APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
OpenAI enters Jev’s turf with a decision API for AI agents
The Decisions API, now generally available, is meant for tasks where an AI agent only needs to choose between a few options. It puts OpenAI in competition with decision models such as TypeSafe's Jev.
PHP security vulnerabilities: Indian govt rushes to fix official websites, banks audit apps
Banks have begun auditing applications for weaknesses, taking some non-critical services offline and preparing backups to divert traffic if parts of their websites or mobile applications experience downtime, according to executives.
Indian patch patrol sets out to resolve PHP risk
Two critical security flaws in PHP, the programming language underpinning an estimated 70% of the internet, have triggered emergency cybersecurity measures in India. Banks are auditing applications and preparing backups, while the government is patching official websites. Razorpay has deployed AI-led vulnerability detection and warned merchants about potential breaches.
RBI asks banks, payment firms to forensically clear tech environments in case of a data breach
The RBI has asked financial entities to remove management and administrative interfaces from public internet access, enforce multi-factor authentication for administrative access, and restrict access to cloud and backend systems on a least-privilege basis. The measures include auditing source code, repositories, configuration files, client applications and cloud storage for exposed credentials, and immediately rotating and purging compromised credentials.
SBI hit by cyberattack, customer data leaked on dark web: All you need to know
A preliminary analysis found about 375,000 records on the dark web. Of these, 3,897 customer records contained personally identifiable information, the bank said.
Zoom wants AI agents to do the work that follows the meeting
Zoom has introduced a new AI platform that converts business conversations into tasks, enhancing productivity. This platform integrates data from meetings, calls, and chats to provide valuable context. The new features allow users to access meeting summaries and automate workflows across various applications.
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AI responsibility must be natively built & community-driven: Google DeepMind’s Lila Ibrahim
As chief AI readiness officer, Lila Ibrahim mandate is to help prepare society for increasingly capable AI by bringing together governments, businesses, researchers, and communities to understand how the technology should be developed and deployed.

Meta’s Muse Spark Open is free to download, but comes with strings attached
The main commercial restriction applies to companies that offer AI models as a service, giving customers model outputs through an application programming interface (API) or a similar interface.

Voice-first India is reshaping OpenAI’s priorities: Applications CTO
Indian users frequently switch between English and Hindi during the same conversation, a behaviour OpenAI wants its models to understand and respond to naturally, Vijaye Raji said. The company is also looking at how products can work better in an Android-first market and in situations where connectivity may be intermittent.

19-year-old Japanese student claims Claude Code helped him build an AI trading bot in 48 hours and turn $68 into $750,000
A 19-year-old engineering student in Japan built an automated cryptocurrency trading bot in two days using Claude Code. Starting with an initial capital of $68, the bot generated $6,732 in profit on its first night of operation. Total profits from the system have since reached $750,000. The student developed the entire system over a single weekend. He used Claude Code to generate the core trading logic and set up his iPad as a secondary display to monitor market activity.

Cyberattacks affect 20 financial institutions; CERT-In warns on API vulnerabilities and security measures
Around 20 financial institutions were affected by cyberattacks earlier this month, with hackers allegedly exploiting stolen partner-bank credentials and vulnerabilities in payment APIs to siphon off funds. Following the attacks, CERT-In issued an advisory urging banks, NBFCs and fintech firms to suspend compromised interfaces, strengthen transaction safeguards and tighten customer verification.

Build some, buy some, lock into none: Aditya Birla Capital's Pankaj Gadgil on buying AI
Gadgil said companies should retain the ability to build their own tools without waiting to recreate solutions available in the market.

Bhashini deploys real-time multilingual AI translation platform at international civil services programme
The National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) is organising the Capacity Building Programme on Urban Service Delivery for Civil Servants of Multiple Countries from October 12 to 23, 2026.

Sashakt: Expanding Opportunities Charting the Course for Digital Inclusion at India Mobile Congress 2026
The India Mobile Congress 2026 revolves around the innovative theme 'Scale Without Boundaries,' aiming to address the necessity for equitable digital access and groundbreaking connectivity methods. Over a four-day period, engaging sessions will delve into topics like autonomous networks and the role of AI in telecommunications, featuring insights from influential figures in the industry and global policymakers.

