In its push to meet ambitious sustainable development goals, from ensuring access to clean water and building resilient infrastructure to protecting biodiversity, India is increasingly turning to data and artificial intelligence. However, the spotlight is…

On a bright afternoon in Bengaluru’s HSR Layout, where AI startups bloom faster than cafés and ambition hums louder than traffic, Harness, the AI-native software delivery platform, was turning demos into products overnight.  Today, platforms like Replit,…

While there are many reasons why AI has become indispensable in today’s society, most notably productivity and efficiency, one critical dimension is often overlooked: its potential to build a more inclusive world. At its core, AI reflects the data it is trained…

In the era of digital transformation, a structural shift is underway in how economies grow and how industries contribute to national output. Gross domestic product (GDP) has been the standard candle for measuring a country’s economic output, factoring in…

For over a decade, India’s smart city narrative has been defined in terms of upgrading infrastructure, such as installing cameras and sensors at junctions, launching command-and-control centres, and deploying large-scale technology. While these projects improved…

Behind the headline growth numbers of data centres in India lies a complex web of challenges—from policy fragmentation and power constraints to talent shortages and infrastructure readiness—that could determine how sustainably the sector scales. While established…

Elon Musk-owned xAI is in crisis mode after users on X (formerly Twitter) asked its AI chatbot Grok last week to digitally undress real women. They prompted Grok to manipulate photos, and the AI chatbot released the morphed images of women through its own…

In India, a growing number of Gen Z graduates are realising that a traditional degree alone is no longer enough to break into IT. As companies move to critically embed AI in their functions, they increasingly feel that even AI certifications alone don’t make…

Over the holidays, many got their first real taste of the advanced capabilities Anthropic’s Opus 4.5—its most advanced AI model designed for developers—brings to the table when paired with Claude Code. They were building personal tools, small apps, half-formed…

India’s digital infrastructure boom is colliding head-on with an unreliable power infrastructure. As data centres proliferate to support cloud computing, AI workloads, and digital public infrastructure, they are also gradually stressing India’s modernising…

Puneet Sharma (name changed), a director at a Big Tech firm in the US, travelled to India in December for his H-1B visa extension appointment and to attend a cousin’s wedding. His visa interview, originally scheduled for December 24, 2025, has now been postponed…

When data security firm Matters.ai, which helps organisations ensure data privacy compliance and operational safety, looked into the application logs of a prominent financial institution, what it found was astonishing, to say the least. “When we worked with…

In the Union Budget 2025–26, AI featured more prominently within broader digital and technology allocations. This year, with AI adoption accelerating across enterprises, startups, and government departments, AI startup founders and industry stakeholders expect…

Anthropic is planning to invest $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation (PSF) to support security in the Python ecosystem.  According to PSF’s blog post, the investment is set to make “crucial security advances to CPython and the Python Package Index…

India’s gig economy has fundamentally changed consumer behaviour, but its benefits may only be limited to app users and the companies that built them. Millions of delivery partners, who are the backbone of quick commerce, are squeezed in the middle amid relentless…

Big Tech has been openly and aggressively pushing countries to adopt artificial intelligence. In India alone, Microsoft has commited $17.5 billion to develop AI infrastructure over the next four years, while Amazon has one-upped the software giant with a…

AI is fundamentally rewriting age-old codes and reshaping how systems are designed, tested, and trusted. At a massive scale, traditional engineering assumptions are breaking down, and nowhere is this more evident than in testing.  ​​Writing unit tests has…

Across India’s enterprises, from IT services and consulting to manufacturing and education, AI has shifted the centre of gravity of work. According to an EY survey of over 200 Indian enterprise leaders assessing their experience with generative AI and agentic…

When the UK hosted the first-ever global AI Safety Summit 2023 at Bletchley Park—often hailed as the birthplace of modern computing—the focus was squarely on frontier risks, not real-world harms. That led to at least some action, with countries forming AI…

It has been 25 years since Wikipedia appeared on the internet. What began as an experiment became the world’s largest online information source. Now, it is among the most important sources of training data for AI. This month, the Wikimedia Foundation, the…