India's AI Summit highlighted the limits of the country's AI ambitions, as the US and its tech companies largely dismissed India's push for global AI governance
India's AI Summit highlighted the limits of the country's AI ambitions, as the US and its tech companies largely dismissed India's push for global AI governance
The world's most populous country continues to struggle to find its place in an industry dominated by the US and China
An airline industry group executive says India doubled the use of digital biometric systems in airports to 28 in June, covering ~90% of sky-bound travel volumes
Chris Kay / Financial Times : X: @sushantsin X: Sushant Singh / @sushantsin : India is rapidly rolling out facial recognition technology at airports, streamlining security checks ...
Access Now: 2023 was the worst year for internet shutdowns since monitoring began in 2016, with 283 shutdowns across 39 countries, led by India at 116
Last year, an internet shutdown in the state of Manipur, India, lasted a staggering 212 days when the state government issued 44 consecutive orders …
Top10VPN: India's internet shutdowns between 2019 and 2022 cost over $4.8B in economic activity and affected more than 120M people in 2022
Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal : X: @catcheronthesly , @sushantsin , @newley , and @newley X: Ved Nayak / @catcheronthesly : 'When Internet was shut down in Manipur, Amy Ari...
Sources: Foxconn's Tamil Nadu plant in India plans to deliver new iPhone 15s only weeks after Chinese factories; previously, output lagged China by 6-9 months
- Apple is diversifying iPhone supply chain away from China — India's push to become a manufacturing hub is bearing fruit
Internal documents: India accounts for $10B of Foxconn's annual revenue, or 4.6% of its 2022 revenue, as its India push shows the limits of “China plus one”
Financial Times : X: @birdyword , @financialtimes , @rmantri , @sushantsin , @pstasiatech , @chadbown , and @conradkbarwa X: Mike Bird / @birdyword : “Liu has said China accounts ...
India restricts the import of laptops, tablets, PCs, and servers with immediate effect; analysts say the move seems designed to boost local tech manufacturing
India restricted import of laptops, tablets, other personal computers and servers with immediate effect on Thursday …
Chipmakers find it harder to operate in China but say that doing business there is key to their survival, as the country accounts for roughly a third of sales
Chipmakers find it harder to operate in China but say that doing business there is key to their survival, as the country accounts for roughly a third of sales
Chipmakers are finding it increasingly hard to operate in China but say doing business in the country is still key to their survival.
The leaked Pentagon Ukraine documents seem to have first appeared on Discord, followed by 4chan, before spreading to Telegram, Twitter, and major media outlets
Aric Toler / bellingcat :
The US and India launch the Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies, including cooperating on quantum computing, AI, 5G, and chips, to counter China
a security grouping of the US, Japan, Australia & India. https://www.ft.com/... Gokul Sahni / @gokul_sahni : “One US official said the technology initiative, coupled with other act...
A look at the impact of the funding crunch on India's tech startups, which raised $24.7B from January to November 2022, down 35% YoY, per data provider Tracxn
Chloe Cornish / Financial Times : Tweets: @parijatjha47 , @copperlife , @catcheronthesly , @johnreedwrites , @sushantsin , @financialtimes , and @financialtimes Tweets: @parijatjh...
A look at the impact of the funding crunch on India's tech startups, which raised $24.7B from January to November 2022, down 35% YoY, per data provider Tracxn
Funding crunch has triggered mass job cuts of up to 25,000 at country's once-thriving tech companies Tweets: @sushantsin , @financialtimes , @financialtimes , and @johnreedwrites T...
How ByteDance and TikTok, which owe their existence to intermingled Western and Chinese ideas, capital, and people, became entangled in the US-China rift
A Chinese app conquered the planet — and now the U.S. is threatening to shut it down. Can the world's biggest virality machine survive?
Canalys: smartphone shipments in India fell 6% YoY to 44.6M units in Q3 2022; Xiaomi's units fell 18% YoY to 9.2M, for a 21% share, followed by Samsung with 18%
A look at TikTok's rise, as US viewers spend longer in the video app than Facebook and Instagram combined, and ongoing issues with its Chinese ownership
The world's most popular app has pioneered a new age of instant attention. Can we trust it? — On the night Shelby Renae …
Profile of the NSO Group, which has been hailed as an Israeli version of a Silicon Valley success story, as its founders defend their spyware operations
HERZLIYA, Israel — It was a proposition that would change everything. — Two 20-something Israeli entrepreneurs who had been running …
Sources: India threatened to jail Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter employees if the companies don't comply with takedown requests related to farmer protests
A look at the Legal Aid Society of New York City's efforts to close the tech gap between public defenders and law enforcement with respect to digital forensics
Public defenders lack access to gadgets and software that could keep their clients out of jail. — On April 27, a woman in eastern Brooklyn called the police. Tweets: @nytimesbusi...