Artificial Intelligence

A Race Without Rules: Governing the AI Frontier

As the global AI race escalates into a geopoliticized sprint, regulatory and safety guardrails remain trapped at a crawl. AI generated image When the pioneer of one of the world’s most powerful AI systems asks his own industry to pump...
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A-DGP on tech vis-à-vis frauds

Mumbai: Artificial Intelligence (AI) could help banks and financial institutions sniff out ‘money mule’ accounts in less than a minute by identifying transaction patterns that are markedly different from those of genuine customers, Maharashtra Cyber Cell ADG Yashasvi Yadav has...
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What a Chola-era Dam Can Teach Us About AI’s Future

Somewhere around the second century CE, near present day Thanjavur, a Chola king named Karikala put thousands of labourers to work sinking unhewn stone into the sandy bed of the Cauvery to make a dam, in a hope that it...
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How Scientists Should Publish

AI generated image Every profession has its own measure of success. A lawyer wins a case. An entrepreneur builds a company. An athlete breaks a record. A scientist, however, succeeds in a rather unusual way. A scientist succeeds by becoming...
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From Mumbai to Meta

Kunal Shah’s rise from city entrepreneur to global head of WhatsApp signals that India is producing genuine architects of the digital age. For much of the internet era, the world’s defining digital products were imagined in California. The next chapter...
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The AI Mirage: The Limits of Technological Prophecy

Artificial intelligence may change much, but perhaps not quite in the way its prophets and pessimists imagine. AI generated image Every discussion about artificial intelligence today seems destined to arrive at one of two destinations. The first is a gleaming...
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Robust infra, surging demand, key reasons for boom

MMR A Data Centre Hub, Part – I Mumbai: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) is rapidly emerging as the epicentre of India’s data centre revolution, with a combination of strategic location advantages, robust infrastructure and surging demand from artificial intelligence...
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The Agent in Your Pocket

As Google’s Gemini Spark turns AI into a persistent digital intermediary, India’s governance framework risks falling dangerously behind. AI generated image Google’s unveiling of Gemini Spark at Google I/O 2026 is not just another AI product announcement. Spark is designed...
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The Human Advantage in an Artificial Age

As artificial intelligence grows smarter and more efficient, the real battle may not be about machines surpassing humanity but about whether humans squander the qualities that still set them apart. With the recent news of a Chinese robot beating the...
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How AI is redefining Digital Voice

The rise of AI-generated speech is turning the human voice into both a technological marvel and a legal dilemma. For a long time, the human voice has been one of the most personal ways to tell who someone is. A...
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AI Vulnerabilities and Digital Payment

India’s rapid shift toward a digitally mediated financial system has delivered gains in efficiency, inclusion, and transaction speed. At the centre of this transformation is the Unified Payments Interface, now processing billions of transactions each month and functioning as the...
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Vanishing Skills in a Digital Age

We live in a time where almost everything is just a tap away. Smartphones guide our travel, artificial intelligence answers our questions, and digital tools make daily life faster and easier than ever before. Convenience has become the defining feature...
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