The integration of AI and Generative AI is not a distant aspiration — it is an active investment already reshaping how ports operate, how cargo moves, and how supply chains absorb shocks. For India and its neighbours, the imperative is clear: build the data foundations, governance frameworks, and human capabilities that allow intelligent mobility to reach not just the terminal gate, but every link in the maritime supply chain.
Companies like Google, Meta, and X constantly shape public opinion and thoughts, and store public data for commercial usage. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google host the cloud infrastructure on which states and businesses depend. These are not ordinary companies anymore; they have access to critical intelligence and data. And now AI companies like Palantir use this data for surveillance, intelligence, monitoring, and on battlefields.
While TiME FLiES travels from 18th-century Boston to 20th-century Michigan and 21st-century Provence, its soul remains anchored in South Asian philosophy. It argues that while AI may simulate the "heart and mind," the true "presence" of consciousness—the Turiya—cannot be reduced to code.
The same generative AI that allows criminals to craft perfect phishing emails in Sinhala (or Hindi, Bangla and Urdu) or clone a Chief Financial Officer's voice from a YouTube clip, can also detect those emails before they reach an inbox and flag that voice as synthetic before a payment is authorised. The technology exists. The question is whether South Asia's institutions will deploy it in time.
President Joe Biden's spokesperson Jen Psaki has refused to say if the US will allow the export of COVID-19 vaccine raw materials to India, a shortage that could impact global supply, or set a timeline for dealing with the requests for relaxing the vaccine patent rights
General Motors India has laid off all workers--1,419 of them--at its Talegaon plant, located in the outskirts of Pune by invoking Section 25 of the Industrial Dispute Act
Amid the steep rise in Covid-19 cases, the Indian government on Friday said it is taking steps to increase and accelerate the production of indigenous vaccines
Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani, the country's richest man, will supply oxygen from his refineries to aid the tough battle against Covid-19, which currently has India under its grip
The sale of national carrier Air India has reached the financial bidding stage and the transaction is likely to be concluded by September this year, said media reports
The Renewables arm of Larsen & Toubro’s Power Transmission & Distribution Business has secured the go-ahed to begin constructing the 300MW Jeddah Solar PV Power Plant
A top US leader once again slammed China for showing lack of transparency in sharing information during the earlier stages of the COVID-19 pandemic
The US Senate’s new legislation, the Strategic Competition Act of 2021, lays out a wide-ranging strategy for the first time to contain China's attempt to expand globally, media reports said
Special U.S. envoy on climate John F. Kerry might travel to China next week amid rising tension between the two nations, media reports said
According to a recent study, digital payment transactions in India have gone up by 76 per cent in the January-March period this year compared to what it was in the same period last year
Over 60,000 people in Bangladesh acquired digital skills during the Covid pandemic through the initiatives of Microsoft, the multinational company has announced, The Daily Star reported
India has achieved a new record high, for the first time stockpiling a total of 132 million tonnes of coal - enough to run India’s power plants for two months - greatly exceeding the average of the previous five years, finds a new briefing note by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA)
Strategic partnerships between the UAE, India and Israel have the potential to touch $110 billion by 2030, top diplomats and business leaders feel
An Indian organic food brand is trying to inspire people and change the lives of hundreds of farmers by working with 45,000 of them and even serving customers across 50 countries
Pakistan industrialists have opposed the anticipated increase of Rs 5.36 per unit in base electricity tariff citing that it would strike a blow to the industry, media reports said
