# The AI Daily

> A daily AI news digest for business leaders and technologists, published by
> 7dojo. Stories are ranked by GDELT cross-web citation counts — a measure of
> how widely the world is actually referencing a story, not just how recent it
> is — then synthesised into a layered brief. Includes a dedicated India lens on
> sovereign models, policy, funding and enterprise adoption.

Editorial home: https://theaidaily.in
Full corpus in one file: https://theaidaily.in/llms-full.txt
Every article below is also available as Markdown by replacing `.html` with `.md`.

## What we publish

- **Daily digest** — every weekday, the day's most-referenced AI and tech stories,
  ranked by cross-web citation count and layered into foundation models,
  infrastructure, applications, policy, and an India lens.
- **Weekly roll-up** — Mondays. Narrative synthesis of the week, trend charts, and
  the "Two Takes" opinion column.
- **Analysis** — data-led deep dives with original data work and interactive tools.
- **Interactive AI cost estimator** — a live calculator: describe your business in
  plain English and get tailored AI use cases with monthly running costs in USD or
  INR. On the web at https://theaidaily.in/analysis/llm-cost.html#estimator, and callable directly
  as the `estimate_ai_cost` tool on our MCP server (below).

## Key pages

- [Home](https://theaidaily.in/): the current digest
- [AI cost estimator](https://theaidaily.in/analysis/llm-cost.html#estimator): interactive — enter your business, get monthly AI running costs in USD/INR
- [Archive](https://theaidaily.in/archive.html): every issue
- [Analysis index](https://theaidaily.in/analysis/): all deep dives
- [Weekly](https://theaidaily.in/weekly/): weekly roll-ups
- [About](https://theaidaily.in/about.html): what this is and how it is made
- [Subscribe](https://theaidaily.in/#subscribe)

## MCP server (for AI agents)

This publication exposes a remote MCP server, so an agent can query it directly
rather than scraping pages:

    claude mcp add --transport http ai-daily https://theaidaily.in/mcp

Tools:
- `get_ai_news` — the day's AI/tech stories ranked by GDELT cross-web reference
  count (how widely a story is actually being cited), not by recency.
- `estimate_ai_cost` — describe a business in plain English, get tailored AI use
  cases with monthly running costs in USD or INR.

Open JSON endpoints behind it:
- https://theaidaily.in/data/rankings-latest.json
- https://theaidaily.in/data/rankings-YYYY-MM-DD.json
- https://theaidaily.in/data/rankings-index.json

## Feeds

- Daily RSS: https://theaidaily.in/feed.xml
- Analysis RSS: https://theaidaily.in/feed-analysis.xml
- Sitemap: https://theaidaily.in/sitemap.xml

## Analysis

- [The AI Passed Its Hacking Test — By Hacking the Test](https://theaidaily.in/analysis/hacking-the-test.md): Two OpenAI models were tested on their hacking ability — and passed by hacking the test, breaching Hugging Face to steal the answer key. What actually happened, and the one...
- [What Would It Take for India Inc to Scale AI Adoption?](https://theaidaily.in/analysis/india-ai-adoption.md): The economics that make AI a no-brainer in the US don't transfer to India. Replacing an Indian seat saves 10–15× less than a US one — and the gap is shrinking. The winning...
- [Enterprise AI Costs 101: A primer on what drives AI costs](https://theaidaily.in/analysis/llm-cost.md): A primer on what drives enterprise AI costs: tokens, inference, GPUs and memory — why the API bill is only 15-30% of year one, and an estimator you can point at your own business.
- [The Customer Tax: The Hidden Cost Enterprises Will Pay (for AI)](https://theaidaily.in/analysis/customer-tax.md): The Forrester CX Index is at a multi-decade low. AI deployment is at an all-time high. We mapped the data, ran the CLV math, and found that the technology isn't the problem —...
- [The Memory Tax: How AI Infrastructure Is Repricing Hardware for Everyone](https://theaidaily.in/analysis/memory-boom.md): Micron's revenue just quadrupled. Your next laptop is already more expensive. Here's the mechanism — and what business leaders need to budget for.
- [The Demand Paradox: Why More Software Work Is Being Done](https://theaidaily.in/analysis/it-services-paradox.md): Accenture just hit a 9-year low. Yet India has 24.6M developers and Intercom's defect backlog shrank 54%. These aren't contradictions — they're sequential. The demand paradox...
- [Killer App Watch: Who's Building the AI That Sticks?](https://theaidaily.in/analysis/killer-app-watch.md): 7 weeks of AI signal, distilled into one question: which applications are crossing from demo to deployment? We track the killer apps — by category, by traction evidence, and by...
- [The Cisco Question: Will NVIDIA Suffer the Same Fate?](https://theaidaily.in/analysis/nvidia-cisco.md): Cisco was #1 in 2000 at $275B — the infrastructure play on the internet buildout. It never recovered. NVIDIA is now #1 at $4,500B — the infrastructure play on AI. We traced 25...
- [The Open Source World Is Being Rebuilt From the Global South](https://theaidaily.in/analysis/github-global-south.md): We pulled GitHub's raw Innovation Graph data for 24 quarters. Here's what the numbers actually say about who is building the open source world — and it's not what the headlines...

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