Alibaba’s reported plan to seek revenue-sharing agreements from major commercial users of its next open-weight artificial intelligence model marks an important change in the economics of open AI. The company appears to be trying to preserve the rapid adoption created by freely available model weights while capturing part of the commercial value generated by businesses…
Artificial intelligence model distillation has emerged as one of the most contentious issues in the growing technology rivalry between the United States and China, transforming a long-established machine learning technique into a debate over intellectual property, commercial rights and national security. The dispute is not centred on whether model distillation itself is technically legitimate. Instead,…
India’s leading e-commerce companies are increasingly shifting from discount-led competition towards loyalty-driven customer retention, with shopping platforms expanding their ecosystems beyond retail to include digital entertainment, financial services and everyday consumer benefits. Flipkart’s partnership with Netflix, which rewards eligible loyalty members with a mobile streaming subscription after meeting monthly shopping thresholds, reflects a broader transformation…
Apple’s weaker-than-expected revenue forecast has shifted investor attention away from quarterly earnings and towards a more fundamental question confronting the consumer technology industry: how the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom is reshaping global electronics supply chains. Despite reporting stronger-than-expected financial results and continued demand for flagship products, Apple warned that shortages of critical components are limiting…
The Indian government’s decision to summon Meta’s senior executives for a second time over the brief restriction of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Facebook post has evolved beyond a dispute over one social media error. Instead, it has reopened a wider debate over who ultimately controls political speech in India’s digital public square and whether social…
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the first point of contact between consumers and online marketplaces, promising faster searches, personalised recommendations and more informed purchasing decisions. Yet the growing reliance on AI has also exposed a fundamental question about its role in consumer protection. If artificial intelligence can identify misleading product claims but those warnings never…
Britain’s automotive industry is confronting a competitive challenge that extends far beyond the arrival of new Chinese car brands. The rapid expansion of Chinese manufacturers in the United Kingdom is exposing structural weaknesses that have been building within the British automotive sector for years, including high production costs, slowing investment, expensive energy, regulatory pressures and…
The European Union’s Emissions Trading System has evolved into far more than a mechanism for pricing carbon emissions. Over two decades, it has become the cornerstone of Europe’s climate strategy while simultaneously emerging as one of the continent’s most influential industrial policies. By attaching a financial cost to carbon emissions, the system has fundamentally altered…
Microsoft’s latest quarterly earnings have become far more than a routine financial event. According to market participants, analysts and people familiar with trading activity, investors are treating the results as one of the most important tests yet of whether the technology industry’s enormous investment in artificial intelligence is beginning to produce measurable financial returns. The…
Apple’s expected strongest June-quarter revenue growth in five years is increasingly being viewed by market analysts as the result of a deliberate pricing strategy rather than a broad recovery in the global consumer electronics market. According to analysts, company executives and people familiar with the industry’s recent developments, Apple’s decision to shield the iPhone from…
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