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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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Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu

Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu, creator of WhatsApp rival Arattai, takes aim at Meta’s privacy promises

by Arun Padmanabhan |Jan 27, 2026

“As a general principle, when you rely on ads based on user habits, privacy can never be the first priority,” Vembu wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter). 

Sunil Gupta, Co-Founder, CEO & Managing Director of Yotta Data Services

Budget 2026 must scale IndiaAI Mission to keep pace with surging AI compute demand: Yotta CEO Sunil Gupta

by Arun Padmanabhan |Jan 27, 2026

“Over the next five years, India’s roadmap must focus on three pillars: sovereign compute at scale, affordable power and creating deep talent and research ecosystems to emerge as a global AI hub,” the...

Users can also give Clawdbot access to services such as ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, allowing it to use large language models to reason and complete tasks.

Meet Clawdbot, the open-source AI assistant taking over social media feeds

by Arun Padmanabhan |Jan 27, 2026

Clawdbot is designed to act on a user’s behalf. It belongs to a category known as “agentic AI”, systems that can take actions automatically instead of only responding to questions.

MoSPI Secretary Saurabh Garg

India’s AI future depends on fixing data, not just building models: MoSPI Secretary Saurabh Garg

by Arun Padmanabhan |Jan 22, 2026

“AI readiness is not fundamentally a model problem. It is a data and metadata issue,” Garg said.

Rajesh Nambiar, President, NASSCOM

AI is now a foundation of governance and growth, says Nasscom’s Rajesh Nambiar

by Arun Padmanabhan |Jan 22, 2026

Nasscom’s Rajesh Nambiar said AI systems are already being deployed in real markets, real countries and real democracies, far beyond research labs and pilot projects.

Yann LeCun

Yann LeCun joins Logical Intelligence as founding chair of research board for energy-based AI reasoning

by Arun Padmanabhan |Jan 22, 2026

Yann LeCun left Meta late last year to launch his own startup, Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, focused on building “world models” that can understand and navigate the physical environment.

The document, called Claude’s Constitution, lays out the values and behavioural principles governing Anthropic’s flagship AI assistant, which competes with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.

AI could be one of the most dangerous technologies in history: Anthropic in Claude’s Constitution

by Arun Padmanabhan |Jan 22, 2026

“We believe that AI might be one of the most world-altering and potentially dangerous technologies in human history, yet we are developing this very technology ourselves,” Anthropic said in Claude’s C...

Vasu Sharma

Pocket FM taps former Meta AI scientist Vasu Sharma to lead AI push

by Arun Padmanabhan |Jan 21, 2026

Sharma will lead Pocket FM’s AI research, foundation-model development and applied innovation across storytelling, content production and localisation. He will report to co-founder Prateek Dixit.

Deepinder Goyal

Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal steps down as Group CEO, names Blinkit’s Albinder Dhindsa as successor

by Arun Padmanabhan |Jan 21, 2026

Goyal will remain on the company’s board as Vice Chairman, subject to shareholder approval, according to a letter sent to shareholders on 21 January.

Deepinder Goyal said his financial future remains closely tied to the company and aligned with long-term shareholder value creation.

Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal to return unvested ESOPs as he steps down as CEO

by Arun Padmanabhan |Jan 21, 2026

In a letter to shareholders on 21 January, Goyal said the move is aimed at strengthening long-term leadership retention while avoiding additional shareholder dilution.