How Gradient-Boosting is Quietly Powering India’s Research Push
From groundwater and slopes to carbon sinks, tools like CatBoost are enabling Indian scientists to extract insights and drive sustainability.
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From groundwater and slopes to carbon sinks, tools like CatBoost are enabling Indian scientists to extract insights and drive sustainability.

With capacity expected to more than double this decade, the industry is investing in training as graduates struggle to meet real-world operational demands.

Arrcus positions itself as a horizontal software layer that can run across different types of networking hardware.
With CoreWeave’s listing and Fractal Analytics going for an IPO, an array of AI companies are now looking to raise funds through primary market.
Defenders must be active at all times, while attackers need only one opportunity.
Without compute buildup beyond metros, the next wave of digital adoption will be constrained
Land prices are among the highest in the country, but total build economics remain competitive by global standards.
A decentralised GPU marketplace may scale AI compute faster than traditional clouds, as GPU demand towers over supply
The company has launched an agentic AI platform for tax research that’s targeting something radical in a conservative profession.

India’s ambitious proposal for a single mandatory AI training licence faces feasibility, legal and innovation concerns.
“This isn’t a freeze. It’s a filter… By 2026, the real signal will be resilience, not rhetoric.”
The first set of sovereign models is aimed at Indic languages and national datasets. Their value lies in cultural nuance.
“Working code doesn’t equal learned skill. It’s like using a calculator to ‘learn’ math.”

Indian tech and biotech leaders warn the country risks falling behind.
Oracle focuses on depth, governance, and domain specificity rather than competing for the largest inventory of general-purpose agents.
ESDS CTO explains how despite the Gen AI hype, human judgement in requirement gathering and architectural design remains critical.
While OpenAI models run customer-facing support, CRED has tapped into Anthropic’s Claude to strengthen its internal processes.
Expert Committee sides with creator remuneration, rejecting opt-out nudge from industry groups pushing unrestricted text and data mining access.
AI could connect the dots between emissions, traffic and weather.
As India pushes AI into K–12 education, children’s data, emotional well-being and digital rights are being left dangerously unprotected.
Starlink joins Jio Satellite and OneWeb in the licensed satcom ecosystem

“Our role is to work with startups to focus on genuine AI solutions that tackle India’s population-scale challenges.”

More than a year after the launch of the IndiaAI mission, experts don’t see any real impact.
“Learners are rarely exposed to enterprise systems and certificates are frequently prioritised over practical problem-solving skills.”
Sridhar Vembu of Zoho states the company is experiencing over 50% customer growth despite the success of vibe-coded apps within the ecosystem.
‘Our open-source AI tool that detects early signs of infant cerebral palsy with more than 90% accuracy.’
“The future of consulting is going to be a hybrid of people plus software.”
Shiprocket’s AI-first strategy gives D2C brands a user-friendly, modular platform to scale.
The app asks for permissions to handle calls, SMS, access call logs, photos and files, and use the camera for IMEI scans.
The IntelliMate platform, focal across AIONOS deployments, records every agent action, decision and data source.