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This week, London Tech Week had its launch. We started on Sunday evening at the Royal Society with about 350 Indian companies that the British High Commission had brought over. To my surprise, every single one of the companies I spoke to was involved in AI and had already started employing local British staff or was about to.

Not long ago, in a bibliotherapy session, a woman I will call Anna arrived at my door seeking literature to help her with grieving the loss of her mother. She had been asking ChatGPT for book recommendations at two in the morning. It gave her a string of reading lists focused on grief, healing, and loss. But when she spoke about one slim grief memoir that had made her cry on the train, what mattered was the emotional connection and intimacy she felt with the author, and all the life history, context and consciousness that the author brought to the page, into the memoir – something that we as readers often feel is missing in the writing produced an AI tool such as ChatGPT or Claude AI.

The Pakistani military state is battling a severe domestic security crisis as two parallel militant insurgencies intensify across its western and north-western frontiers.

Governed de facto by military chief Field Marshal Asim Munir, the administration in Islamabad faces its worst level of militant violence in a decade following a devastating commuter train bombing. 

The Indian government has launched a strict digital crackdown following the viral CJP movement that exposed deep-seated generational tensions between the country's youth and its ageing political leadership

The highly anticipated FIFA World Cup kicks off on June 11, marking the arrival of the largest and most ambitious tournament in football history across North America.