Innovator, futurist, and author Ray Kurzweil ’70 emphasized his optimism about artificial intelligence, and technological progress generally, in a lecture on Wednesday while accepting MIT’s Robert A. Muh Alumni Award from the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS). Kurzweil…
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On Monday, we published our 2025 edition of Climate Tech Companies to Watch. This marks the third time we’ve put the list together, and it’s become one of my favorite projects to work on every year. In the journalism world,…
Indian equity markets are underperforming due to limited AI exposure, prompting fund managers to pursue high-growth strategies. Foreign investors are retreating, selling billions in equities, while domestic investors are absorbing the outflows. Despite valuation concerns, India’s long-term growth story and…
Chennai’s OrbitAID Aerospace is set to deploy India’s first in-orbit docking and refuelling interface, SIDRP, on an Australian mission in 2026. This groundbreaking commercial deployment, supported by the Indo-Australian Space MAITRI grant, aims to extend spacecraft lifespans and promote space…
Infosys has filed a writ petition in the Karnataka High Court challenging a Rs 415 crore show cause notice from the DGGI concerning alleged ineligible input tax credit refunds. The notice claims services provided by overseas branches were not exports,…
America has approved billions of dollars in Nvidia chip exports to the United Arab Emirates. This is part of a bilateral artificial intelligence agreement. The deal will help the UAE build data centres for AI model development. The agreement allows…
Graphcore, a UK chip firm, will invest $1.3 billion in India over the next decade. The company is opening its first office in Bengaluru, hiring 100 AI engineers initially. This move taps into India’s talent pool for chip design. Graphcore’s…
The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) recently celebrated the launch of the MIT–MBZUAI Collaborative Research Program, a new effort to strengthen the building blocks of artificial intelligence and accelerate its…