Oliver Whang / New York Times:
A primer on “interpretability” and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the “black box” that holds the formulas within most AI models  —  When Deep Blue, IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, beat Garry Kasparov in 1997, computers were still just computers.

Fiona Kelliher / MIT Technology Review:
How cyberscammers are bypassing major banks' KYC facial scans using stolen biometric data and virtual camera tools sold via Telegram channels  —  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY  —  From inside a money-laundering center in Cambodia, an employee opens a popular Vietnamese banking app on his phone.

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
India produces 1.5M+ computer science graduates annually, but scale is no longer an advantage with the rise of AI coding; Infosys revamps hiring to focus on AI  —  Companies like Infosys are running their new hires through many weeks of training to bring them up to speed on new programming tools.

Nikkei Asia:
Analysis: China's chipmaking tool imports from Singapore rose 17% YoY to $5.7B in 2025 and from Malaysia rose 2x+ to $3.4B; direct US imports fell 34% to ~$2B  —  TAIPEI — China's imports of chipmaking equipment from Malaysia and Singapore rose sharply in 2025 to surpass those from the U.S. …

Swathi Moorthy / The Economic Times:
Sources: Ola's AI venture Krutrim's smart assistant Kruti is unavailable to users and the development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, has stalled  —  While ‘Kruti’ was not accessible via its direct website, kruti.ai, which showed a “site not found” error, users accessing …