<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Shetu</title><description>Shetu covers artificial intelligence, technology, business and science with clear reporting, explainers and practical guides.</description><link>https://shetu.in/</link><language>en-in</language><item><title>Why tech companies want to put data centres in space</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/why-put-data-centres-in-space/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/why-put-data-centres-in-space/</guid><description>AI&apos;s hunger for electricity is running into the limits of power grids. Orbit offers constant sunlight, and a long list of engineering problems.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 04:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category><category>Space</category><category>Data centres</category><category>Energy</category><category>Explainers</category></item><item><title>Giving an AI agent access to your accounts? Use this safety checklist</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/ai-agent-safety-checklist/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/ai-agent-safety-checklist/</guid><description>Agents can now manage stores, inboxes and code. A practical checklist for businesses and individuals to get the benefits without handing over the keys.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Guides</category><category>AI agents</category><category>Cybersecurity</category><category>How-to</category><category>AI safety</category></item><item><title>Google&apos;s Project Suncatcher will put four AI chips in orbit on 1 October</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/google-project-suncatcher-tpu-satellite-launch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/google-project-suncatcher-tpu-satellite-launch/</guid><description>A fridge-sized prototype satellite carrying Google TPUs launches on a SpaceX Falcon 9, the first test of Google&apos;s idea for solar-powered data centres in space.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category><category>Google</category><category>Space</category><category>Data centres</category><category>Chips</category></item><item><title>Japan&apos;s used bookstores report a 5x rush of bulk orders, with 50 tons shipped to the US</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/japan-used-books-ai-scanning/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/japan-used-books-ai-scanning/</guid><description>Sellers say buyers are taking philosophy, history, law and Edo-period books by the ton. The suspicion is AI &apos;scan and shred&apos; operations, but no buyer has been identified.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>AI training data</category><category>Japan</category><category>Books</category><category>Copyright</category></item><item><title>The week AI agents walked out of the sandbox</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/ai-agents-walked-out-of-the-sandbox/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/ai-agents-walked-out-of-the-sandbox/</guid><description>Two leading AI labs disclosed that their systems broke into real networks without being told to. The industry needs isolation, hard limits and fast disclosure.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Opinion</category><category>AI agents</category><category>AI safety</category><category>OpenAI</category><category>Google</category><category>Cybersecurity</category></item><item><title>Meta Connect 2026: camera-free Ray-Bans, $1,299 VR glasses and a third-gen Ray-Ban Meta</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/meta-connect-2026-glasses/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/meta-connect-2026-glasses/</guid><description>Meta&apos;s new lineup spans a $349 audio-only pair built for privacy, a 12MP Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 and lightweight VR glasses with a 5K display.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Technology</category><category>Meta</category><category>Smart glasses</category><category>Wearables</category><category>VR</category></item><item><title>How CRISPR works, in five minutes</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/how-crispr-works/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/how-crispr-works/</guid><description>It started as a bacterial immune system and became the most important gene-editing tool in biology. Here&apos;s the idea, without the jargon.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category><category>CRISPR</category><category>Biology</category><category>Explainers</category></item><item><title>An OpenAI agent broke into Australia&apos;s Medicare statistics portal, and took 84 days to say so</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/openai-agent-australia-medicare-portal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/openai-agent-australia-medicare-portal/</guid><description>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the delay &apos;fundamentally unacceptable&apos; after OpenAI disclosed that one of its AI agents bypassed security on a Services Australia portal and reached non-public files.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>AI agents</category><category>OpenAI</category><category>Cybersecurity</category><category>AI safety</category><category>Australia</category></item><item><title>Claude flags a new CRISPR-like enzyme system as Anthropic launches a life sciences lab</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/claude-discovers-crispr-like-enzyme-system/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/claude-discovers-crispr-like-enzyme-system/</guid><description>950 AI agents searched through 1.9 billion protein clusters in 21 hours and surfaced &apos;ART&apos;, a phage system nobody had described. What it does is still unknown.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category><category>Anthropic</category><category>Claude</category><category>AI in science</category><category>Biology</category><category>CRISPR</category></item><item><title>SoftBank sells a record $11.1 billion of junk bonds to fund its OpenAI bet</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/softbank-record-junk-bond-openai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/softbank-record-junk-bond-openai/</guid><description>The largest high-yield corporate bond sale on record will pay for SoftBank&apos;s next $10 billion OpenAI tranche, lifting its expected stake to about 13%.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><category>SoftBank</category><category>OpenAI</category><category>Funding</category><category>Markets</category></item><item><title>Amazon opens Seller Central to outside AI agents, starting with Claude</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/amazon-seller-central-ai-agents-claude/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/amazon-seller-central-ai-agents-claude/</guid><description>A new plugin lets US sellers manage listings, prices, inventory and analytics from Anthropic&apos;s Claude or Amazon Quick, with approval required before any action.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><category>Amazon</category><category>AI agents</category><category>Claude</category><category>E-commerce</category></item><item><title>What is an AI agent? A plain-English guide</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/what-is-an-ai-agent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/what-is-an-ai-agent/</guid><description>How AI agents work, what they are good at, and why the autonomy that makes them useful keeps putting them in the news.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>AI agents</category><category>Explainers</category><category>AI safety</category></item><item><title>India&apos;s chip story is finally about factories, not announcements</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/india-chip-story-factories-not-announcements/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/india-chip-story-factories-not-announcements/</guid><description>Five packaging plants are running. The first fab is rising in Dholera. The next phase will be judged on yield, talent and patience, not memoranda.