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Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 19, 2026, 1:43 AM

On Urban Planning – Multiple use city spaces.

The Two-Job City Cities have a space problem. Land is expensive. Roads consume enormous areas. Roofs sit beneath sunlight while rainwater is sent immediately into drains. Walls absorb heat. Car parks bake in the sun. Streetlights illuminate roads at night and...

Sep 18, 2026, 8:37 PM

India’s Power Grid and the AI-Era Sovereignty Problem

India's Power Grid in the AI-Era. An AI Illustration.

As AI lowers the cost of sophisticated cyberattacks, India’s power-grid sovereignty increasingly depends not on where equipment is made, but on whether India can independently verify, operate, patch, and recover its cyber-physical systems. India must pair SCADA indigenisation and...

Sep 18, 2026, 5:22 AM

ChatGPT Won’t Hack Your Phone. An AI Agent Might.

Most people have encountered artificial intelligence through a conversation. You open ChatGPT on your phone, type a question, and receive an answer. Sometimes the answer is excellent. Sometimes it is wrong. Occasionally, the model may confidently invent something that...

David Rosh Pina

Sep 16, 2026, 9:52 PM

It’s the intelligence, stupid

The Next Breakthrough Is Intelligence, Not Hardware I am continuing my series on the computer vision ecosystem. Everything needed to build a human-augmentation hardware device is within our reach: a camera module smaller than a fingernail, with enough resolution to...

Sep 16, 2026, 5:17 AM

Dario Amodei Understands Why the Internet Could Be AI’s Holy Grail

Dario Amodei has just made one of the most extraordinary predictions I have heard from the leader of a frontier AI company. In his essay We Must Pace the Frontier, the CEO of Anthropic warns that within just 6...

Sep 16, 2026, 4:56 AM

Hallowing Time – Fashionable Zionist Wrist Watches

Friends, this column is inspired by a fellow TOI blogger, Keith Brooks who wrote a recent article entitled, "Your Wrist Is About To Start An Argument With Your Rabbi" about the annoying and ubiquitous presence of beeping smart watches...

Sep 15, 2026, 9:07 PM

Cooperation Without Trust: What Trump and Xi Can Actually Agree On About AI

The nature of cooperation on AI

On September 24, Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to visit the White House. President Trump announced the date in July and said artificial intelligence would be on the agenda. The two leaders had already discussed AI when Trump...

Sep 15, 2026, 3:17 AM

Truth and Fiction about AI’s Recursive Self-Improvement

Self-improvement

And what a story about an alien zoo reveals about recursive self-improvement By Joe Nalven + Claude + Gemini Argument about recursive self-improvement is loud, and very little of it is about evidence. It is about process. Everyone in the argument...

Sep 15, 2026, 12:29 AM

Your Wrist Is about to Start an Argument with Your Rabbi

If it hasn't already. I don't have a "SmartWatch". I like my Omega, Seiko, Bulova collection. Over Rosh Hashanah, several people dinged, beeped, and had flashes on their watches. And I thought: we are nowhere near ready for what is coming. This...

Sep 15, 2026, 12:16 AM

From the Field to Abraham’s Table

PM Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, Bahrain FM Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani and UAE FM Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan sign the Abraham Accords at the White House, September 15, 2020. (Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour)

Why women-led civic relationships must help shape the next chapter of Middle East diplomacy Six years after the signing of the Abraham Accords, the foundations for the next peace agreement may already be under construction. Peace agreements are dramatic. Peacebuilding rarely...

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