$2 Trillion U-Turn: Did AI Just Grow a Conscience?
Click here to watch a video of this episode. In seventy-two hours the AI industry asked to slow down, OpenAI shelved a trillion-dollar listing, and the President called the whole thing a hoax on speak...
18 Sep 22min
AI Shopping Wars. Why OpenAI Quit. Google Didn't and Anthropic Went Free.
Click here to watch a video of this episode. Walmart's checkout inside ChatGPT converted at a third of the rate of its own site, and six months later OpenAI shut Instant Checkout with twelve Shopify m...
14 Sep 10min
UPI at 10: The World's Biggest Payment Network Isn't a Company
Click here to watch a video of this episode. UPI cleared 373 transactions in its first month in 2016. In July 2026 it cleared 23.66 billion in a single month, worth close to 30 lakh crore rupees. Ten ...
1 Sep 32min
The Truth About Google's Brain Drain: It's Not About People, It's About Chips
Click here to watch a video of this episode. Alphabet lost roughly $200 billion of market value in the eleven days after 5 August, close to a full year of its own AI infrastructure budget. On 14 Augus...
21 Aug 10min
Stripe's Shopping Spree: OpenRouter, PayPal and the $50 Billion Tell
Click here to watch a video of this episode. Stripe has agreed to pay more than $7 billion for OpenRouter, a company valued at $1.3 billion in May. In the same season it has bid $60.50 a share, roughl...
18 Aug 9min
The $1,600 Problem with Elon Musk's X Money's 6% Rate
Click here to watch a video of this episode. What if a new banking product offered you a staggering 6% interest on cash deposits and 3% cash back on spending? Sounds too good to be true, right? In thi...
3 Aug 12min
S2E21 — Trump Accounts: The Good, The Bad and The Non Obvious
Click here to watch a video of this episode. Trump Accounts give every American child born between 2025 and 2028 a $1,000 investment account, seeded by the US Treasury. Left alone it grows to about $2...
29 Jul 16min
Analyzing Stripe's $53 Bilion PayPal Acquisition: Implications for the Future of Payments in Fintech Landscape
What happens when a $53 billion PayPal acquisition offer shakes the foundations of the payments industry? Join hosts Aman Narain and Zubin Vandrevala in this gripping episode of A2Z Fintech as they di...
21 Jul 21min
