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A personalized chatbot based on a Large Language Model (LLM) can be your friend and shopping guide.

Watch out, AI and GenAI are transforming e-commerce from the ground up

3 min read . 10:00 AM IST

Nothing is impossible in a democracy. If Rajnarayan could defeat Indira Gandhi in 1977 and Smriti Irani could clean-bowl Rahul Gandhi in 2019, it is best not to say anything till the results are announced.

Loyalty that ends when polls are done and dusted

4 min read . 05 May 2024

The BJP has wisely balanced caste equations in the state. All its candidates intend to cross the river holding on to the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is the most popular leader here, too.

Is Bihar casting its vote or voting back its castes?

4 min read . 29 Apr 2024

Be super bullish on India, but cautiously optimistic on Indian stocks. This is a strategy with a high probability of success. But when you are thinking long-term wealth, the question to ask is, what if something were to go wrong? (Image: Pixabay)

India is booming. But you still need international exposure

5 min read . 27 Apr 2024

The retail investor continues to chase the racy segment of the market disproportionately.

Retail investors and the art of burning hard earned money

3 min read . 15 Apr 2024

All around me, I see elderly folks who have meekly receded into retirement and they struggle to fill their days. (AFP)

The elderly men who run the world give us hope

4 min read . 15 Apr 2024

The common Indian has now been limited to being a voter. For many of them, the temptation of money, combined with caste, religion, region, and sect, serves as a lifeline. (Bloomberg)

Has ECI taken the colour off India’s poll campaigns?

3 min read . 14 Apr 2024

Jobs will not be directly hit, but many companies across the world will use AI and GenAI as a cover to retrench for efficiency.

Crystal ball review: AI has evolved only partly as predicted a quarter ago

3 min read . 12 Apr 2024

A replica of Electronic Voting Machine at the Election Commission of India head office, in New Delhi. (PTI)

The season of Sun Tzu’s ‘deceptions’ is on in full swing

3 min read . 07 Apr 2024

When you ask Perplexity’s ‘search’ bar a question, it hunts the web and uses AI to write a succinct summary of its findings and annotates the same with the sources it used for its answer.

AI is turning search engines into thought drivers in mutual rivalry

3 min read . 29 Mar 2024

We can also expect India's population to grow steadily older. Thus the prospect that we are staring at: A population that ages, that will grow before it starts shrinking.

And just so, we age gracefully

5 min read . 29 Mar 2024

Bombay high court recently reprimanded the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for reneging on its promise to the court to reconstruct a skywalk between the suburban commuter station Bandra and business district of Bandra Kurla Complex. (HT_PRINT)

Trust could be the cornerstone for this election season

4 min read . 24 Mar 2024

The further a galaxy is from us, the faster it is receding from us. In other words, the red shift of a given galaxy doesn’t just tell us how fast it is moving; it is also a measure of its distance from us.

Don’t take tension, but the universe expands

5 min read . 21 Mar 2024

Bitcoin on 13 March hit a record high of over $73,600.

My crypto journey: A high, and two lows

4 min read . 16 Mar 2024

With the sweeping democratization of computing that AI brings, potentially all eight billion of us become creators and builders, as instructing machines becomes a matter of speaking as we socially do.

We must learn to be more human in the age of artificial intelligence

3 min read . 15 Mar 2024

Gokhale bridge at Andheri in Mumbai reopened after 15 months of repair work following a partial collapse of the bridge.

Things a few calculations tell us

5 min read . 14 Mar 2024

If you had too much exposure to the racy segments of the stock market, you took quite a bit of a knock. (Image: Pixabay)

March 2024 treating your portfolio badly? Read this…

5 min read . 14 Mar 2024

Section 19 of the State Bank of India Act gives the government the right to appoint a chairman and four managing directors as well as a majority of non-executive directors to the bank’s board. (Photo: Mint)

Election fever grips Bollywood and India’s financial sector

4 min read . 11 Mar 2024

Pluto was “reclassifed” in 2006—as a “dwarf planet”. It still goes around the Sun, but it no longer qualified as a full-fledged planet, like the other eight.

Searching for an invisible Ninth

5 min read . 08 Mar 2024

Sebi has warned about froth building up in small and midcap segments. Image: Pixabay

Small and midcap funds: Sebi steps in. When will you?

4 min read . 04 Mar 2024