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    Reliance’s secret ‘Project Jupiter’ leads to $4 bn Jio IPO filing

    • 01.07.2026
    • MSN

    Reliance ran ‘Project Jupiter’ for nearly a year, limiting knowledge to top executives and bankers, and avoiding digital records to keep the IPO plan secret.

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    EU AI Act Reset: More Time, Same Compliance Reality

    • 01.07.2026
    • Baker Botts

    The Council of the European Union has now given its final green light to a targeted package of amendments to the EU AI Act, marking a decisive shift from framework-setting to implementation. The changes—part of the “Omnibus VII” simplification agenda—aim to reduce regulatory friction while preserving the Act’s risk-based architecture.

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    You can’t copy-paste regulation: AI legislation needs a local policy lens

    • 01.07.2026
    • Alliance

    Artificial intelligence regulation is no longer confined to a few jurisdictions. While much attention still focuses on the European Union, the United States, China, and the United Kingdom, more countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia are defining their own approaches to AI governance.

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    The Handover of AI Standard-Setting

    • 01.07.2026
    • Just Security

    The public bodies that are supposed to set the standards for AI regulation have, for the most part, not done it yet. AI regulations on both sides of the Atlantic require providers to certify or document that their systems meet general requirements (such as accuracy, fairness, robustness, human oversight). But they leave much of the specification over what those requirements mean to bodies that have not yet produced requirements that match the systems being regulated.

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    Network Slicing Is Here: What India Should Learn—And Not Learn—from China’s 5G Revolution

    • 01.07.2026
    • Swarajya

    On the evening of 19 May 2026, Bharti Airtel's India CEO Shashwat Sharma announced the launch of Priority Postpaid. One sentence in the press release was different from the usual telco prose. Sharma described the service as guaranteeing a stable connection for "a client call in traffic, or streaming at a packed concert, or booking a cab in a crowded market."

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    US House passes online child safety legislation

    • 01.07.2026
    • The American Bazaar

    The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday, just ahead of World Social Media Day, passed bipartisan legislation aimed at strengthening online protections for children, setting up negotiations with the Senate over competing approaches to regulating social media and other digital platforms.

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    Cabinet Reshuffle on Cards? Speculation Grows Over Big Changes in Modi Government

    • 01.07.2026
    • Tehelka

    Speculation over a major reshuffle and expansion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Council of Ministers has intensified, with political circles abuzz over possible changes in the Union Cabinet ahead of the upcoming Monsoon Session of Parliament. However, sources indicate that the exercise may now take place after the Monsoon Session, likely in September or October, as the government’s immediate focus remains on key legislative business.

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    Regional content studios diversify, aim big across Hindi, non-Hindi languages

    • 01.07.2026
    • Mint

    SVF Entertainment, one of the largest film and TV production companies in West Bengal has recently made a Hindi web show Chiraiya for JioHotstar.

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    Banks, insurers and healthcare brands are rewriting the ad playbook with microdramas

    • 30.06.2026
    • Storyboard18

    From fraud awareness to MSME schemes, microdramas are transforming corporate messaging into episodic storytelling, helping brands trade interruptions for immersion across vernacular, mobile-first audiences.

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    Instagram’s second long-form gamble rides on micro-dramas, creators and connected TV

    • 30.06.2026
    • Storyboard18

    Executives believe Meta is avoiding the mistakes of the past by taking content that already works on mobile and extending it to the living room instead of asking creators to produce an entirely different format.

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