Author: Satyen K Bordoloi

In a world where anyone can create perfect forgeries with a single command, the very foundation of trust and identity verification is crumbling, with governments racing to catch up, finds Satyen K. Bordoloi. It is an enduring scene in thrillers: a forger bent at his desk, painstakingly copying original documents to create duplicates for the hero or villain. The audience, knowing the document being shown for verification is forged, sit at the edge of their seats as an official checks them. These scenes have been invalidated by a single AI tool so proficient at replicating documents with just one command…

The Age of AI vs. AI cyber warfare, and machine-speed warfare is upon us as a recent attack using Anthropic’s Claude showed writes Satyen K. Bordoloi In mid-September 2025, a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group, designated GTG-1002 by Anthropic, executed what the AI company called as “the first documented case of a cyberattack largely executed without human intervention at scale”. It targeted about 30 organisations in the financial services, technology, chemical manufacturing, and government agency sectors. What makes this historically significant isn’t just its scope or sophistication but that artificial intelligence conducted 80-90% of the tactical operations autonomously, with human operators…

The government of India can’t find a generative AI tool it can trust, as all of them are foreign writes Satyen K. Bordoloi as he outlines five ways in which the government can still use them. A senior secretary in the Defence Ministry repeatedly uses an LLM to research hypersonic missiles, their range, capabilities, and the time it would take to reach a particular country. A foreign nation gets a dump of just the prompts he types into the LLM. An analysis of these prompts helps it to figure out that India is not only trying to build a hypersonic…

For Indian AI companies to win the world, they need funds like their western counterparts do, says Satyen K. Bordoloi, who attended an open talk about just that. Many believe technology grows a nation. However, for technology to grow, it requires state patronage and funding. Therefore, if India were to take its rightful place in the global AI landscape, the government would need to get on board first. Thankfully, much before a DeepSeek level deep defibrillator jolted our government into action, they had, last year itself, announced over ₹10,000 crore to be spent on AI. That is well and good.…

Like between siblings, where one is popular while the other does the grunt work, Enterprise AI is emerging as a winner in the big basket of AI finds, Satyen K. Bordoloi Somewhere in a materials science lab in Silicon Valley, an enterprise AI system just designed its 41st novel compound in the time it takes most of us to finish our morning coffee. Meanwhile, at a Mumbai law office, another AI assistant just helped reduce contract review time by 85% saving hours of tedious work. And deep in a Chennai hospital, doctors are consulting an AI chatbot trained on five…

India is a key market in the gold rush for the next billion AI users, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi In October, Google surprised India by announcing a partnership with Reliance to offer Jio subscribers a complimentary Google AI Pro subscription for 18 months, valued at ₹35,100. Earlier in the month, OpenAI had announced that it would give a ₹399 per month ChatGPT Go subscription to every Indian for free. Google itself has been offering a free year’s subscription to students since July. Additionally, if you are an Airtel user, you can claim a free year’s subscription to Perplexity Pro. CoPilot…

If a restaurant chain loses $100 million because AI bots instigated humans, that era is of manufactured outrage – where the loudest voices in the room aren’t even human, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi Many sayings warn us against falsehoods: A lie travels the world multiple times over before the truth even has the chance to wear shoes, or that a lie repeated enough becomes the truth. Turns out, these two are at the centre of a global network of what Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky called Manufacturing Consent, except now it is done by brewing outrage in an algorithm.…

AI browsers from AI companies promise to revolutionise your work, but it could also endanger you, Satyen K. Bordoloi warns. That AI is the panacea for everything digital has long been touted. Yet, the AI browser wars are taking it to a different level. First came Dia by The Browser Company with its beta version in June 2025, followed closely by Perplexity’s Comet in July. Just in October, OpenAI announced its ChatGPT Atlas browser, which seems to have prompted Microsoft to make CoPilot look more like an AI browser. With other major browsers like Microsoft Edge and Opera had integrated…

Contrary to research so far, a non-peer-reviewed paper stating that being rude to LLMs makes them better has gone viral, but Satyen K. Bordoloi finds the truth is more complicated than clickbait headlines. A few months ago, based on the research up to that time, I had reported in Sify that you should be polite to your LLMs. However, a recent paper, “Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy”, by Om Dobariya and Akhil Kumar from Pennsylvania State University, seems to suggest the opposite, i.e. the meaner you are to your AI, the better answers you get.…

The recent US government tariff on India could be an opportunity in disguise if India plays its cards right, particularly to ace AI, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi. The 50% tariffs on Indian goods imposed by the Trump administration are one of the biggest trade challenges India has faced in decades. Nearly half of our $87 billion exports to the US are now subject to these punitive tariffs and affect critical sectors from textiles and gems to automotive components. The economic stakes for the nation, companies and millions of people are naturally high. Yet, inside the crisis, there is an opportunity…