Artificial intelligence cannot match the human capacity to type a sentence, stare at the sentence, delete the sentence, make a sandwich, and retype the same sentence

To all the students out there, we have some exciting news! We're partnering with The Ken for their first-ever Case Study Competition, where students across India will compete to solve real-world business challenges over the next two months. We love supporting initiatives

Flat revenues, falling stock, struggling IT services—but HCLTech’s mostly hidden semiconductor bet might just save the day. The ties with TSMC, Samsung, and the GenAI boom could give it the much-needed silicon edge, write Abhirami G and @ShristiAchar. the-ken.com/story/chips-to…

The last thing EBITDA sees before it's adjusted

VCs and techies are turning India into a nation of hired hands. Since 2010, VCs have poured nearly $20 billion into startups powered by gig workers—13% of all tech funding—fueling a vast ecosystem of odd jobs on demand.

🚨 The Ken's first subscriber event is on 24 March! What if the current market correction is the beginning of a long and dark winter? How should one plan for it? Rohin Dharmakumar and Praveen Gopal Krishnan will be discussing this with Zerodha's Nithin Kamath and Capitalmind's Deepak Shenoy.

Since Studio Ghibli is trending, worth noting the mind-boggling effort Hayao Miyazaki and his team put into a film. Each has 60k-70k frames, all hand-drawn and painted with water color. This 4-second clip (“The Wind Rises”) took one animator 15 months to do. In the documentary

Historians will marvel at how the world ran out of ventilators just a few years before it mastered the crucial ability to turn selfies into Ghibli-style art.

Tata Electronics took a painful bet on the iPhone. Luck is doing the rest. The Tata company is bleeding for scale, but its iPhone bet has turned into a geopolitical win—despite high worker churn, rising automation costs, and profit still being far off.

Read the full story @ShristiAchar and Sumit Chakraborty here: the-ken.com/story/tata-ele…

Right brain: After a while, finally, we will get to see some innovation in hardware. Left brain: Unless OpenAI gets some good product folks, the Ive-Altman computers are going to be super blah!

I may be a terrible person but Veo 3 sinkhole videos are my favorite new genre of comedy

Starlink found a partner in Airtel Africa. In India, it found paperwork. In Africa, a partnership gives Starlink scale, licences, and legitimacy. In India, it’s stuck navigating regulation, pricing, and politics… mostly alone.

Starlink secured commercial licences in nine countries across Africa in less time than it took to get one licence in India. How come? What can India learn from the African model? Read this week's Make India Competitive Again by Sumit Chakraborty here: the-ken.com/newsletter/mak…

This is also what makes Sify Infinit’s IPO oddly refreshing:It’s not selling a fantasy of sovereign AI or a proprietary foundation model. It’s selling megawatts. Read this week's edition of 'Make India Competitive Again' by Sumit Chakraborty here: the-ken.com/newsletter/mak…

How Forest Essentials chose ‘anti-growth’ to thrive in beauty and found a suitor in global major Estée Lauder. Sumit Chakraborty writes in this week's 'The Collection': the-ken.com/?post_type=the…