Category: Business News & Economy

The jobs that will define the next decade are already taking shape. The question is whether the people being prepared for them are being prepared for the right ones. This article examines why the gap between workforce preparation and workplace reality is widening, and why organisations that recognise this earliest will carry an advantage that…

ET Most Innovative AI Product Awards 2026 spotlights the products quietly reshaping retail. From improving product discovery and customer engagement to increasing conversions and retention, the Retail and Consumer Experience category recognises solutions delivering measurable business impact across retail, FMCG, D2C, e-commerce and consumer technology in India.

As AI adoption accelerates across industries, organisations face the challenge of identifying solutions that deliver genuine impact amid an increasingly crowded market. The ET Most Innovative AI Product Awards 2026, supported by Knowledge Partner Grant Thornton Bharat LLP, provides a rigorous, independent benchmark to distinguish credible innovation from inflated claims.

The ET Most Innovative AI Product Awards 2026 recognises the startups, product teams, and enterprises building AI-powered solutions that are reshaping industries at scale. By celebrating real-world impact over theoretical innovation, the awards set a new benchmark for what it means to lead in India’s rapidly evolving AI economy.

The most impactful AI products of 2026 aren’t built to do everything; they’re built to solve one problem exceptionally well. The ET Most Innovative AI Product Awards recognise industry-specific innovations delivering real, measurable business outcomes.

Tomorrow, India’s most senior enterprise leaders stop talking about the future of work and start examining it. This piece looks at why the questions on the table at the ET Future of Knowledge Work Summit, around AI, talent, and organisational change, are no longer abstract, and why the room in Bengaluru on 17 June may…

Artificial intelligence is emerging as a powerful tool for coastal safety, helping detect dangerous rip currents through satellite imagery, weather data, ocean monitoring, and real-time analytics. AI-powered beach safety systems developed by ISRO can deliver faster warnings, support disaster management, improve public safety, and transform environmental data into actionable insights that help reduce drowning risks…

OpenAI Academy has launched three structured enterprise courses, AI Foundations, Applied AI Foundations, and Agents and Workflows, designed to move employees from basic AI literacy to managing agent-assisted work, addressing the growing gap between AI access and workforce readiness across organisations.

NASA is expanding its AI strategy to transform decades of Earth observation data into actionable scientific insights. By combining artificial intelligence, machine learning, climate research, satellite imagery, and Earth science, the agency aims to accelerate discoveries, improve climate monitoring, support environmental research, and help scientists analyze vast datasets more efficiently, making scientific knowledge more accessible…

Varya by Avataar AI is an AI video generation model that creates videos from simple prompts quickly and cost-effectively. It delivers localized, India-relevant content while supporting brands, startups, and educators with scalable AI tools. Overall, it signals a shift toward accessible, indigenous AI-driven digital storytelling.