Dominance

Union Minister of State Rajeev Chandrasekhar while speaking at the DNPA Conclave & Awards 2024 event spoke at length about the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) and how ad tech monopolies are the biggest concern for digital media. The Union Minister of State also highlighted how India's technology growth has been “spectacular” and how the emergence of AI tools has been beneficial but is also affecting the media ecosystem in India. During his talk, the minister also highlighted the upcoming benefits to be…

In a sense, the 2023 Grammys simply told audiences what they already knew. There wasn’t much in the way of surprises, unless you count Killer Mike’s evening: even before he departed the Crytpto.com arena in handcuffs following an alleged battery incident, he had won three awards, no mean feat for a politically driven rapper knocking on 50 years old. André 3000, guest artist on Killer Mike’s best rap performance-winning track Scientists & Engineers, recently fretted: “I’m 48 years old. Not to say that age is a thing…

Vipasha Malhotra’s digital clout is a case study. The singer-songwriter gained fame through her Instagram Reels during the pandemic, amassing a following of 175,000 on the Meta-owned platform till now. What’s unusual is that the 20-something musician has fetched three times as many subscribers on YouTube in much less time.Typically, content creators, who start on Instagram, struggle to attain a similar following when they move to YouTube. “All I did was cross-post my 15-second clips for Instagram as YouTube Shorts,” says…

Mahindra is one of the most popular SUV manufacturers in India. While the manufacturer has a variety of SUVs in its lineup, one of the models that made Mahindra extremely popular as a modern SUV maker was the Scorpio. The SUV was first introduced back in 2002; since then, it has become a well-known name in the Indian automotive world. Even after two decades since its launch, the popularity of the SUV doesn’t seem to wane. Mahindra even launched the all-new Scorpio N in the market and retained the original Scorpio,…

Major technology companies pouring money into artificial intelligence could come to dominate the emerging technology, Aleph Alpha GmbH Chief Executive Officer Jonas Andrulis said.  He criticized the European Union's AI Act, one of the first major pieces of legislation to regulate the technology, which Andrulis said risks diverting founders' energy away from innovation and into compliance.   “We need a somewhat fair environment,” he said in an interview on Bloomberg TV on Wednesday. “And this is difficult because the big…

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found evidence of female-biased and equal power structures in primates, challenging the traditional view of universal male dominance. Credit: SciTechDaily.comA groundbreaking study reveals that female-biased and equal power structures are common in primates, contradicting the assumption of widespread male dominance and highlighting the significance of female roles in primate societies.Male dominance has long been assumed to be nearly universal in primates, with female…

In a strategic move to regain its standing as the world's leading smartphone maker, Samsung is placing a substantial bet on artificial intelligence…

Jan. 10, 2024 11:00 pm ETTOKYO—China’s near-monopoly on the solar-energy market has prompted the U.S. and allies to step up the search for workarounds. Engineers believe they have found one in a type of solar cell that looks and feels like camera film.Japan is pushing the technology with subsidies and other support, a sign of how renewable energy, alongside other high-tech fields such as semiconductors, has become a geopolitical football.Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

The Biden administration needs to take stronger action to stem China’s growing dominance in making older-generation microchips that are essential across several U.S. industries, according to the bipartisan leaders of a House of Representatives panel.The lawmakers’ call for new efforts, including potential tariffs, is intended to counteract an overreliance on China for less-advanced chips, according to a letter seen by The Wall Street Journal. Republican Mike Gallagherof Wisconsin, chairman of the House Select Committee…

At the end of 2022, like many, I made some predictions about what 2023 would bring to the technology investing ecosystem. Namely, the Fed would tame inflation, and the fundraising market would thaw, but overall, claiming that 2023 would be the first year of a “new normal” era for the markets and that machine learning would permeate most of the workflow software operators use today. Fast-forward a year later, and we’re entering our second year of the post-pandemic economy. The state of venture capital investing and…