Technology Correspondent
14 articles · Writes about Technology
Arjun Nair reports on technology, startups and digital India for The NE Times — covering everything from semiconductors and AI to UPI, data rules and the gadgets readers actually use.
The world's largest chipmaker beat forecasts with a 77% profit surge, booked its first 2nm revenue and raised its 2026 outlook as AI orders keep flooding in.
SpaceX targets 16 July for Starship's thirteenth test flight, the first to carry real Starlink V3 satellites and a fresh trial of booster recovery over the Gulf.
Soyuz MS-29 carried NASA's Anil Menon and cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina from Baikonur to the ISS in just over three hours on 14 July.
Dutch intelligence says Russia-linked hackers hijacked internet-connected cameras to watch military shipments bound for Ukraine, part of a wider European campaign.
The Dutch lithography giant posted €9.3bn in sales and €2.9bn profit, raised full-year guidance sharply and will expand EUV capacity 30% to feed the AI boom.
China's cyberspace regulator has registered Apple's generative AI service, ending a 22-month wait and clearing iPhone AI features built on Alibaba's Qwen models.
Samsung has set Galaxy Unpacked for 22 July in London, with the Z Fold 8, a new Fold 8 Ultra and Flip 8 expected. Leaks point to a 200MP camera and $2,099 pricing.
Seventeen news organisations have asked a US court to sanction OpenAI, alleging it concealed tools and datasets that reveal how ChatGPT reproduces their journalism.
NPCI is building a Unified Agent Protocol to let trusted AI agents pay over UPI, as the network clears 22.72 billion monthly transactions and biometrics surge.
Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record 570 flaws, including exploited zero-days in AD FS and SharePoint. Indian IT teams face an emergency patching week.
IDC says Q2 2026 smartphone shipments fell 6.7% to 277.5 million units as memory prices tripled. India faces its sharpest market contraction since the pandemic.
Reports say Google will launch Gemini 3.5 Pro on 17 July after rebuilding its base model, with a rumoured 2-million-token context. Google has confirmed nothing yet.
MeitY says CERT-In has built an AI war room that stress-tests near-frontier models in sandboxes, hunting vulnerabilities before Indian firms adopt them at scale.
Bharti Airtel led Nifty gainers on 14 July as Jio's Rs 30,000-52,000 crore IPO heads for an August-October window. Analysts see a listed duopoly reshaping telecom.
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