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An investigation into India's scam economy shows how mass unemployment and inequality have turned fraud into a booming industry. What began with call center cons has expanded across social media, powered by underemployed youth who see deception as legitimate work. Using scripts and stolen data to target victims worldwide, they reflect a society where economic desperation and weak enforcement have blurred the line between ambition and deceit.
With full creative control and minimal budget, Quality Meats delivered a 50-spot campaign for Mr. Submarine that combined scrappy execution with regional pride. The team used low-budget visuals, Chicago improv actors, and nostalgic jingles to create a series that was both chaotic and deeply ingrained in local culture. The initiative showed how unconventional ideas can be converted into high-impact community storytelling. Though not optimized for scale or efficiency, the campaign succeeded in generating buzz and reinforcing the brand's identity.
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Anthropic expects to break even for the first time in 2028. OpenAI's operating losses for 2028 are forecasted to swell to about $74 billion - it doesn't expect to turn a profit until 2030. OpenAI is investing far more into its chips and data centers to turn OpenAI into a multitrillion-dollar tech giant. The strategy requires near-constant fundraising, which could backfire if markets cool on the technology or its near-term profitability.
Apple will delay the launch of the next-generation iPhone Air that was scheduled to be released with the iPhone 18 Pro. The iPhone Air has faced poor sales and manufacturing cuts. The novel look of the device failed to spark interest, despite its substantial design update. Apple is planning a split launch for the iPhone 18 models - the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and foldable iPhone are planned for the fall of 2026, while the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e will be released in early 2027.
Louis Andre, a 27-year-old who grew up in Europe, recently revealed a new company backed by Sam Altman called Episteme. Episteme is an effort to attract the world's top scientists and have them work on a wide range of breakthrough products. It will allow scientists to do away with fundraising pressures and grant writing and spend most of their time on research. The company will also help scientists deal with intellectual property concerns, tax issues, hiring, and other day-to-day support functions to help them turn their ideas into blockbuster products.
NASA's ESCAPADE mission is set to launch tomorrow at 2:50 PM EST on Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket. The mission was delayed last year as its rocket wasn't ready to send it to Mars during its appointed launch window. Mars is now more than 220 million miles away from where it was during last year's launch window - this isn't a big deal, as the mission will follow a 'kidney-bean' shaped trajectory to reach the planet. Such techniques are necessary if humans are to send hundreds of spacecraft to Mars, as it would be difficult to launch only within certain timeframes for direct flights.
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Compiler engineers are software engineers who implement programming languages. There is very little information online about how to break into this niche - this post aims to help those interested in the field understand what working in the role is like and how to get a job working with compilers. Compiler engineer roles are relatively rare due to limited demand - once a compiler is built, the work is mostly maintenance and optimization, and most companies don't build their own compilers. The job market can be brutal, but it's possible to stand out even without a preexisting network.
git-rewrite-commits is an AI-powered git commit message writer. It can automatically rewrite entire git commit histories with AI. The tool is perfect for cleaning up commit histories before open-sourcing projects. It can also aid in improving repository maintainability.
Smartphones have become humanity's second cognitive organ, but using the devices harshly disconnects users from the world around them. The only form factor that seems to have a chance to replace the smartphone is AR glasses. Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses are still highly dependent on mobile devices, and they only provide a small display visible to one eye, but they give users a glimpse into what the future may look like. This article provides a detailed review of the device along with the Meta Neural Band that pairs with it. The technology is still very much a first-generation product, but it shows promise.
The twenty-first century is starting to build machines and systems that don't need as many humans. Automation is a slow and uneven pressure that makes jobs appear as well as disappear. Right now, the good jobs at the center of the curve are thinning out, and junior entry points are being quietly closed. Graduates are being told to become outliers while competing with systems that learn from everything they do.
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Elon Musk says Tesla will build 10 million Optimus units every year in Texas.
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AI cheating shows how the education system today has no value.
A long reflection on Ruby's past, present, and future.
Facebook's Like and Share buttons for third-party websites will be discontinued on February 10.
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You want AI to become part of your organizational DNA - and that means enabling every department to build out their own use cases, without IT gatekeepers standing in the way. But it shouldn't mean an ungoverned free-for-all.
xAI will host a hackathon on December 6-7. Participants will receive early access to experimental models. The company is working on a feature called Grok Code Remote to align with industry trends towards cloud-based code execution. It will allow users to run code in remote environments directly from the web.
OpenAI forecasts that it won't turn a profit until 2030, while Anthropic expects to break even for the first time in 2027. OpenAI is also expected to burn roughly 14 times as much cash as Anthropic before turning a profit. The two most valuable AI startups are taking vastly different approaches to growth. OpenAI is investing heavily in chips and data centers. Anthropic is taking a more cautious approach, making sure that costs grow more in line with revenue.
