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soas.ac.uk/study/student-… On Ambedkar Jayanti, I'm happy to announce the Beena Sondhi Scholarship for an LLM in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice SOAS University of London Instituted in memory of my late mother who passed away in 1986 , it covers the entire tuition fee and is open for 2025-26

Using Swiggy, Zepto, or Cred? They have access to at least 150 apps on your phone. It’s a dire time to be an Indian consumer, with apps trafficking other apps’ data from users’ phones and engaging in under-the-table deals, reports Abhirami G. the-ken.com/story/using-sw…

We have learned that Maktoob’s X account has been withheld in India in response to a legal demand. We have no knowledge of the reason for the government’s arbitrary action. It is an assault on press freedom. Maktoob pledges to continue its crucial work at a time when truth

As GenAI deconstructs work, Accenture is busy acquiring companies to reconstruct it, aiming to beat TCS’ 10-year game of L&D, reports Abhirami G . zurl.co/Kkhgt

In the age of GenAI, companies are scrambling to deconstruct roles and rebuild them from the ground up. Accenture wants to be a partner in this process - but more than that, it wants to upskill their clients' employees along the way. I write The Ken: the-ken.com/story/accentur…

Kalyan Krishnamurthy has steadied the ship for Flipkart multiple times since he became CEO. A hard taskmaster, he has relied on top SVPs to get the org through its slump. But as execution falters & ideas dry up, execs are being held accountable. Details in my story for The Ken

India’s life insurers lost 26% of their customers this year. Everyone saw it coming. Yet, nobody blinked. The math checked out. The growing defaults in loan-linked insurance products forced them to pull back. Banking experts say the problem lies in loans.

Train AI models, earn up to $50/hr: these firms turn to Indian PhDs, techies, actors 👇 A $14 billion Meta-Scale AI deal has brought sudden visibility to the white-collar gig economy powering OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others. Abhirami G reports: the-ken.com/story/train-ai…

Indians are increasingly being tapped to fill expert roles in STEM, humanities, and other fields by firms such as Turing, Mercor and Deccan AI to train AI models. They, too, are flocking to these jobs in return for good pay, flexible working hours and a chance to upskill in AI.

The nature of AI training as a profession is changing. How are Indians making the most out of it? How sustainable are these jobs? Abhirami G reports: zurl.co/NuwC6

Yellow.ai had $100M, clients, and momentum. Then came ChatGPT, Big Tech. It was one of the earliest movers in conversational AI, with better natural language processing capabilities than any of its rivals. But ChatGPT's rise levelled the field for the industry.

The problem, however, is not limited to just Yellow.ai. Conversational AI as a field has hit a wall, and companies must innovate and broaden their scopes, or risk irrelevance. Abhirami G reports: the-ken.com/story/yellow-a…

Read Sudeshna Ray's scoop here: the-ken.com/story/rs-20000…

Google released the paper that made GenAI possible in 2017. But the tech giant fell behind in the race. Now, in 2025, Gemini, its own AI model, is a mature product in its own right—one that it's getting enterprises to adopt by bundling with its office suite and cloud platform.

In today's longform, Abhirami G reports how Google is making Gemini work for Indian enterprises. the-ken.com/story/google-w…