Incidents in Australia, Singapore, and Bengaluru show how AI errors reach the public, and why India needs auditable systems with a way to appeal.

Elon Musk calls Mukesh Ambani a monopolist; Ambani’s Jio warns of foreign control. Meanwhile, 12,347 villages continue to be unconnected, and rural internet penetration lags far behind cities.

The state is using technology to tighten its grip. Citizens who want to hold it to account should digitise faster.

The doomsday scenario painted by some AI industry insiders cannot be brushed off. But is it also a ploy by the tech behemoths to shut the door on smaller players, secure profits, and establish dominance?

A discussion paper from the Principal Scientific Adviser proposes a middle path for AI data flows: keep strategic data in India, while allowing other data to cross borders under safeguards tailored to its sensitivity and identifiability.

Francis Halzen turned Antarctic ice into a neutrino telescope and finally traced cosmic rays to their sources; Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai figured out why life prefers left-handed molecules, and how to make chemistry do the same.

Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel, and Karl Deisseroth’s work on optogenetics has given scientists a precise way to activate selected neurons and study their role in memory, behaviour, and neurological disorders.

Direct reporting to the cybercrime portal could speed up urgent cases, but its impact will depend on the quality of the information, investigators’ capacity and safeguards for users’ privacy.

The European Commission proposes a minimum age of 15 for autonomous social media accounts and wants platforms to redesign features that encourage compulsive use. India has lessons to draw.

With the country’s election machinery already raising questions about human judgment, perhaps we should see what happens when we hand the job to a machine.