The buzz around Apple’s new phone launches is global, but the best deals haven’t made their way outside the U.S. The iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max will cost...
Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence talent wars are now playing out in Asia. OpenAI and Anthropic are poaching top talent from U.S. tech giants including Google, Microsoft, and Amazon to build...
In June, Indian actor Hiten Tejwani told his 732,000 followers that “Instagram is okay” in a reel promoting Meta’s Teen Accounts. Ironically, Tejwani had barred his 17-year-old twin son and...
When Osama Manzar started the nonprofit Digital Empowerment Foundation in 2002, just 1.2% of India’s population was online. Now, more than 70% is. But Manzar’s mission statement — helping poor...
Artificial intelligence is forcing venture capitalists to rethink how they invest. For decades, investors backed startups by judging founding teams, products, and markets. But as AI advances at breakneck speed,...
Governments that deploy internet shutdowns to thwart protesters have struggled to clamp down on offline messaging apps. India’s recent response to Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat suggests that battle is entering a...
Demonstrators take part in a protest rally organised by the Cockroach Janta Party and various Left student organisations against the NEET paper leak, demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in Kolkata, India. (Photo by Avijit Ghosh/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
As July monsoon rains flood the Mumbai streets around my home, quick-commerce platforms are using advanced weather algorithms to capture surging customer demand. While tech companies capitalize on the storms,...
Indian manufacturers are beating Tesla and BYD at building energy-efficient electric cars. Tata Motors topped a global ranking of the most efficient battery EVs for 2025, released by the International...
The Indian government’s latest tussle with WhatsApp has raised concerns about the censorship of app features globally. On June 29, WhatsApp began rolling out usernames globally, allowing users to chat...
As frontier artificial intelligence becomes increasingly centralized in the hands of a few Western companies, India is betting that innovation doesn’t have to come only from the biggest labs. The...
Highly skilled immigrant tech workers in the U.S. are eyeing relocation to Canada, the U.K., or the Gulf as H-1B visa uncertainty continues to haunt them. On June 8, a...
Every month, at least two to three Indian-origin AI researchers in Silicon Valley between the ages of 25 and 35 reach out to Aakrit Vaish, founder of AI venture fund...
Electric cars became more affordable across much of the world in 2025 — except the U.S. One in four cars sold globally is now electric. Penetration in the U.S., however,...
Africa’s four biggest tech economies have each drafted artificial intelligence strategies admitting they depend too heavily on Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Meta for infrastructure and want more control over the...
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