Articles by Dr. Vikram Singh, Head of AI at Mahindra Group, on artificial intelligence, generative and agentic AI, brain-inspired models and AI in aviation.
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Follow on LinkedInMore than 1,200 employees at frontier AI firms want the world to build an option to slow automated AI development. The letter is a warning about a race with no shared brake, and a test of whether governance can become operational before the accelerator starts improving itself.
AI agents are booking meetings, cancelling orders, and approving refunds across enterprise. When one makes a wrong call at scale, nobody can name who owns it. Why "the AI made that call" is a dangerous phrase, and what accountability architecture actually looks like in production.
GPT-5.6 deleted files its own system card warned it would delete. Microsoft told salespeople to badmouth OpenAI, a company it owns 49% of. Someone raised $300M pre-seed with no product. And Databricks quietly hit $188B. Five stories from one week, and what they mean if you are responsible for getting AI to work inside a real organization.
OpenAI leaning towards a 2027 IPO is a sideshow. The real collision is between trillion-dollar valuations that assume permanent pricing power and a price war already vaporising it. One durability test cuts through the bubble debate, and it flatters India’s boring, revenue-first AI story.
The AI price war looks like a rout in the buyer’s favour. Look at the invoice, not the sticker price, and the savings evaporate. Why cost-per-completed-task is the only number that matters, and why the durable asset is the plumbing you own, not the model you rent.
The 2026 layoff wave is sold as proof that AI now does our jobs. Follow the money and it looks more like a treasury move to fund GPUs, while firms quietly starve the junior pipeline that makes seniors. Why I would take TCS’s hiring bet over Oracle’s cuts.
In June 2026 enterprise AI moved from spend-at-all-costs to ROI. CFOs tightened budgets, agentic projects were cancelled and labs worked to cut inference cost. What it means for leaders.
CEOs say AI will erase half of white-collar jobs; the data says it has barely moved productivity. That gap is called “AI washing”, and here is what is really automating your work.
Anthropic filed to IPO, Nvidia put a one-petaflop AI chip in the PC, and Microsoft, Google and ServiceNow made the agent runtime the product. What big tech’s June 2026 moves mean for enterprise leaders.
Why the month’s frontier models matter less than the professional-services firms wiring agents into delivery, and what that means for India.
Four weeks of launches show agents moving into production, inference getting near-free, governance tightening and power supply becoming the real constraint.
Brain-inspired AI and the Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM), a different approach from today’s large language models.
Surviving the PhD odyssey in AI: research, rejection, community and mental health.
How AI is reshaping aviation, from predictive maintenance and dynamic routing to autonomous drones and personalized customer service.
A guide to the data scientist interview in aviation.