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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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Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu laid the foundation stone for the project in the state capital Amaravati, describing it as a bid to position the region as a global destination for quantum research, talent and applications.

Andhra Pradesh launches Amaravati Quantum Valley in push to become global quantum hub

by Arun Padmanabhan |Feb 7, 2026

The Amaravati Quantum Valley (AQV) is planned as India’s first integrated quantum ecosystem, combining quantum computing hardware, software development, algorithm design and workforce training within ...

The releases underscore a broader industry pivot from AI as a conversational assistant to AI as a delegated workforce.

Anthropic and OpenAI push ‘Agentic’ AI into the workplace, forcing enterprises to rethink how work gets done

by Arun Padmanabhan |Feb 6, 2026

The push comes as enterprises worldwide rethink how software is built and how office tasks are performed, with developers increasingly acting as supervisors to multiple AI workers rather than writing ...

Debjani Ghosh, Fellow at NITI Aayog and former president of NASSCOM.

India must put skills at heart of AI push, failure not an option: Debjani Ghosh

by Arun Padmanabhan |Feb 5, 2026

Debjani Ghosh said micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) must lead India’s AI-driven transformation, describing the sector as both the country’s main employment engine and its “mobility ladder.”

MeitY's Abhishek Singh

Indian IT firms must build its own coding agents to stay competitive in AI era: MeitY's Abhishek Singh

by Arun Padmanabhan |Feb 5, 2026

Speaking at a CII conclave, IndiaAI Mission CEO flags risks of relying on foreign AI tools and outlines India’s agentic AI ambitions.

Abhishek Singh, Additional Secretary at Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and chief executive of the IndiaAI Mission

India could become the world’s AI inferencing capital as $20 bots challenge entry-level engineers, says Abhishek Singh

by Arun Padmanabhan |Feb 5, 2026

As $20 AI bots challenge entry-level engineers, India bets on inference and agentic AI to protect its $250-billion IT industry

Anthropic says it will test ads in its free offering and is rolling out an $8-a-month “Go” plan with expanded features

BREAKING: Anthropic says Claude will stay ad-free, rejecting sponsored responses in AI chats

by Arun Padmanabhan |Feb 4, 2026

“There are many good places for advertising. A conversation with Claude is not one of them,” the company said, adding that ads would be “incompatible with what we want Claude to be: a genuinely helpfu...

Aditya Agarwal previously held senior engineering roles at Dropbox and Meta, and also served as a director at Flipkart. (Source: adityaag/X)

"We will never write code by hand again,” says former Meta engineer Aditya Agarwal as AI fuels market jitters

by Arun Padmanabhan |Feb 4, 2026

“It’s a weird time. I am filled with wonder and also a profound sadness,” Agarwal wrote. “I spent a lot of time over the weekend writing code with Claude. And it was very clear that we will never ever...

Moltbook has drawn global attention in recent days as a preview of a possible “agent internet,” where autonomous software systems interact with each other.

Moltbook left its production database open, exposing millions of AI agent records

by Arun Padmanabhan |Feb 4, 2026

The exposure allowed full read-and-write access to the production database, including about 1.5 million API authentication tokens, more than 35,000 email addresses and private messages between agents

Today’s agents mostly use simple trial-and-error or reactive approaches, trying different paths until something works, rather than deeper reasoning strategies, the study says.

AI agent tools aren’t ready for the real world yet, new study finds

by Arun Padmanabhan |Feb 3, 2026

The authors argue that today’s agentic AI platforms are closer to experimental infrastructure than finished products.

Sarvam Dub

Sarvam takes on ElevenLabs with AI dubbing push for Indian languages

by Arun Padmanabhan |Feb 2, 2026

The company introduced Sarvam Dub on February 1, an artificial intelligence system designed to preserve a speaker’s voice while translating audio into multiple languages, with built-in controls to mat...