artificial-intelligence
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Is AI The New Scapegoat For Tech Layoffs?
AI’s rising influence is scrutinized amid significant layoffs at Amazon and Meta, attributed to cultural issues rather than solely technology. While AI adoption generates anxiety, it’s often a cover for restructuring beyond just workforce reduction. Experts predict a productivity boost from AI, emphasizing the need for workforce upskilling to adapt effectively to evolving demands. Continue reading
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Roadmap To Bridge India’s AI Innovation Gap
India produces a staggering 1.5 million engineering graduates annually and has a thriving tech ecosystem. Yet, we haven’t been able to create a homegrown ChatGPT or DeepSeek. What’s holding us back is a lack of innovation and breakthroughs, which dampen our chances of leading the AI race. Here’s what we must do to gain ground… Continue reading
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How To Upskill India’s Blue-Collar Workforce
We talked in our earlier post about the blue collar paradox. Today I did like to share some thoughts on how to go about looking at this problem space and possible approaches to upskill. Upskilling India’s blue collar workers presents a challenge as well as an opportunity. We explored the reason behind the lag in… Continue reading
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Do We Need An AI-Generated Minister To Fight Corruption?
The appointment of Diella, the world’s first AI-generated minister in Albania, aims to promote transparency and reduce corruption in public spending ahead of EU accession. While AI can enhance efficiency, ethical concerns remain regarding bias and data accuracy. Effective oversight and citizen involvement are essential for AI’s success in governance. Continue reading
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Enhancing Digital Interactions with Natural Language
NLWeb is an innovative layer of the web that enhances natural language interactions with digital content and commerce, redefining website structures for AI assistants. It integrates deep product ontologies and optimized JSON-LD feeds to improve searchability and user experience through conversational queries, targeted at voice commerce and LLM-driven support. Continue reading
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Unlock Data Insights with MindsDB AI Automation
MindsDB is an AI data automation platform designed to address challenges companies face with data sprawl and integration. It enables seamless access and analysis of structured and unstructured data through natural language and SQL. With capabilities in AI search, analytics, and agents, MindsDB enhances enterprise efficiency and offers governance. As an open-source solution, it supports… Continue reading
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Securely Connect Confluence with External AI Tools
Atlassian explores AI integration in Confluence through diverse methods, including its native AI, Rovo, and external tools via the Remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. These approaches emphasize data security and workflow improvements, allowing seamless communication and operational efficiency while fostering community innovation through open-source projects and trusted partnerships. Continue reading
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The Importance of MCP for Smarter AI Solutions
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an innovative open standard designed to enhance AI capabilities by enabling communication between AI models and various data sources securely and intelligently. Current AI tools often lack access to real-time information, but MCP acts as a universal translator, allowing AI to engage with files, databases, and APIs more effectively.… Continue reading
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Foster AI innovation and research in India
India needs to implement significant systemic changes in education, funding, and research methodologies to enhance AI innovation. Key issues include low investment in R&D, talent retention challenges, the need for IT innovation, educational reforms, and increased GPU capacity. Addressing the “Jugaad” mentality and fostering private sector involvement are also essential. Continue reading
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How AI will transform the e-commerce business
I was part of the panel discussion on “How AI will transform the e-commerce business” . This panel discussion was moderated by Professor Paurav Shukla , Professor of Marketing at University of South Hampton. The panel consisted of Saurabh Gupta , CTO FroGro . Amit Shrivastava , Head AI Fujitsu. Continue reading
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Over 24 years of experience developing software to support multi-million dollar revenue scale and leading global engineering teams. Hands-on leadership in building and mentoring software engineering teams. I love History as a subject and also run regularly long distances to keep myself functional.
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