Nitin Sisupalan

1 week ago | theweek.in | Nitin Sisupalan

For any millennial gamer worth their salt, Capcom’s Devil May Cry game franchise holds a special place in their hearts. Devil May Cry games were the staple of every 2000s gaming board, with each game kicking it up a notch. To adapt such revered source material to an animated series is a feat, and Netflix seems to have found the right balance between pandering to the horde of gamers who grew up on Devil May Cry to the new kids who love their anime-like OTT adaptations.

1 week ago | theweek.in | Nitin Sisupalan

Academy Award winner Viola Davis is always a treat to watch. So when Davis, known for her performances in Doubt, The Help, Fences, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and The Woman King, produces a movie starring herself as an action star, my hopes hit an all-time high. And it is, for the most part. G20 is intelligently conceptualised. It takes the premise from world politics, and sets most of the story in South Africa. The cast is diverse, and international.

1 week ago | theweek.in | Nitin Sisupalan

A month ago, about 100 Ambassadors and High Commissioners posted in India joined Union Minister for External Affairs Dr. S. Jaishankar, Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Railways, and Electronics & IT Ashwini Vaishnaw, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, and Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting Dr. L. Murugan at Sushma Swaraj Bhawan in New Delhi. This high-level meet was not one of foreign policy—it was about the gaming and animation industries in India.

3 weeks ago | theweek.in | Nitin Sisupalan

Metaphorically speaking, AI tools like DALLE-E (and ChatGPT) make people feel “almost like God”. “All someone has to do is to state a prompt.” This was what Dr Eduardo Navas, who researched AI models at the Pennsylvania State University in the US said, back in 2023. Fast forward to 2025, and AI is more powerful than ever.

3 weeks ago | theweek.in | Nitin Sisupalan

It’s a crazy time on social media. Over the week, thanks to ChatGPT, AI-generated “Ghibli-fied” images flooded the internet after OpenAI sampled from the Japanese animation studio allegedly without consent. Now, Elon Musk’s own artificial intelligence company xAI bought social media platform X, formerly Twitter, for $33 billion in an all-stock deal. A social media platform like X, which contains historic data in tweets spanning the past two decades, is a treasure trove for xAI to work on.