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Ketharaman Swaminathan 
India has 800 million Internet users. Fiji has 0.8 million Internet users. Still the latest global digitalization index ranks India below Fiji because 70% of Fiji nationals have access to the Internet as against 60% of Indians. This is absurd, as Deepak Mishra says in his op-ed titled “Make (Indices) in India” in the Economic … Read more
In Why Media Can’t Be Neutral, I speculated many reasons why media will inevitably exhibit bias. While the common man or woman (henceforth J6P) might agree with those reasons, I don’t expect them to accept the status quo since everyone needs objective sources to know the facts and make up their mind on social, economical and … Read more
Every time a stock tanks after an IPO, the common man or woman (henceforth J6P) blames Securities and Exchange Board of India, the securities / capital markets regulator of India. The common rants against SEBI are Loss-making companies were allowed to IPO The offer price was too high Promoters dumped their shares on retail investors … Read more
Fintech Mafia Carousel Pumping is the circular shilling of one another’s financial products and services by a bunch of fintech founders with least regard for truth or consumer interest. I recently came across the following exhibit of Fintech Mafia Carousel Pumping on LinkedIn. Why do some of us trust Barclays or Bank of America more … Read more
To: editet@timesgroup.com Subject: No More Business Class? Dear Editor of Economic Times: This has reference to the op-ed titled “No More Business Class?” by Ludovic Subran in today’s edition of Economic Times. Having lived in several European countries for many years and observed the regulatory regime in the Continent up close, I totally agree with … Read more
There’s a lot of public discourse about media neutrality (or the lack of it). People keep telling journalists, “Just state the facts and spare the opinion.” According to me, unbiased media is a myth. As Hunter S. Thompson said 50 years ago, objective journalism is impossible barring a few exceptions like box scores for sports … Read more
To: editet@timesgroup.com Subject: Big Tech, Don’t Be A Big Brother Dear Editor of Economic Times: This has reference to the op-ed entitled Big Tech, Don’t Be A Big Brother by Dhanendra Kumar, Former Chairman, Competition Commission of India (CCI), in The Economic Times. This article is full of factual and logical inaccuracies. Let me list … Read more
On the one hand, there are 48 Payments Services Providers offering UPI payments in India. Which is a lot. On the other hand, many people say there are very few UPI players and claim that there’s a huge concentration risk in UPI. This FUD narrative has scaled new heights after RBI recently cracked down on … Read more
OpenAI released GPT-4o yesterday. Pronounced “Four Oh”, the latest version of GPT combines audio, vision, and text in a single Large Language Model. I got access to GPT-4o earlier today. (For the uninitiated, existing users of ChatGPT don’t have to look for any subscription / invitation link for 4o. As and when it’s enabled for … Read more
In Ten Revolutionary Things About AI – Part 1, we described five gamechangers about ChatGPT and other Generative Artificial Intelligence platforms. In this Part 2, we shall cover five more revolutionary things about AI. 6. Weird Regulatory Proposals There are broadly two lobbies for regulating Gen AI: A) Closed Source (via Sam Altman and Vinod … Read more