Author: Malavika Madgula

Get this: it’s the day before a family member’s birthday celebrations, and you desperately need a gift under USD 100 that arrives tomorrow… Instead of rifling across multiple tabs, you simply ask an AI assistant and bam – it understands your needs, evaluates the context and constraints, and recommends a gift choice you feel good about giving. Now imagine having such a personal AI assistant shopper in your lives – someone who deeply understands your budget, lifestyle, and preferences and effortlessly curates tailored product recommendations from thousands of choices, even getting you the best prices and completing transactions autonomously. Suddenly,…

According to a Katonic AI report, data triangulated from Gartner, IDC, and Forrester showed that Cloud spends grew from less than USD 20 billion in 2010 to a whopping USD 400 billion in 2024 – in a mere span of 15 years. According to new analysis, Agentic AI could follow an even steeper curve. A handful of hyperscalers hold an overwhelming majority of the market share today, but an emerging architectural pattern could shift the balance of power from these Cloud giants to intelligent agents, commoditising the very services that built their empires. This paradigm shift is driven by Generative…

The Indian technological space has been blowing up in February 2026, even as the India AI Impact Summit 2026 was underway in New Delhi. The reason? The unveiling of new indigenous and sovereign AI models from Sarvam, Gnani.ai, and BharatGen. Spanning real-world, voice, and language interfaces, these models are a huge step towards building homegrown alternatives to global AI systems dominated by Big Tech. Their launch signals a shift from being a user of global artificial intelligence tools to designing, building, and using domestic AI infrastructure aimed at education, healthcare, agriculture, and government services at population scale. Part of the…

The rapid rise and evolution of AI (artificial intelligence) have resulted in industries critically re-evaluating power-intensive servers supporting this technological surge Data centres are at the centre of this storm, as they’re critical to the infrastructure of the internet, consuming huge amounts of water and energy. Their biggest criticism is the fact that they’re burdensome to local resources and communities – besides being unsightly, of course. And as the demands for AI workloads increase, the strain on energy resources will escalate. In fact, we are probably racing towards a ‘tipping point’ where current data centre architectures aren’t viable. Case in…

In Jan 2026, a Guardian investigation found that Google’s AI summaries were presenting inaccurate information… These shocking findings, which were deemed downright dangerous, led to Google removing some of its AI (artificial intelligence) summaries after the misleading health advice threatened to put people’s health at risk. One rather alarming example was bogus information being provided about critical liver function tests, which could possibly leave patients with serious liver infections and diseases while wrongly thinking they are healthy. So much so that after the investigation concluded, the company went ahead and removed AI Overviews for specific search terms, including “what is…

Imagine designing a super-fun game which you can play because you possess the secret rules to it, a.k.a. the code. Now, what if you were to tell your friends these “rules,” and they could start adding cool new aspects to the game? In a nutshell, that’s what “open source” means. Basically, it means sharing the rules (or code) of a project with everyone, allowing others to see, learn, and maybe even add new features to it. One of the most widely-known open-source projects online is Wikipedia, as its underlying software, MediaWiki, is open-source and content is freely licensed. So, anyone…

While everybody is familiar with the evolution of mobile networks, from 3G to 4G and now to 5G, Wi-Fi technology has also been advancing simultaneously. Imagine attending a virtual class, streaming an 8K film, and managing an entire home full of smart devices – all at once, and that too without a single glitch. This level of seamless digital living is no longer a distant dream, but rather a reality with the emergence and rise of Wi-Fi 7, which is a great leap forward for wireless connectivity – at least when it comes to the speed. Also known as 802.11be…

The winds of technological change have been brewing across the financial industry for quite a while, and concepts such as automated risk management, algorithmic trading, and digital banking are no longer futuristic but rather essential to modern finance. Two particularly groundbreaking technologies at the core of this transformation are AI (artificial intelligence) and blockchain, (besides big data and machine learning, of course). In the dynamic world of financial services, blockchain and AI, Generative AI (GenAI) in particular, have become linchpins for transformative change, redefining the strategic and operational horizons of the industry. Did you know that the value of the…

As everybody already knows by now, the US’s ICE (United States’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement) began deploying facial recognition for the first time in 2025 in the field, a practice that was only deployed in investigatory settings in the past… The fact that a government agency was using facial recognition systems as definitive identifications in the field is grossly irresponsible. On the other end of the spectrum, Dominick Skinner, a Netherlands-based immigration activist, used facial recognition and AI (artificial intelligence) to reveal the identities of masked ICE agents. The problem? The ICE agent who shot a US citizen was being…

Enterprise networks are not just expensive; they’re risky and complex – and they aren’t getting easier… The WAN (Wide Area Network) isn’t just a critical important part of the enterprise network and information infrastructure, but also a key enabler of the innovation and convergence infrastructure. With coverage ranging from tens to thousands of kilometres, WAN connects users, intelligent products, cloud platforms, branches, enterprise factories, and more. At the same time, it enables efficient collaboration between different industries and quick implementation of innovative apps and services. After all, the key to enterprise digital transformation is data value mining, and efficient data…