Author: Malavika Madgula

In a mere span of two years, we’ve seen AI (artificial intelligence) evolve from reactive assistants into proactive, autonomous agents that are not only triggering workflows and calling APIs (application programming interfaces), but also making decisions and even collaborating with other agents. The agentic AI era is here, where AI agents aren’t just suggesting actions, but taking them on their own. The question is: who is governing them? As enterprises and CIOs (chief information officers) rush to design and deploy these intelligent agents, a critical blind spot is emerging: agentic AI governance. When AI agents are rolled out without any…

Imagine sending USD 100,000 to a supplier on the other side of the globe on a Friday evening and having it actually arrive to their account within minutes. This isn’t a pipedream anymore; it’s happening right now – and it’s completely changing how businesses move money across borders. Traditionally, cross-border payments usually involved batch-based settlements and multiple intermediaries, which resulted in unnecessary risks, higher fees, and slower payments. Enter blockchain, which offers a new approach featuring programmable, shared settlement layers operating round-the-clock and finalising transactions in seconds. The winds of change are already blowing. According to September 2025 data from…

The role of seatbelts in saving lives on the road has been unparalleled. In 2026, AI dashcams have transformed into the new seatbelts, as road safety isn’t just about following speed limits and wearing seatbelts anymore… Today, it’s about using and deploying intelligent tech to predict and prevent accidents, and AI (artificial intelligence) dashcams are at the helm of this transformation. In fact, American IoT firm Samsara performed a worldwide analysis of more than 2,500 fleets and released a first-of-its-kind report in May 2026, which validated the efficacy of AI-enabled telematics and cameras in reducing crashes, besides improving fleet safety…

We’ve all heard of the social media-famous terms ending with “maxxing,” like “looksmaxxing.” In Gen-Z Internet slang, it means to maximise or optimise a specific activity or quality… Did you ever imagine the same term to be applicable in AI (artificial intelligence)? We’re talking about – drumroll – Tokenmaxxing, the newest form of conspicuous consumption in Silicon Valley. It all blew up in April 2026 when a Meta engineer created a “token leaderboard” that ranked employees by their token usage. Basically, it was an internal leaderboard on the Meta intranet where employees wanted to show off their AI superuser chops,…

48 teams, 16 host cities, 3 countries, tens of millions of fans; the 2026 FIFA World Cup has shaped up to be the biggest sporting event the world has ever seen. It’s also shaped up to be the largest tech attack surface a sporting event has ever had. We’ve always thought of the FIFA World Cup in terms of the experience and its broadcast around the world: the game, the stadiums, the teams, the goals, and the crowds. However, making all that happen, behind the scenes, is a digital economy connecting millions of fans with hospitality providers, transport networks, ticketing…

Alvin Toffler correctly pointed out that the illiterate of the 21st century are those who can’t learn, unlearn and relearn, not those who can’t read and write – and his words are all the more relevant in today’s artificial intelligence (AI)-shaped world. Yes, we’ve become quite comfortable using AI, but do we fully trust it? According to a wide-ranging global 2025 collaborative study between KPMG and the University of Melbourne, more than 48,000 people across 47 countries were asked about AI and its impact on enterprises and individuals and organisations. The objective? To know about the public’s attitude, use, and…

Imagine your car being remotely disabled when you were driving it. Does it sound like a scene straight out of a Hollywood movie? Welcome to the 21st century, where these incidents are taking place not on the silver screen, but in real life. The controversy erupted in the first week of July 2026 when a series of prank videos from New Delhi showing e-rickshaws being disabled remotely using an app called BAT-BMS began making the rounds on social media. Not long before, content creators and influencers had whipped out their smartphones, recording themselves walking up to electric scooters and e-rickshaws…

Today, enterprises are analysing massive datasets and building AI applications, thus requiring some serious computing power. The hardware and compute power, however, that are required to support these computational workloads are becoming increasingly and ridiculously expensive. After all, GPUs (graphics processing units) are a huge capital investment, with high-end GPU units costing as much as USD 9,500-15,000. To top that, enterprise models cost all the more, going up to a whopping USD 27,000-40,000. Furthermore, organisations also need to invest in supporting infrastructure, such as cooling systems, servers, and more, increasing costs beyond the mere costs of the GPUs themselves. These…

It’s no exaggeration when we say that things are happening in a lightning-fast manner in tech space nowadays, especially in terms of IoT devices. According to IoT Analytics, the number of connected IoT devices across the world could possibly reach a whopping 39 billion by 2030, which is an equally huge jump of 13.2% CAGR from 2025. So, imagine the sheer amount of pressure on enterprise networks if everything were to rely on cloud computing. That’s where Edge AI (artificial intelligence) comes in, deftly handling data processing directly on devices. It essentially deploys AI models and algorithms directly onto local…

Nearly 30 years after the laying of the first successful transatlantic cable in 1866, Rudyard Kipling wrote “Let us be one!” in a classic poem about the mysteries of deep-sea communication titled “The Deep-Sea Cables.” Today, it’s been over half a century of telegraph lines having given way to fibre-optic cables, but their unifying promise remains the same. The seabed is the next great battleground, transforming into an arena of great-power competition, surveillance, and sabotage. After all, fibre-optic data cables carry 99% of global digital traffic, including military, diplomatic, government and financial communications and flows. Even as trust erodes and…