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India's call centres are using AI to make agents sound American

When you call an Indian call centre these days, the person answering might sound American — even if they've never left India. A new kind of AI can change an agent's accen

Meta's $18 billion child-safety settlement has India looking for the wrong answer

Last week, Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion to settle American lawsuits over how Instagram and Facebook treat children. The app will now be rebuilt around American te

India got cheap Ozempic. No one knows how to sell it

Ozempic went off-patent in India this year, and everyone from Novo Nordisk to Nestlé has rushed in expecting a billion-dollar market. Instead, growth has already stalle

A worker-owned Uber is India's fix for its ever-expanding gig workforce

Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah launched Bharat Taxi, a government-backed, driver-owned ride-hailing service built to take on private players like Ola and U

The best savings product your bank offers is the one it advertises less

At least 44% of Indians have their money sitting in savings accounts. These accounts earn only about a fraction of what a fixed deposit pays. But even though FDs earn mor

The great Indian sugar trap: how a decade of surplus left India with nothing to spare

India is importing sugar for the first time in nearly a decade — a million tonnes, duty-free — to cool prices before the festive season. Four years ago, it exported a rec

Welcome to the 'brain gym': DIY neurotech is now in India, no prescription required

For decades, sending an electric current into the brain meant a hospital, a doctor, and a diagnosis. A Bengaluru startup called Mave Health wants to move it into your dai

Banks are being asked to become “cool” for Gen Z. Their problem isn't branding

India's finance minister wants public sector banks to get "cool" for Gen Z. With yoga vouchers, youth kiosks, awareness campaigns. But the numbers tell a different stor

Ten minutes to your door, no minutes to clean

Tukaram Mundhe, Maharashtra's food-safety chief, has gone viral this month for shutting famous restaurants and even noticing Shah Rukh Khan over an ad . Earlier this mont

India trains more ethical hackers than anywhere else. It just can't give them a reason to stay

When Nisarga Adhikary found critical flaws in CBSE's exam portal, the board denied it. So he broke back in, filmed it, and left anime videos running on their servers. II

India's $60 billion data-center bet, and the jobs it won't actually create

Every Indian state wants to be the country's data-centre capital. Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra. They're all handing out land, power, decades of tax breaks, all

Why Tata 1mg thinks speed is the wrong bet in pharma

Tata 1mg just reported revenue of nearly 3,000 crore rupees for the last financial year, roughly ten times what it earned when Tata took control, and it is turning a prof

India cracked the code on microdramas. It also cracked the timer

China's microdrama industry took nearly eight years — and real government money — to reach the point where regulators had to step in over AI-flooded, quality-degraded con

The more AI can do your job, the safer it may be

India built its IT industry on millions of coders doing exactly the work generative AI now does in seconds. So everyone knew who would feel the pressure first. The data

LLMs are the new pied pipers of the stock market

An HSBC survey found that 86% of affluent Indian investors are now using AI in their trading. That's the highest share of any country surveyed, above China, Singapore, an

India banned Chinese drones. Army, CRPF, and BSF can’t stop using them

India has been talking about drones a lot lately, from Operation Sindoor to the government's $2 billion plan for combat drones. But long before that, in the forests of

Anthropic just made Claude-assisted content traceable. Not everyone is happy

Earlier this week, Anthropic began stamping an invisible watermark into the text and images Claude generates. The move came in order to comply with the EU AI Act but it w

Did your ticket to The Odyssey cost a bomb? Blame Hollywood's China problem

The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day just broke India's box office records back to back — and PVR Inox's stock jumped almost 20% in the process. It looks like proof

Your money is already talking to AI

From platforms like Cred, Zerodha, and Groww integrating AI assistants, to Sebi-registered advisors now using AI to generate personalised investment recommendations, the

Casual dining doesn't scale like fast food. Bharti is betting on Olive Garden anyway

On a hot Thursday evening in Delhi, people are queuing outside India's first Olive Garden. Some found it on Instagram. Others wandered over from the business park next do