Vishwadeep Khatri

This initiative has been rolled out in partnership with the global movement, GivingTuesday. It provides access to Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 for tasks, including grant writing, programme analysis, and frontier performance. View the full article

Facing AI-driven job uncertainty, many young Brits are turning to skilled trades for stable careers. White-collar jobs are being viewed as more vulnerable to disruption by AI and automation than manual labour. Colleges report rising enrolments in construction, plumbing, and engineering, offering practical experience, strong demand, and opportunities to earn well or run one’s own business. View the full article

The ET AI Awards 2025, an offering from India’s premier business platform, is distinguished by a discerning jury comprising India’s finest across governance, business, technology, and digital infrastructure. With the awards ceremony scheduled to take place on 26 February 2026, here’s a look at how the judging panel is evaluating this year’s nominations, and the criteria that matter most. View the full article

The AI Alliance Network expanded to 28 organizations from 21 countries at its second meeting in Moscow. The alliance, founded in December 2024, focuses on transparent and collaborative AI advancement. A key initiative, the AI Horizons research project, involved 270 researchers from 36 nations, aiming to democratize AI future development. View the full article

Sam Altman has reportedly issued a “code red” inside OpenAI, urging staff to focus on improving ChatGPT and pausing other projects, including early advertising plans. Though unannounced publicly, OpenAI is said to be testing ad formats, such as shopping-related adverts, according to sources familiar with the company’s internal discussions. View the full article

For the context of this question, refer to Q827 - Can AI Systems from Different Companies Collaborate Effectively? Q. 828 How Will AI-to-AI Collaboration and Competition Reshape Markets? As AIs start interacting across companies — negotiating prices, optimizing supply chains, or coordinating customer experiences — entire markets could evolve into autonomous ecosystems where machines make faster, data-driven decisions than humans ever could. Think of your industry or domain: How might AI-to-AI interactions change the rules of competition, pricing, or value creation? What new risks, advantages, or ethical dilemmas might emerge when algorithms begin shaping market outcomes directly? ⚠️ Note: Any answer that is generic or does not connect with a specific, relevant market or industry context will not be approved. 🏆 The best answer will be selected on the basis of: Relevance and clarity of the chosen market scenario Depth of insight into market or competitive implications Practicality of governance or safeguards suggested Note for website visitors - This platform hosts two weekly questions, one on Monday and the other on Thursday. All previous questions can be found here: https://www.benchmarksixsigma.com/forum/lean-six-sigma-business-excellence-questions/. To participate in the current question, please visit the forum homepage at https://www.benchmarksixsigma.com/forum/. The question will be open until Tuesday or Friday at 9:00 AM Indian Standard Time, depending on the launch day. Responses will not be visible until they are reviewed, and only non-plagiarised answers with less than 5-10% plagiarism will be considered for winner selection. If you are unsure about plagiarism, please check your answer using a plagiarism checker tool such as https://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/ before submitting. All correct answers shall be published, and the top-rated answer will be displayed first. The author will receive an honourable mention in our Business Excellence dictionary at https://www.benchmarksixsigma.com/forum/business-excellence-dictionary-glossary/ along with the related term. Some people seem to be using AI platforms to find forum answers. This is a risky approach as AI responses are error-prone because our questions are application-oriented (they are never straightforward). Have a look at this funny example - https://www.benchmarksixsigma.com/forum/topic/39458-using-ai-to-respond-to-forum-questions/ We also use an AI content detector at https://quillbot.com/ai-content-detector. Only answers with less than 45-50% AI-generated content will be considered for winner selection.

Q827 – Results 🏆 1st – Adil Excellent, high-clarity aerospace MRO example where airline, MRO, OEM and supplier AIs negotiate repairs, parts and logistics within minutes. Strong use of real metrics and practical governance (smart contracts, penalties, blockchain, regulatory AI). 🥈 2nd – Arul Very strong DevOps + Gemini scenario showing how two AIs coordinate infra changes with clean role separation, approvals, and robust guardrails for policy drift, privileges and auditability. 🥉 3rd – Manisha Clear Rogers–Bank fraud/identity use case. Shows meaningful AI-to-AI value and offers practical controls: tokenization, federated learning, API contracts, shared risk schema, third-party audits, and human-in-loop for high-stakes calls. Also approved: Shashank – FMCG warehouse–carrier–retailer coordination with simple, effective transparency boundaries. Venessa – Venue approval ecosystem outlining authority, liability and standards alignment between internal and external AIs. Mahesh Vemula – Good cross-industry examples (cargo, banking, supply chain) with sensible best practices for signal-level sharing. Not approved: N – Too broad and not tied to a specific inter-company AI collaboration scenario.

