iPhones are expensive in 2026. Just like everything else. So, stop the bull, bear the cost, and get on with your life. Have an egg instead of having one on your face. Though that too is up 20 per cent in prices just like the latest iPhone 18 Pro.
When an AI agent makes a wrong decision, it can have a much bigger impact when compared to a wrong response by a chatbot.
If you feel that the world is increasingly getting more expensive, and chaotic, you are not hallucinating. It is getting more expensive, and is set to get more expensive once effects of El Nino and other inflationary forces, including RAM prices, kick in.
There is a cliche often repeated in India: data is new oil. In 2026 we are learning just how wrong it is. It's not data that is the new scarce, and yet essential, commodity. Instead, it is RAM and, as Zoho boss Sridhar Vembu has noted, it is doing to the world what oil has done for years.
In 2026, phones are expensive thanks to AI companies that have scooped up all the available memory and chip capacity, leaving everyone else fighting a costly price war. But surprisingly, by 2026 standards, the new Google Pixel 11 phones seem rather well-priced.
The possibility of MDR, aka a small fee on UPI transactions, has been raised again by the government. It is also without any logic because logic dictates that UPI transactions must remain for all, from users to merchants.
For far too long Meta and its boss Mark Zuckerberg have used the word algorithm to avoid taking responsibility for their own platforms like Instagram and Facebook. They are doing it again after Facebook deleted a video of Indian Prime Minister Narender Modi.
CJP protesters might have "won" but a close look at the saga makes it clear that neither Gen Z nor the Indian government, as shown by the Bitchat episode, are any good at using tech in a politically-sensitive environment.
The world is fast turning into a space divided between those who have access to top AI and those who don't, similar to how some nations have 5th-generation fighter planes and most don't. The US has Mythos, China now has Kimi, and that could be a headache for India.
Machines can replicate the procedural layer of reading, writing and arithmetic with astonishing efficiency, but the imaginative core that gave these capacities civilizational significance remains deeply human.
In earlier technological eras, words explained the system. Now words have become the system. That should change who sits at the table when machines are built.
Data protection and capitalism have long been perceived as opposing forces. Yet the framing is reductive, and perhaps deliberately so.
The very sophistication that made modern institutions powerful is now generating their brittleness. Every framework adds stakeholders and dependencies.
If you buy a laptop or phone this year, you would pay 20 to 30 per cent more compared to last year. There is a RAM-driven inflation in the tech world, it is going to make everything more expensive.
On Thursday night, Apple announced a major price hike on its products, joining others in a trend that has seen prices of gadgets rise sharply. It also sends a signal that tech price hike is here to stay. You will do well to adjust your purchase plans accordingly.
While LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude have processed text at a scale that no human mind can approach, the AI does not have the intelligence or knowledge that accrues from experience which is strictly human.
As the US moves to restrict top AI models, and the world transitions to an AI and deep tech economy, India is staring at some grave challenges. The blame, not entirely but largely, lies with India Inc and its dhandho mindset.
The country that builds the cleverest machine will not inherit the next era of finance. The country that writes the rules those machines must obey will. India has been handed a rare seat at that table. It may be the last to understand what it is sitting at.
Young people nowadays often have this question: how should they navigate a career and life where AI has potential to make their knowledge and technical skills irrelevant? The answer is: cogito, ergo sum!
The fiasco with CBSE website and its On Screen Marking (OSM) system has jeopardised the future of thousands of Class 12 students. Yet, it can also teach a lesson to the country if our government is willing to learn. It is a lesson that may come handy in the AI era when tools like Mythos arrive.
