Nandan Nilekani’s next push for India’s digital future
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.
War tech in Europe and a startup’s controversial plan to cool the planet
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.
Hybrid Web3 strategies for the artificial intelligence era
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.
Nvidia, amd and intel showcase new artificial intelligence chips at ces 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, chips, and robots set the tone at CES 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.
Inside the UK’s artificial intelligence security institute
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.
Courts, companies and regulators confront artificial intelligence in a wave of new legal disputes
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.
Siemens debuts digital twin composer for industrial metaverse deployments
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.
Google backs Emergent to bring autonomous artificial intelligence software building to non coders
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.
Cadence builds chiplet partner ecosystem for physical artificial intelligence and data center designs
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.