India’s electric vehicle (EV) industry is entering a decisive new phase, one where algorithms, not just batteries and chargers, are beginning to determine performance, profitability, and adoption. From predictive maintenance to hyper-local charging intelligence…

Today’s AI, despite its power, is still primitive in usability, much like the early command-line days of personal computing. “We are in the MS-DOS era of AI,” according to Abhishek Mathur, VP of engineering at Figma, a San Francisco-based software company…

Every evening in Malad, a teenage Dhravya Shah would wander through Mindspace with a glass of Boost in hand, thinking about whatever he was building that week. Just a kid who liked long walks and late-night code, who somehow ended up shipping 60+ products…

When three entrepreneurs building India’s own foundation models under the IndiaAI Mission came together for a panel discussion, the venue at the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2025 had to be obviously packed. The audience was eager to listen to what they had to say…

Only 16 months after CrowdStrike brought the digital world to a standstill, and just a month after the global AWS outage, this week another key player in the cybersecurity space—Cloudflare—suffered a global disruption. Websites across the world, including…

At the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2025, a long conversation unfolded around India’s push for sovereign AI. The session brought together Ankush Sabharwal of CoRover, which runs BharatGPT, and Karan Kirpalani of Neysa, a rising AI cloud provider empanelled under…

In 2017, Google introduced Transformers, the architecture that powers today’s large language models.  But, the mindset required to navigate the AI age was perhaps articulated 500 years earlier by an Italian polymath. Leonardo da Vinci, while painting The…

Zoho’s Arattai is getting its biggest upgrade yet. End-to-end encryption is finally rolling out, and co-founder Sridhar Vembu is asking users to update the app. The green shield icon is ready. Chats will move to a new encrypted thread, while older conversations…

For years, the optical interconnect inside the data centre, one of the smallest components in the stack, has been an outsized bottleneck. Every AI model, every hyperscale application, every server cluster ultimately depends on how efficiently data moves across…

FDEs act as the link between product teams and real-world workflows.

India’s AI landscape is undergoing a transformation that is not only technical, but infrastructural and ethical. At the centre of this shift are the India AI Governance Guidelines released by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)…

When a backup becomes unreadable, a storage array corrupts, or a hybrid-cloud restore freezes mid-sequence, it isn’t the feature teams who decide whether a business stays operational. It’s the IT administrators. Yet, the past decade of enterprise software…

Indian courts are now confronting a problem that has already unsettled judicial systems in the US and parts of Europe: lawyers submitting AI-generated case citations that do not exist.  While American courts have seen a series of disciplinary actions since…

As Indian enterprises move from AI pilots to business-critical deployments, data governance has shifted from a compliance function to a foundational capability. With AI now embedded in customer interactions, regulated workflows and operational decision-making…

India’s gig and quick-commerce sectors have surged to nearly 12 million workers in FY 2024–25, up from 7.7 million in 2020–21. It is expected to double by 2030, according to industry estimates. With blue-collar gig hiring rising 92% in 2024, delivery and…

India’s four new labour codes, introduced between 2019 and 2020 and consolidating 29 earlier laws into a single framework governing wages, social security, working conditions, and industrial relations, were implemented nationwide this month.  For the IT and…

While Indian companies have been forcing developers to use Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and other coding tools, some developers are realising they are not learning anything anymore, or making their skills even worse. A front-end developer at an AI startup in Bengaluru…