The Digital Wallet Decade: How eSewa, Khalti and FonePay Rewired Nepali Money
From topping up Rs 100 on dial-up-era eSewa to scanning QR codes at street tea stalls โ how three wallets built the rails half of Nepal now stands on.
Can AI Actually Speak Nepali? We Stress-Tested the Big Models on Devanagari
Inside NEPSE: A Beginner's Field Guide to Nepal's Stock Exchange
Fiber in the Valleys, Satellites on the Peaks: The Next Decade of Nepali Internet
The Inflation Endgame: What Happens After the Last Hike
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The Subscription Economy Hits Its Reset
After a decade of endless recurring revenue, consumers are cancelling. The next phase rewards utility over billing.
mRNA Is Not a One-Hit Wonder: The Vaccine Platform Era
After COVID, mRNA hit a research wall. Now the platform is back with a pipeline of cancer, RSV and personalised shots.
The Quiet Collapse of the Gasoline Engine
Even before the last EV mandate, the internal-combustion engine is being engineered out of new showrooms on economics alone.
Local LLMs Are Finally Cheaper Than Cloud APIs
Open-weight models on commodity GPUs have crossed the price-performance line for a growing share of production workloads.
Remittances Are the Largest Foreign-Exchange Engine Nobody Funds
Money sent home by migrant workers dwarfs foreign aid and rivals FDI โ and it is finally getting cheaper to send.
Vertical AI Agents Are Eating the SaaS Layer
Generic CRM and ERP are being bypassed by AI agents trained on one industry's workflows.
CRISPR Is Quietly Becoming a Cure Business
Gene editing moved from headlines to clinics: first approved therapies, then a queue of rare-disease cures.
Solid-State Batteries: Why 2028 Is the Real Deadline
Every automaker has a solid-state demo; the hard part is manufacturing one at scale. The race is now a supply-chain problem.
Agents That Actually Work: The Rise of Tool-Use Models
The agent hype cycle is cooling into something useful: models natively trained to call tools, verify results and retry.
The Rise of De-dollarization: Real or Narrative?
Central banks bought gold at record pace and shifted reserves. The dollar's dominance is eroding โ slowly and asymmetrically.
Buyer-Led Growth: The B2B Sales Motion That Killed Cold Calling
B2B buyers now research, trial and buy before talking to a rep. Companies are rebuilding funnels around that reality.
AI Drug Discovery Passed Its First Real Clinical Test
The first molecules designed end-to-end by AI have entered the clinic. Early results vindicate the hype โ partly.
L2+ Autonomy Is Good Enough to Stop Selling Safety
Driver-assist systems have quietly become the product differentiator that matters more than horsepower.
The MCP Gold Rush: How Model Context Protocol Is Remaking AI Tools
Anthropic's open protocol turned every SaaS tool into a potential AI plugin โ and startups are racing to build the plumbing.
The Laptop-Bag Economy: How Remote Work Is Rewiring Kathmandu
Time-zone arbitrage, dollar salaries in rupee cities, and the cafes quietly becoming offices โ what the remote-work wave is really doing to Nepal's capital and its young workforce.