Nikhil Pahwa
Founder, Editor and Publisher at Medianama
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2 weeks ago |
harro.com | Nikhil Pahwa
Everything is fine until companies collapse: vendors remain unpaid, customers don’t get deliveries or can’t access services. Users of BlueSmart, an EV cab service, have reported that the money they loaded into the app’s wallet is now stuck. They can’t use it outside the app, and they can’t withdraw it.
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1 month ago |
medianama.com | Nikhil Pahwa
You remember that old saying that “if something is available for free, you’re the product”? In the age of AI, even if you’re paying for something, you’re still the product. A few weeks ago, I got a cheerful but worrying email from an AI app on behalf of a great preschool that my child was about to join.
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1 month ago |
harro.com | Nikhil Pahwa
You remember that old saying that “if something is available for free, you’re the product”? In the age of AI, even if you’re paying for something, you’re still the product. A few weeks ago, I got a cheerful but worrying email from an AI app on behalf of a great preschool that my child was about to join.
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2 months ago |
medianama.com | Nikhil Pahwa
“When we come to semiconductors, AI, etc., we are going to see a very strong national security filter. Obviously those more powerful will be able to sort of influence the nature of the relationships more effectively,” S. Jaishankar, India’s Minister for External Affairs said in a fireside chat with Dr. Kyung-wha Kang, President and CEO of Asia Society, last week in New Delhi.
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2 months ago |
medianama.com | Nikhil Pahwa
Firstly, while the Indian government can set up a portal to enable its authorised agencies to send takedown requests to intermediaries, nothing in the law mandates that an intermediary join the Sahyog portal. X is thus well within its rights to refuse to join Sahyog. Let’s not forget that there are millions of intermediaries on the Internet, and if the government is asking some specific entities to join, it has to have a rational and legal basis for it. It can’t be as ad hoc as this appears to be.
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