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India's GCC workforce is facing a sharper shift as companies trim headcount, invest in AI and give Indian teams greater ownership of critical technology and business functions.
Source: Business Today
https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/ai-changes-the-gcc-playbook-in-india-up-to-30000-roles-could-be-eliminated-558826-2026-09-30?utm_source=rssfeed
#Automation

Bee Cheng Hiang customers' e-mail addresses were exposed in Singapore's first AI-related data breach.
Source: The Business Times Singapore
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/singapore/bee-cheng-hiang-customers-e-mail-addresses-exposed-singapores-first-case-ai-related-data-breach
#TechPolicy

The Financial Sector Conduct Authority accelerates AI governance as digital financial misconduct grows.
Source: ITWeb
https://www.itweb.co.za/article/fsca-builds-ai-guardrails-as-digital-regulation-expands/kLgB17ezZVkM59N4
#TechPolicy

Andrew Bailey says regulating AI is not the right place to start. He adds that AI needs rigorous testing and safeguards to contain risk.
Source: BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvzez7k0pn40o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
#TechPolicy

Data sovereignty failures could cost executives their jobs, according to Everpure research.
Source: Techxmedia
https://techxmedia.com/en/data-sovereignty-gap-88-of-execs-fear-for-their-jobs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=data-sovereignty-gap-88-of-execs-fear-for-their-jobs
#MachineLearning

Trump's lunch with tech leaders produced a morally binding safety accord.
Source: Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tech-leader-ai-lunch-key-moments-super-intelligence-misspelling-2026-9
#TechPolicy

Czech police were reported to be using software at the centre of a US investigation over Russia links.
Source: Radio Prague International
https://english.radio.cz/czech-police-reported-be-using-software-centre-us-investigation-over-russia-8898658
#TechPolicy

President Trump and tech leaders signed an AI code of conduct at the White House that is only morally binding. Outside auditors are supposed to check whether models work as intended. It is unclear what would happen if a company broke the rules.
Source: The Decoder
https://the-decoder.com/trump-and-tech-ceos-sign-an-ai-code-of-conduct-thats-only-morally-binding/
#TechPolicy #WhiteHouse

President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing all federal agencies to stop using the term artificial intelligence and to refer to it as super intelligence.
Source: The Next Web
https://thenextweb.com/news/trump-super-intelligence-executive-order-signed
#TechPolicy

Google pays about 100 digital publishers for content used in AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini. Payments range from under $1,000 over several months to more than $1 million a year.
Source: The Decoder
https://the-decoder.com/google-is-paying-almost-no-publishers-almost-nothing-for-content-used-in-ai-answers/
#AI #Google #Gemini

AI companies want to embed safety evaluators, but countries need their own.
Source: Rest of World
https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-safety-independent-evaluation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feeds
#TechPolicy

Asus confirmed on its Weibo page that the ProArt 16 RTX Spark laptop will launch on 8 October.
Source: Lowyat.NET
https://www.lowyat.net/2026/405942/asus-proart-16-rtx-spark-8-october/
#Semiconductors

Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta is preparing to expand its robotaxi operations beyond China, with Dubai, Japan and additional European cities among its next targets.
Source: Innovation Village
https://innovation-village.com/momenta-robotaxi-expansion-targets-dubai-and-europe/
#Robotics

Aspirity Partners has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Onomondo, leading a combined investment north of €100 million.
Source: EU-Startups
https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/09/aspirity-partners-makes-nordic-debut-with-e100-million-investment-in-onomondo/
#Startups

AI is emerging as the new growth anchor in the mobile communications industry.
Source: DigiTimes Asia
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20260930PD236/growth-mobile-infrastructure-sk-telecom-data.html
#AI

An overhaul led by Apple CEO John Ternus could bring faster product development, fewer management layers, and job cuts.
Source: Gadgets 360
https://www.gadgets360.com/ai/news/apple-ceo-john-ternus-push-fatster-launch-job-cuts-mark-gurman-report-12119250#rss-gadgets-all
#EnterpriseAI #Apple

NetApp announced NetApp Novus, designed for AI infrastructure providers.
Source: ITWeb Africa
https://www.itweb.co.za/article/netapp-removes-storage-bottleneck-for-ai-factories/kLgB1MezZwkq59N4
#AI

DeepSeek is partnering with Huawei to open-source software tools for Huawei's Ascend AI chips, giving a technology path beyond Nvidia's ecosystem.
Source: Innovation Village
https://innovation-village.com/deepseek-partners-with-huawei-to-reduce-reliance-on-nvidia-ai-chips/
#Semiconductors #DeepSeek #Huawei

An Anthropic scientist said artificial intelligence has the potential to kill all humans with a likelihood of more than 10% within the next decade.
Source: Stuff South Africa
https://stuff.co.za/2026/09/30/ai-safety-warnings-finally-heard/
#TechPolicy #Anthropic

Space-mining company AstroForge intends to let artificial intelligence control an entire mission using Solo.
Source: Stuff South Africa
https://stuff.co.za/2026/09/30/astroforge-intends-to-let-ai-take-control-space-mission/
#Robotics