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How are organisations reckoning their AI addiction

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By John Xavier Verified
| The Hindu Verified
In December 2025, Microsoft opened the doors for thousands of its engineers to use Anthropic’s Claude Code — an AI coding assistant — as part of an internal experiment to benchmark the best tools available. That test worked too well as some employees decisively chose it over Microsoft’s own AI coding assistance — GitHub Copilot CLI.
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Why CBSE must re-think its on-screen marking system

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By John Xavier Verified
| The Hindu Verified
The CBSE introduced the On-Screen Marking (OSM) system for Class 12 evaluations | Photo Credit: AI generated On May 13, CBSE declared Class 12 results, recording a three point drop in pass percentage to 85.20% from 88.39% last year. Several students, in effect, would have found themselves on the wrong side of the line compared to last year’s cohort.The aggregate decline is sharp enough that it cannot be waved away with the usual “tougher papers this year” explanation.
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At Google I/O 2026, Alphabet rewrites search playbook, unveils Gemini 3.5 Flash

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By John Xavier Verified
| The Hindu Verified
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash AI model during Google I/O keynote | Photo Credit: Screengrab For most of the internet age, Google’s search box has remained the same. That era, Google announced on Tuesday (May 19, 2026), is over as the company is rolling out what it calls the biggest upgrade to its Search interface in over two and half decades. The new interface will get an AI-powered input box that dynamically expands as the user types.
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