GDP measurements: Undercounting services & quality in favour of goods & quantity needs a fixCurrent GDP measurements, primarily designed for goods, inadequately capture the value of services, which now dominate economies like the U...
26 Aug, 2025, 11.09 PM IST
AI may not steal many jobs after all. It may just make workers more efficientAt its core, artificial intelligence empowers machines to perform tasks previously thought to require human intelligence. The technology ha...
02 Sep, 2024, 04.19 PM IST
AI may not steal many jobs after all. It may just make workers more efficientFundamentally, artificial intelligence is the ability of machines to carry out tasks that were previously believed to require human intelli...
02 Sep, 2024, 02.11 PM IST
All's not lost! AI can complement human labour rather than replacing it, feel optimistsArtificial intelligence (AI) can complement human labor instead of replacing it, as it can be used to increase productivity and offer exper...
31 May, 2023, 05.52 PM IST
Chatbot startup Character AI valued at $1 billion in new funding roundCharacter.AI is among a tiny group of small companies - along with the tech industry's giants - that are building technology that could one...
24 Mar, 2023, 10.17 AM IST
The chatbots are here, and the internet industry is in a tizzyChatbots have ignited a scramble to determine whether their technology could upend the economics of the internet, turn today's powerhouses ...
09 Mar, 2023, 01.26 PM IST
The Alluring Twenties: What would it take to replicate the 1920s?While the decade presents a hope of prosperity, it also brings a multitude of threats. The way in which the scales tip will define not just...
06 Jun, 2021, 11.27 PM IST
The Nomad Generation and the Future of Work14 Dec, 2020, 02.25 PM IST
At this farm, the boss is an AI-powered algorithmBowery is part of an emerging industry promising to bring new efficiencies to the millennia-old science of agriculture, focusing for now on...
21 Sep, 2018, 09.13 AM IST
This missing piece may foil hopes for faster US growthPowell, in his speech, noted that investment is only one of three broad inputs to productivity growth.
11 Apr, 2018, 10.27 AM IST
What's wrong with Bill Gates' idea of taxing robotsBill Gates is only one of many people in the tech world who have worried about automation and its threat to workers.
01 Mar, 2017, 10.42 AM IST
What I read this week: A digital payment infra for India and if China is nearing a debt crisisChina has relied on mindless monetary stimulus since 2008 to muscle its way to continued output production. China’s GDP growth has, thus, s...
12 Nov, 2016, 04.24 PM IST
A question that haunts the US middle class: What happens when the robots come for their jobs?The Middle Class Easing this maladjustment for the middle class is likely to become one of the central public-policy challenges of our time.
14 May, 2015, 02.37 AM IST
- Paradigm shifting
15-20 years ago, around the time we date the beginning of the second machine age, wealth and productivity have grown, but median income and...
28 Jan, 2014, 04.14 AM IST
- Central banks are watching your Google searches to spot the trend
Analysing key search words help gauge consumer demand and economic trends.
03 Aug, 2012, 09.31 AM IST
- Cognizant signs agreement with MIT Centre
IT company Cognizant on Tuesday said it has signed a three year agreement with MIT Centre for Digital Business to fund research on new tech...
07 Jun, 2011, 05.49 PM IST