Siddhant Kankaria

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

"everyone will vibe code their own DoorDash" is the 2026 version of "everything will be an NFT"

First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic depicts them. We are not stupid and we know our users would reject that. I guess it’s on brand for Anthropic doublespeak to use a deceptive ad to critique theoretical deceptive ads that aren’t real, but a Super Bowl ad is not where I would expect it. More importantly, we believe everyone deserves to use AI and are committed to free access, because we believe access creates agency. More Texans use ChatGPT for free than total people use Claude in the US, so we have a differently-shaped problem than they do. (If you want to pay for ChatGPT Plus or Pro, we don't show you ads.) Anthropic serves an expensive product to rich people. We are glad they do that and we are doing that too, but we also feel strongly that we need to bring AI to billions of people who can’t pay for subscriptions. Maybe even more importantly: Anthropic wants to control what people do with AI—they block companies they don't like from using their coding product (including us), they want to write the rules themselves for what people can and can't use AI for, and now they also want to tell other companies what their business models can be. We are committed to broad, democratic decision making in addition to access. We are also committed to building the most resilient ecosystem for advanced AI. We care a great deal about safe, broadly beneficial AGI, and we know the only way to get there is to work with the world to prepare. One authoritarian company won't get us there on their own, to say nothing of the other obvious risks. It is a dark path. As for our Super Bowl ad: it’s about builders, and how anyone can now build anything. We are enjoying watching so many people switch to Codex. There have now been 500,000 app downloads since launch on Monday, and we think builders are really going to love what’s coming in the next few weeks. I believe Codex is going to win. We will continue to work hard to make even more intelligence available for lower and lower prices to our users. This time belongs to the builders, not the people who want to control them.

Savage 💀

> you can rate Uber drivers, > you can rate food delivery, and urban clap services but not public "servants" like lineman, field assistant, ration providers, tehsildars, or collectors. no more, we are fixing that gemsofindia.org

@Vultr Network issues since 7pm UTC yesterday, and no updates on the status page. Is there anywhere else I can look for updates? Or can anyone provide an update on this?

Who made this...fantastically sarcastic. Mr "know all" is Not Mr "know all" after all. Watch till the end.

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@DRMJodhpurNWR Paid Cart service taking more charge than tarrif rate for platform 4 to exit.

@MicrosoftHelps Latest version of Microsoft Edge is crashing a lot for me. Seeing this usually with incognito mode.

Supreme court gives 3 month deadline to Centre to put important nutrition details like sugar, salt, and fat levels clearly on the front of packaged food products. Our dream is finally coming true! Label Padhega India! Let's Make India Healthy Again!

@GeminiApp Why can't Gemini tell me the sunrise and sunset times? Has been working great with Assistant for years.

My boss calls me "the computer" Nothing to do with intelligence, I go to sleep if left unattended for 15 minutes.

@ishanagarwal24 I asked you about battery some time ago and made the switch this month. S20->S25. Battery has been surprisingly & pleasantly very good. Easily lasts a day.🔋 And yes, OneUI7+SD8Elite is snappy. Coming from a 5 year old phone, everything is so fast! 🚀

Loving the Samsung Galaxy S25 way more than I expected to. One UI 7’s snappiness plays a huge role in that. #GalaxyAI is one of the most refined smartphone AI solutions too — a lot of the feature are on-device. Great option for those who want a handy Android flagship. #GalaxyS25

the current state of consumer AI

Watch for a 14min demo of me using Manus for the 1st time. It’s *shockingly* good. Now imagine this in 2-3 years when: - it has >180 IQ - never stops working - is 10x faster - and runs in swarms by the 1000s AGI is coming - expect rapid progress.

The Most Amazing Before/After Photos You'll See Today 🧵 1. 13 years old Licypriya Kangujam from India is leading a youth climate movement. She is giving hope to the world!

This is hilarious & will make your day 😂 Animals' response after meeting Modiji in Vantara. Must watch for @narendramodi

@ishanagarwal24 Thanks. Sounds assuring.

@_sid91 Yes, it’s efficient. No notification delays like there used to be & still the phone is able to last a day easily. You have to give it only a few days initially for it to understand your usage patterns.

Unboxing the Samsung Galaxy S25 🇮🇳 India unit in ❄️ Iceyblue! What’s new❓⬇️ ⚡️ Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy — world’s fastest smartphone chip w/ 4.46GHz peak clock speed 💾 12GB RAM 📱 Thinner & lighter at 7.2mm & 162g 📸 Next-Gen ProVisual Engine for better processing, 10-bit HDR recording, Galaxy Log, Virtual Aperture, new Portrait Studio 🔘 Protective Camera Deco ✨ One UI 7 based on Android 15 out of the box w/ Now Brief, advanced Gemini & more. FYI: Gemini Advanced & 2TB cloud storage free for 6 months! Ofc, 7 yrs of software updates. 🌈 7 colour options: Navy, Iceyblue, Silver Shadow Mint, Samsung Exclusive: Blueblack, Pinkgold, Coralred 💰You can pre-order now @ ₹80,999 for 256GB or ₹92,999 for 512GB 💳 Up to ₹7K HDFC instant bank discount or ₹11K exchange bonus 📦 Deliveries start next week What do you wanna know about? 🤔 #GalaxyS25 #GalaxyAI