In this Morning Brief conversation, Dia Rekhi speaks with political scientist and and researcher at CERI, Sciences Po Paris Gilles Verniers about the wave of youth-led protests sweeping the globe. Starting with France’s student-led movement, they explore why young people anchor these uprisings, whether “Gen Z” is too simple a label, and how economic anxiety, shrinking opportunity and AI-driven job fears connect movements from Paris to Serbia to India’s Cockroach Janata Party. Vernier also discusses electoral conversion, why authenticity beats youth-speak in politics, how AI is reshaping campaigns, and why minority protests remain legitimate in a democracy. He closes by declining to predict where they lead.

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India has become ChatGPT’s largest market by weekly active users. But can OpenAI turn that extraordinary reach into a sustainable business? In this conversation with The Economic Times’ tech editor Surabhi Agarwal, OpenAI India Managing Director Prabhjeet Singh discusses the shift from AI experimentation to enterprise adoption, the challenge of monetising Indian users, and the company’s growing investments in local infrastructure. He also addresses competition from technology giants, the rise of autonomous AI agents, ChatGPT advertising, cybersecurity risks and India’s push for AI sovereignty. As AI valuations soar, can real-world adoption justify the enormous investments being made?

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India's rapidly expanding financial ecosystem faces a growing cybersecurity challenge. While large banks have invested heavily in protecting their systems, fintech companies and non-banking financial institutions remain vulnerable to increasingly sophisticated attacks. Artificial intelligence is changing the economics of cybercrime, allowing attackers to identify weaknesses faster, at significantly lower costs and on a much larger scale.

Anirban Chowdhury speaks to Yash Kakadia, founder of Security Brigade, about how these attacks work, the vulnerabilities within financial technology infrastructure, the limitations of compliance-driven security, and whether India's regulators and financial institutions can keep pace with an accelerating threat.

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