Author: Nigel Pereira

For decades, time moved in one direction, now a growing number of quantum experiments are raising the unsettling possibility that the order of events may not be as fixed as humans once believed. For more than a century, physics has trained people to think of time as a straight line. One thing happens, then another follows. Cause first, effect second. Drop a glass, and it shatters. Send a message, and someone receives it moments later, never before. That basic order sits underneath almost everything humans understand about reality. Which is why a growing cluster of quantum experiments has started drawing…

An AI assistant running fully offline on a laptop chip hints at a different path for India, one where intelligence stays on the device, not in distant data centres. If you’ve been following India’s AI push, the name “BharatGPT” has been floating around for a while now, part ambition, part branding, part something still taking shape behind the scenes. It doesn’t arrive with the same kind of splash as ChatGPT or Gemini, no viral demos or celebrity endorsements, but it keeps resurfacing in conversations about what India actually needs from artificial intelligence. The latest trigger came from a quieter demonstration,…

Behind the scenes, a mix of sensors, signals, and algorithms is quietly changing how herds move and how farms operate If you’ve watched “billionaire bunker” clips or read about Peter Thiel quietly funding doomsday hideouts and strange future bets, this one fits right in, except it’s not about survival underground or defence tech. It’s about cows. Hundreds of thousands of them. And not just grazing, but moving on command. On farms run by New Zealand startup Halter, a farmer can tap a phone screen and entire herds begin walking, almost in sync, towards milking stations or fresh pasture. No fences,…

A downed US pilot, a daring rescue, and a “quantum AI” heartbeat tracker that can search for a soldier’s unique heartbeat “signature” from miles away Sounds like a movie story. A pilot gets shot down in enemy territory and takes cover in a mountain cave. While his pursuers are closing in, there is a machine in the sky above listening for an electromagnetic signal, a unique signature for his heartbeat. This was supposedly the story of the CIA’s “Ghost Murmur” as it first broke at the beginning of April amid escalating tensions with Iran. An American pilot who went down…

A reactor that produces its own fuel, long considered almost impossible to pull off, now ties into India’s AI-driven future. The control room at Kalpakkam didn’t erupt when it happened. No cinematic applause, no dramatic countdown. Just a quiet confirmation that something had tipped into balance, India’s long-delayed Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor had finally gone “critical,” the moment a nuclear chain reaction sustains itself without outside help. It arrived on April 6, late in the evening, after decades of work that began back in 2004 and drifted through missed deadlines and ballooning costs. The 500 MWe reactor, built largely from…

The idea of “wrapping the Sun” is going viral again, with Elon Musk’s name once more attached to a long-running concept. Posts claiming that Elon Musk could one day “wrap the Sun” have been circulating across social media in recent days. Many of them include visuals showing large structures placed around a star. The idea is presented as a way to capture energy directly from the Sun. Some posts describe it as a future step in how energy might be used at a much larger scale. The concept has been shared across short videos and image posts. Different versions of…

Sora’s abrupt shutdown has ended a $1 billion Disney deal, raising fresh questions about how stable the AI boom really is. The Walt Disney Company has stepped back from a planned $1 billion investment in OpenAI after the sudden shutdown of Sora, the company’s AI video platform. The deal had been tied directly to Sora and included access to Disney’s characters for use in AI-generated video. Talks were still ongoing when OpenAI decided to discontinue the product. According to reports, the decision came abruptly, leaving Disney teams surprised by the timing. No funds had been transferred at the point the…

Rising tensions in the Middle East are putting pressure on helium supply, a key input in chipmaking that could ripple into the AI industry In our previous post on the war in Iran, we talked about how the world’s internet connectivity is being put at risk, and while the focus usually stays on oil, another important resource is featured in recent reports, helium. While it doesn’t usually get much attention, it is used across several industries, and semiconductor manufacturing is one such industry. Helium is a byproduct of natural gas. Qatar is one of the largest suppliers in the world,…

The war in the Strait of Hormuz could affect more than oil routes; it may also threaten the undersea cables carrying India’s global internet traffic… The conflict unfolding around Iran and the United States in the Strait of Hormuz has drawn global attention to oil shipments and tanker traffic, but another critical system lies beneath those same waters. A dense network of fibre-optic cables runs across the seabed of the Gulf, carrying large volumes of global internet traffic between Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. With geopolitical strains intensifying and maritime security becoming more precarious, experts are sounding alarms about…

With Kaveri, QpiAI scales up from its 25-qubit Indus system to a 64-qubit superconducting processor built in India. Bengaluru-based QpiAI has introduced Kaveri, a 64-qubit superconducting quantum processor developed in India. The chip follows the company’s earlier system, Indus, which operated with 25 qubits under the National Quantum Mission. Indus marked QpiAI’s entry into quantum hardware. Kaveri increases the qubit count and reflects continued work on superconducting architecture. The company describes the processor as part of its in-house quantum platform rather than a standalone prototype. With successive hardware releases, QpiAI is extending its own development cycle instead of relying on…