Global Tech
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's Global Tech section.
Why Google Chose Andhra Pradesh Over Karnataka for its $15 Billion Data Centre Bet
While Vizag’s access to undersea cable landing stations is a natural advantage, Karnataka seems to have overlooked Mangaluru’s potential.
Siddharth Jindal ·
How Publicis Sapient Is Rebuilding Software Development Around AI Context
Slingshot unifies software development with AI-driven context, enabling seamless collaboration and automation across enterprise teams.
Ankush Das ·
OpenAI’s Compute Dream Is Too Big for the World
“If OpenAI doesn’t secure enough compute fast, it could be outpaced by giants with bigger balance sheets.”
Siddharth Jindal ·
Oracle’s Secret to Building AI Superclusters
Oracle wants to package and put their cloud close to where customers are.
Siddharth Jindal ·
AMD’s AI GPU Strategy Is Paying Off Big
Hyperscaler deals? Check. Strong roadmap? Check. Better software….check?
Supreeth Koundinya ·
The Economics of Inference for NVIDIA & AMD GPUs
With InferenceMAX, SemiAnalysis wants to help GPU owners understand if they’re making the best use of it.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
UPI is Having its ChatGPT Moment
“It will pull in impulse buyers who usually abandon carts and make paying online feel as natural as talking.”
Siddharth Jindal ·
IBM Bought a ‘Nervous System’ for $11 Billion
‘The acquisition gives IBM more than 50% share in the event broker market.’
Siddharth Jindal ·
Capitalism Built OpenAI, Constraints Helped China Defeat It
The estimated cost of developing the Kimi K2 Thinking AI model was around $4.6 million.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Trump’s HIRE Act Push Could Hurt Big Tech More Than India
Nation’s vast and highly skilled tech talent pool is unlikely to sit idle.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Why Oracle Thinks PostgreSQL Isn’t Enough
Architectural mismatch results in performance and functionality limitations.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Musk’s Grok-4 Crushes Benchmarks, Beats OpenAI & Google in RL
“Grok-4 is smarter than almost all graduate students in all disciplines simultaneously.”
Siddharth Jindal ·
Perplexity AI’s Comet Brings Vibe Browsing, Makes Google Chrome Outdated
Comet, currently available by invite to Perplexity’s $200‑a‑month Max subscribers, is built on Chromium and supports Windows and Mac platforms.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Big Tech Layoffs are Likely Just About Tax Savings
Section 174 of the US IRC was updated in 2022, and companies can no longer claim immediate 100% tax deductions for expenses related to software development.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Why Meta is Investing in Scale AI
Meta's significant external AI investment in Scale AI is noted as the company's largest to date.
Ankush Das ·
Forget Vibe Coding, Canva Just Introduced Vibe Designing for All
Challenging Google and Microsoft, Canva is introducing native spreadsheet capabilities with Canva Sheets.
Siddharth Jindal ·
The Rise of Uni-Unicorns
As India’s digitisation and cloud push fuel unicorn growth, AWS is aiming to invest $13 billion in infrastructure by 2030.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Is Mistral’s Le Chat Truly the 'World’s Fastest AI Assistant'?
Le Chat's Flash Answers is using Cerebras Inference, which is touted to be the ‘fastest AI inference provider'.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Spencer Kimball on How CockroachDB Will Power Efficient AI Agents
Spencer Kimball sees AI agents outnumber humans and CockroachDB is building the database backbone to handle that.
Ankush Das ·
With Rust, Cloudflare is Trying to Tackle the Industry’s Inference Bottleneck
“Because we have quite a few engineers with deep expertise in Rust, we found this was a worthwhile investment.”
Ankush Das ·