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Vernacular AI | An AI for Bharat Source link

By the end of 2025, it became difficult to sustain the belief that meaningful regulation of Artificial Intelligence was imminent. This was not because AI had become safer, or more benign, but because geopolitical anxiety, economic competition and corporate influence consistently outweighed political will. Source link

Elections | Democracy vs deepfakes Source link

It was a week after Independence day in 2017; a startup founder friend had hit upon a great idea: micro-loans for those without a credit history, tapping unrelated data such as mobile recharges. Over chilled beer, his startup team came up with what all they could do with bank statements. Was privacy an issue, I…

Artificial Intelligence in education is no longer a distant idea. It is a rapidly emerging tool that educational institutes are engaging with, reshaping how students learn and teachers teach. From AI tutors and automated assessments to lesson planning and teacher feedback, classrooms across the world are experimenting with the technology at a pace few anticipated…

India’s approach to AI governance should be steered by a clear-eyed understanding of its capacities and vulnerabilities. The new year presents our leaders with the opportunity to reflect on what this means. They can move past trite ideas forcefully presented to them by industry to claim a leadership role in global AI regulatory discourse. This…

Defence | India at the crossroads of an algorithm war Source link

Artificial Intelligence has crossed a critical threshold in healthcare. We are no longer debating whether AI can work in clinical care—we are now grappling with how it should work, who it should serve, and under what guardrails it must operate. As we move into 2026, AI promises to reshape diagnostics, personalise treatment pathways and even…

The financial world has always adapted to new tools, but what is taking shape today is not a routine technological shift. It is a deep restructuring of how decisions are made inside banks, markets and digital payment ecosystems. Artificial Intelligence has entered finance in many forms, yet its real influence comes from something more subtle….

Tech Infrastructure | The dangers of techno-colonialism Source link