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India has some of the world’s cheapest mobile data, impressive bandwidth and near-universal 4G (~99.1% population) coverage. “Prime Minister Ambani” and Jio helped make it happen. But the real story is India chose the whole internet, not a walled garden.
medium.com/@vishalmisra/indi…
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My salute to the Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar for his extraordinary bravery.
Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door, and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the attacker — preventing a catastrophic mid-air disaster.
He saved the lives of 174 people, including Israeli citizens and other nationals.
I wish Captain Machchhar a speedy and full recovery.
He is a true hero.
Gentle Bowser retweeted
Pilot of flydubai plane who fought off 'terrorist' first officer on Israel-bound flight ID'd as Indian national trib.al/SoCgR8G
Very on brand silicon valley how they have rebranded quality assessment (quantitative and qualitative) into this thing called Evals - like a new talisman that makes someone an "AI" PM.
$META VP Jagjit Chawla reveals he screens AI PM candidates by asking them to write an eval for a bath towel
"I'll take a very simple example, and I use this in my interviewing to decide whether someone can actually think like an AI PM."
"If I was to say, write an eval for how do you evaluate bath towels, something that you come out of the shower and you're going to use to dry yourself."
"This is a very random question, but I would say you could come up with, if you really think about this, you can come up with dimensions, how quickly does this thing dry? How does this feel on my face? Is it cotton or nylon? Does it have any chemicals that I should worry about?"
"You can come up with like four or five dimensions and then you can rate that."
"So then given a set of 100 bath towels, you could rate them on all these five dimensions and that becomes your eval set."
"So when then presented the next bath towel, you could say if it was to get rated on these five dimensions, where does it stand in terms of what I think this would be a good towel, a medium quality towel, or a no quality towel."
Best Disney/Pixar movie ever! There is something for everyone - a true timeless classic. @pixarcars
Shout out to the Samsung designer who added a hybrid celsius & miles per hour combo in the weather app!
in last 10 days
a new frontier fast model (3.7 flash)
new flagship smartphone (pixel 11)
new cost down av (waymo)
from a co known for search.
We’re putting our chips on the table. Learn more about our approach to engineering compute for fully autonomous driving and how we collaborate with industry leaders including AMD, Micron, NVIDIA, Samsung, Sandisk, Socionext, and TSMC to build the most capable computing system on the road: waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-…
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Oh yeah, we get that question a lot. While other products like Search and Gmail use Gemini models, the 1B here refers to people choosing the Gemini app across Web (gemini.google.com), Android, iOS, and Gemini in Chrome.
There is no moral gold medal to join a startup and grind for your founder overlord. If you are top talent with 5+ years of experience, you should vet founders, their seriousness and business viability like an investor. Also, sometimes joining a Series E or F startup is still a far better risk adjusted choice than joining a YC seedling with full Twitter PR machinery behind it.
Gianni Infantino can keep adding teams, but one thing is for sure. A World Cup without Messi will always feel less than whole. @TheAthletic
nytimes.com/athletic/7456936…
This 2026 FIFA final result will likely remind Indian cricket fans of the 2003 Cricket world cup. One man carrying the team to final against all odds, and then facing a much better team overall in the finals which was too much for that one man. #FIFAWorldCup2026
