South Korea overtook Japan's GDP per capita in 2024 for the first time in history.

Samsung, SK Hynix, LG, Naver, Kakao, Hyundai, Kia are iconic global names.

Indian users data is literally buyable on the internet

Palantir gave new hires these books on Day 1

— Impro - Johnstone
— The Looming Tower - Wright
— Interviewing Users - Portigal
— Getting Things Done - Allen
— Principles - Ray Dalio

Books are a cheap, easy way to build culture. Above all else, it says "we read books here".

For more insights like this, I highly recommend Nabeel's essay about Palantir:
https://t.co/nLkce48ge6

Just learnt that WhatsApp has not 10, not 20, but... 150 designers.

All working tirelessly to make sure the app looks exactly the same as it did in 2014.

I will never read a research paper the same way again.

With Gemini 2.0 Live, I can ask
"What's this paper about?"
"Can you explain this complex equation simply?"
"What does this diagram mean?"

Research is often intentionally abstruse, but now normal people can read them!

The best video gen model in the US — Sora (above) vs
The best video gen model in China — Minimax (below)

Same prompt. Same starting image:

Gymnastics.

Here's how they do on other sports:

1/3

Kung Fu.

2/3

Dance.

3/3

Half of all US H-1B work visa applicants and selections in the last 4 years are from IT firms with 95%+ Indians.

— Companies: ~30,000
— Total applicants: ~706k (50.6% of all)
— Selected: ~219k (46.6% of all)

I knew it was a lot, but only this new data shows that it is 50%!

Make no mistake, Google's new Veo 3 video generatiom model is absolutely exceptional.

But gymnastics is still pure nightmare fuel, and is the Turing test for video models!

This is the first fully AI movie trailer [audio on] by an Oscar winning director!

It's unbelievable.

Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky X Google DeepMind

Claude Sonnet 4 set the state of the art in agentic coding!

It beats OpenAI o3 and even the larger Opus 4 with the first ever 80% on SWE-Bench verified.

If even beats Gemini 2.5 Pro on SWE Bench comprehensively (80.3% vs 63.8%)

Ties on science (GPQA Diamond 83.8% vs 84%)

Beats on math (AIME 2025 90% vs 86.7%)

Harvard can no longer take in foreign students!!

US DHS claims they are pro-Hamas and use racist DEI policies.

In the next 3 days, Harvard must submit ALL records including audio / video footage of every illegal activity and protest by internationals in the LAST FIVE YEARS.