Podcast Episodes
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Episode 736
At Kochi's Infopark, two models of the IT industry sit 500 metres apart.
Infosys and Wipro: sprawling campuses, thousands of engineers, margins built…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
A European royal family walked into India’s startup boom with a billion dollars…
Episode 735
Lightrock arrived in India with nearly a billion dollars and royal backing — the Liechtenstein dynasty's centuries-old fortune funding bets on around…
6 months ago
The future of telecalling in India is automated. And complicated
Episode 734
You pick up an unknown number. A bubbly voice starts selling you a credit card. You hang up in seconds.
Except now, that voice may not be human.
AI vo…
6 months ago
AI is writing more code in India. Fewer eyes are checking it
Episode 733
A study gave 16 experienced developers the best AI coding tools available.
They predicted they'd be 24% faster. They felt 20% faster. They were actual…
6 months ago
Reliance's broken promise is India's energy crisis
Episode 732
Seventeen years ago, Reliance Industries made a promise that was supposed to change India's energy future.
It didn't.
Today, with a war raging in the…
6 months ago
Your missed SIP could be making banks tens of crores every month
Episode 731
When your SIP bounces, your bank charges you Rs 500. The mutual fund that missed the investment? Charges you nothing. That gap is not an accident.
In …
6 months ago
Why the man who built Practo to find doctors is now using AI to find disease first
Episode 730
India's life expectancy has doubled since 1950. But 65% of deaths are still from diseases caught too late.
Cent, the new startup from Practo's founde…
6 months, 1 week ago
Anthropic built an AI that can supposedly break into anything. Then it forgot to lock its own door
Episode 729
Anthropic has spent years building a reputation as the AI company that actually cares about safety.
Then, in the span of two weeks, it leaked an unan…
6 months, 1 week ago
Can India's $22 billion fertiliser subsidy keep the Gulf War off your plate?
Episode 728
The Indian government approved a ₹41,534 crore fertiliser subsidy for the upcoming kharif season last week, a 12% increase from last year. The move c…
6 months, 1 week ago
India's data centre boom is a bet on water it doesn't have
Episode 727
India is building data centres at unprecedented speed to support cloud services, AI, and digital growth. At the same time, cities across the country …
6 months, 1 week ago