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The Ken

Business news is complex and overwhelming. It doesn’t have to be. Every day of the week, from Monday to Friday, Daybreak tells one business story that’s significant, simple and powerful. Hosted from The Ken’s newsroom by Snigdha Sharma and Rachel Varghese, Daybreak relies on years of original reporting and analysis by…

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Amazon’s quick-commerce win will be less about speed and more about Prime

One year of GST 2.0. Who's it working for?

A cancelled peptide party, and the questions it raised that Indian sellers still can't answer

Why Indigo went budget and premium at once

India's newest iPhone prices hurt the people selling them, buying them and even taxing them

7.8% growth. So why doesn't India feel richer?

Your kids might be looting your bank account in the guise of gaming

⁠India's data law has HDFC Bank, Amazon, Paytm, and others shopping for consent

This week in AI: activist robots, doom-laden researchers — so who's the good guy?

India has more tourists than ever. So why is tourism in trouble?

The Government sold Air India to escape its problems. The fix is to buy back in

Nykaa cracked fashion at last. Myntra sees no reason to panic

Rapido broke the ride-hailing duopoly. Now it's coming for Zomato and Swiggy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ten minutes to your door, no minutes to clean

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

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

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

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

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

LLMs are the new pied pipers of the stock market

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

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

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

Your money is already talking to AI

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

Where to invest Rs 1 lakh, Rs 10 lakh, Rs 1 crore

How some RBI-licensed NBFCs charge 600% interest and stay legal

Zepto beat Instamart. It still couldn't beat the market

India's retirement crisis belongs to the young

India’s study-abroad lenders are forced to choose their plan B. It's India

India solved the wrong oil problem first

Assam's tech dreams run on water that drowns it every year

Why Indian pharma isn't scared of a 100% tariff (yet)

Burger King India finally works but its stock still refuses to celebrate

IT jobs are being remade. Accenture and TCS are the first dominoes to fall

From Bengaluru to Mumbai to Pune, metro projects are colliding with India’s monsoons

Third Wave built a coffee brand. Now it's betting against it

OpenAI's next product is a companion. Its own research says that's the problem

India's monopoly moment

AI gets its health advice from hospitals. Hospitals get it from AI. Neither is right

$15 billion in security deposits: India's tenants are their landlords' cheapest lenders

Cred’s first profitable quarter comes with a trade-off. No, not Kunal Shah

Indian broadcasters are pouring money into reality TV. Netflix's collapsing second seasons show why

Adani made his billions from ports. His new bet is far from the shore

Inside India’s 90-day countdown for CBSE schools to embrace AI

Miss a smartphone EMI, and your lender can now wirelessly strip the ‘smart’ out of it

For India's e-rickshaws, price decides what's safe and virality decides if anyone cares

WhatsApp wants businesses to have a username. It hasn't said who's protected from fakes

Optimist wants to reinvent the AC. Daikin and LG don’t need to

The world's largest advertising agency made $20 billion last year. You've probably never heard of Accenture Song

Daybreak Friday: UPI blinks, Google faces a $4.7B fine, LIC to shoulder India's oil bill, and more

Karnataka let gig workers ask their apps a question. Swiggy, Zomato took the whole law to court

AI is eating your phone's memory and hiking up prices. No, festive sales can't save you either

A royal family’s billion-dollar bet on Indian startups—without a winner

How many ‘bad’ schools make a good private equity investment?

A new class of gig-workers in India are teaching robots to do the dishes

Why Instagram wants to be on your TV now

India's IT sector bet its future on AI access it doesn't actually control

Google and Perplexity paid Jio and Airtel a fortune to reach Indian users. OpenAI paid nobody

Why Mamaearth's 2022 bet on a little-known drone startup is paying off in unexpected places and for unexpected players

India built UPI for the economy. Gamblers built an economy on UPI

When the monsoon fails, India's AI dreams fail with it

Zepto's DRHP underlines the inevitable cost at the heart of quick commerce

Sovereign AI, American law

Why Amazon seems so calm about being awfully late to quick commerce

Can Adani do with apples what Mahindra did with grapes?

India's mango paradox

Analysts say gas prices are about to crash. India still can't afford to celebrate

LIC has lost its throne to SIPs. It’s still the smartest investor in the room

NEET’s switch from pen-and-paper to computer: damned if you do, damned if you don’t