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…

On December 30, last year, the Gujarat government approved something India has been debating for more than a decade, but never quite managed to build: a serious national AI research institution. The Indian AI Research Organisation (IAIRO) began operations…

Sequoia Capital’s decision to invest in Anthropic marks a departure from the traditional venture capital rulebook and is being viewed as the death of the ‘one winner’ venture capital model. Historically, VCs have avoided backing rival companies in the same…

With India just a month away from announcing its first homegrown large language model (LLM), as confirmed recently by IndiaAI Mission CEO Abhishek Singh in an exclusive interview with AIM, there’s an urgent need for a legal framework that balances the interests…