The new frontiers of AI - by Ashwini Vaishnaw

In the new AI era, context or local team knowledge is the real raw material. Multi player AI will be the colleague that helps everyone move faster with fewer mistakes made

With AI embedded across planning, production and quality, auto companies are making intelligent manufacturing the foundation of industrial resilience

India needs huge investments in frontier technologies to be globally competitive. Building our own digital infrastructure is key or we risk dependence on global powers

From credit scores to trading floors, AI is becoming the central actor in an automated economy. This is also altering the foundations of trust, risk and behaviour

AI will be a force multiplier in shaping real clinical outcomes and transforming how healthcare reaches the underserved while forcing hard questions on regulation

As AI changes the character of warfare, one must remember that it is about surviving and winning tomorrow's wars without losing our souls, countering non-state actors and security threats peculiar to India

With AI tools being tested in classrooms around India, solid standards and policy responses are critical to advance learning and teaching outcomes

India is celebrating an AI gold rush for efficiency and growth, but this AI is fed by a rapidly expanding surveillance economy

Generative AI is neither an apocalypse for Indian elections, nor 'just noise' to counter it. We must strengthen our institutional capacity and social norms

Big tech presents its AI products as inevitable, and dismisses regulation as anti-innovation and anti-free trade, with the result that India gets global regulatory frameworks unsuited to its people

The nationalised global AI race and market forces have weakened the impulse to regulate the technology. India's techno-legal approach to it falls noticeably short too

Moving past English-first systems, India is creating multilingual, context-aware AI to assist, protect and empower communities

AI may perfect form and style but it lacks the social interactivity between the artist and his experience that gives art its ethical and emotional heft

The fear that AI will replace storytellers is real, but mostly it will reveal who really has something to say, and who is relying on style passed off as substance

An exhibition at Gurugram’s Heritage Transport Museum traces how hand-drawn posters shaped India’s travel imagination

BLR Hubba, a 10-day cultural extravaganza, is all set to sweep Bengaluru

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Filmmaker Gurinder Chadha on 'Christmas Karma', a multicultural adaptation of Dickens’s 'A Christmas Carol'

Biophilia, says Amit Aurora, is becoming deeply integrated into architecture, beyond just adding houseplants in 2026

Does modern life demand multi-functional rooms? Rajiv Parekh, Ekta Parekh and Maithili Raut explore defined, adaptable multi-zone spaces

If 2025 saw us appreciate craftsmanship, this year will see interiors celebrate it, says Vivek Sahni as he maps the renewed movement for all things beautiful and traditional

From material-led works to younger collectors, Jaya Asokan guides us through the changing landscape on the canvas and beyond

Can your house anticipate your needs? Muskan Salgia highlights how smart home technology is becoming less visible and more intuitive this year

The straight and narrow, are no longer the most wanted in design. India Today Home finds out that curved forms continue to rule decor, furniture and objects

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Throwing convection out of its beautifully structured windows, Objectry’s new store in Delhi is more than a visual delight

From Manhattan to the middle of the desert, the radical career pivot of Diana Kellogg stands as a shining exemplar of purpose-driven design

The man behind one of the world’s most iconic Italian luxury design brands shares his journey and vision

For little ones their room is their entire kingdom, where they want furniture that fits their big personalities and style

A Chennai-based designer’s foray into furniture looks towards nature’s playful, unique and graceful facets to craft a tale of simple sophistication

A holiday home in Goa for an NRI family, once written off by many, has transformed into a delightful space with the right mix of colour, craft and creativity

This apartment for a family of four in Chennai required weaving together vibrant personalities into a one, harmonious whole

Forget minimalist glass boxes and the ‘grey-on-beige’ fatigue of modern suburbia, here’s a 5,000 sq ft sanctuary in Kolkata that isn’t afraid to explore wood’s potential

This one’s a lesson in effortless, layered luxury that stands out