Australia currently has no specific AI laws though the centre-left Labor government last year signalled it would introduce voluntary guidelines amid concerns over privacy, safety and transparency. View the full article

There is palpable tension with circular deals and debt funding doing the rounds but tech honchos are certain that AI is here to stay, write Surabhi Agarwal & Himanshi Lohchab. View the full article

Winning with AI: A fortnightly column on the tips and tricks that will help propel you ahead in the AI race View the full article

Experts are debating whether the current AI boom is a bubble, with some drawing parallels to the 1990s tech surge. While current market valuations are not as extreme as in the past, emerging risks within AI systems are a growing concern for analysts and economists. View the full article

Cedrik Neike, CEO, Siemens Digital Industries, tells Himanshi Lohchab that India needs to leapfrog manufacturing. If it copies traditional models, it will not be able to catch up. View the full article

Following the stake buy, OpenAI’s research, product, and engineering teams will be embedded into the portfolio companies of the New York-based investment vehicle of Thrive Capital. Accounting and IT functions will be the first to be automated. View the full article

Nvidia has invested $2 billion in chip design software maker Synopsys as part of an expanded multi-year tie-up to jointly develop new tools for designing products across industries using its AI technology. The deal, unveiled by the companies on Monday, adds to Nvidia's slew of new partnerships in the artificial intelligence ecosystem amid concerns of increasingly circular deals. View the full article

ChatGPT, three years old, has reshaped the AI landscape and spurred intense competition. While OpenAI pursues AGI and hardware, rivals like Google have rapidly advanced their AI offerings. ChatGPT faces user engagement challenges but is evolving into an e-commerce hub and aims for significant subscription growth. View the full article

ByteDance is rolling out a new AI voice assistant, powered by its Doubao model, starting with ZTE’s Nubia M153 smartphone. The tool handles tasks through voice commands and will expand to other brands. ZTE’s shares jumped on the news. Doubao remains China’s most popular consumer AI app, far ahead of rivals. View the full article

More than a thousand Amazon staff have signed a letter to CEO Andy Jassy warning that the company’s rapid AI expansion is damaging the climate as well as worsening working conditions. They criticise huge data centre spending, abandoned green commitments and rising internal pressure, and call for clean energy use, worker input, and limits on harmful AI applications. View the full article

HSBC has agreed a multi-year partnership with French start-up Mistral AI to bring generative AI tools into the bank’s operations. The deal will support faster analysis, translation, risk checks and tailored client communication. HSBC expects major time savings and quicker innovation, while keeping the technology within its responsible-AI and data-privacy rules. View the full article

James Cameron says the idea of generative AI creating actors and performances is “horrifying”, stressing that he never wants to replace real actors. While he sees value in cheaper VFX, he fears original sci-fi films are becoming rare. "I don't want a computer doing what I pride myself on being able to do with actors. I don't want to replace actors, I love working with actors," he added. View the full article

Although AI-powered purchases are in early stages, the shopping assistants and agents rolled out by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and Google can do more than the chatbots of holidays past. The latest versions were designed to provide personalized product recommendations, track prices and to place some orders through unscripted "conversations" with customers. View the full article

The global IT services company, which offshores engineering resources from India, currently employs over 40,000 individuals in the country. View the full article

The company has increased its sales projections at least twice this year, the Information reported, adding that in September, Databricks revised its sales projection from $3.8 billion to $4 billion, before revising it upward again slightly. It now expects sales to grow by 55% this year. View the full article

India’s global capability centres (GCCs) are rapidly adopting agentic AI, shifting from cost-focused hubs to innovation and product engineering centres. Investments in AI, talent upskilling, and automation are driving live deployments in various sectors. As a result, attrition has dropped and remains at 9-13%. Long-term innovation mandates and internal mobility pathways have further improved retention in AI and digital roles. View the full article

OpenAI’s growth is being funded mostly through huge borrowing by partners like Oracle, SoftBank and CoreWeave, which now hold nearly $100 billion in debt. OpenAI stays largely debt-free despite massive spending commitments. Complex financing structures shift risk to lenders, leaving firms such as Oracle heavily exposed as they finance OpenAI-linked data centre expansion. View the full article

AI is changing holiday shopping, with major retailers and tech firms offering smarter assistants that personalise recommendations, track prices, and even place orders automatically. New tools from Amazon, Google, OpenAI and others promise quicker searches, clearer comparisons and easier checkout, though adoption remains gradual as shoppers adjust to these evolving technologies. View the full article