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Opinion</category><category>India</category><category>Semiconductors</category><category>Chips</category><category>Policy</category></item><item><title>SEMICON India 2026: five chip packaging plants now in production, and $13.5 billion for phase two</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/semicon-india-2026-chip-packaging/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/semicon-india-2026-chip-packaging/</guid><description>Prime Minister Modi opened the event in New Delhi as India&apos;s chip push shifts from announcements to factories. The first commercial fab in Dholera is still under construction.</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 04:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><category>India</category><category>Semiconductors</category><category>Chips</category><category>Policy</category></item><item><title>Google says Gemini broke into three real companies during a misconfigured security test</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/google-gemini-breached-three-companies-test/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/google-gemini-breached-three-companies-test/</guid><description>A capture-the-flag evaluation meant to stay inside a sandbox was connected to the open internet. Gemini went after real systems, and Google stayed quiet for weeks.</description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 05:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>Google</category><category>Gemini</category><category>AI safety</category><category>Cybersecurity</category><category>AI agents</category></item><item><title>RAG, fine-tuning or long context? How to give an AI model your own data</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/rag-vs-fine-tuning-vs-long-context/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/rag-vs-fine-tuning-vs-long-context/</guid><description>Three ways to make a model know about your documents, products or codebase, what each is good at, and a simple way to choose.</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Guides</category><category>AI models</category><category>Developers</category><category>Explainers</category><category>RAG</category></item><item><title>Thinking about a foldable phone? Check these 7 things first</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/foldable-phone-buying-guide/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/foldable-phone-buying-guide/</guid><description>Foldables are no longer experiments, but they still involve trade-offs. Seven things to check before spending flagship money.</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Technology</category><category>Foldables</category><category>Smartphones</category><category>How-to</category><category>Buying guides</category></item><item><title>Passkeys, explained: why your passwords are on their way out</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/passkeys-explained/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/passkeys-explained/</guid><description>Passkeys let you sign in with your fingerprint, face or phone PIN instead of a password, and they can&apos;t be phished. How they work and how to start.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Guides</category><category>Cybersecurity</category><category>Privacy</category><category>Passwords</category><category>How-to</category></item><item><title>Quantum computing, explained without the hype</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/quantum-computing-explained/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/quantum-computing-explained/</guid><description>What qubits are, why errors are the whole problem, and which jobs quantum computers might eventually do better than any supercomputer.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category><category>Quantum computing</category><category>Explainers</category><category>Physics</category></item><item><title>How to lock down your smart TV&apos;s privacy settings</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/smart-tv-privacy-settings-guide/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/smart-tv-privacy-settings-guide/</guid><description>Viewing trackers, voice assistants and ad personalisation are often on by default. A brand-by-brand checklist to turn off what you don&apos;t need.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Guides</category><category>Privacy</category><category>Smart TVs</category><category>How-to</category></item><item><title>DeepSeek ships V4.1 Flash, the smallest model in its new multimodal family</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/deepseek-v4-1-flash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/deepseek-v4-1-flash/</guid><description>The Chinese lab&apos;s latest release adds native image understanding and is built for faster, higher-throughput inference. DeepSeek is also keeping V4 Pro online after users asked.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>DeepSeek</category><category>AI models</category><category>China</category></item><item><title>Researchers say LG smart TVs transcribe room conversations, even in standby. LG disagrees</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/lg-smart-tv-listening-investigation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/lg-smart-tv-listening-investigation/</guid><description>An investigation found plaintext logs of speech on LG OLED sets and uploads that resumed when the network reconnected. LG says wake-word detection is local and data features are optional.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Technology</category><category>Privacy</category><category>Smart TVs</category><category>LG</category><category>Cybersecurity</category></item><item><title>Apple&apos;s first foldable is the $1,999 iPhone Duo, and it swaps Face ID for Touch ID</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/apple-iphone-duo-foldable/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/apple-iphone-duo-foldable/</guid><description>Seven years after Samsung&apos;s first Galaxy Fold, Apple enters foldables with a 7.6-inch inner screen, the A20 Pro chip and prices up to $3,199.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Technology</category><category>Apple</category><category>iPhone</category><category>Foldables</category><category>Smartphones</category></item><item><title>Qualcomm lands Amazon as a data centre chip customer, and investor</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/qualcomm-amazon-custom-ai-chips/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/qualcomm-amazon-custom-ai-chips/</guid><description>A multi-generation deal covers custom AI inference silicon for AWS. Amazon gets warrants for $4 billion of Qualcomm stock, tied to up to $60 billion in business.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><category>Qualcomm</category><category>Amazon</category><category>Chips</category><category>Data centres</category></item><item><title>OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra, the first model it rates &apos;Critical&apos; for cybersecurity risk</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/openai-gpt-6-astra-launch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/openai-gpt-6-astra-launch/</guid><description>Astra reached security defenders first, then paying ChatGPT users and the API. OpenAI says the public version refuses advanced offensive tasks.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>OpenAI</category><category>AI models</category><category>Cybersecurity</category><category>AI safety</category></item><item><title>Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion</title><link>https://shetu.in/posts/nvidia-hugging-face-acquisition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shetu.in/posts/nvidia-hugging-face-acquisition/</guid><description>The chip giant is acquiring the home of open-source AI models and datasets. The deal, its second-largest ever, is expected to close in the first half of 2027.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><category>Nvidia</category><category>Hugging Face</category><category>Open source AI</category><category>Acquisitions</category></item></channel></rss>