Author: Malavika Madgula

The first half of 2025 has belonged to memecoins Think of it: In May 2025, Trump’s meme coin soared after he asked the top 220 holders to dinner. In the same month, the price of the Grok memecoin surged when Elon Musk changed his name on Twitter/X to ‘Gorklon Rust’ — no, we aren’t joking. Then there are innumerable articles that tell people how to start their own memecoins, and even Silicon Valley wants to get on the memecoin frenzy train. However, the most interesting piece of information came through in July 2025, when a study by NFTEvening revealed that…

As a collective, we can agree that the internet is undergoing what is its most profound transformation since the rise of smartphones and social media. Currently, AI and Web3 are amongst the most disruptive and groundbreaking technologies To put it simply, AI enables systems and machines to learn, reason, and think like human beings. Web3, on the other hand, is the collective of technologies decentralising the Internet. Both are innovative. Both are disruptive. And both are gathering huge momentum across businesses, whether it’s education, entertainment, healthcare, or finance. What possibilities does the convergence of both technologies promise to unlock in…

For more than a decade, public cloud has been the default answer to every IT modernisation question… It has been scalable, cheaper, and faster — until it isn’t. As the dust settles, CIOs (Chief Information Officers) have been reevaluating their cloud strategies, and a striking trend has emerged: a resolutely decisive “cloud reset” of sorts. According to the VMWare Private Cloud Outlook 2025 report, enterprises no longer view public cloud as a one-way ticket to becoming hyperscalers, but are intentionally shifting tasks and workloads back to on-premise, or on-prem, computing practices and private cloud. Why? Cost control, compliance, and security.…

In 2024, the state government of Gujarat signed an MOU (memorandum of understanding) with Microsoft to set up an AI (artificial intelligence) taskforce and centre of excellence at GIFT City (Gujarat International Finance Tec-City). The move was undertaken to drive AI integration for sustainable development in the state, putting it at the forefront of technology-driven governance and development. Even the state governments of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh have initiatives set up for AI governance. All of them are part of the ambitious IndiaAI mission, whose objective is to drive AI development, digital transformation, and tech governance.…

The sudden rise in the popularity and use of cryptocurrency has attracted its own set of challenges in risk and security management… Weaknesses and threats that could compromise the integrity of digital user assets and currencies are growing exponentially day by day. In fact, in February 2025 alone, crypto exchange ByBit saw North Korean hackers steal USD 1.5 billion in Ethereum tokens. It far surpassed any previous crypto thefts, making it the largest and undoubtedly the most daring cryptocurrency heist in history. With the digital landscape evolving, the complexity of threats facing blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies is even greater. In…

It was in the 1950s that the term artificial intelligence (AI) was first introduced, but it wasn’t until ChatGPT was launched in 2022 that the masses began to sit up and take notice. Likewise, the term “supply chain management” has been around since the 1980s, but it was not until the COVID-19 pandemic that everyone began realising its significance. What about the marriage of generative AI (GenAI) with the supply chain? It’s not a new concept, with 40% of global supply chain organisations already investing in GenAI. With enterprises suffering from supply chain disruptions due to fragmented data and outdated…

Would you trust AI (artificial intelligence) with your money? Ask baby boomers, millennials, and Gen Z-ers, and you’ll probably get widely varying answers. According to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2024 Global Retail Investor Outlook, a staggering 41% of both Gen Z-ers and millennials said that they’d entrust AI assistants to manage their investments — which is nearly thrice the rate of the 14% of baby boomers who said they’d do the same. The survey, which was conducted with more than 13,000 respondents across 14 countries, reveals a marked shift in the public’s perception of financial decision-making. From the stock-picking…

The concept of research, any research, has always been a race against time. And in the era where we have access to huge amounts of data, the race just heated up… Artificial intelligence has certainly become indispensable in this regard, but the matter isn’t just about automating tasks and gathering information anymore. Now, AI tools have evolved into complex instruments, changing the way we gather, analyse, and interpret information and data. And the next big thing in AI that’s poised to transform the landscape is Deep Research. Deep research is the capability of AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT, to interpret…

Unauthorised access, data leaks, information breaches, and data misuse might seem part and parcel of today’s internet-driven and connected world, but they don’t have to be… After all, privacy is paramount when it comes to data sharing. Privacy and cybersecurity experts have long been warning everyone regarding entities having access to sensitive information. This is where PETs (privacy-enhancing technologies) come in. According to the report published by the WEF (World Economic Forum) and Frontiers, PETs is one of 2024’s top ten emerging technologies. As the name suggests, PETs, also known as privacy-preserving or data-protection technologies, are essentially practices, techniques, and…

The Nigerian princes certainly had a long and fantastic run, but now they’re being replaced by AI (artificial intelligence)… Gone are the days when scammers wielded mediocre power, having to rely on their understanding of the processes and language. AI is fuelling the next wave of cybercrime, with attackers employing generative AI to automate, scale, and even personalise their scams. According to Hoxhunt’s report on phishing trends, anywhere between 0.7-4.7% of nearly 4,00,000 malicious phishing emails had been crafted by AI. It might be a tiny fraction, but that’s just for now. How Phishing Has Changed With AI AI phishing…