India could lose access to the world's most cutting-edge AI models. We must act rightaway

New Delhi, Oct. 28 -- Most AI developers prefer to use open-weight models to build their solutions because they can be fine-tuned to suit specific requirements. Take, for example, DeepSeek, the open-w... Read More

Design systems that help people identify what's authentic instead of labelling all that's fake

New Delhi, Oct. 22 -- Earlier this month, OpenAI rolled out Sora, a short-form video app that was its first foray into social media. While the last thing we need is yet another algorithmically-curated... Read More

Lawyers run the US and engineers run China: Has India struck an ideal balance?

New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- China's Quest to Engineer the Future, Dan Wang describes two distinct approaches to development. China, he argues, has risen to its current global stature on the back of an engin... Read More

Can India's defence apparatus keep up with the latest revolution in military affairs?

New Delhi, Oct. 7 -- On 1 June 2025, a number of transport trucks parked within range of selected Russian airbases silently sprang into action. Roofs slid back to reveal hidden launchers and wave upon... Read More

AI knows everything. But does it know what to ask?

New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- Every time we have been exposed to new technologies, we have worried about how they will change our lives. And yet history has shown that we usually overestimate the disruption ... Read More

AI is ready to read our minds. Will the law help us keep our thoughts private?

New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- As regular readers of Ex Machina know, I have been waiting more than a decade for India to pass a comprehensive data protection law. Despite recent statements by the government ... Read More

Rahul Matthan: How we lost control to the algorithms, and how to get it back

New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- In 1948, Norbert Wiener published a work titled Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. In it, he pointed out that all biological organisms, mac... Read More

Rahul Matthan: Apply the IT playbook to help AI businesses take off

New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- When I first heard of DeepSeek, my immediate reaction was one of disappointment. Everyone else was raving about the capabilities of the model and the frugality with which it had ... Read More

Online gaming ban: The state should quit playing nanny

New Delhi, Aug. 26 -- Last week, out of the blue, the Government of India brought a Rs.2 trillion industry to its knees. Over the course of a few short days, a brand new law against online gambling wa... Read More

Free-AI: How well India adopts AI will shape its future

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- For the past six months, I served on the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Committee on the Framework for the Responsible and Ethical Enablement of AI (Free-AI). It has been an enric... Read More

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