Global Tech
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's Global Tech section.
Why IT May Become the HR for AI Agents in the Future
“AI agents are a multi-trillion dollar opportunity.”
Siddharth Jindal ·
Data Without Downtime: Spencer Kimball’s Pursuit of Resilience
"For AI, they [companies] stand on the shoulders of what Cockroach brings for operational capabilities.”
Aditi Suresh ·
Why OpenAI Calls Everyone a ‘Member of Technical Staff’
Has the ‘researcher’ turned into an ‘engineer’ in the AI workspace?
Siddharth Jindal ·
A New Open Source Model From China is Crushing the Benchmarks
And in some situations, it is even better than Anthropic’s Claude 4 and OpenAI’s o3.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
ChatGPT to Help Students Learn, Not Just Complete Homework
While many call it a step in the right direction, there are also several shortcomings with the product.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
How India Powers IBM’s Hardware Design Push
Developed with key contributions from the IBM India Systems Development Lab (ISDL), the Power11 server range is designed for demanding enterprise AI workloads.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
LinkedIn Created Kafka, But It is Ditching It for Something Better
Northguard and Xinfra to manage growing scale and complexity of operations.
Ankush Das ·
Perplexity AI Picks Bharat Over Big Tech
“The world needs little tech to win."
Siddharth Jindal ·
Alibaba’s Qwen3-Coder Shows Why China’s Open Models Can’t Be Ignored Anymore
The company drops one of the most affordable AI models for translation.
Ankush Das ·
Amazon Acquires Bee and Its $50 Device That Turns Conversations Into To-Do Lists
“These are the things that are important to me, but I would have never formally written down.”
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Google Powers India’s AI Mission with Sarvam AI, Soket AI, Gnani.ai
Google is also working with startups, including CoRover, Glance, Entri, InVideo, Nykaa, Dashverse, and Toonsutra.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Cloudflare Wants to Power AI, Without Breaking the Internet
Cloudflare is aiming to accelerate AI development with its solutions.
Ankush Das ·
Unpopular Opinion: Windsurf Founders Did Not Abandon the Ship
“The founder and a few core staff get to build big things at Google, while the rest of the Windsurf is still protected as a brand by Cognition.”
Siddharth Jindal ·
With ChatGPT Agent, Future Jobs Might Feel Like Playing Games
Wharton professor Ethan Mollick, who had early access to the ChatGPT agent, called it “a big step forward for getting AIs to do real work.”
Siddharth Jindal ·
‘Vector Databases are Dead Before RAG’
The announcement of S3 Vectors has sparked intense discussion, with some speculating that it could disrupt the vector database market.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Why Chinese Talent Dominates Silicon Valley
Currently, China publishes more AI research papers than any other country in the world.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Why Netflix Removed Kafka from Tudum’s Architecture
The new architecture embedded RAW Hollow directly into Tudum’s microservices, drastically simplifying the stack.
Ankush Das ·
Why Meta’s Billion-User Apps are Switching from C to Rust
The social media giant put an end to its memory management woes by moving to Rust from C.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Meta Plans to Abandon Llama 4 Behemoth. But Why?
The company is reportedly focusing on building a closed source model instead.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
China’s Kimi K2 Could Be the Next DeepSeek Moment
As soon as the model was dropped, OpenAI announced a delay in the release of its open-source model.
Siddharth Jindal ·