OpenAI's latest code updates reference a general availability date of November 24 for the GPT-5.1 family for Enterprise accounts. Plus and Pro users may gain access to the models even earlier, possibly within the coming week. GPT-5.1 Thinking may currently be testing under the name Polaris Alpha on platforms such as OpenRouter. Polaris Alpha has a 256k context window and quite good performance.
AI has reached 1.2 billion users in under three years, marking the fastest technology adoption in human history. However, the Global North's adoption rate is nearly double that of the Global South. The next 1–2 billion users may come easily, but adoption is expected to plateau afterward because the remaining ~4 billion people lack electricity or internet access. Low-resource languages create an additional barrier: half the web is in English, even though only 5% of people speak it natively.
Nvidia, currently valued at $4.5 trillion, is the most valuable company on Earth and the dominant supplier of AI chips. A pattern of fear around the company is impacting policy discussion. There are claims that the major AI companies disagree with Nvidia's policy stances, but are unwilling to speak out because Nvidia has the power to undermine their business. This article looks at the evidence of such claims.
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Omnilingual ASR is a speech recognition system that supports over 1,600 languages, with hundreds never before covered by other ASR technology. New languages can be added with just a few paired examples without specialized expertise or large datasets. Omnilingual ASR is designed for broad accessibility - it is aimed at making speech technology more inclusive and adaptable for communities and researchers worldwide.
Egocentric-10K is a hand visibility and active manipulation data set with 10,000 hours of video. It contains 192,900 video clips of 2,138 workers completing tasks in real factories. A video showing examples of some of the clips is available in the repository.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 is a Mixture-of-Experts model with 32 billion activated parameters and 1 trillion total parameters. It achieves state-of-the-art performance in frontier knowledge, math, and coding among non-thinking models and also has agentic abilities. Kimi-K2-Base and Kimi-K2-Instruct were recently open sourced. This thread contains a discussion with the team at Moonshot AI.
There is now almost no time to build a company and scale it. There are two ways an AI application founder can make money: make a flash-in-the-pan app that generates a ton of cash over a short period, or make a good enough app to get acquired by one of the big players. The situation is highly unstable. The best way to play is to find an application niche in a highly specialized field with extremely unique and specific data barriers.
Nano Banana 2 access was briefly leaked, and image samples were widely circulated across social media. The model appears capable of remastering low-quality images and following detailed text prompts. There is still no confirmation of the release date, but a launch is likely to be imminent. The leaked samples are available in the article.
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Intel's CTO Sachin Katti, who had led the chipmaker's AI efforts since January, has departed for OpenAI, where he will design and build compute infrastructure.
Anthropic will be the first to use a 1-GW data center early next year.
Lovable has surged to nearly 8 million users and sees 100,000 new projects built daily.
A senior researcher warned that society is in a “honeymoon phase” with AI before widespread job automation and said AI companies need to alert the public about which jobs will soon become obsolete.
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A $1K investment in Nvidia in 1999 would be worth $2.5M today. Now another early AI startup is emerging — RAD Intel, the _ROAS King_ [4], which helps Fortune 1000 brands predict performance before they spend.
CFTC Acting Chair Caroline Pham is personally meeting with regulated exchanges to launch leveraged spot crypto trading products by year-end without waiting for congressional authorization, claiming existing agency authority suffices to oversee Bitcoin and Ethereum trades on designated contract markets. She's simultaneously restructuring the enforcement division with a dedicated trial unit of 8-9 lawyers and pushing toward a stablecoin collateral pilot program expected in Q2 2026 that she calls a "killer app" for the sector. Rumors indicate Pham plans to join MoonPay as chief legal officer and chief administrative officer after Mike Selig's confirmation as permanent CFTC chairman, positioning the agency to claim jurisdiction over the vast majority of digital assets that fall outside SEC oversight.
Hardware wallet maker Ledger is preparing for a New York IPO or private fundraising round next year as the company posts triple-digit millions in revenue during its strongest year on record, with CEO Pascal Gauthier expanding the firm's Manhattan presence where crypto capital is concentrated. The Paris-based company secures roughly $100 billion in bitcoin for customers and was last valued at $1.5 billion in 2023. Demand for secure crypto storage has surged as criminals stole $2.17 billion in the first half of 2025 alone, and physical attacks on crypto holders escalated, including the January kidnapping of Ledger co-founder David Balland, who had a finger severed before a suspected orchestrator was arrested in Morocco.