Podcast / 03 Jun, 26
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A look into the making of a ‘cosy home’ for ‘independent researchers’
Column / 30 May, 26
The end of artificial intelligence’s venture era
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Profits, IPOs, and deals that don’t look like
Podcast / 27 May, 26
HCL invests in Sarvam and goes down the 5-layer AI cake
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Column / 23 May, 26
The end of free compute is the beginning of better engineering
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As companies get constrained by tokens, they’ll now make smarter decisions on where to deploy
Podcast / 20 May, 26
‘The application layer is dead’: SpotDraft’s Shashank Bijapur on why System of Record is the real moat
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Anthropic is pushing Claude for lawyers. But not every legal AI startup is worried
Column / 16 May, 26
Anthropic and OpenAI as anti-Stripe
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The next foundational-AI platform war is about who owns the space where work gets
Podcast / 13 May, 26
Anthropic’s agents are your new finance professionals. They don’t offer investment advice
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They can now build pitch books, work on audits, draw up market research reports, track sectors and create financial models. Essentially, the job description of entry-level finance hires
Column / 09 May, 26
The productivity miracle and the pink slip
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China is balancing AI breakthroughs with job security. India has made no such
Podcast / 06 May, 26
The AI wearable market is full of dead devices. NeoSapien thinks India can turn the tide
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$230 million couldn't crack it. Can $2 million?
Column / 02 May, 26
Do you have a totem?
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Without a prior, you can't tell the dream from the real—and AI is very good at making the dream feel
Podcast / 29 Apr, 26
How Presentations.AI went from $0 to $5M in revenue with zero new hires
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And the lessons it holds for SaaS startups
Column / 25 Apr, 26
The adversarial era: You cannot compete and win against… your customers
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A conversation with Dhruv Saxena on what’s left of design when everyone is handed the
Podcast / 22 Apr, 26
China built AI differently than the US. Can India do the same?
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There are many parallels if we look closely
Column / 18 Apr, 26
When AI eats every expertise
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From digital doubles to factory floors, a new kind of knowledge enclosure is
Podcast / 15 Apr, 26
Zero Shot Live: Who will survive Agentic AI in India?
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We 'stress tested' India's biggest consumer internet companies
Column / 11 Apr, 26
Five post-agentic startup career scenarios from 2028
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Once agents take over work, what will the new startup roles look
Podcast / 08 Apr, 26
Kuku used AI to crack micro dramas. It is now coming for Bollywood
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The audio and micro drama platform is set to release its first theatrical film
Column / 04 Apr, 26
Twelve ‘why not’, ‘post-agentic AI’ Indian e-commerce scenarios from 2028
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On 12 April, at our first Zero Shot live event, we’ll visualise and debate what things might look like a couple of years from
Podcast / 01 Apr, 26
Salary, Bonus, Equity… Tokens?
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Inference costs are mounting bills and pushing tech teams towards a new race in productivity
Column / 28 Mar, 26
Only the token-paranoid survive
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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang changes Indian IT P&L in 30
Podcast / 25 Mar, 26
The AI agent era has started in China. It looks different from anywhere else
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To understand the OpenClaw adoption story, we have to go back into China's tech history
Column / 21 Mar, 26
Humans are the budget
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Oracle, Amazon, and others are selling workers to buy AI. The ingredients for social backlash are getting real
Podcast / 18 Mar, 26
India’s biggest B2B marketplace takes OpenAI to court
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What happens when a company says it is undergoing ‘selective discrimination’ by a chatbot?
Column / 14 Mar, 26
Imagining and preparing for an Indian internet with AI agents
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Bringing you this and more at our first Zero Shot
Podcast / 11 Mar, 26
AI and the end of SaaS ‘playbooks’
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And why SaaSBoomi, a “pay-it-forward” community of 4000 startups and 6000 founders, had to turn into AIBoomi.
