Global Tech
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's Global Tech section.
Not Everyone Needs to Be a Software Engineer
“99.9% of toppers in JEE (Advanced) had chosen computer science and engineering.”
Siddharth Jindal ·
Amazon is Selling NVIDIA’s Chips While Offering Alternatives to It
By training Claude Opus 4 entirely on its own chips, Amazon may be hinting that the AI race isn’t exclusive to NVIDIA’s hardware.
Ankush Das ·
AWS Enters the Vibe Coding Market with Kiro AI
Kiro is positioned as an agentic IDE, an environment where AI agents collaborate throughout the software development lifecycle, not just at the prototyping stage.
Siddharth Jindal ·
OpenAI’s Open-Weights Could Just Be the Prelude for io
The ChatGPT creator has gone open, nearly six years after GPT-2 launch in 2019.
Siddharth Jindal ·
How Stripe Used AI to Boost Fraud Detection from ‘59-97% Overnight’
Stripe’s use of AI to boost fraud detection and increase security measures is a crucial case study on how AI can be used in payment processing.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
A Love Triangle Amidst Chip Wars
As per reports, NVIDIA is once again working on a modified GPU that could legally comply with U.S' export restrictions to China.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Llama 4 Sparks ‘RAG Is Dead’ Debate, Yet Again
Spoiler alert: RAG is NOT dead.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Inside the Great AI Talent Heist of 2025
OpenAI’s Latest Acquisition Might Hit Meta Really Hard
Siddharth Jindal ·
‘PostgreSQL Eats the World, But CockroachDB Digests It’
The core difference offered by CockroachDB lies in its horizontal scaling capabilities.
Siddharth Jindal ·
How MongoDB is Winning Developers
Developers can efficiently work with MongoDB when using modern IDEs and AI coding tools.
Ankush Das ·
When AGI Becomes Real, Microsoft May Lose Its $13 Billion Bet
According to Media reports, Microsoft plans to continue utilising OpenAI’s technology under its existing commercial agreement, which is set to expire in 2030.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Neuralink Is Building Moore’s Law for the Mind
Neuralink’s long-term vision is to develop a whole-brain interface capable of reading from and writing to neurons throughout the brain.
Siddharth Jindal ·
OpenAI is Flirting with Danger by Naming China’s Blacklisted Zhipu AI as a Threat
OpenAI’s blog post simply boosts the IPO-bound Zhipu AI’s visibility among both funders and customers, effectively putting the Chinese rival on the global map.
Mohit Pandey ·
MongoDB’s Quiet Dominance in India’s AI Boom
MongoDB is an increasingly popular choice among tech companies in India. Why is that the case?
Ankush Das ·
Is Google Driving the Cost of GenAI to $0?
The company’s latest tool offers free access to Gemini 2.5 Pro with a high usage limit.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
OpenAI is Ditching TypeScript to Rebuild Codex CLI with Rust
“We will ultimately be retiring the TypeScript version of the CLI in favour of the Rust one.”
Ankush Das ·
OpenAI Exposed: iyO vs io
iyO claims that Altman and his team reviewed detailed information about the IYO ONE and declined to invest but continued to follow the company’s progress.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Why Apple and Meta Are Ready to Throw Billions on This IIT Madras Graduate’s AI Startup
AI talent is hard to find, and startups often bring together some of the best minds in the field.
Siddharth Jindal ·
2025 is NOT the Year of AI Agents
Andrej Karpathy said that whenever he uses ChatGPT, he feels like he is talking to an operating system through the terminal.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Inside Sam Altman’s Investment Portfolio
In his personal capacity, Altman has invested in AI, energy, healthcare, finance, technology, cybersecurity, and other sectors.
Aditi Suresh ·