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Heard of QuitGPT? The market for AI tools is better contested today, with users switching as mass models converge in capability. Specialized offerings have emerged too: AI agents like Anthropic's now threaten entire layers of legacy software and services.

India's new AI rules seem timed for a global summit on AI impact. While they aim to police deepfakes and other synthetic harms, what happens once the line between human and agentic speech blurs? And if platforms put compliance over free expression?

From false scarcity to hidden fees, digital platforms are engineered to extract maximum value. Here are the psychological weapons used against your wallet.

Elon Musk's Starlink rules the global satcom market, but Jeff Bezos wants to deploy his rocket company Blue Origin to compete with it. Amazon's Kuiper couldn't keep up. Let's hope Blue Origin does—for the sake of competition.

State-owned RailTel is exploring the use of Starlink's satellite internet services as backhaul to provide broadband access in remote areas through RailWire.

Australia expects to protect children with its social media ban that Meta has begun to comply with, but the internet rarely bends to rules. Social media is addictive—and that's one reason under-16s may seek workarounds, potentially leaving us clueless of the ban's efficacy.

Last week's Amazon Web Services outage took down all sorts of apps and websites, revealing how fragile the internet is. Its ‘address book' is centralized, but in a Web 3.0 world, that needn't be so. A more resilient approach beckons.

According to Parnil Urdhwareshe, director at Starlink Satellite Communications, the actual number of users Starlink can serve in metro Mumbai would be one-tenth of the number of users it can serve in the rural areas of a district.