I picked this book from a linkedin recommendation by a person who was in the jury of the Financial Times awards for the best business book 2025. This book was judged to be the winner of 2025. 

I am familiar with the AI space and also the company Nvidia, even having the opportunity to chat with Jensen Huang once in Stockholm. In spite of working in this domain for the last 8 odd years, the book opened to me so much trivia and details that I was not aware of previously. 

My favourite anecdote was of the Norwegian researcher Fredrik Dahl, who created the first neural network that could beat a human at the game of backgammon. The software was also commercially successful. Fredrik did this in 1994, which is almost 30 years before this AI era as we know it. This led me to sharing this story with my Norwegian friends and having some indirect conversations with Fredrik, who is still researching AI topics in Oslo. 

The author has done a meticulous job of interviewing a great many people and bringing about the nuance to share the story of one of the greatest companies of our time. He brings multiple views and also provides without much technical jargon for a lay person to understand the complexity of technology that is changing the world as we speak. 

I would highly recommend this book to everyone who is linked with the field of AI or even a user of AI. As this technology is the most fundamental technology of our times and this book provides a unique perspective from the mind of builders who have contributed one of the main vehicles (chip) for this revolution to happen! 

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The POWER Translation Grant will enable women academicians to fast-track the commercialisation of their technologies, and the POWER Mobility Grant will provide travel support for women scientists, engineers, and technologists to gain international research exposure.

Prof Sandeep Verma, Secretary, SERB, announced the new verticals under SERB’s POWER (Promoting Opportunities for Women in Exploratory Research) scheme. 

“We are glad to partner with IITGN in creating the right footprint to bring together the Indian women researcher’s community. With four verticals under the SERB’s POWER scheme, including the two newly launched grants, our women researchers would have the right kind of funding to come up with their original ideas and take it forward to the level that it can be benchmarked globally,” said Prof Verma.

Prof Amit Prashant, Officiating Director, IITGN, said, “These deliberations help nurture new friendships and lead to better productivity through collaborations.”

The inaugural session of the conclave was virtually addressed by Dr Archana Sharma, the only Indian staff scientist involved in the discovery of the ‘God particle’ and also the first Indian to get recruited by European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva. 

While addressing the women scientists, she highlighted various opportunities for curious minds in core and applied science, technology, and theory.  

“Studying science, engineering, or physics prepares you with a new set of very multidisciplinary skills and can have implications far outside our fields to make a huge social impact. In our country, science and engineering are being facilitated like never before. We should focus on strategic national priorities and engage in international projects in such a way that we are able to make a difference that is meaningful to our country. Articulate your dreams very well, hook on to what you want to do, and never stop,” said Dr Sharma.

Nearly 200 women scientists, researchers, academicians, industry professionals, entrepreneurs, students, and postdoctoral fellows from across the country participated in the two-day conclave, and discussed challenges and opportunities in the field. (India Science Wire).

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A new study has highlighted the need for an intensive effort to improve upon hypertension awareness, care and control in the country especially for those in the most productive age group of 15–49 years, with emphasis on households with lower-income levels and those living in rural areas.

The study, which was based on the data collected under the National Health and Family Survey 2015–16 has found that efforts to tackle hypertension are lacking in all aspects, from screening for the condition and providing a diagnosis to the level of treatment given to the patients.

The data, for instance, showed that only three out of four people, who were found to have hypertension during the survey, had ever been checked for blood pressure earlier and only 45 percent of the hypertensive patients identified during the survey already knew that they suffered from blood pressure problem. Further, less than one in seven (13 percent) reported that they were under hypertensive medication and less than one in 10 (8 percent) had their blood pressure under control.

Significantly, contrary to general expectations, women had better control over their blood pressure than men. The analysis revealed that while 10.9 percent of hypertensive women were taking their medicine and had normal blood pressure; on the contrary, only 5.3 percent of hypertensive men did so.

The National Health and Family Welfare Survey had covered 731,864 individuals from twenty-nine states and seven union territories.

“Detection of hypertension is straightforward, treatments are simple yet effective, and hence hypertension can be easily controlled. However, India does not perform well in any of the measures of detection, treatment and control,” said Dr. Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Vice President, Research and Policy at PHFI and one of the authors of the study. “The new National Health Mission through the health and wellness clinics has the potential to address the issue.”

Dr. Lindsay Jaacks, another member of the research team, said, “we need demand-side interventions to raise awareness in India that hypertension is relatively easy and cheap to treat, and that keeping it under control can have huge benefits in terms of preventing heart attacks and stroke.”

Credits: India Science Wire

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The product has been developed by two third year students at textile technology department, Archit Agarwal and Harry Sehrawat. It took seven months for them to come out with the formulation.

When a woman, who is having periods, suffers from pain, she just needs to apply it on the place where there is pain. She will get immediate relief. It will be effective for up to about eight hours. One 10 mL roll-on can be used for three period cycles. The rolls have an expiry date of three years from the date of manufacture.

It is different from other pain relief roll-ons and ointments as those are formulated to give heating effect first and then cooling effect. This one is formulated in a way that it gives cooling effect first and then the heating effect. “This is the best way to handle period pain”, said Archit Agarwal.

“One of my friends could not write her exam properly and was feeling terrible about it. On questioning, she confided that she could not study well because of period pains. From there we got the idea and we thought we should do something about it”, he said.

The product, he noted, is 100 per cent natural and has no side effects. Clinical trials were conducted on two age groups: 14–28 and 28–35. The trials were conducted at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and the feedback was positive.

Dr. Rita Bakshi, Chairperson, International Fertility Center, Delhi, who was present at the launch programme, noted that the major main plus point of the ointment is that there is, nothing to consume and it is made of natural ingredients. “As a doctor, I recommend pain killers. But, many women don’t take them for fear of side effects. This one is a roll-on and is applied externally. I am sure women will use it happily”.

Name Sanfe, the new roll-on product for period pain is available on e-commerce sites and medical stores.

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