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Opinion: Make the Robot Your Colleague, Not Overlord
There's the Terminator school of perceiving artificial intelligence risks, in which we'll all be killed by our robot overlords.
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AI Can Debunk Conspiracy Theories Better Than Humans
The researchers had instructed the LLM to try to persuade people to reconsider their beliefs. To their surprise, it was actually pretty effective.
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Opinion: Budget 2023 - What To Expect From PM Modi
PM Modi's core economic agenda is to promote India as a rival manufacturing destination to China. He has sought to achieve this by incentivizing private factory expenditure and allocating more state resources to infrastructure, particularly rail and road. uncertain global demand and lackluster domestic consumption may keep a lid on private investment. The Indian gov...
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Opinion: Digital Currency Needs To Feel Real. Here's The Reason Why
Some of the early CBDC experimenters like China, Sweden and South Korea have already moved away from physical cash to a large extent.
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Opinion: India's Stocks Are Yet to Feel The Pinch Of Higher Rates
India's valuation gap over other emerging markets is an "eye-watering" 3 standard deviations higher than the historical average.
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Opinion: India's Fast GDP Growth Doesn't Mean It's Ready for Take-off Yet
Over the past three years, in fact, GDP in India has grown just over 3% and less than4% since the last quarter before the pandemic.
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Opinion: Police Tactics Are Chilling India's Crypto Winter Further
If success has many fathers, then a crypto exchange in the eye of a money-laundering storm has become an orphan.
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Opinion: Why RBI Put A Stop To "Buy Now, Pay Later"
It seems that India's central bank is no fan of "buy now, pay later." But then, the regulators irritation with this newish fad in consumer finance is wholly understandable.
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Opinion: The Centuries-Old Financial System Better Than Reckless New DeFi
In the history of dangerous naivety, the decentralized finance mania of 2021 will hold its own against the 2007 boom in collateralized debt obligations.
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Opinion: Saudi's Oil Whisperer On Market Secrets, Prince's India Plans
Wall Street has Fed-speak - a turgid dialect of English, a mixture of obfuscation and cryptic messaging. The oil market has Saudi-speak - a language of smoke-and-mirrors
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Opinion: This Crypto Winter Will Be Long, Doesn't Bother Believers Though
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency assets are notoriously volatile, routinely suffering large drops of 50% or more.
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Opinion: The World's Best Stablecoin Has Advice For Newbies
The celestial algorithm that keeps the moon in its orbit around the earth clearly works a lot better than the one that governed Luna and Terra.
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Opinion: RBI Has Stopped Being In Denial, Now Needs To Hike Rates More
In trying to squeeze one last drop of output from an empty barrel of monetary elixir, India's central bank made the serious mistake of not only ignoring the country's inflation buildup, but pretending that it didn't exist.
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Opinion: Not Quite The "Fog A Mirror, Buy A House," But Crypto-Based Mortgages Are Crazy
Bloomberg News reports the hot new thing in finance is the nouveau crypto riche putting up their expensive digital assets as collateral to buy expensive houses using a more-or-less traditional mortgage, but with no dead-tree dollars down.
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Opinion: A Mega-Merger That Makes Sense For Both HDFC And HDFC Bank
After 45 years in business, the underwriter of homes for millions of Indians is moving in with its 28-year-old banker offspring.
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Opinion: Amazon Learns It Cannot Beat Mukesh Ambani On His Home Turf
In the end, Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani settled the dispute over who gets to own the assets of beleaguered Future Retail Ltd. not in an arbitration tribunal in Singapore, or in a courtroom in New Delhi, but in a shopping aisle.
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Opinion: The Future of Crypto Is Boring - And Bright
Crypto markets still have many puzzles, but they are beginning to reveal their secrets.
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Opinion: Digital Rupee Needs More Thought, Less Haste
India has surprised the payments world by announcing that its central bank will issue a digital currency as early as the coming financial year, a crucial decision that most other major economies are refusing to make in a hurry.
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Opinion: The Good News in India's Bleak Budget
India's Union Budget is both a presentation of the national accounts and the only statement of government policy that we get all year. This year, the accounts made for worrying reading.
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Opinion: Why Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget Is Risky
The pandemic has deepened inequality by boosting the profits and incomes of a tiny section of firms and households.
