“ We’re absolutely going to leverage AI to do that. We don't want to ship AI for AI's sake.”

One senior leader at the organization said they believe tech news readers who previously expressed liberal values and an appetite for consuming global journalism have grown disillusioned with the news media, and now prefer an information diet of inward-looking podcasts, YouTube shows, and chatbot outputs.

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This is not the first time that ordinary people have got shock treatment in the last 10 yrs. It also happened with demonetisation in 2016, Covid lockdowns in 2020-21, and the e-KYC crisis in 2024. Each time, the public paid a heavy price. This time, the damage also extends to the foundation of electoral democracy - the right to vote

It is the warp and weft of this metaphorical silk that runs through Gulzar’s life, with decades spent spinning language into an artform; making the ordinary feel just as fine, weaving those pashmina-like phrases of love and loss: Geeli hansi, waqt ke paanv, khwabo ki pudiya, seeli hawa and chand ki bindi wali ratiya, which continue to linger.