Column / 07 Mar, 26
The US’s oil wars are a compute war against China
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The Chinese AI industry’s vulnerabilities have a mirror in
Podcast / 04 Mar, 26
Engineers don’t want AI tool contracts. At least the ones they are caught in
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A new tension emerges within organisations as they race to integrate AI into workflows at a rapid pace
Column / 28 Feb, 26
Anthropic goes to war
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The Pentagon wants Claude without a conscience. Anthropic is refusing to comply. The future of AI’s governance now hangs on who blinks
Podcast / 25 Feb, 26
A tale of two AI summits: Beyond the stolen robot dog
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Is India positioned as an AI middle power, or something else?
Column / 21 Feb, 26
Post-software and pre-burnout
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Code without humans. Humans without
Podcast / 18 Feb, 26
Voice AI startups are drawing in VC cheques fast. Will they ‘differentiate or suffocate’?
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Competition is heating up... A founder gives us an inside look
Column / 14 Feb, 26
What 120 million cups of tea and a 100-year runway say about AI
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Alibaba’s Qwen shoots to the top of China’s app stores, while Alphabet casts itself as a multigenerational AI
Podcast / 11 Feb, 26
‘Vibe coding lawyers’: How AI is changing work at Trilegal
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Inside a law firm that is aggressively using, collaborating, and experimenting with AI.
Column / 07 Feb, 26
TCS and Infosys are learning the wrong lessons from IBM
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Indian IT giants are returning billions to shareholders while AI automates their business model. This part of the story sounds
Podcast / 04 Feb, 26
Will Sarvam be to AI what PhonePe became for UPI? No.
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We caught ‘lightning in a bottle’ with payments. But it is unlikely to happen again
Column / 31 Jan, 26
Microsoft, Adobe, and the fork in BigCo software
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AI has opened a fissure in most large software companies that were once indispensable for
Podcast / 28 Jan, 26
Google has the driver’s seat in the AI race. Who could trip it?
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Siri’s long-awaited updates will now be powered by Gemini. This, on top of Google’s leading market share across categories and handle on the AI supply chain
Column / 24 Jan, 26
‘A very Chinese time’ for OpenAI
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So far, only Wechat seems to have cracked the code to creating an apps-within-an-app ecosystem. Can AI take it to the rest of the
Podcast / 21 Jan, 26
Perplexity’s rug pull in India, AI PCs are the new Chromebooks, Deepseek isn’t an AI company
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Featuring the alternative path to achieving artificial general intelligence
Column / 17 Jan, 26
Sarvam AI’s Rs 10,000 crore pivot
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Is it India’s OpenAI, Scale AI, Palantir, or NIC?
Podcast / 14 Jan, 26
Infosys and Cognizant’s message to Microsoft: Thanks, but we found better AI
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Infosys just announced an org wide roll-out of Devin. Cognizant has picked Lovable for its 350,000 employees, becoming their largest enterprise customer. Where is Microsoft, which had its early advantage?
Column / 10 Jan, 26
AI, 2026, and balancing loops
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AI's momentum is not heading downhill, it has
Podcast / 07 Jan, 26
Anti-AI backlash aids big tech, CEOs and prompt-generated rhetoric, Emergent’s emergence
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Zeus comes back into focus
Column / 03 Jan, 26
Manus gets the best of both worlds—Chinese development for a global product
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The new recipe for AI entrepreneurs is to build in China, relocate, then land a $2 billion
Podcast / 31 Dec, 25
Taking aim for 2026
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Happy new year!
Column / 27 Dec, 25
What we explored in 2025—plus book recommendations!
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Essential reads to cut through the slop, now and into the new
Podcast / 24 Dec, 25
Habitually outlandish valuations, AI’s trough of disillusionment
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We also consider the possibility of creating “nano” versions of one co-host
Column / 20 Dec, 25
The zero-sum stage
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When AI euphoria comes at the cost of everything
Podcast / 17 Dec, 25
Energy engineers, SaaS prices and the moment of AI truth, Broadcom and the bubble
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Plus: suppressing writerly instincts and how to stand out when language is flattened
Column / 13 Dec, 25
Disney capitulates to OpenAI
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Artificial intelligence comes for the entertainment industry
Podcast / 10 Dec, 25
People evaluating people, AI’s changing seasons, shattering the mobile internet
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Can you tell when a piece of music is generated by AI?
