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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A partner at KPMG Australia has been fined A$10,000 ($7,000) after using AI tools to cheat on an internal training course about using AI. The unnamed partner was forced to redo the test after uploading training materials into an AI platform to help answer questions on the use of the fast-evolving technology. More than two dozen staff have been caught over this financial year using AI tools for internal exams,…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sanae Takaichi’s landslide election victory on Sunday sent Japanese stocks through a succession of record highs this week, but even as paper profits were being totted up some investors in Tokyo were starting to wonder if the so-called “Takaichi trade” was slowly turning into a trap. The 5 per cent rise in the Nikkei 225 index this week is in contrast to the relative calm in Japan’s currency and bond…

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. India will push efforts to widen access to artificial intelligence and seek international agreement on a “global AI commons” at a summit this week, according to the government official overseeing the event. Abhishek Singh, chief executive of India’s AI mission, said “democratising AI access to the global south” and rolling out technology for social ends such as education, health and agriculture, would be India’s priority as host of the Global…

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As you enter the suitably frightening half-light of the British Museum’s new Samurai exhibition, you are confronted by exactly the sort of image you might expect. There, in splendid isolation, is a suit of armour in all its mesmerising menace. But if the display matches every expectation of a war-ready samurai, it immediately subverts the visitor’s probable preconceptions. First, what you are looking at is not a single piece of armour, but rather a collection of parts cobbled together over centuries. The dragon-topped helmet is from 1519, the cuirass breast…

In a tower overlooking Islamabad, a team of intelligence officers is scrolling Instagram, calling up fashion houses and planning a wedding.  With Pakistan’s rollicking wedding season in full swing, the Federal Board of Revenue’s “lifestyle monitoring cell” is reverse-engineering a lavish ceremony, which it believes costs far more than the suspected tax evader’s annual reported income. “People love to play up how rich they are on social media,” said Rashid Langrial, the FBR’s chair. “But no one wants to show off their money in their tax filings.”  The cell’s officials…

The Pentagon has concluded that Alibaba and BYD should be added to a list of companies with alleged connections to the Chinese military, two months before Donald Trump is expected to meet Xi Jinping in Beijing. The defence department sent its required updated “Chinese Military Companies” list to the Federal Register on Friday morning. However, in a move that has led to confusion, the PDF was abruptly removed from the site following a request from the Pentagon that did not provide any explanation. A defence official said the Pentagon would…

As China’s once powerful real estate moguls grapple with plunging sales — leaving many under stress or behind bars — one of them has managed a rare escape. Zhang Xin, formerly one of the country’s most prominent commercial property developers, has shed the bulk of her China empire and is placing a big bet on New York to develop a residential tower that will require the demolition of six buildings covering 100,000 sq ft of land. “There is stable demand for new developments in Manhattan’s historic districts,” Zhang said in…