Business Standard: “Agentic AI refers to systems capable of acting independently, making decisions with minimal human supervision. These AI agents can perform complex tasks across various domains, from customer service to sales and marketing, opening new possibilities for automation…Agentic AI allows companies to automate complex workflows end-to-end across various business functions, be it HR, customer support, or sales and marketing. Unlike traditional GenAI applications, which assist humans only in point tasks, Agentic AI can autonomously own and execute entire workflows.”
FT: “Central banks might want to revisit an alternative policy framework; the idea of price-level targeting, as proposed by Professor Michael Woodford of Columbia University. In this framework, policy targets a constant rise in the level of prices over time, so that if prices rise above that rate, policy has to respond sufficiently to reverse any price level divergence. This contrasts with the current framework, which can celebrate a return to 2 per cent inflation, even though the target has been missed for multiple years, and has left households with major losses in real purchasing power. By encouraging early action to limit the initial divergence from the desired price levels, this framework can, theoretically, deliver gains for consumers.”
BS: “Robotics and precision manufacturing, along with areas that combine soft technology with hard manufacturing, will be the hot areas for venture investors and founders in the near future, according to Prashanth Prakash, a partner at leading venture capital firm Accel. Noting that there is now a marrying of soft tech and hard manufacturing, he said a gap exists globally in coming together of it in robotics and precision manufacturing. “The number of aircraft that need to be manufactured for just the demand in India is 7 times the capacity present at the two of the large plane makers or any of these other companies. India has a unique advantage to be able to complement and provide that additional capacity in aerospace,” said Prakash in an interview.”
NYTimes: “One is a deft comedy about the misadventures of two young brides in rural India. The other is a delicate tale about the intersecting lives of three women in cosmopolitan Mumbai. And both films might have a shot at winning Academy Awards — a rare prospect for a country that produces more than 1,000 movies a year but has found the topmost industry honors hard to come by. With small budgets and unconventional plots, “Laapataa Ladies” and “All We Imagine as Light” have captivated audiences. That both were directed by women and have female-centric themes has become an additional point of pride in India, where the frothy romps of male-dominated Bollywood are a large part of the cinematic landscape.”
McKinsey: “Digital twins can be used to model the interaction between physical and digital processes all along the supply chain—from product ideation and manufacturing to warehousing and distribution, from in-store or online purchases to shipping and returns. Thus, digital twins paint a clear picture of an optimal end-to-end supply chain process. What’s more, paired with today’s advances in predictive AI, digital twins can become both predictive and prescriptive. They can predict future scenarios to suggest areas for improvement or growth, ultimately leading to a self-monitoring and self-healing supply chain. In other words, digital twins empower the switch from heuristic-based supply chain management to dynamic and granular optimization, providing a 360-degree view of value and performance leakage.”
