NEW DELHI — As states across India aggressively compete to capture a lucrative slice of the nation’s rapidly expanding artificial intelligence (AI) economy, top public policy think tank NITI Aayog has stepped in with a rigorous blueprint. Aimed at steering policy away from vanity investment announcements and toward sustainable, resource-conscious development, the agency has released […]
IMF and World Bank Unveil ‘Bangkok Blueprint’ to Combat Global Cyber-Fraud Crisis Costing $1 Trillion Annually
BANGKOK — In a landmark development at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank 2026 Annual Meetings, global financial leaders have introduced a comprehensive new framework designed to fortify the international financial architecture against increasingly sophisticated cyber-enabled fraud. Unveiled on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center (QSNCC) in Bangkok, […]
Reimagining India’s Examination System: Can AI and Dynamic Testing Eliminate Paper Leaks?
NEW DELHI — Speaking at the prestigious Bloomberg New Economy Forum in New Delhi, tech visionary and Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani offered a radical proposition for fixing India’s plague of high-stakes public examination leaks: eliminate static question papers entirely. When Bloomberg host John Fraher posed whether artificial intelligence could "spontaneously create the exam paper on […]
The AI Gender Divide: Experts Warn India’s Lagging Parity Could Deepen in the Technological Era
NEW DELHI — As India strides aggressively toward a trillion-dollar digital economy powered by emerging technologies, a sobering paradox threatens to undermine its developmental ambitions. While policymakers tout technological leapfrogging as the ultimate equalizer, leading gender experts and international economists warn that the country’s persistent gender gap is primed to widen exponentially within the artificial […]
The Battle for Transparency: Inside the High-Stakes Negotiations Over Independent AI Safety Evaluations
By Global Technology Desk Published: November 2024 Main Facts Artificial intelligence pioneers Anthropic and OpenAI have engaged in intense, high-stakes negotiations with external safety evaluators regarding the degree of control the companies can exert over published findings. According to confidential sources close to the discussions, both leading AI labs initially sought strict editorial oversight over […]
End of an Era: Bumble Goes Private in $1.3 Billion Ithaca Holdings Deal Amid Dating App Fatigue
New Delhi — In a landmark transaction that underscores the profound tectonic shifts reshaping the modern digital romance industry, popular dating platform Bumble has agreed to be taken private by Ithaca Holdings in a deal valued at $1.3 billion. The acquisition marks a dramatic, sobering chapter for a company that once commanded a staggering $14 […]
Global AI Pioneers Call for Binding International Oversight Amid Escalating Cyber Risks from Advanced Models
NEW DELHI — In a landmark intervention that underscores growing anxieties within the scientific community, a coalition of roughly 400 world-renowned computer scientists and artificial intelligence pioneers—including Turing Award laureates Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio—has issued an urgent plea for stringent, legally binding international oversight of advanced cyber-capable AI systems. Published on Tuesday, the open […]
CtrlS Datacenters Launches ₹400-Crore Facility in Patna and Commits ₹10,000 Crore for Hyperscale AI Factory in Bodh Gaya
PATNA, INDIA — In a landmark development for eastern India’s digital and technological landscape, CtrlS Datacenters officially inaugurated a state-of-the-art, ₹400-crore data centre in Patna on Tuesday. The high-profile launch was marked by the presence of Bihar’s Deputy Chief Minister, Samrat Choudhary, alongside other senior government and corporate dignitaries. Going beyond the immediate launch of […]
HCLTech and Anthropic Forge Global Partnership to Accelerate Enterprise Agentic AI Adoption
NEW DELHI — In a major strategic move bridging the worlds of traditional IT services and cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence, Indian multinational IT giant HCLTech announced a global partnership with leading AI safety and research company Anthropic. The alliance, formally disclosed in a regulatory exchange filing on Monday, centers on the establishment of a dedicated […]
The Great Pivot: Decoding India’s Shift in the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill
By Editorial Desk Five years after the landmark Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India judgment—which formally recognized the right to privacy as a fundamental right under the Indian Constitution—the nation finds itself at a critical juncture. The Supreme Court’s 2017 ruling mandated that the government enact a robust legal framework to safeguard the personal […]