Energy & Climate
ORF America
Brains Over Brawn: A Smarter Approach to the AI ...

By Uma Vatsa and Shailesh Mishra

The AI industry is making large, long-lived bets on future demand, even as the technology itself is becoming more efficient. If AI systems become cheaper to run, more efficient to train, or less dependent on massively centralized compute, some of today’s infrastructure may prove oversized, poorly located, or economically fragile.

Brains Over Brawn: A Smarter Approach to the AI Buildout
Economic Development
ORF America
Weathering the Crisis: How India’s Economy ...

By Anit Mukherjee

As crude oil prices moderate and energy supplies become more predictable, India has an opportunity to address three key challenges.

Weathering the Crisis: How India’s Economy Dealt with Middle Eastern Turmoil
Economic Development
ORF America
Demystifying the India-U.S. Trade Negotiations

By Ashita Jain

The proposed India-U.S. trade deal discussions are distinct from traditional FTA negotiations, for they resemble a strategic economic partnership being negotiated under tariff pressure and in pursuit of an increasingly elusive sense of predictability for Indian exporters.

Demystifying the India-U.S. Trade Negotiations
Foreign Policy & Security
ORF America
A Q&A with Dhruva Jaishankar: Are the ...

By Dhruva Jaishankar

What’s the latest on U.S.-India relations? Dhruva Jaishankar answers.

A Q&A with Dhruva Jaishankar: Are the United States and India Turning a Corner?
ORF America
Challenges to Implementing the U.S.-Iran MoU

By Samriddhi Vij, Akram Zaoui, and Mahdi Ghuloom

In the early hours of June 15, U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed an announcement by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif that a peace deal between the United States and Iran had been reached, iterating that both sides had declared “the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon.” ORF Middle East experts offer their quick takes.

Challenges to Implementing the U.S.-Iran MoU

April 2025

UK, India Could Be Relative Beneficiaries of Trump’s Tariff War

UK, India Could Be Relative Beneficiaries of Trump’s Tariff War

By Dhruva Jaishankar

Trump’s April 2 announcement has already roiled financial markets, and the global economy will continue to be adversely affected both by the implementation of tariffs and by uncertainty as negotiations proceed. But while there will be no immediate winners, some parties appear relatively better off.

The U.S. Defense Industry Still Faces a Chip Challenge

The U.S. Defense Industry Still Faces a Chip Challenge

By Jeffrey D. Bean and Andreas Kuehn

Looking ahead, as the Department of Defense strives to incorporate and utilize more AI chips, it will need to secure access to leading nodes for edge chips and the confidence in pathways to use greater allocations of secure cloud services for advanced computing.

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