Tech & Innovation
The AI That Maps the Floods: How SatGPT is Building Asia-Pacific’s Disaster Resilience
In an era of escalating climate disasters, the ability to translate data into life-saving action has never been more critical. For the Asia-Pacific region—the...
Nobel 2025 and Quantum Imperatives
Every year, the announcement of the Nobel Prize opens new doors for discovery and advancement. Back in 1895, Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Foundation,...
Rosatom’s Virtual Reactors and the New Diplomacy of Data
The New Reactor Economy
In the twenty-first century, nuclear energy has re-emerged not only as a source of electricity but also as an instrument of...
Can Pune’s IT sector benefit from recent global developments?
Authors: Tridivesh Singh Maini and Sarva Chakrabarti*
Several commentators have viewed the recent announcement of the Trump administration to raise H-1B visa fees to $100,000...
The Cognitive Cost of Over-reliance on AI in Education: A Global Review
With the internet age, artificial intelligence (AI) is a leading-edge tool in education that offers resources that are claimed to yield customized learning, instant...
Machines Take Over: AI, Mass Layoffs, and the New Crisis of Human Work
From industries and continents around the world, thousands of employees wake up to the same horrendous news: another round of cuts. The cycle has...
From Malacca to the Sulu Sea, AI is rewriting maritime security
Frontier AI is moving from white papers to war rooms across Southeast Asia. ASEAN defense planners now face a hard question. Can the region...
AI for All: Turning Digital Power into a Global Public Good
The world's excitement around artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most revolutionary changes of our era. Across health, education, finance, and agriculture, these...
Digital Authoritarianism Goes Global: Lessons from Iran’s Communication Crackdown
In mid-2025, Iranian diaspora communities calling home were met not with the voices of loved ones but with robotic interruptions, prerecorded warnings, and abrupt...
From Swords to Algorithms: Reimagining Sun Tzu in the Age of AI
The Art of War by Sun Tzu has been the basis of all strategy in the hundreds of years before and even in modern...