AI is not just scaling through better models, it is scaling through new ways of financing those models, and that is where the real competition is now shifting
We may be on cusp of a phase when AI-led automation squeezes openings for young members of the workforce. Learning from earlier technological disruptions, it’s the right moment to craft an AI Transition Scheme to mitigate social costs
India’s rising economic power requires stronger diplomacy, global lobbying networks, and specialised expertise to assert influence and shape emerging domains like AI
In a world fixated on identifying AI winners and losers, India remains, at its core, a long-term compounding, bricks-and-mortar economy. AI will enable India to leapfrog the West across core sectors
India built the world's back office. Now AI is threatening to automate it
AI is not something that can be layered on to the existing way of doing things. Organisations need to rethink entire processes
Financial institutions must move beyond generic outreach. They should adopt unified platforms and agentic AI to deliver timely, personalised, context-aware engagement. This builds trust, boosts conversion, and increases customer lifetime value
Q3FY26 earnings brought a long-awaited revival, but analysts warn the triggers may be too temporary to sustain the market's lofty expectations.
DPIIT proposes a mandatory blanket AI training licence with revenue-based royalties, raising concerns over fairness, rate-setting, compliance burdens, and unresolved personality rights implications
From the East India Company to AI giants, the structure feels familiar. India supplies talent and data while the platforms, ownership, and profits increasingly live elsewhere
As global AI power consolidates, India advances an inclusive governance model that bridges divides, promotes fair competition, and positions the Global South as co-architects
India’s AI summit is a geopolitical milestone, but milestones do not equal tech-mastery. The harder test is whether summit diplomacy can translate into the long, difficult work of building real technological capability at home
Anthropic's launch of new AI capabilities for its Claude "Cowork" agent triggered a brutal selloff in IT stocks globally, with India's software exporters suffering their worst single-day decline in nearly six years as investors feared AI automation could render traditional software business models obsolete.
The tax holiday for data centres will enhance India’s competitiveness in the global landscape and spur capex in related sectors too
Davos shows the AI race is no longer about better models alone. It is about trust, governance and infrastructure, which will decide how AI scales and who controls it
The strategic pivot must be toward the "infrastructure layer"; comprising sovereign cloud architectures, orbital computing arrays, and domain-specific edge silicon. These backend companies are what will thrive immensely
AI changes the tools, cost structures and even what users expect. What it doesn't change: the hard work of figuring out what's worth building, for whom, and why they'll care. That's still the game
Are the Global investors signalling that India’s traditional technology narrative no longer excites them? Artificial Intelligence is quietly dismantling the labour-intensive model on which much of corporate India’s success was built
The three newly listed makers of semiconductors are lossmaking, ad none has sales worth more than a tenth of their bigger rival
As generative AI moves from experimentation to mass commercial deployment, India stands at a critical crossroads where copyright law, innovation policy, and creator protection must be reconciled
The CCI’s market study on AI highlights its transformative role in India’s economy. It recommends flexible, sector-specific regulation and voluntary self-audits to ensure fair competition while encouraging technological growth
AI has the potential to boost productivity in India’s small businesses, helping lift millions out of low-wage cycles and contributing to higher, more inclusive economic growth across the country
AI's explosive growth is driving an unprecedented energy crisis, with data centres projected to consume up to 20% of global electricity by 2035 as tech giants scramble for nuclear solutions.
While markets have already priced in a rate cut, the true significance of this FOMC meeting lies in the signals it sends about the longevity of the easing cycle and its implications for a richly valued AI-led rally and global capital flows
India has lagged the global AI-driven rally, but its domestically focused sectors and resilient flows provide diversification and relative stability if the crowded global AI trade reverses