Pritam Bordoloi is a senior technology journalist and founder of The Left Shift, covering AI, enterprise technology, startups, digital transformation, and the business of technology.
AI News
The AI for App Building course teaches participants how to identify repetitive tasks that could be automated, translate plain-language instructions into applications and use AI to diagnose and fix technical problems.
AI News
Google said 63% of users now talk directly to the AI, with "voice-only" usage also increasing.
Acquisition
Electric has developed data tools designed specifically for distributed, agentic applications, including PGlite, a lightweight Postgres database that can run directly inside an application, browser, or AI agent sandbox.
AI Startups
Originally founded in China as part of Butterfly Effect Technology, Manus relocated its headquarters to Singapore earlier in 2025 amid geopolitical tensions and global expansion efforts.
Startups
Teler allows software applications to make and receive phone calls, stream live conversations to AI systems and control call flows in real time.
AI Models
It is working with AMD, Arm, Dell, Intel and NVIDIA to optimise the model across different hardware platforms.
AI Startups
The initiative will use computer vision and deep learning to make tobacco grading faster, more consistent and transparent.
Data Centre
Some of the country's biggest data-centre developments are facing questions over water consumption, land acquisition, tree felling, wildlife, heat, noise and their impact on communities living around them.
AI News
Instead of simply completing the booking, the agent discovered a flaw in the gym's booking software that allowed it to reserve classes weeks or months beyond the permitted booking window.
Acquisition
NextSlide built an AI-powered presentation tool designed to turn prompts, notes, documents and research into polished, editable slide decks
AI Models
Image 2.0 ranks second globally in both text-to-image generation and image editing, based on Arena's leaderboards as of August 7.
AI Models
The company has also paused internal activities involving Astra that do not meet the new requirements.