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Some of India's corporate titans are at critical junctures. To understand where they're headed, you need to understand how they were built. Intermission — a new long-form, and first, video podcast from The Ken. Ep 01 drops March 23. Watch the trailer. youtu.be/Tr3-HUO6hqI

Is speed is the only thing that matters in the AI race? @snigdhasharma9 dives in. Tune in to the episode "China's raising OpenClaw lobsters. India's testing the waters first" on ⤵️ Apple: podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/chi… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2HZux5… YouTube: youtu.be/kMwk_CM1wD0?si…

The company’s $700 million IPO, expected in mid-2026, only raises the stakes. 🧵⤴️ Read today's story by Mutasim Khan & Valli Vikram. the-ken.com/story/what-doe…

But even as the world’s most resourced attempts at agentic commerce are being rethought, $7.5 billion-valued Razorpay, which processes payments for 70% of India’s unicorns, is betting its future on the same idea. 🧵↕️

Just a week earlier, OpenAI had rolled back its much-anticipated agentic commerce feature. Amazon blocked third-party AI agents and even sued some, like Perplexity’s Comet. Ebay and many more banned buy-for-me agents altogether. 🧵⤵️

Read this week's 'The Collection' by @TechTwoSumit the-ken.com/?post_type=the…

The exit at HDFC Bank is not just about HDFC Bank. IDFC First, Axis Bank, ICICI, and Indusind all show the same thing: banks run on balance sheets, but they run by humans. 🧵⤵️

Tune in to the episode "China's raising OpenClaw lobsters. India's testing the waters first" on ⤵️ Apple: podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/day… Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2N3NVn7d3… YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

China is deploying OpenClaw at a scale and speed no other country is matching. India, meanwhile, is moving carefully, deliberately, problem-first. So here's the question: is India behind China on OpenClaw? Or is India being behind even the right way to look at this?  🧵⤵️

Read the full story on The Ken: Wake up, Neo. There’s a glitch in the pharma matrix. the-ken.com/newsletter/mak…

This is a read aloud of Mutasim’s original story, by Snigdha Sharma, on Daybreak. youtu.be/qOC_z1FvcQg?si…

The next time you pick up a strip of tablets at your neighbourhood pharmacy, consider this: the drug you just bought for Rs 170 may have left the factory for Rs 14. That’s a markup of over a 1000%. And, it’s completely legal.

The Middle East war will cost India. The real question is how much and for how long. 🧵⤴️ Listen to this week's episode of Two by Two on The Ken app. the-ken.com/podcasts/two-b…

He joins @RaPhilipose and @peegeekay on Two by Two to trace exactly how a war in the Middle East travels from an oil tanker to your kitchen counter. And why India, despite 50 years of warnings, still wasn't ready. 🧵↕️

A war broke out in the Middle East and within days India was rationing cooking gas, cancelling flights and watching the rupee slip. And according to investor Mohit Satyanand, none of it should have been a surprise. 🧵⤴️

And now the state is getting into the market. 🧵⤴️ Read today's story by @_inderpalsingh the-ken.com/story/insidebi…

For decades, such advice was scarce in Bihar, with barely one agriculture field officer for every 2,000 farmers. Today, it’s everywhere. Agritech startups, input sellers, and crop-diagnostic apps all offer AI-powered advice through chatbots. 🧵↕️

Bihar’s farmers have an abundance problem. Many of them now rely on digital farm-advisory services to tend their crops, but there’s a glut of guidance, and it comes with strings attached and is often confusing. 🧵⤵️