Ketan Kakkad

They said news was broken. We are building the fix. | Founder @thenewspub / AIForge | ex-Microsoft CTO | Building AI-powered media, one publication at a time.

[Ketan Kakkad @ketanusa]

"Our apps are safe because they live behind our corporate VPN."

This is the ultimate comfort blanket in IT security—and it's a trap. Internal apps are actually 6x MORE likely to contain hardcoded configurations than public ones.
#AIGovernance #AIRisks

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[Ketan Kakkad @ketanusa]

FIFA World Cup 2026 Quarter-Finals may not be as pricey as what many predicted them to be!

[Hub.Soccer @hubDotsoccer]

Think you’re priced out of the World Cup Quarter-Finals? Think again. Resale ticket prices are down nearly 50% over a rolling seven-day period, highlighted by a staggering crash in Philadelphia.
#WorldCup2026 #WorldCupTickets #TravelHacks #HubSoccer

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[Ketan Kakkad @ketanusa]

Do you think your enterprise is better prepared than Anthropic?

#Claude #anthropic #enterpriseai

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[Ketan Kakkad @ketanusa]

Worth your 3 minutes!

I usually keep myself out of meaningless arguments & useless discourses. If I was to take a helicopter view of my personal experiences, percentage of extraordinary, good, & evil humans I have seen didn't change even a bit based on color of one's skin!!

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

Every civilization practiced slavery.

The West was the first to end it - globally.

And we did so on moral grounds.

Students aren’t taught that.

Instead, they’re taught to hate white people and the West.

[Ketan Kakkad @ketanusa]

From years to 8 weeks. 🤯- the era of "AI-designed biology" is here compressing the timeline of biological discovery by 95%!

Researchers just used #AI to generate "AIcrs" (synthetic anti-#CRISPRs) that shut down #gene editing with nanomolar precision.

https://t.co/0U6tiKQ15o

[Ketan Kakkad @ketanusa]

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[TheNewsPublisher.com @thenewspub]

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[Ketan Kakkad @ketanusa]

@garrytan I don’t know this person personally, but have been following him for some time.

He is not Asian, but imagine the wonders @JConrBOrtega can do for San Francisco if BOOM LOOP took him under your wings.

Check out his work in his posts.

https://t.co/qld5okSABw

[JConr 傑·康納 @JConrBOrtega]

The Mayor @DanielLurie says San Francisco is on the rise. Nothing says on the rise than hiding an empty mall with colourful wallpaper so no one can see the carcass of what used to be.

[Ketan Kakkad @ketanusa]

**BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD!**

Run for an elected office and emerge as a leader with integrity to give #sanfrancisco the leadership she deserves….
SF BOOM LOOP and @garrytan ‘s network will mentor and support you.

Here, amplified the message…

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

THE SF BOOM LOOP NEEDS YOU

I am backing the San Francisco Leadership and Mentorship Program for Asian Americans.

If you are a builder, problem solver, or community leader ready to step up to elected office, this is for you. Apply now via this link:

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[Ketan Kakkad @ketanusa]

Founder and builder myself, here. And I found this video not just inspirational, but has something tangible, spoken in a plain language without any mumbo-jumbo jargons.

This is my second Must Watch share for the week.

[Ketan Kakkad @ketanusa]

Must watch…

…and mind you, I don’t share many of these but today, I am going to share two. This is the first one.

[Ketan Kakkad @ketanusa]

@alex_prompter @thenewspub disclaimer:
Don’t want to give impression that TNP has solved what Stanford research highlighted as RAG bottleneck.

Shared above response to highlight that even in my nanoscale use case, we ran into RAG limitations.

[Ketan Kakkad @ketanusa]

@alex_prompter Alex, thank you for such an insightful share! I loved it and became a fan-follower :-).

While my work is nowhere near as complex as the research you shared, I have spent 15 months heads down on @thenewspub & after 30K+ articles, I have solved at least a nano scale use case.

[aditya @adxtyahq]

Someone curated 925 failed VC-backed startups, broke down why they failed, and how to make it work with today’s tech -

https://t.co/NFUhrhe7P2

Cool fr🙌

[BiotechTV @BiotechTV]

𝐒𝐅 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤: Meet some of the incredible Female Biotech CEO leaders of the Biotech CEO Sisterhood!

[Ketan Kakkad @ketanusa]

@omooretweets demonstrated this perfectly: The #Netflix Model is the blueprint for AI data access 2026 & beyond.

Instead of buying data a la carte, AI giants offer subscribers an all-you-can-eat buffet of licensed data. This is why we are building @thenewspub.

[Olivia Moore @omooretweets]

This is the first example I've seen where subscribing to an AI agent gets you access to proprietary, paid data.

SimilarWeb offers just 1 month of data on a free plan.

On a Manus plan (free or paid), you can now get 12 months of SimilarWeb data.

[Ketan Kakkad @ketanusa]

@omooretweets Olivia,

We are shifting into the #Netflix model for data access.

Well-capitalized #AI giants negotiate bulk access to proprietary data, offering an all-you-can-eat buffet to subscribers.

Do you also see this as 2026+ blueprint for data access and dissemination?

[Ketan Kakkad @ketanusa]

Words of Wisdom for the Younger Generation
"The only significant disparity between your fresh perspective and my decades of experience is the wisdom I've gained along the way. Everything else is a level playing field… (rest of the message in the attached image)

[Ketan Kakkad @ketanusa]

Earlier, I engaged in a healthy dialogue with some in @X community - discussing challenges, opportunities and development of #India over the past decade.

This serves as an example of remarkable transformation that’s possible when it’s done right!

@PMOIndia
@Gujarat_Plus

[Ketan Kakkad @ketanusa]

And of course, thanks a million @StartupArchive_ for surfacing these stories. 🙏🏽

You have no idea how much such stories help thousands of founders like me who watch this and find yet another reason to believe that whatever we are working on, that journey is worth it!

[Ketan Kakkad @ketanusa]

What many perceive as overnight success as in the case of @Instacart , listen to Apoorva Mehta talk about his journey - how they ran and fulfilled the orders in early days!

Most people who have never spend a day outside their corp. job immunity bubble can’t even imagine!

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Instacart founder Apoorva Mehta on doing things that don’t scale

“Y Combinator encourages startups to do things that don’t scale. I find that this is one of the biggest competitive advantages that a startup has over a larger company… The idea is that once your product has demand, you can figure out how to scale your product.”

Apoorva explains how in the early days of Instacart customers could place orders even if there weren’t shoppers online to fulfill those orders.

“Of course, this meant that I would drop everything I was doing and fulfill the order myself.”

They also ran into the issue that Trader Joe’s didn’t have an API or website with catalog of the items in the store. So the team literally went to their local Trader Joe’s, bought one of every single item, took it back to their office, photographed every single item, and manually entered it in the Instacart catalog.

“Using the same unscalable techniques, we added Whole Foods, Costco and many other stores, and we realized we had the best product in the market.”

Having the best product on the market allowed Instacart to quickly expand to 10 cities and maintain 10% week over week growth for 20 weeks. This traction would allow Instacart to raise more money, hire more people, and then make everything scalable.

Video source: @ycombinator (2014)