Supriya Roy

From smashed cakes to broken eggs, AI fuels food refund fraud

As customers use digitally doctored images to game refund systems, delivery apps and restaurants scramble to keep up

$22bn valuation to bankruptcy and missing $533mn: How Byju's unravelled across two continents

The edtech major’s fall hit a new inflection point in Dec 2025, when a US court issued a $1.07bn default judgment tied to the disputed $533mn Alpha funds, even as founder Byju Raveendran denies wrongdoing and battles insolvency and creditor claims across continents

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