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Meta, the Indian government, and the question of who holds the switch ?

For a few hours, India's Prime Minister was invisible on Facebook. Meta called it an error and, after Delhi summoned its executives, apologised. A separate claim that the platform boosted a satirical opposition movement and starved the BJP of reach travelled through parts of the internet, unverified by any major outlet. Beneath it sits a harder question the apology does not answer: when the machine that ranks a nation's feed is a black box, who holds the switch, and could anyone prove how it was used?

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AI screening tools may be filtering out experienced mid-life women, BBC investigation finds

Opaque algorithms that flag career gaps or grade CVs A to D are raising bias concerns that regulators have yet to address with experienced candidates paying the price.

6 Aug
Future of Work

Nearly half of India's workforce plans to change jobs in the next six months, Randstad finds

Work-life balance, career growth and pay are all falling short for Indian talent and employers that can't close those gaps stand to lose the most people.

6 Aug
Hiring

India's data centre pipeline could generate 4.33 lakh jobs and reshape urban housing by 2030

Most of the hiring will fall outside data centre campuses, in the ancillary services: power, fibre, logistics and construction that grow up around them.

4 Aug
Hiring

AI screening tools may be filtering out experienced mid-life women, BBC investigation finds

Opaque algorithms that flag career gaps or grade CVs A to D are raising bias concerns that regulators have yet to address with experienced candidates paying the price.

6 Aug
Future of Work

Nearly half of India's workforce plans to change jobs in the next six months, Randstad finds

Work-life balance, career growth and pay are all falling short for Indian talent and employers that can't close those gaps stand to lose the most people.

6 Aug
Hiring

India's data centre pipeline could generate 4.33 lakh jobs and reshape urban housing by 2030

Most of the hiring will fall outside data centre campuses, in the ancillary services: power, fibre, logistics and construction that grow up around them.

4 Aug
Hiring

Deutsche bank says India wealth and retail sale refocuses NRI strategy

Selling its only retail franchise outside Europe lets Deutsche Bank redirect attention to ultra-high-net-worth NRI clients served from Singapore, Dubai and London.

4 Aug
Pay and benefits

NTT data launches ADAPTIS payment platform in India

India's zero-fee UPI mandate is pushing foreign payment firms to compete on merchant services and high-value niches rather than transaction volume alone.

4 Aug
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Hiring

Deutsche bank says India wealth and retail sale refocuses NRI strategy

Selling its only retail franchise outside Europe lets Deutsche Bank redirect attention to ultra-high-net-worth NRI clients served from Singapore, Dubai and London.

4 Aug
Pay and benefits

NTT data launches ADAPTIS payment platform in India

India's zero-fee UPI mandate is pushing foreign payment firms to compete on merchant services and high-value niches rather than transaction volume alone.

4 Aug
Pay and benefits

Delhi doubles pay for disaster management staff after 16 years without a revision

Sixteen years of pay freeze with no DA and no increments shows how contractual public-sector roles can fall far outside routine compensation frameworks.

4 Aug
Policy and economy

Topmost three Indian AI stocks on retail investors' radar for software and infrastructure plays

Demand for AI servers, automotive software and applied AI platforms is reshaping which technical skills and sectors are attracting capital and hiring in India.

3 Aug
The long view
The courage to slow down
1,134 people building the world's most powerful AI just asked for a way to slow it down. In a culture that worships speed, the real courage is the brake.
Why employee wellbeing is becoming a competitive hiring advantage
Wellbeing is becoming decisive in hiring but a 2024 Oxford study found the apps don't work. What real workplace wellbeing looks like, and how to spot it.
Told to pass a test, OpenAI's models broke out and hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI's models broke out of a test, hacked Hugging Face and took the answers to their own exam. What it signals for the future of work. The first documented case of an AI system running an end-to-end intrusion on its own was not an act of rebellion.
US-based firm Curative says it replaced Salesforce and cut a $600,000 bill to zero
Curative says it replaced Salesforce and erased a $600,000 bill with AI in two months. Wocult checks the claim against MIT, BCG and Gartner research on why most corporate AI projects fail, and what it means for the future of work.
Vineet Nayar says the quiet part out loud on AI-era layoffs
Vineet Nayar, former CEO of HCL Technologies, did something unusual this week. He publicly criticised the way companies are handling AI-driven layoffs and questioned the values of the leaders making those calls.
Every major economy tracks its layoffs. India's leave no trace
India has no layoff register. No law requires companies to report white-collar job cuts, no agency counts them, and no support reaches those affected. How every major economy tracks its layoffs, and why India's leave no trace.
Indra Nooyi says she could never have become a CEO in India, crediting US meritocracy.
Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi says she could never have become a CEO in India, praises US meritocracy, and calls India's chaos its beauty, remarks made with Condoleezza Rice that have sparked a debate.
When your company fires you for refusing unpaid overtime
Companies can't legally fire you for refusing unpaid overtime. Know your rights and potential compensation
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