Technology Stories
Why the biggest ‘winners’ in these elections may not be political parties. It's these bettors
Prediction markets aren’t allowed to operate in India. But on Polymarket, anonymous crypto-wallet holders are waiting for election markets, where Rs 247 crore has been traded, to settle when the results are declared
You switch your TV on to watch something. But your TV is tracking you
A feature called ACR turns your smart TV into a “two-way mirror”. Your screen may look passive, but the system behind it is capable of observing patterns, preferences and behaviour
- Aabhas Sharma
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
Mythos is being treated like a nuclear weapon. Why India needs its own
India’s answer to Claude Mythos is one or more homegrown AI models as powerful as, if not more powerful than, Mythos. For this, Government of India needs to take the lead. Time is of the essence here
- TK Arun
- ET Bureau
'Patriotic tech': Indian-American founder joins Eric Trump to make war robots for the US
A venture by Indian-American entrepreneur Sankaet Pathak and Trump's son Eric Trump has vaulted into prominence with a Pentagon-backed push into battlefield robotics
In Pahalgam, trust now comes with a QR code
A year after the attack, Pahalgam’s answer is simple: scan before you trust. A new system aims to reassure visitors and protect livelihoods.
This Keralite helped build the world’s most powerful computers
At AMD now, Zacharia saw new potential in GPUs and nudged Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s founder and chief executive, to commit the company’s GPU technology to something that had never been tried at this scale: a scientific supercomputer
Your smartphone making you older? Alarming link between screen addiction and brain ageing
This is not a doomsday prediction. It is an emerging science, and should make you think twice before your next late-night scroll
Kids & Smartphones: The Smart Solution
US court verdict against Meta, YouTube is a reminder. Protecting children from internet needs more than screen-time control. Online world appears natural to the young. They must be trained to be suspicious of it
Meta and YouTube must pay $6mn for 'harming' a user. Will it change how apps are built?
Are social media apps as addictive as cigarettes? A US jury just came close to saying yes. And it validates a legal argument that app design itself — not just content — can cause harm
- Cecilia KangRyan MacEli Tan
- New York Times
Readying India’s first private rocket, with eye on building ‘cabs’ for space
Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace is gearing up to launch Vikram-1, India’s first private orbital rocket. The startup is hoping to become a key player in the niche launch segment. But the ultimate aim is to enable space travel for all
This report on AI shook markets — what does it say about India?
It wasn’t a forecast, but stocks the report named fell after it came out. The new AI “what if” maps out how automation could upend jobs and spending and growth in just two years, and what might be in store for India’s IT-led economy
- Team TOI
- TNN
A fake name was enough to make an AI agent hand over the full system
In a sealed lab, when researchers gave AI agents memory, messaging access and the power to run code, what followed wasn’t a single crash, but a series of unsettling failures — from leaked secrets to wiping complete systems
- Chethan Kumar
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
'If It Works For India, It’ll Work Globally’
Functionality across a big country’s diverse income levels, geographies, languages, and infra constraints is a great test for every technology’s resilience & adaptability, writes ex-CEO of Niti Aayog
AI: Top Ten & Top Tensions
This tech is not a story about LLMs & machines, but about less than a dozen people, who’re often battling each other, shaping how the tech evolves. Subplot: who will be remembered & who’ll be forgotten
Is AI Good For Democracy?
As citizens leverage AI to express their demands, govts answer in the same measure. Sometimes policy conversations are just bots talking to bots. In this arms race of technology adoption, US mega-corporations gain from all sides. Lessening this concentration of power is what’s critical
The Artificial Generational Intelligence Bubble Is Fantasy. India Can Make AI Useful
We need fully open, user-enabling AI applications that serve humans rather than replace them. We need software tools that make farmers and artisans more productive, help students learn, help doctors take care
AI Isn’t the Danger, We Are
The expert nixes the hype about AGI making human labour obsolete. Human intelligence is social, embodied, 8bn people strong. Danger is not that AI will out-think humanity. But that we won’t build the AI applications to make farmers more productive, help students learn, and doctors cure
The internet is getting remade for AI. What does it mean for you?
The internet is starting to optimise for machines that don’t get bored, distracted, or persuaded. What will survive online? And how much of it will you get to see?
Memo To Bezos: Share The Pain, Share The Post
Revive Washington Post, don’t kill it, begin by giving employees stake in ownership
Tech Some Risks, GOI
For AI sovereignty, investments and safety must necessarily be at the core. Govt needs to take a leap of faith to make this possible