·The Geopolitics of AI
India’s AI Moment
As major powers turn artificial intelligence towards science and national security, India must widen its AI vision beyond inclusion and productivity
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·The Geopolitics of AI
India’s AI Gambit: The Choices That Will Define Power
Speed is not strategy. The real battle is over sovereignty, science and state capacity
·AI Ethics & Governance
Revolution Inside AI
As the world fixates on large language models, a quieter shift toward world models, scientific AI and safety is reshaping global power
·Corporate Strategy
The Best Stories of 2025
Ten of our best work through the year—on business, leadership, and geopolitical trends
·Corporate Strategy
The New Perimeter of National Security
Why India’s corporate leaders can no longer separate digital risk from strategic resilience
·AI Ethics & Governance
The Crow Syndrome of AI
When machines, like humans, fail to see difference—and turn bias into code
·AI Ethics & Governance
Are LLMs Just Clever Parrots?
Inside the growing chorus of doubt from AI’s own pioneers
·AI Ethics & Governance
The Rage of Parents
Around the world, families are fighting back against AI harms. Why is India still silent?
·AI Ethics & Governance
Oppenheimer’s Lesson for the Age of AI
As with the atomic bomb, a new technology threatens humanity. Will we look up this time—or repeat history’s worst mistake?
·AI Ethics & Governance
The Love of One’s Tongue in the Age of AI
AI can speak in dozens of tongues — but often thinks in just one. Why India must lead in building systems fluent in its own realities
·Corporate Strategy
John Kay on Purpose, Profit—and the Perils of Thinking Like a Hare
In conversation with D Shivakumar, the acclaimed economist revisits the soul of business—from Boeing’s fall to Apple's hollow shell—and what real strategy should look like
·AI Ethics & Governance
The Ubuntu of AI: South Africa's Moral Imagination
What does artificial intelligence look like when viewed through the lens of justice, solidarity, and Ubuntu?
·The Geopolitics of AI
India’s AI Gambit
What will it take for India to lead, not just react, in the age of AI? An exclusive Founding Fuel - NatStrat Live session
·AI Ethics & Governance
When AI Cheats Its Creators
Deception is no longer a human trait. AI has learned it too
·AI Ethics & Governance
The Magic of Korean AI
While the world fixates on AI breakthroughs in the US and China, South Korea is crafting a distinctive and balanced model—powered by innovation and governed by foresight
·The Geopolitics of AI
India’s AI Gambit: Exploring Our Strategic Options
How India can shape, not just follow, the global rules of AI governance
·The New AI Enterprise Architecture
Beyond AI: A new dawn
Most AI today works within the boundaries set by human designers. New tools like Google's AutoML-Zero challenge that boundary
·AI Ethics & Governance
AI in Health and Biology: The Good, Bad and Ugly
AI can detect disease and find medicines which no doctor can. It can also develop biological weapons which do not exist on the earth
·AI Ethics & Governance
At the top and bottom of the AI debate
Along the march of AI, two issues need attention: one is of regulation. The other, equally critical, is ensuring that the poor can access and learn the best and latest tech
·Corporate Strategy
My top ten business books of 2024
The best books of the year on how the past informs the future, tackling tough situations, and technology
·Boards, Governance and Ethical Leadership
Creative marketing in the digital age: How far is too far?
Marketing lessons from the Poonam Pandey episode
·Corporate Strategy
Eight best business books of 2023
An annual round up of the most memorable books of the year
·Corporate Strategy
Adani’s NDTV takeover: The end game
The three-month-long takeover saga is reaching its climax. What happens next? (Updated on December 6, and December 24, 2022)
·Corporate Strategy
What’s holding up Gautam Adani’s takeover of NDTV?
More than two-and-a-half months have passed since Adani announced its intent. And yet there is no sign of a quick closure, as it was widely anticipated
·Corporate Strategy
FF Insights #677: Go directly to the source
June 21, 2022: The Sridhar Vembu story; Musk on Twitter; Confusion compounded
·Corporate Strategy
A battle of unequals
As the Adani group pushes through the doors at NDTV, owners Prannoy and Radhika Roy find themselves with their backs to the wall. What are their options?
