Ahmed Mostafa
@amostafa198
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Wow, the US has some work to do
Oct 9, 2025: China's Ministry of Commerce issued Announcements No. 61 & 62, expanding rare earth export controls to 12 of 17 elements and imposing extraterritorial licensing requirements. This is direct retaliation for U.S. semiconductor export bans announced days earlier.…
Congratulations to Michel Devoret, Google Quantum AI’s Chief Scientist of Quantum Hardware, who was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics today. Google now has five Nobel laureates among our ranks, including three prizes in the past two years. goo.gle/46EwKaG
Starlink Direct to Cell delivered its first text message in early 2024, and a few months later demonstrated video-calling. Today, we’re so proud to support continuous data, video, voice, and messaging across 5 continents. Thank you to all our partners who leverage this…
Yes would not work
The internet has been completely shut down in Afghanistan, according to our internal data. Our tools help to bypass censorship, but here access has been cut off. We stand against acts like this and believe that both privacy & freedom of speech are human rights. (Timezone CEST)
The internet has been completely shut down in Afghanistan, according to our internal data. Our tools help to bypass censorship, but here access has been cut off. We stand against acts like this and believe that both privacy & freedom of speech are human rights. (Timezone CEST)
Wow
⚠️ Update: It has now been 24 hours since #Afghanistan imposed a national internet blackout, cutting off residents from the rest of the world; the ongoing measure marks the Taliban's return to conservative values it espoused a quarter of a century ago limiting basic freedoms
Shocking stat of the day: The US Dollar is now on track for its world year since 1973, down over -10% YTD. Since 2000, the US Dollar has lost over 40% of its purchasing power. All as the Fed cuts rates into 2.9%+ Core PCE inflation for the first time in 30+ years. Gold and…
This is insane: As the record run in gold accelerates, US gold reserves just exceeded $1 TRILLION for the first time in history. The US now holds ~2.4 TIMES more gold than Germany, the 2nd-largest holder in the world. What is gold telling us? Let us explain. (a thread)
@starlink now certified to begin installs on @united’s 737-800 mainline fleet, now on over half of the regional fleet
🚨BREAKING: xAI Head of Legal, Lily Lim, has shared the full lawsuit filing against OpenAI. xAI accuses Sam Altman’s company of stealing trade secrets and poaching employees with insider knowledge of Grok and the Colossus supercomputers. Break down the 30-page doc:
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Game changer
🚨 BREAKING: Google just dropped AI superpowers into Chrome. This update is so good, I'm going delete half of my productivity apps. 99% of users don't even know these features exist. Here's your insider guide to the hidden AI tools:
Stanford Deep Learning for Computer Vision taught by Professor Fei-Fei Li (@drfeifei) and Assistant Professor Ehsan Adeli. Such an enjoyable YT series. (link in comment)
Fei-Fei Li (@drfeifei) on limitations of LLMs. "There's no language out there in nature. You don't go out in nature and there's words written in the sky for you.. There is a 3D world that follows laws of physics." Language is purely generated signal.
This guy literally dropped a 3-hour masterclass on building an AI startup from scratch 🤯
China's trade surplus in the manufactures now tops $2 trillion (last 12ms of data), or ~ 2 pp of WGDP (a bit over if China's GDP is netted out). Crazy numbers 1/2
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