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A court is investigating whether a new Indian library was filled with AI-written books
A novelist noticed odd authors, odd prices and odd ISBNs on the Tamil shelves of a brand-new library. A court has now frozen a publisher’s…
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He burned a goat, generated a photograph of his own cremation, and got a real death certificate — the murder trial stopped for eighteen months
The generated image was the cheap part. What makes this a technology story is that a municipal records process accepted photographs as…
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An Indian cartoonist vanished from Instagram inside his own country, twice in three weeks, with no explanation
Political satire has moved online in India, and so has the machinery for restricting it. The cartoonists get no reason, no notice and no…
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A barber in Bengaluru wears a camera for six hours a day so a robot can learn to hold a razor
Physical AI cannot be trained on scraped text. It needs footage of human hands doing real work with the right amount of force — and that…
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The US froze the green-card route at eight big tech firms — and the Indian engineers’ standard career script just broke
A degree, a tech services job, a US posting, visa renewals, then permanent residency. That sequence has been the plan for a generation of…
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India used to call it “dog fruit”. Then a Bollywood star mentioned it and prices doubled overnight
Fifteen years ago ripe avocados fell off Indian trees and were eaten by dogs. A grower in Kerala who planted them only as shade for coffee…