Technology

From Integration Chaos to Digital Clarity: Nutrien Ag Solutions’ Post-Acquisition Reset

February 19, 2026
Thank you for joining us on the “Enterprise AI hub.” In this episode of the Infosys Knowledge Institute Podcast, Dylan Cosper speaks with Sriram Kalyan, Head of Applications and Data at Nutrien Ag Solutions, Australia, about turning a high-risk post-acquisition IT landscape into a scalable digital foundation. Sriram shares how the merger of two major…

Google DeepMind wants to know if chatbots are just virtue signaling

February 18, 2026
Google DeepMind is calling for the moral behavior of large language models—such as what they do when called on to act as companions, therapists, medical advisors, and so on—to be scrutinized with the same kind of rigor as their ability to code or do math. As LLMs improve, people are asking them to play more…

The Download: a blockchain enigma, and the algorithms governing our lives

February 18, 2026
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Welcome to the dark side of crypto’s permissionless dream Jean-Paul Thorbjornsen, an Australian man in his mid-30s, with a rural Catholic upbringing, is a founder of THORChain, a blockchain through which users can…

The robots who predict the future

February 18, 2026
To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying to see the future, whether through the lens of past experience or the logic of cause and effect, has helped us hunt, avoid being hunted, plant crops, forge social bonds, and in general survive in a world that does not…

Welcome to the dark side of crypto’s permissionless dream

February 18, 2026
“We’re out of airspace now. We can do whatever we want,” Jean-Paul Thorbjornsen tells me from the pilot’s seat of his Aston Martin helicopter. As we fly over suburbs outside Melbourne, Australia, it’s becoming clear that doing whatever he wants is Thorbjornsen’s MO.  Upper-middle-class homes give way to vineyards, and Thorbjornsen points out our landing…

The Download: the rise of luxury car theft, and fighting antimicrobial resistance

February 17, 2026
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis Across the world, unsuspecting people are unwittingly becoming caught up in a new and growing type of organized criminal enterprise: vehicle transport fraud and theft. Crooks…