Ankush Das

Southern Asia

Senior Technology Journalist at Analytics India Magazine

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Articles

IPL 2025 weather update: Ahmedabad weather report for June 1 for PBKS vs MI Qualifier 2 match

6 days ago | sportskeeda.com | Ankush Das

The Qualifier 2 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 will see the Punjab Kings (PBKS) face the Mumbai Indians (MI) on Sunday, June 1, at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The winner of this match will play the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in Wednesday's final. PBKS finished at the top of the points table following the conclusion of the league phase. However, they suffered an eight-wicket, morale-shattering defeat to RCB in Qualifier 1.
How Google Is Helping AI Startups Scale in India

6 days ago | analyticsindiamag.com | Ankush Das

Tech giant Google has heavily invested in the Indian tech startup ecosystem, supporting them through its Google for Startups Accelerator program. In 2024, the company announced its plan to train 10,000 AI startups in India through a partnership with MeitY Startup Hub.
New Perplexity Labs Feature Turns Prompts into Reports, Apps, and More

1 week ago | analyticsindiamag.com | Ankush Das

The AI search engine startup Perplexity AI introduced “Labs,” a new feature that transforms user prompts into fully developed projects. The feature is available starting Friday for Pro subscribers on the web, iOS, and Android. Labs builds on the platform’s earlier capabilities, such as its fast-answer “Search” and in-depth “Deep Research” tools.
AI Beats 90% of Human Teams in a Hacking Competition

1 week ago | analyticsindiamag.com | Ankush Das

AI agents have outperformed the majority of human participants in two key cybersecurity contests hosted by Hack The Box. According to a research report by Palisade Research, AI teams were placed in the top 5% and top 10% in events that attracted a combined total of over 18,000 participants. In the ‘AI vs Humans’ Capture The Flag (CTF) competition, six AI teams competed against 400 mostly human teams over 48 hours.
How Cloudflare Is Turning the Web Into an AI Playground

1 week ago | analyticsindiamag.com | Ankush Das

Cloudflare aims to make tools accessible to developers of all levels for building AI applications and agents, much like what it achieved for web infrastructure. The company appears to be betting on a future where developers can create and deploy agents and AI applications as easily as setting up a Content Delivery Network (CDN), for which the company is well-known. For developers, this signifies a future in which creating an AI agent doesn’t necessitate a PhD or an exorbitant computing bill.
Anthropic’s Web Search Now Available to Free Claude Users

1 week ago | analyticsindiamag.com | Ankush Das

Anthropic has announced the availability of web search capability to all Claude users on its free plan, alongside the beta launch of its voice mode in its mobile apps. The announcement marks a fresh push to make Claude more interactive and context-aware, key factors in staying competitive in a crowded AI assistant market. The move comes shortly after the release of the Claude 4 model family, which includes Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4.
Coders Are Having Fun Again, and It’s AI’s Fault

1 week ago | analyticsindiamag.com | Ankush Das

In the early days of learning to code, programmers found joy in the challenge of figuring things out, getting things to work, and seeing ideas come to life on screen. Over time, that sense of satisfaction often gave way to frustration. Tooling became more complex, documentation more fragmented, and a growing share of time was spent wrestling with boilerplate, brittle systems, and obscure errors. Now, AI tools are quietly reversing that trend.
Coders Are Having Fun Again, and It’s AI’s Fault

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Ankush Das

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Capgemini, SAP, and Mistral AI Launch 50+ GenAI Use Cases for Regulated Industries

1 week ago | analyticsindiamag.com | Ankush Das

Capgemini has announced a three-way partnership with Mistral AI and SAP to deliver scalable generative AI solutions tailored for highly regulated industries such as finance, aerospace, and the public sector. The initiative aims to unlock AI-driven business value while maintaining strict data security and compliance standards. By combining Mistral AI’s multilingual models with SAP’s secure Business Technology Platform, Capgemini will offer over 50 pre-built AI use cases across sectors.
Claude Opus 4 Humbles Dev, Fixes 4-Year Bug in 30 Prompts

1 week ago | analyticsindiamag.com | Ankush Das

A Reddit post on r/ClaudeAI Subreddit on Monday saw an ex-FAANG staff engineer recount a professional moment rarely confessed in public—being humbled by Claude Opus 4. The C++ developer, with over 30 years of experience, revealed that Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 had cracked a bug that had eluded him for nearly four years, despite around 200 hours of intermittent debugging. The issue dates back to a large-scale architectural refactor involving roughly 60,000 lines of code.