October 2025 – Page 4 – Thought Canvas

The IT Industry This Week: AI Defies DC Gridlock as Regulatory and Cyber Risks Mount

The week ending October 3, 2025, presented a stark reality: AI innovation drove market optimism while DC gridlock mounted systemic risks. The US government shutdown caused the CISA law to expire, dismantling cyber defences as sophisticated attacks, including a Red Hat breach, surged. California filled the regulatory void by passing the landmark Transparency in Frontier AI Act (SB 53).

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Global Markets Hit New Highs as Rate Cut Hopes Eclipse Shutdown Concerns

Finance The Week That Was / By Swapnil Bhatnagar

Global equity markets surged to fresh records, fueled by intense optimism for U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate cuts, which eclipsed government shutdown concerns. This bullish sentiment was reinforced by the underlying Artificial Intelligence (AI) investment cycle. The S&P 500 set new highs, completing its seventh winning week in nine.

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A Splash of Joy: Diving into the Deep End of Colourful Art

Art / By Swapnil Bhatnagar

What’s the first thing you notice when you look at a painting? Is it the face in the portrait? The shape of the landscape? Or is it that jolt of electric blue, that warm, sunny yellow, or that passionate, fiery red?

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The Living Canvas: An In-Depth Exploration of Lotus Leaf Art

Wednesday Edition / By Swapnil Bhatnagar

In the quiet ponds and slow-moving streams of Asia, the lotus plant, Nelumbo nucifera, performs a daily miracle. Rooted in mud, it sends a stalk upward through murky water to unfold its pristine petals in the sun, a potent and enduring symbol of purity, resilience, and enlightenment. For millennia, this journey has captivated philosophers, poets, and spiritual leaders. Today, it inspires a unique and tangible art form that bridges the natural world with human creativity: Lotus Leaf Art. This practice transforms the plant’s delicate, ephemeral leaves into lasting works of art, capturing the profound cultural reverence for the lotus in a medium that is both ancient in spirit and strikingly contemporary in its appeal.

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