America’s AI gold rush is staring at a haunting challenge as most U.S. companies struggle to see real-world benefits. India’s $300 billion IT industry is moving to capture the “deployment...
As a tech journalist in Bengaluru, I spent much of the early 2010s writing about Indian startups raising money from Silicon Valley investors. Every other month, I would find myself...
Governments around the world are rushing to regulate children’s access to social media. From Australia’s social media ban for minors to growing concerns around artificial intelligence, predators, privacy, and screen...
Artificial intelligence is reshaping modern warfare. During the recent U.S.-Israel war on Iran, AI was used to identify and strike targets, accelerate the speed of attacks, and get weaponry recommendations....
In June 2020, the Indian government abruptly banned 59 Chinese apps to protect the country’s “sovereignty and integrity” amid border tensions. By the end of the year, this number had...
Iran was ranked among the world’s rising startup ecosystems as recently as last year. A year later, it is in the middle of a conflict, and a weeks-long internet shutdown...
More than 84 world leaders, 800 CEOs, and thousands others gathered amid the Alps this week to attend the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Artificial intelligence —...
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. The annual Davos gathering of political leaders, top executives and celebrities runs from Jan. 19-23. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images
China’s ByteDance has struck a deal with a clutch of investors to set up a new U.S.-focused TikTok that complies with the country’s regulatory requirements. ByteDance will retain a 19.9%...
The tech job market in 2026 is being built on contradictions. Companies are laying off staff, insisting artificial intelligence will “do more with less” — yet they haven’t found ways...
Amid an intense battle for supremacy, artificial-intelligence companies are forging alliances across industries and regions to help gather real-world data that can’t be scraped from the internet. Over the past...
As the debate over the U.S.-China battle for AI supremacy intensifies, Nandan Nilekani, the Indian tech billionaire and co-founder of Infosys, says the world needs to shift its focus away...
Tesla is having a tough year. Once a world leader in the electric-vehicle market, the company’s sales across the U.S., China, and several European countries fell year on year in...
India has been experiencing a historic heat wave since May, with temperatures in New Delhi crossing 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) on some days. The extreme weather has claimed...
In December 2021, CreditBook became the first startup in Pakistan to be funded by Tiger Global, one of the most active investors in the world. As the Pakistani startup ecosystem...
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