·Corporate Strategy
FF Insights #646: After Steve Jobs
May 9, 2022: The danger of a single story; The trouble with Congress; Quality vs. price
·AI Ethics & Governance
FF Daily #512: Scams and heists in the world of AI and remote working
November 1, 2021: Mark Zuckerberg on the metaverse; Air India’s Maharaja; Stay quiet
·Corporate Strategy
FF Daily #404: When your company is like a city or a nation
June 22, 2021: Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh on blitzscaling; India’s vaccine barons; The poaching wave; The disciple
·Corporate Strategy
FF Daily #294: Charlie Munger on the advantage of scale
February 9, 2021: Informational advantage; The value of good governance; On personal renewal; The real trolley problem
·Conscious Capitalism and Ethical Business
FF Daily #217: The ladder of business responsibility
October 30, 2020: The Endowment Effect; How to make boring interesting; When pandemic demolishes your USP
·Corporate Strategy
Survive, revive, thrive: Pathway to business recovery
How can businesses claw their way back, past survival and into growth? They’ll need to conserve cash, clean up their governance so that banks will not hesitate to lend, and embrace digital transformation. Highlights from a panel discussion organised by Ficci Flo
·AI Ethics & Governance
Why we are fascinated—and scared—by AI
This Week in Disruptive Tech | July 22, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
·Corporate Strategy
Masterclass: India Inc’s New Data Privacy Imperative
A personal data protection law is imminent. How should businesses prepare for the changing landscape? What problems are we likely to face along the road?
·Business Model Innovation
For a platform, how much control is too much control?
Commercial platforms that grew on the internet—from Facebook to Twitter, Airbnb to Oyo, Uber to Ola, Swiggy to Zomato—are struggling to find a balance
·AI Ethics & Governance
Not AI alone but AI + ethics
AI systems may be making important decisions that will fundamentally affect the lives of Indians. For AI to be truly transformative though, its ethical biases need to be rooted out
·AI Ethics & Governance
‘As machines become more intelligent, they also become unpredictable’
In 2016, Go world champion Lee Sedol lost to AlphaGo, Google’s Go-playing AI program. How did the program do this? And why does this feat matter? Kartik Hosanagar answers that in this extract from his book, ‘A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence’
·Conscious Capitalism and Ethical Business
The ROI on goodness
It makes more economic sense for business to be good in the longer run
·Boards, Governance and Ethical Leadership
Riders on the storm
Two of India’s iconic companies—Tata Steel and ITC—find themselves at the cusp of a huge upheaval. And it once again raises serious questions about the role of the board in supervising executive management
·M&A and Cultural Integration
How will the Mindtree-L&T takeover battle pan out? Nine questions answered
The Mindtree founders want to retain their firm’s unique culture. And have chosen to strongly rebuff L&T’s takeover attempt. But as things stand, the odds seem stacked against the founders as they try to block the $18 billion megacorp from taking control. A prognosis of what could happen next
·The Geopolitics of AI
AI as a global public good, a digitised world, and why philosophy matters
Feb 19, 2019: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: artificial intelligence, augmented reality, ethics in tech
·Business Model Innovation
The moral crisis at Facebook
Is it because of its business model, its culture, or something deeper?
·AI Ethics & Governance
Man versus machine: The humanity of intelligence
While artificial intelligence is a force for good, there are times it ought to be deliberately dissed. Else, we run the risk of losing our humanity
·AI Ethics & Governance
AlphaGo versus Kasparov, Puchu and Champu
That artificial intelligence is here to stay seems a given. But Garry Kasparov and I believe we aren’t going any place. My little girls need us
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
Can artificial intelligence augment humankind? Or is it a threat?
In conversation with Prof Brad Nelson, who is known for his research in microrobotics, nanorobotics, and medical robotics. He was named in the 2005 “Scientific American 50” list recognising outstanding leaders in science and technology
·AI, Leadership & Decision Making
What to do about artificial intelligence
Make it work for the poor, two tech leaders say
·Boards, Governance and Ethical Leadership
Behind the Infosys brouhaha
Clearly, the founders at Infosys have a right to be heard. But they may have raked up needless controversy, in a desperate bid to belittle the board and the CEO.
·Boards, Governance and Ethical Leadership
The Tata-Mistry battle royale: No endgame in sight
The ball is in Cyrus Mistry’s court. But does he really have enough ammo to make Ratan Tata blink? If he does, it could force a truce and a possible mediation. Here are some possible scenarios
·Boards, Governance and Ethical Leadership
The silence of the lambs
The Tata-Mistry fight isn’t just about washing dirty linen in public. It is a wake-up call for Indian enterprises to start the cleansing process from within