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Nandan Nilekani’s next push for India’s digital future

8 Jan 2026

Nandan Nilekani, the architect of India’s Aadhaar system and wider digital public infrastructure, is now focused on stabilizing the country’s power grid and building a global “finternet” to tokenize assets and expand financial access. His legacy is increasingly contested at home even as governments worldwide study India’s digital model.

digital identity, financial technology, governance, india, privacy

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War tech in Europe and a startup’s controversial plan to cool the planet

8 Jan 2026

European militaries are rapidly wiring battlefields with autonomous sensing networks, while an Israeli geoengineering startup is pitching a high-stakes planetary cooling scheme that many researchers deeply mistrust.

artificial intelligence, big tech, climate tech, military technology, surveillance

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Hybrid Web3 strategies for the artificial intelligence era

8 Jan 2026

Enterprises are starting to blend Web2 infrastructure with decentralized Web3 technologies to cut costs, improve resilience, and support artificial intelligence workloads, while navigating persistent interoperability, regulatory, and user experience challenges.

artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud-computing, enterprise technology

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Nvidia, amd and intel showcase new artificial intelligence chips at ces 2026

8 Jan 2026

Nvidia, amd and intel used ces 2026 to unveil new artificial intelligence focused chips, while companies including uber and hyundai highlighted progress in autonomous vehicles and robotics.

artificial intelligence, automotive, consumer tech, hardware

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Artificial Intelligence, chips, and robots set the tone at CES 2026

8 Jan 2026

CES 2026 in Las Vegas put Artificial Intelligence at the center of nearly every major announcement, with chipmakers and robotics firms using the show to preview their next wave of platforms and humanoid systems. Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Google, Samsung, Hyundai, and Boston Dynamics all leaned on Artificial Intelligence to anchor their product strategies.

artificial intelligence, consumer tech, robotics, semiconductors

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Inside the UK’s artificial intelligence security institute

8 Jan 2026

The UK's artificial intelligence security institute has found that popular frontier models can be jailbroken at scale, exposing reliability gaps and security risks for governments and regulated industries that rely on trusted vendors.

artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, enterprise risk, policy and regulation

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Courts, companies and regulators confront artificial intelligence in a wave of new legal disputes

8 Jan 2026

Recent Mealey’s coverage highlights a surge of lawsuits, sanctions and policy moves as courts, litigants and regulators grapple with artificial intelligence tools, chatbot harms and copyright fights across the United States.

artificial intelligence, copyright, courts, regulation

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Siemens debuts digital twin composer for industrial metaverse deployments

8 Jan 2026

Siemens has introduced digital twin composer, a software tool that builds industrial metaverse environments at scale by merging comprehensive digital twins with real-time physical data, enabling faster virtual decision making. Early deployments with PepsiCo report higher throughput, shorter design cycles and reduced capital expenditure through physics-accurate simulations and artificial intelligence driven optimization.

artificial intelligence, automation, digital twin, industrial software, manufacturing

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Google backs Emergent to bring autonomous artificial intelligence software building to non coders

8 Jan 2026

Google has invested in Emergent, a San Francisco start-up that uses autonomous artificial intelligence agents to let non-technical users create production-ready software, while gaining early access to Google’s Gemini 3 model and expertise. Emergent reports rapid adoption and positions its platform as a structural shift in who can build and benefit from software.

artificial intelligence, google, software development, startups

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Cadence builds chiplet partner ecosystem for physical artificial intelligence and data center designs

8 Jan 2026

Cadence has introduced a Chiplet Spec-to-Packaged Parts ecosystem aimed at simplifying chiplet design for physical artificial intelligence, data center and high performance computing workloads, backed by a roster of intellectual property and foundry partners. The program centers on a physical artificial intelligence chiplet platform and framework that integrates prevalidated components to cut risk and speed commercial deployment.

artificial intelligence, data center, high performance computing, semiconductors

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Patch notes detail split compute and IO tiles in Intel Diamond Rapids Xeon 7

8 Jan 2026

Linux kernel patch notes reveal that Intel's upcoming Diamond Rapids Xeon 7 server processors separate compute and IO tiles and adopt new performance monitoring and PCIe 6.0 support. The changes point to a more modular architecture and a streamlined product stack focused on 16-channel memory configurations.

cpus, data center, hardware, intel

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Nvidia pushes 4K artificial intelligence video creation on PCs with RTX upgrades

8 Jan 2026

Nvidia is rolling out new artificial intelligence features for GeForce RTX, RTX Pro and DGX Spark hardware to accelerate 4K video generation and on device model deployment as small language models on PCs rapidly improve.

artificial intelligence, developer tools, nvidia, pc hardware