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Ananya Krishnan அனன்யா கிருஷ்ணன்

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Ananya Krishnan reports on AI without the dazzle. Demos are cute. Evals are better. Extremely hard to impress.

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A dim radiology reading room with a wall-mounted lightbox and stacked film envelopes on a laminate desk, a clinician silhouette in scrubs facing away, cool fluorescent ceiling panels, no logos or readable text

Sarvam AI Opens Tamil Medical Corpus Grants for Chennai Tier-Two Radiology Co-ops

Sarvam AI opened grant-funded access to a Tamil-English radiology report corpus for Chennai tier-two hospital co-ops, requiring de-identified CT and ultrasound narratives before labs can fine-tune Saaras speech models on local dialect.

Ananya Krishnan அனன்யா கிருஷ்ணன் Sep 19, 2026India

An elderly shopkeeper holding a basic feature phone to his ear beside a wooden kirana shelf of packaged goods, dim interior light from the doorway, worn counter surface, no logos or readable text

NPCI Trials Voice-OTP Handoff for Feature-Phone UPI Merchants in Bihar

NPCI began a Bihar pilot that lets feature-phone kirana merchants confirm UPI collect requests through voice-OTP handoffs on the 123PAY IVR stack, after Patna district banks reported SMS delivery gaps during tower maintenance windows.

Ananya Krishnan அனன்யா கிருஷ்ணன் Sep 19, 2026India