2026-02-23
I do not want to see a world where we equate a piece of technology to a human being. I work hard as a technologist to see a world where we don't allow technology to dominate our lives, instead it should quietly recede into the background.
TechCrunch
Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage are “unfair”, as it takes “20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time” to train a human
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed concerns about AI's environmental impact this week while speaking at an event hosted by The Indian Express.
I do not want to see a world where we equate a piece of technology to a human being. I work hard as a technologist to see a world where we don't allow technology to dominate our lives, instead it should quietly recede into the background.
New York Times
In recent interviews, Sam Altman said AI's adoption faces more resistance than he expected, while Jensen Huang warned the “doomer narrative” may be winning
Tech leaders are beginning to worry about the public's underwhelming enthusiasm for their plans to remake the world with artificial intelligence.LinkedIn:Bridget FahrlandandDaron Y...
2026-02-22
I do not want to see a world where we equate a piece of technology to a human being. I work hard as a technologist to see a world where we don't allow technology to dominate our lives, instead it should quietly recede into the background.
The Indian Express
Sam Altman says currently “the idea of putting data centers in space is ridiculous” and that it is “not something that's going to matter at scale this decade”
Once allies at OpenAI, Sam Altman and Elon Musk are now sharply divided over the future of AI infrastructure.
I do not want to see a world where we equate a piece of technology to a human being. I work hard as a technologist to see a world where we don't allow technology to dominate our lives, instead it should quietly recede into the background.
TechCrunch
Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage are “unfair”, as it takes “20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time” to train a human
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed concerns about AI's environmental impact this week while speaking at an event hosted by The Indian Express.
2026-01-28
“France announced today it's phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio.” The very definition of a “sovereign nation” should now include “technology sovereignty”. Big Tech now is the New East India company and Europeans are now
Euronews
France plans to replace Microsoft Teams and Zoom with French-made and Outscale-hosted Visio by 2027, as part of a push to drop US software vendors in government
France announced that it will roll out the Visio platform across all government departments by 2027.
2025-10-04
I was in a meeting in our Tenkasi office with our Arattai engineers, working out refinements to the app and a team member showed this tweet. Thank you @anandmahindra this gives us even more determination 🙏
Reuters
Indian ministers push domestic alternatives to Google and Microsoft apps amid US tensions; Sensor Tower: Zoho messaging app Arattai hit 400K+ downloads in Sept.
Arpan Chaturvedi / Reuters :
We have faced a 100x increase in Arattai traffic in 3 days (new sign-ups went vertical from 3K/day to 350K/day). We are adding infrastructure on an emergency basis for another potential 100x peak surge. That is how exponentials work. As we add a lot more infrastructure, we are
Reuters
Indian ministers push domestic alternatives to Google and Microsoft apps amid US tensions; Sensor Tower: Zoho messaging app Arattai hit 400K+ downloads in Sept.
Arpan Chaturvedi / Reuters :
There are questions about where Zoho is developed and where the data is hosted and who hosts it. There is a lot of false information we want to correct. 1. All the products are developed in India. Our global headquarters is in Chennai and we pay taxes in India on our global
Reuters
Indian ministers push domestic alternatives to Google and Microsoft apps amid US tensions; Sensor Tower: Zoho messaging app Arattai hit 400K+ downloads in Sept.
Arpan Chaturvedi / Reuters :
Can Arattai last beyond the initial excitement? We can say with confidence that we will continue to invest in R&D and we will continue to scale the infrastructure. Perfecting the tech is important for us and for the nation, and we will stay the course. That is our promise! 🙏
Reuters
Indian ministers push domestic alternatives to Google and Microsoft apps amid US tensions; Sensor Tower: Zoho messaging app Arattai hit 400K+ downloads in Sept.
Arpan Chaturvedi / Reuters :
We have done some speed improvements to the Arattai app, please update from Play Store. We are also scaling the infrastructure rapidly and yesterday added over 2 million new users. Thank you all for the outpouring of love 🙏
Reuters
Indian ministers push domestic alternatives to Google and Microsoft apps amid US tensions; Sensor Tower: Zoho messaging app Arattai hit 400K+ downloads in Sept.
Arpan Chaturvedi / Reuters :
2025-05-26
In defense of https://sarvam.ai/, I will point out that there is no product we have built that was ever an instant hit. Even when we were the first mover in a new market and we had done a lot of technical work, we only got slow traction. Instant success is neither necessary
Analytics India Magazine
Sarvam AI's 24B-parameter LLM for Indian languages Sarvam-M receives only 334 downloads in two days on Hugging Face, raising concerns about AI efforts in India
Model Information sarvam-m is a multilingual, hybrid-reasoning, text-only language model built on Mistral-Small. The Indian Express : Sarvam AI debuts flagship open-source LLM with...
2025-05-25
In defense of https://sarvam.ai/, I will point out that there is no product we have built that was ever an instant hit. Even when we were the first mover in a new market and we had done a lot of technical work, we only got slow traction. Instant success is neither necessary
Analytics India Magazine
Sarvam AI's 24B-parameter LLM for Indian languages Sarvam-M receives only 334 downloads in two days on Hugging Face, raising concerns about AI efforts in India
Much of Sarvam's criticism comes from comparing it to OpenAI or DeepSeek, while the problem the company is trying to solve is fundamentally different.
2020-08-15
Privacy violation is the new tobacco. Today we are surrounded by second hand smoke (aka third party trackers). This will be a major issue of the 2020s as popular awareness goes up. Our @rajuv explains these issues well. https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
Oracle and Salesforce are facing class action lawsuits, potentially worth €10B+, in the UK and the Netherlands over using cookie data without consumers' consent
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :