidia and Meta fell pre-market because vibes are off.
Why it matters: Wall Street's having an existential crisis - they can't decide if AI will make them rich or obsolete. (Spoiler: probably both??) (source)

Google partnered with Southeast Asia's Sea Ltd to build AI shopping agents for Shopee. Because what e-commerce really needed was bots buying things for you.
Why it matters: AI is graduating from "answering questions badly" to "spending your money badly." Progress!! (source)

A bug let Copilot read and summarize confidential emails for WEEKS despite data protection policies. Microsoft: "We fixed it lol."
Why it matters: Turns out giving AI access to everything has consequences?? Who could have predicted this??? (Everyone. Everyone predicted this.) (source)

The ratings agency beat earnings and basically said "good luck disrupting 100 years of proprietary data, nerds." They rated $70B in AI bonds just in Q4.
Why it matters: Some companies are too boring to disrupt. Moody's is basically the DMV of finance - and that's their superpower. (source)

OpenAI just got ChatGPT into six major Indian universities including IIT Delhi, reaching 100,000+ students. India is now ChatGPT's second-biggest market after the U.S.
Why it matters: Whoever controls how AI is taught controls the future workforce. OpenAI's playing the really long game here. (source)

Pine Labs partnership will automate settlement workflows across $126 billion in transactions. Processing time goes from hours to minutes.
Why it matters: AI is now handling the financial plumbing. What could go wrong with robots managing global money flows?? (Don't answer that.) (source)

Lyria 3 lets anyone create 30-second AI tracks with auto-generated lyrics. Every track gets watermarked so we know who to blame.
Why it matters: RIP SoundCloud rappers - now EVERYONE can make mid music at scale. The democratization of mediocrity continues!! (source)

Charles Porch spent 15 years getting celebs on Instagram. Now he's doing a "listening tour" to convince Hollywood that AI won't steal their souls (just their likeness).
Why it matters: OpenAI knows it needs celebrities on board before someone deepfakes Tom Cruise into a crypto scam. Again. (source)

Sarvam AI is putting offline AI on feature phones and launching AI smart glasses. Because apparently everyone needs AI, even your grandma's Nokia.
Why it matters: AI for the 99% who don't have $1,200 phones. Finally, democratizing surveillance... I mean "assistance." (source)

Ex-DeepMind researcher raising $1B at $4B valuation for "Ineffable Intelligence" (that name tho 💀)
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs announces $1B round - Autodesk threw in $200M for 3D world models
Perplexity pulling ALL ads because "sponsored content undermines AI trust" (BASED??)
OpenAI acqui-hires Nerve for enterprise search (another one bites the dust)