Did you know that until 2022 any installed app on Android could see all other apps on your phone without permission? Now, devs need to declare which apps they need visibility to in AndroidManifest.xml I was curious to see which Indian apps were spying on my installed apps 👇

This is sadly true in the short term. But! While playing the complexity game might help you climb the ladder briefly, it's a path that rarely leads to meaningful or satisfying work, especially if you're a genuinely good engineer. Worse, working in complexification mode for too

neural networks are funny because they’re really just 17th century math (leibniz), but run on modern silicon with all the engineering tricks we know

Have taught Game Theory for 25 years. New case study: Taming a terrorist state. Strategy: Act of terror = Act of war.

Modi ji should announce a ceasefire between Musk & Trump

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Just got off work and tried Grok-4 on an undergrad topology problem. It took 9 minutes to think and then confidently gave a clean, plausible, but totally wrong answer 😅 Don’t think this one qualifies as “skillfully adversarial.” AI models are crushing benchmarks — but still a

📚 If you’re a student choosing what to focus on, pick MATH. It will teach you to relentlessly rely on your own brain, think logically, break down problems, and solve them step by step in the right order. That’s the core skill you’ll need to build companies and manage projects.

Update on where has Grok been & what happened on July 8th. First off, we deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that many experienced. Our intent for Grok is to provide helpful and truthful responses to users. After careful investigation, we discovered the root cause

Today we launched a new product called ChatGPT Agent. Agent represents a new level of capability for AI systems and can accomplish some remarkable, complex tasks for you using its own computer. It combines the spirit of Deep Research and Operator, but is more powerful than that

At Google, we are moving from a writing‑first culture to a building‑first one. Writing was a proxy for clear thinking, optimized for scarce eng resources and long dev cycles - you had to get it right before you built. Now, when time to vibe-code prototype ≈ time to write PRD,

The Trump administration has suspended the funding of Terence Tao and the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA.

GDP (current prices) 2004 🇬🇷 Greece: $234 billion 🇵🇱 Poland: $256 billion 2024 🇬🇷 Greece: $257 billion 🇵🇱 Poland: $908 billion

Frustrating experience w/ Flipkart FlipkartSupport: 1) Delivery delayed 2) Rude delivery person, just demanded OTP 3) Wrong laptop specs 4) Touchpad jammed & unsmooth 5) Return/tech dates dragged to 19th & 22nd Oct 6) Support doesn't help

AI is not a bubble, Enterprise AI is very strong! Nearly 150 enterprises each processed 1 trillion tokens with Gemini models for a wide range of apps!!! ... wait that's less than a million bucks per year per enterprise???... or 150m annual revenue, i.e. 0.3% of GCP annual

Elon’s famous analogy: “Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors”. At big companies, vectors often point to different directions. The sum is zero. xAI has a small team of engineers, but every vector points at the same

If you turn your phone off for 1 day you’ll realise it’s still 2007 outside

ASML has the best technical marketing team. This video explains in layman's terms how source mask optimization (SMO) works. It's the engineering sorcery behind printing the most advanced chips.

Report from NeurIPS: the state of the art in LLMs is doing fake reasoning with fake RL.

Grumpy Granny was run over and left in shock. Who knew this road disaster would lead to the best Xmas miracle? 🌟 If this doesn’t melt your heart then it’s made of stone. Merry Xmas from GG 🎄❤️