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Mint Explainer: Does Nvidia's $5-trillion feat raise the spectre of an AI winter?

New Delhi, Nov. 2 -- Chipmaker Nvidia, the biggest beneficiary of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, became the world's first company to hit a $5 trillion market cap this month. Analysts now proje... Read More


Mint Explainer | How AWS‑style cloud outages could hamper the AI march

New Delhi, Oct. 21 -- The global Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that knocked thousands of websites and apps offline, from the US to India, is a warning for companies that are rapidly scaling for the... Read More


Mint Explainer: Is it the end of prompt engineering as contextual AI takes the reins?

New Delhi, Oct. 7 -- The days of the once-coveted prompt engineer role appear to be numbered. In July 2023, Anthropic made headlines with a $300,000 offer for prompt engineers, while entry-level roles... Read More


Mint Explainer | AI agents take the wheel in the new browser wars-what it means for users

New Delhi, Oct. 3 -- "If you're so tech savvy, why are you still on Chrome?" asks a cheeky Perplexity AI ad. The battle over agentic artificial intelligence (AI) browsers-tools that can book meetings... Read More


Mint Explainer: Can Zoho's Arattai break the WhatsApp-Telegram duopoly in India?

New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- Sridhar Vembu's Zoho Corp. is back in the spotlight thanks to its messaging app Arattai, which it launched with little fanfare almost five years ago. Boosted by the government's... Read More


How the H-1B squeeze could make India an AI hub; Agentic AI completes a year

New Delhi, Sept. 26 -- Long seen as a symbol of India's global tech aspirations, the H-1B visa has become more than just an immigration story. With the US tightening rules, India faces the challenge o... Read More


Mint Explainer | Is OpenAI creating jobs or simply protecting its own?

New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- OpenAI, the company at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI), is launching a new jobs platform and certification programme. The move is a significant step that places it... Read More


Mint Explainer | Will Karnataka's AI city succeed where India's smart cities faltered?

New Delhi, Sept. 13 -- The Karnataka government is planning to develop the Greater Bengaluru Integrated Township (GBIT) on the outskirts of Bengaluru city, an ambitious project that revives memories o... Read More


Meet NxtQuantum's Madhav Sheth who is building the next gen of India-made smartphones

New Delhi, Aug. 31 -- Even a few minutes with Madhav Sheth, 45, founder and CEO of NxtQuantum Shift Technologies, is enough to see he's no archetypal tech entrepreneur. Spend longer, and the impressio... Read More


Mint Explainer | A web for machines, not humans: Decoding ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's next big move

New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- After his ouster from Twitter, now 'X', Parag Agrawal has launched a new company, Parallel Web Systems, that is attempting to create a "web for machines". He is betting on a web ... Read More