Opinion

Opinion | The Insider's Warning: Why Anthropic Researcher's Resignation Is Big

AI's builders have a problem: everyone fears what happens if they stop, and everyone fears what happens if they don't

Opinion | India's UPI Miracle Has Created A Difficult, Rs 20,000-Crore Question

UPI's whole magic was the Rs 30 payment it charged nothing for. But how long can it stay free?

Opinion | Age Of The Pink Slip: India's Brutal IT Layoffs Are No Longer About Cost-Cutting

The four biggest IT firms, TCS, Infosys, HCLTech, and Wipro, removed a net 9,100 people in the April-June quarter this year. A year earlier, in the same quarter, they had added 22,622.

Opinion | India's Opening: What New Delhi Can Actually Do In UN's AI Dialogue

India's claim to shape global AI rules rests on something few developing economies possess: a working, at-scale demonstration that AI can be built for public purpose rather than private capture.

Opinion | Amazon Centres To Banks, What Iran's 'Target List' Of Tech Firms Reveals

Distributed via Telegram by the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency, the list named Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, IBM, Oracle, and Palantir - together with their regional offices, data centres, and research facilities, as legitimate targets.

Opinion | Why Social Media Platforms Must Share The Wealth Others Create For Them

There are an estimated 2-2.5 million active digital creators in India. Yet only 8-10% effectively monetise their work.

Opinion | 'AI-Enabled' Soldiers? What An India-China-Pak Crisis May Soon Look Like

AI compresses the decision-action loop, turning hours of analytical deliberation into seconds of machine-assisted judgment. In warfare, that compression is the difference between survival and defeat.

Opinion | India Still Needs Something Like Sanchar Saathi - Just Not Like This

India is experiencing what authorities describe as a "peak menace" of digital fraud. The Supreme Court recently took suo motu cognisance of digital arrest scams after victims collectively lost approximately Rs 3,000 crore.

Opinion | Here's Everything That Google's $15 Billion AI Bet Really Brings To India

The partnership structure, while involving Indian firms, still concentrates ultimate control in Google's hands. India must ensure that it shapes the intelligence that flows through it, rather than being shaped by it.

Opinion | How Trump's $100,000 Visa Bill Can Bleed Indian Tech Giants Dry

This crisis should spark a fundamental reimagining of India's innovation strategy. Instead of primarily serving as a source of talent for American companies, India needs to become a destination for global innovation investment.

Opinion | A $1.5 Billion Lesson: Why An AI Firm Is On The Verge Of Destroying Its Data

The Anthropic settlement marks a turning point. For the first time, an AI company has acknowledged - through its willingness to pay a historic settlement - that copyright holders deserve meaningful compensation.

Opinion | India's Brains Meet Japan's Tech - And Why China Should Be Worried

The Tokyo summit will be remembered as the moment when two of Asia's most important democracies moved beyond talking about technological sovereignty to actually building it.

Opinion | Addiction, Laundering, Suicides: Why Real-Money Gaming Had To Go

The new gaming bill will effectively curb the predatory practices that have characterised much of India's online gaming sector. By severing the financial infrastructure supporting real-money games, it addresses addiction at its source.