The Ledger That Never Shipped
Forty months of cross-border wire transfers trace a single shell entity moving ₹112 crore through three ports — and a compliance team that quietly deleted the audit trail.
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The best product strategy frameworks product leaders actually use
Playing to Win, Rumelt’s Kernel, Jobs to Be Done, the North Star, Wardley Mapping and the Supply Chain of Intelligence — seven frameworks, seven different questions.
Insurance Is Retreating From the Climate Frontline
LondonWhen insurers leave, they take mortgages, businesses and town budgets with them. The withdrawal is becoming a slow-motion crisis of its own.
Battery Recycling Is Becoming a Real Industry
BangkokThe first wave of electric-vehicle batteries is reaching end of life. A recycling sector built for trickles is learning to handle a flood.
Open-Weight AI Models Are Closing the Gap — and Changing the Argument
San FranciscoThe best open models now rival the frontier on many tasks. That shifts the debate from capability to control.
Telemedicine After the Boom: The Rules Get Real
LondonThe pandemic made video doctor visits normal. Now regulators are deciding which parts of the experiment were worth keeping.
The Chip Industry Is Running Short of People
BangkokGovernments are spending hundreds of billions on fabs. The binding constraint may turn out to be engineers, technicians and the teachers who train them.
Digital Public Infrastructure Becomes an Export
DelhiIndia built identity, payments and data-sharing as public rails. Now dozens of countries want the same — and the governance questions travel with the technology.