
India’s AI Moment
As major powers turn artificial intelligence towards science and national security, India must widen its AI vision beyond inclusion and productivity
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As major powers turn artificial intelligence towards science and national security, India must widen its AI vision beyond inclusion and productivity

Speed is not strategy. The real battle is over sovereignty, science and state capacity

As the world fixates on large language models, a quieter shift toward world models, scientific AI and safety is reshaping global power

Ten of our best work through the year—on business, leadership, and geopolitical trends

Why India’s corporate leaders can no longer separate digital risk from strategic resilience

When machines, like humans, fail to see difference—and turn bias into code

Inside the growing chorus of doubt from AI’s own pioneers

Around the world, families are fighting back against AI harms. Why is India still silent?

As with the atomic bomb, a new technology threatens humanity. Will we look up this time—or repeat history’s worst mistake?

AI can speak in dozens of tongues — but often thinks in just one. Why India must lead in building systems fluent in its own realities

In conversation with D Shivakumar, the acclaimed economist revisits the soul of business—from Boeing’s fall to Apple's hollow shell—and what real strategy should look like

What does artificial intelligence look like when viewed through the lens of justice, solidarity, and Ubuntu?

What will it take for India to lead, not just react, in the age of AI? An exclusive Founding Fuel - NatStrat Live session

Deception is no longer a human trait. AI has learned it too

While the world fixates on AI breakthroughs in the US and China, South Korea is crafting a distinctive and balanced model—powered by innovation and governed by foresight

How India can shape, not just follow, the global rules of AI governance

Most AI today works within the boundaries set by human designers. New tools like Google's AutoML-Zero challenge that boundary

AI can detect disease and find medicines which no doctor can. It can also develop biological weapons which do not exist on the earth

Along the march of AI, two issues need attention: one is of regulation. The other, equally critical, is ensuring that the poor can access and learn the best and latest tech

The best books of the year on how the past informs the future, tackling tough situations, and technology

Marketing lessons from the Poonam Pandey episode

An annual round up of the most memorable books of the year

The three-month-long takeover saga is reaching its climax. What happens next? (Updated on December 6, and December 24, 2022)

More than two-and-a-half months have passed since Adani announced its intent. And yet there is no sign of a quick closure, as it was widely anticipated

June 21, 2022: The Sridhar Vembu story; Musk on Twitter; Confusion compounded

As the Adani group pushes through the doors at NDTV, owners Prannoy and Radhika Roy find themselves with their backs to the wall. What are their options?

May 9, 2022: The danger of a single story; The trouble with Congress; Quality vs. price

November 1, 2021: Mark Zuckerberg on the metaverse; Air India’s Maharaja; Stay quiet

June 22, 2021: Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh on blitzscaling; India’s vaccine barons; The poaching wave; The disciple

February 9, 2021: Informational advantage; The value of good governance; On personal renewal; The real trolley problem

October 30, 2020: The Endowment Effect; How to make boring interesting; When pandemic demolishes your USP

How can businesses claw their way back, past survival and into growth? They’ll need to conserve cash, clean up their governance so that banks will not hesitate to lend, and embrace digital transformation. Highlights from a panel discussion organised by Ficci Flo

This Week in Disruptive Tech | July 22, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world

A personal data protection law is imminent. How should businesses prepare for the changing landscape? What problems are we likely to face along the road?

Commercial platforms that grew on the internet—from Facebook to Twitter, Airbnb to Oyo, Uber to Ola, Swiggy to Zomato—are struggling to find a balance

AI systems may be making important decisions that will fundamentally affect the lives of Indians. For AI to be truly transformative though, its ethical biases need to be rooted out

In 2016, Go world champion Lee Sedol lost to AlphaGo, Google’s Go-playing AI program. How did the program do this? And why does this feat matter? Kartik Hosanagar answers that in this extract from his book, ‘A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence’

It makes more economic sense for business to be good in the longer run

Two of India’s iconic companies—Tata Steel and ITC—find themselves at the cusp of a huge upheaval. And it once again raises serious questions about the role of the board in supervising executive management

The Mindtree founders want to retain their firm’s unique culture. And have chosen to strongly rebuff L&T’s takeover attempt. But as things stand, the odds seem stacked against the founders as they try to block the $18 billion megacorp from taking control. A prognosis of what could happen next