Global Tech
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's Global Tech section.
Microsoft’s ‘Good Neighbour’ Data Centre Pledge Signals New Reality for AI Infra
Amid backlash over power and water use, Microsoft is promising to make data centres pay their own way.
Pallavi Chakravorty ·
Inside OpenAI’s $10 Bn Shortcut to Real-Time AI
OpenAI’s deal with Cerebras comes amid intensifying competition in the AI inference market.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Why Postman CTO Believes APIs will Define the Era of AI Agents
According to Postman CTO, APIs are the connective tissue of how the world works today.
Siddharth Jindal ·
DeepSeek’s Rise, Pause, and How Local Competition Took Over
DeepSeek has completed one year of disrupting the market with its R1 AI reasoning model.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Big Tech is Running Out of Carbon Credits. Enter Indian Startup Varaha
Varaha is one of Asia’s leading developers of carbon removal credits, working with over 100,000 farmers.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Sam Altman Couldn’t Escape What He Hates: Ads
Advertising on ChatGPT was, after all, inevitable. But is it too late, and how will user experience change?
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Why Everything at Intel Now Rides on 18A’s Success
Can advanced nodes such as 18A validate Intel’s manufacturing competitiveness and offset costs?
Siddharth Jindal ·
The Blind Spots of The AI Bubble
Debt, depreciation, and the cost of scale
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Why India Still Doesn’t Have Its Own Database Company
“You need deep pockets. This is not something that can be done over a few years.”
Siddharth Jindal ·
Linux Foundation’s Safe Harbour for the Agentic AI Era
Here’s why the Linux Foundation is uniting MCP, Goose, and AGENTS.md to stabilise open agent infrastructure as agentic AI aims to shift from demos to enterprise systems.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
How Do You Price the GPU Boom?
As GPU-backed lending rises, banks need to understand GPU depreciation and repricing, and that's where indexes come in.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
AMD is Finally Catching up with NVIDIA Blackwell
Su cautioned about an uncertain future as AMD prepares to ramp up GPU production and optimise for larger deployments—quite the opposite of NVIDIA’s rapid, consistent growth in AI segments.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Perplexity Thinks it’s the Next Google—But Can They Really Pull it Off?
Perplexity seems to tread Google’s path for both the right and the wrong reasons.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Microsoft and Salesforce’s AI Agent War Gets Dirty
As leading tech giants in the enterprise software industry, both Microsoft and Salesforce have been competing over their autonomous agents.
Shalini Mondal ·
Security Debt Looms—GitHub Copilot Autofix Steps In
While GitHub Copilot Autofix employs automated testing, red team scrutiny, and filtering to mitigate risks and security vulnerabilities, experts caution against the limitations of self-verifying AI systems.
Tarunya ·
GitHub Spark Spells Trouble for No-Code Platforms
Dohmke showcased Spark by building a tic-tac-toe game featuring a rubber duck and a hippo, all with just a single line of prompt.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Did GitHub Copilot Just Kill Cursor?
Brings Anthropic’s Claude 3.5, Google’s Gemini 1.5, and OpenAI’s o1-preview to GitHub Copilot.
Aditi Suresh ·
GitHub Copilot Workspace to Make Developers' Lives Less Miserable
GitHub has announced a slew of new features to GitHub Copilot Workspace, giving Cursor AI and other AI coding platforms a run for their money.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Meta’s Llama 3.1 is the Missing Link for Indic Datasets
We will use it [Llama] to create synthetic data, build small language models quickly, and train them using appropriate data: Nandan Nilekani
Siddharth Jindal ·
Anthropic Builds ‘FSD’ for Computers, Beats Microsoft at the Game
Anthropic’s new feature is somewhat similar to Microsoft’s Recall feature, except that it does not control your computer directly.
Siddharth Jindal ·