The Surveillance Pipeline – AI Is Watching You
Computer vision is revolutionizing AI — but beneath its promise lies a surveillance infrastructure quietly built by top labs and tech giants. New research reveals how visual AI is systematically eroding privacy and reshaping society under the guise of innovation. Among the plethora of applications Artificial Intelligence (AI) brings with it – from healthcare to […]
Tariff Turbulence: US Policy Uncertainty Clouds Emerging Market Prospects Despite Short-Term Gains
Emerging markets are caught in the crossfire of unpredictable US trade policies, with credit agencies split on the true impact. While S&P sees only modest effects so far, Moody’s warns of deeper, more pervasive risks as sectoral pain and global uncertainty mount. S&P Global Ratings believes there is a high degree of unpredictability around policy […]
Hybrid Quantum Opens Up Real-World Applications
Discover how hybrid quantum computing is revolutionizing industries from banking to aviation, unlocking solutions once thought impossible. Hybrid Quantum, a combination of classical computing with quantum processors have opened up exciting possibilities of solving real-world problems – a major step forwards in realizing the potential of quantum computing. HSBC, a high-street bank, working the UK’s […]
Cyber Security Laws Get Tougher, Yet 73% of Enterprises Are Unaware of Being Targeted
Surging global cyber threats are driving massive new investments and stricter regulations. While AI fuels both hyper-sophisticated attacks and critical defenses, a shocking 73% of Indian companies remain unaware of breaches. Rising geopolitical tensions, fractured supply chains, rapid technological adoptions, and tougher regulations have transformed the cyber security landscape across the world. While the European […]
China’s Nuanced Reshaping of Global Scientific Research
China is not just a contributor to global science but a driver of development – in a form that demands cognition over seclusion. Science, after all, is not a zero-sum game but a networked system of ideas, where growth in one corner can spark momentum across the whole. Over the last two decades or so, […]
Prophets of Profit –A Burry & Buffet Playbook of Contrarian Strategies to Win in Uncertainty
In the first week of April this year the US president Donald Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs, sending markets into freefall. Stocks collapsed, with major indices plunging nearly 20% from their February highs. Trump did not just stir an unprecedented global chaos, but also threw up rather interesting winners – Michael Burry and Warren […]
Transforming AI Infrastructure into Massive Digital Cities in Five years
By June 2030, the leading AI supercomputer is expected to require a staggering 2 million AI chips and cost around $200 billion, akin to building a massive digital city filled with millions of tiny, powerful workers. Frontier AI development relies on powerful AI supercomputers, yet analysis of these systems is limited. Researchers from Epoch AI, […]
The world economy is on a recessionary trajectory- UNCTAD
A detailed scan of major global agencies from World Trade Organization to World Bank, IMF, Asian Development Bank reveals a sharp decline in economic growth projections across the world in the wake of the massive tariff turbulence unleashed by the U.S. administration. The UN Trade & Development agency (UNCTAD) goes a step forward sounding the […]
The Invisible Subsea Artery
Simply calling undersea cables the ‘invisible arteries’ of the digital economy isn’t enough. Governments must take proactive measures, particularly in the arduous task of practically implementing resilience through the entire process, from anticipating and absorbing shocks, to ensuring rapid restoration capabilities and building adaptive systems which learn and evolve. These are tasks which require sustained […]
Beyond the Rectangle: Why Smart Glasses Are Poised to Eclipse Mobiles, TVs & Even Laptops
A trifecta of forces—technology, economics, and use-case maturity—are transforming smart-glasses from an oddity to a challenger to phones and notebooks. The due of omnipresent screens in our lives – the mobile and the television – is about to be made redundant. In the not-too-distant future our primary window on the digital world may no longer […]