Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNEET’s switch from pen-and-paper to computer: damned if you do, damned if you don’t
Episode 766
Two million students. One lakh twenty thousand seats. And a paper that leaked before anyone sat down to write it.
This is the second NEET leak in two …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Big Tech is tokenmaxxed out
Episode 765
Amazon built a leaderboard to track how much AI its engineers were using. Employees gamed it. Costs exploded. Last week, the leaderboard was gone.
Ube…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Google is now Andhra Pradesh's first private electricity company. You'll be paying for that
Episode 764
Andhra Pradesh wants to be India's data centre capital. Google, Meta, and Reliance have all been promised space in Vizag. To make it work, the state …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The AI gold rush is over. The emperors are cashing out
Episode 763
Anthropic raised $65 billion last week making it the largest funding round in AI history. It also filed for an IPO days later. So did OpenAI and Spac…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Why Swiggy wants to stay out of the Flipkart-Amazon spending war
Episode 762
Swiggy CEO Sriharsha Majety told Bloomberg in an interview last week that his company would stay out of the spending war being waged by Amazon, Flipk…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Inside foreign universities’ desperate attempts to woo indifferent Indians
Episode 761
Seventeen foreign universities have set up campuses in India in two years. Most can't fill their seats. And a Rs 1,000 crore scholarship push launche…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
India spent $33 billion trying to fix BSNL. It forgot the most important part
Episode 760
India has pumped over $33 billion into BSNL since 2019. But the person running the company finds out every three months if they still have the job.Mu…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Why SIPs are not always right
Episode 759
A mutual fund executive told our colleague something shocking: "SIPs are a problem."
Part of the shock came from the fact that it was coming from som…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Microsoft called Copilot "entertainment only." Then killed it on Xbox
Episode 758
In 1998, a Metal Gear Solid villain named Psycho Mantis read your memory card out loud and made your controller vibrate on its own. Players were stun…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
India's "family" problem
Episode 757
From airports to cricket broadcasts, India's family conglomerates keep turning up everywhere. According to the 2024 Barclays-Hurun report, one family…
5 months ago