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arun padmanabhan
Arun Padmanabhan

Arun Padmanabhan

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Arun.Padmanabhan@aajtak.com

 I’m a tech and startup journalist who’s been in the media industry for over 13 years. I write about artificial intelligence, data centres and cloud infrastructure and follow how India’s technology ecosystem is evolving as AI becomes more mainstream.

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Hareesh Chandrasekar, CEO and co-founder of AGNIT Semiconductors.

AGNIT says multiple defence chip pilots could enter volume production over the next year

by Arun Padmanabhan |Jun 25, 2026

The Bengaluru-based gallium nitride semiconductor startup expects customer trials in radar, drone jammers and communication systems to drive demand, but the production ramp up will depend on defence p...

Sarvam has released two flagship models in recent months, both trained from scratch in India.

Sarvam AI becomes unicorn with $234 million funding; HCLTech leads with $150 million

by Arun Padmanabhan |Jun 15, 2026

The fresh capital will go toward training Sarvam's next frontier model, with a focus on agentic, coding, and cybersecurity use cases, and toward expanding compute access to scale its forward-deployed ...

Shashwath TR, cofounder and CEO of Mindgrove Technologies

‘India’s biggest challenge isn’t talent. It’s the service mindset,’ says Mindgrove CEO Shashwath TR

by Arun Padmanabhan |Jun 15, 2026

India has long been strong in semiconductor design services, but has had fewer companies that own products and intellectual property. Shashwath said this needs to change if India wants to build global...

Anthropic said its strategy with Fable 5 was based on “defense in depth,” aimed at making jailbreaks either narrow or expensive to produce, while combining safeguards with monitoring to detect and shut down attacks.

US tells Anthropic to suspend Fable 5, Mythos 5 access for foreign nationals

by Arun Padmanabhan |Jun 13, 2026

In a statement, Anthropic said the directive was issued under national security authorities and applied to foreign nationals “whether inside or outside the United States.” The company said access to i...

"India's AI opportunity will not be defined only by the largest models. It will also be defined by the most efficient models," said Sravanth Aluru, CEO and co-founder of Avataar.

Peak XV-backed Avataar launches indigenous video model Varya, bets on low-cost AI video generation

by Arun Padmanabhan |Jun 12, 2026

Varya can generate video at a cost of about Rs 0.48 per second, making it up to 10 times more efficient than several leading global video models based on its internal benchmarks.

Exponent Energy founder and chief executive Arun Vinayak.

Exponent Energy bags Rs 200 crore funding as it pivots from charging startup to energy company

by Arun Padmanabhan |Jun 10, 2026

In an interview with Business Today, Vinayak said the company is transitioning from being an energy technology startup focused on R&D to a full-fledged energy company focused on scale.

Gilroy Mathew, chief operating officer of AI and technology solutions company UST.

India’s semiconductor moment is bigger than outsourcing: UST COO Gilroy Mathew

by Arun Padmanabhan |Jun 4, 2026

As countries race to secure semiconductor supply chains, UST's Gilroy Mathew says India's biggest opportunity lies in chip design, packaging and systems engineering, but warns against becoming trapped...

PhysicsWallah co-founder Prateek Maheshwari

Why PhysicsWallah believes it can beat OpenAI, Google in India's AI tutor race

by Arun Padmanabhan |Jun 1, 2026

As AI giants chase education, PhysicsWallah says its student data, distribution reach and test-prep expertise give it an edge. The edtech firm is betting that conversational AI tutors, not recorded vi...

Beyond citizen services, Meta and the Gujarat government are also exploring AI-powered wearables and skilling programmes.

Gujarat govt taps Meta for AI-led governance push, digital citizen services on WhatsApp

by Arun Padmanabhan |May 26, 2026

The two-year collaboration will focus on launching a conversational chatbot under Gujarat’s ‘Sugam Digital’ initiative. The chatbot, available in Gujarati and English, will allow citizens to access go...

The Pope's comments comes at a time when governments and companies worldwide are racing to deploy AI systems across workplaces, healthcare, education, finance and defence.

Pope Leo XIV warns AI could deepen inequality, erase human dignity if left unchecked

by Arun Padmanabhan |May 25, 2026

In his first major encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV described AI not just as a technology issue, but as a major moral and social challenge for humanity.