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On 30 November 2022, technology started talking back. It was the day when OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT into the wild. It wasn’t just another tech launch—it was a cultural mic drop.…
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US Republicans have long thought that what the federal government does can be done better, faster or cheaper by the private sector. So it should not shock anyone that US…
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With Manus, AI experimentation has burst into the open
Watching the automatic hand of the Manus AI agent scroll through a dozen browser windows is unsettling. Give it a task that can be accomplished online, such as building up…
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Take Purshottamdas Thakurdas, the Gujarati cotton trader and industrialist from Bombay. Had the Indian government followed the blueprint set out in the Bombay Plan of 1944, Thakurdas might have been…
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At its best, Haldiram Snack Food Pvt. Ltd is a great example of a successful Indian family business. At its worst, it is a purveyor of products that have become…
Trump reciprocal tariffs: Here’s the best-case scenario for India
The US-India economic partnership is the envy of many. But our joint mission of achieving $500 billion in bilateral trade by 2030 stands on shaky ground. US President Donald Trump’s…
Tesla’s slump: When social intelligence clashes with artificial intelligence
Tesla shares were at a five-month low, Tesla showrooms in the US are being vandalized, Tesla cybertrucks were set on fire in Seattle, and the electric vehicle maker’s sales are…