These mid-caps have ‘strong buy’ & ‘buy’ recos and an upside potential of over 25%, according to analysts
What is needed in the markets these days is realism. Not fear or gloom, but a clear-eyed acceptance of where things actually stand. Realism means not hoping for things facts do not support. It means accepting that the next few months may be difficult: That earnings may disappoint, that prices may fall further. It also means planning for such a scenario instead of just hoping that it will go away.

In 2016, Ajay Patel left his systems-engineer career to co-found ThemeSelection; by 2026, his startup was selling customizable UI kits to developers worldwide
Ajay Patel is a technology entrepreneur, innovator and programmer. He co-founded ThemeSelection following the discovery of repetitive work which includes in building admin panels. Before getting into entrepreneurship, Patel worked as a systems engineer at Tata Consultancy Services and obtained a computer engineering degree from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Technology.

These mid-caps have ‘strong buy’ & ‘buy’ recos and an upside potential of over 25%, according to analysts
There are times when a watchlist is more important than a buy list. But if you still insist on putting money in the market, look at fundamentally strong stocks. While doing so, however, be clear that the invested money might still shed some value in the near term, or at least underperform. Coming specifically to mid-cap stocks, even in the initial phase of a recovery, they may well have limited ability to see a sharp upmove. Why?

MDR gives banks more fuel for UPI play
Payment companies can build the customer interface, but a product cannot scale until issuing and acquiring banks connect their systems, test the transaction flow and install the required controls. Under zero MDR, this work generated costs without transaction-linked revenue for banks and often received lower priority, industry executives said.

Palo Alto Networks unveils AI-powered cybersecurity service using Claude, GPT models
Hackers are increasingly using AI to find and exploit weaknesses in corporate networks, prompting cybersecurity firms to build defenses that can detect and respond to threats more quickly.

The new AI builder: Skills for the agentic AI era
As AI systems move from generating responses to acting autonomously, building them requires a broader set of capabilities. Understanding business workflows, designing reliable systems and determining where human judgement should guide decision-making are becoming equally important for the next generation of AI professionals.

Dark patterns under scrutiny: Why digital trust must be designed into consumer journeys
India’s regulatory direction is becoming clearer: consumer choice should be genuine, consent should be affirmative, and important information should be easy to understand before a decision is made.
OpenAI says Indian advertisers to get direct access to ChatGPT Ads as ad business hits $1 billion ARR
OpenAI said self-service access to ChatGPT Ads will begin in India later on Monday, along with Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The expansion will allow businesses in India, including small and medium-sized companies and startups, to directly use OpenAI's advertising platform to reach ChatGPT users.

Alibaba's Qwen launches Qwen3.8-Flash AI model with lower training costs
Qwen3.8-Flash supports a default context window of 262,144 tokens, expandable to 1 million tokens, enabling it to handle large files, lengthy conversations and extensive research materials. It also released open-source weights for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, allowing the developer community to evaluate an architecture that Qwen said would serve as a prototype for its next-generation Qwen4 model family.

Beyond Chatbots: Dview bets on AI that can reason
Dview founder and CEO Kauts Shukla says the next wave of enterprise AI will move beyond chatbots and dashboards to systems that can reason across fragmented enterprise data.

OpenAI cuts developer pricing for frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model by more than 20%
The price cuts are effective on OpenAI's application programming interface, or API, and are rolling out across eligible plans for credits on its agentic AI product ChatGPT Work and its coding tool Codex, OpenAI said.

Sebi plans to introduce new SCORES system with revamped website, mobile app
SCORES (SEBI Complaints Redressal System) is an online platform designed to help investors lodge their complaints pertaining to the securities market, mainly against listed companies and registered intermediaries. It was made operational in June 2011. All complaints received through SCORES are dealt with in a time-bound manner.

Customs start clearing API shipments from China
New Delhi Indian customs on Tuesday began clearing Chinese origin shipments of active pharmaceutical ingredients, relaxing further the mandatory 100% physical check for imports from China, people familiar with the development said.

Businesses face digital ceiling in transformation progress: Infosys study
Digital marketing is a particularly strong capability for Indian companies, according to the new global study by Infosys Knowledge Institute. The Infosys Digital Radar 2020, which measured companies' progress against 22 digital initiatives, this year found that India ranks the highest in the Digital Maturity Index at 71.4, whereas the overall digital maturity, stands at 62.3.

Digit Insurance eases SME property cover using automation
New-age insurer Digit Insurance has made it viable to provide a cover to such small businesses by automating the underwriting process.
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