Column / 06 Dec, 25
The last keiretsu: Circular deals, weak links, and fair-weather friends
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Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia have rebuilt an old Japanese
Podcast / 03 Dec, 25
One-human unicorns, Suno’s musical future, ‘back to the age of research’
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Also featuring Slop Evader, ‘reinventors’, Antigravity’s hijinks, and a Vine reboot
Column / 29 Nov, 25
Microsoft is losing its lead in AI
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What looked like 4D chess now appears to be a series of
Podcast / 26 Nov, 25
Perplexity kills student incentives, moving past peak Nvidia, the Google Empire strikes back
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What could even stun Sam Altman?
Column / 22 Nov, 25
The shape of the future
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Organisational structures are changing in the era of artificial
Podcast / 19 Nov, 25
Threat models, using taste to defend margins, ChatGPT’s ‘collab’ with Phonepe
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AI’s paperclip problem finally rears its head
Column / 15 Nov, 25
Bubble trouble, and what happens after the burst
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“Too big to fail” gets swallowed by the real leviathans in artificial
Podcast / 12 Nov, 25
‘Made by humans’, Perplexity says the quiet part out loud, AI in courtrooms
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Three ways of discussing artificial intelligence in the legal arena
Column / 08 Nov, 25
India in the age of infinite content
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What happens when a nation experiences the worst effects of AI
Podcast / 05 Nov, 25
Synthetic musical artists, the Nifty Fifty and Magnificent 7, Big AI’s ‘zero f***s given’ era
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Pitch us your most counterintuitive long/short strategy as a hedge against the AI bubble bursting, and you could see it featured in our next show
Column / 01 Nov, 25
The elimination and celebration of drudgery
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AI’s Janus head involves getting rid of organisational inefficiencies while pasting smiles on people who do gruelling
Podcast / 29 Oct, 25
Confronting organisational rot, falling wages in India, Google’s sleeper AI hit
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Easter egg: find out about the roots of the name “Nifty Fifty”
Column / 25 Oct, 25
What hotel light switches say about AI’s future
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There are two ways to be an AI superpower: act with the assumption of abundance, or perfect the scarcity mindset. One will matter much
Podcast / 22 Oct, 25
The wrong race, India needs its own datasets, why AI can’t ‘learn’
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The one with firecrackers going off in the background
Column / 18 Oct, 25
The tech pilgrimage reversal: Bengaluru heads to the Bay
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India’s AI founders and VCs venture west in search of scale, capital, and…
Column / 15 Oct, 25
The gold-rush-shovel-window and deus ex machina
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Predicaments for generative AI through an analogy
Podcast / 15 Oct, 25
Two views of agents, ways to win in India, dreams of an AI distribution platform
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Anthropic vs. OpenAI, in many forms
Column / 11 Oct, 25
ChatGPT brings UPI full circle to credit cards and wallets
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AI is forcing India to “innovate” its way back to the
Podcast / 08 Oct, 25
Anthropic vs. Microsoft, vibe coding cools off, perplexing Perplexity
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Each host brings one idea to this week’s episode of Zero Shot
Column / 04 Oct, 25
The slopking and his subjects
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Four days of Sora and the antics of OpenAI’s
Podcast / 01 Oct, 25
AI product differentiation, living with robots, world models, and extreme leverage
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Plus interactions with AI by the young and old
Column / 27 Sep, 25
China and the AI puck
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The alternate way of becoming an AI
Column / 24 Sep, 25
Why are AIs so hard to trust? It’s not just because they hallucinate
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GPT-5 doesn’t lie as much now, but consumers are still turned
Podcast / 24 Sep, 25
A zebra-striped dinosaur, AI giants colonising the world, and Tiktok’s deal in the US
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A massive storm couldn’t stop The Ken’s latest discussion on AI
Column / 20 Sep, 25
India goes from free internet to free AI
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Resistance to Facebook a decade ago resonates again
