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“Everyone is ignoring the 800 pound gorilla in the room. The truth is that the tool doesn’t matter unless the IT company adopting them cannot translate it into increased revenue or reduced cost. And that’s the problem” That’s Sidu Ponappa, our first guest on Zero Shot. Sidu is CEO and co-founder of Realfast, a company that uses AI to accelerate Salesforce implementations. Today’s Zero Shot episode...

Welcome to Zero Shot , a weekly podcast by The Ken where Praveen, Brady, and Rohin ponder the latest developments in artificial intelligence—in India and around the world. This week, Brady starts by considering how backlashes against AI—whether it stems from job displacement, data centre construction, or general unease and uncertainty—gives major tech companies the conditions to centralise the int...

It’s the end of 2025, so we don’t have a full episode of Zero Shot for you today. This podcast launched in September, and we’ve produced 14 episodes for you so far. We’ve covered a wide range of topics, and our conversations—between Praveen, Rohin, and Brady—only work because you’re willing to sit with the complexities we wade into.  We know artificial intelligence will move fast in 2026, so we’ll...

Welcome to Zero Shot , The Ken’s weekly podcast that interprets the latest big moves in artificial intelligence—in India and around the world. This week, Praveen is on leave, but our two other co-hosts held down the fort.  Brady took inspiration from the tagline of a game show, Whose Line Is It Anyway? , to consider some of the wild claims and projections made by OpenAI. Aside from CEO Sam Altman’...

Welcome back to Zero Shot , where Brady, Praveen, and Rohin take on the big ideas and latest developments in artificial intelligence every Wednesday. This week, Praveen looks at a new future career in India—the energy engineer. With Amazon and Microsoft committing to a combined $52.5 billion of investments in India, these tech giants’ data centres will require immense power. India currently doesn’...

Welcome back to Zero Shot, where Rohin, Praveen, and Brady deliver their takes on new developments in artificial intelligence every Wednesday. This week, Rohin considers how AI will change the way employers hire. With AI-generated responses being the norm, hiring managers see a larger variation between the quality of submitted materials and in-person interviews than ever before. Applicants might n...

Welcome back to Zero Shot , where Praveen, Brady, and Rohin discuss the biggest moves in artificial intelligence. This week, Brady mulls over the possibility of running a one-human unicorn—an idea whose most vocal proponent is Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO. He references the second season of Shell Game , a podcast where the host is experimenting with building a startup involving AI agent co-founders an...

Welcome back to Zero Shot , where Brady, Praveen, and Rohin offer their perspectives on the latest developments in artificial intelligence. This week, Praveen describes how Perplexity aborted its Campus Partner Programme in India after allegations of fraud surfaced. In a bid to drum up usage for its Comet browser, Perplexity had rolled out a referral-for-pay system, enticing students to convince o...

Welcome back to Zero Shot , where Rohin, Praveen, and Brady discover new ideas and interpretations of the latest developments in artificial intelligence. This week, Rohin wonders what the threats are in our regular usage of AI tools and platforms. Conventional ways of safeguarding against exploits work to an extent, but new vectors are emerging for those who are criminally inclined. Brady encounte...

Welcome back to Zero Shot, The Ken’s weekly discussion where Brady, Praveen, and Rohin go beyond the headlines to probe the major shake-ups in artificial intelligence. This week, Brady notices how media producers and creators emphasising how their work is “made by humans”.  This type of disclaimer looks like the beginning of a bifurcation of content into AI-generated output and “handcrafted” media...

Welcome back to Zero Shot, The Ken’s weekly podcast where Brady, Praveen, and Rohin riff off each other’s commentary about the big ideas and latest developments in artificial intelligence. This week, Praveen covers the accomplishments of Xania Monet, the first AI-powered artist to debut on an airplay chart. Xania is among at least six AI artists to be included on Billboard rankings, and she’s the...

Welcome to Zero Shot, where Brady, Praveen, and Rohin tackle the big ideas and latest developments in artificial intelligence for The Ken . This week, Brady conjectures that AI adoption by enterprises hasn’t been a failure, even though many billions of dollars have been spent on generative AI pilot projects with zero return. Instead of thinking of AI as a productivity multiplier or “virtual collea...

Welcome to Zero Shot, where Brady, Praveen, and Rohin tackle the big ideas and latest developments in artificial intelligence for The Ken . This week, Brady looked at the narrative collapse in how US tech executives react to AI development in China. Compliments that previously carried a sense of talking down at “losing” competitors are being replaced by a sense of urgency and alarm. It’s becoming...

Welcome to Zero Shot , where Brady, Praveen, and Rohin comment on the big ideas and latest developments in artificial intelligence for The Ken . This week, Brady unpacks how two popular agents for software engineering represent opposing visions of working with AI. Claude Code’s more human-like way of engaging gives users a vastly different experience from the “all business, all the time” approach...

Welcome to Zero Shot, The Ken’s podcast where Rohin, Praveen, and Brady connect from Bengaluru and Hong Kong to cover the big ideas and latest developments in artificial intelligence.  This week, Brady discussed how even though Claude Sonnet 4.5 caught attention by autonomously building an application similar to Slack or Microsoft Teams in 30 hours, an overlooked aspect of the model’s rollout was...

Welcome to Zero Shot, The Ken’s podcast where Praveen, Brady, and Rohin connect from Bengaluru and Hong Kong to dive into the big ideas and latest developments in artificial intelligence. In this episode, the hosts attempt to figure out whether AI companies can truly differentiate their products when interfaces look identical, and whether the launch of OpenAI’s Pulse feed and Perplexity Search API...

Welcome to the first episode of Zero Shot, The Ken’s podcast on artificial intelligence. Hosts Brady, Praveen, and Rohin connect from Hong Kong and Bengaluru—braving a typhoon—to dive into the big ideas shaping the world of AI. In this debut episode, the hosts explore the provocative analogy of whether the world’s biggest AI companies are using the colonial playbook to enter markets like India, an...

Join Brady Ng, Praveen Gopal Krishnan, and Rohin Dharmakumar of The Ken as they discuss the big ideas in artificial intelligence. You’ll get the macro view, explore their experiments in practical applications, go deeper than the news coverage you’ve seen, and hear about the implications of the latest developments. Nothing is off the table.