Global AI & Geopolitics| President GNN;CEO https://xitter.cf/t.co/08vrQdMqmp Ex-Group Director GEO/ Ex-President ARY &Chairman&MD PTV @FletcherSchool @HarvardAlumni @oxfordalumni

Global
Joined February 2011
𝗔 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗘 𝗕𝗨𝗚 𝗣𝗨𝗧 𝟳 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝟭𝟬 𝗪𝗘𝗕𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗡 𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗛 𝗔𝗧 𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗞. 𝗜𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗗 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗛𝗜𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝟭𝟰 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦. 𝗔𝗜 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗜𝗧. This week, the internet had one of its most dangerous days in years. Here is what happened. 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧, 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗦 𝗣𝗛𝗣? Every website you visit runs on a hidden engine behind the screen. For roughly 𝟳𝟬% 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗯, that engine is a language called 𝗣𝗛𝗣. It powers WordPress, online shops, news sites, school portals and many government services. If PHP is the engine, this bug was a faulty lock on every car that uses it. 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗪𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗚 Researchers found two hidden flaws inside PHP itself, now called 𝗣𝗛𝗣𝟮𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹. In simple terms: a stranger could send a website a specially crafted request and 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁. No password. No login. No invitation. Once inside, an attacker could steal customer data, plant malware, deface pages or lock the site for ransom. PHP's own developers rated the danger 𝟵.𝟮 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝟭𝟬. Security firm watchTowr gave it a perfect 𝟭𝟬. The flaw had been sitting in PHP since version 5.4, released in 2012. 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗖𝗞 The fix was being prepared quietly, as is normal, so attackers would not learn of the flaw before the cure was ready. Then details 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮. PHP was forced to sound the alarm early on October 20 and rush out an emergency fix on October 21. Cloudflare, which protects millions of websites, saw attackers already testing the flaw 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝘅 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱. Wikimedia, the organisation behind Wikipedia, switched off parts of its systems as a precaution. For several hours, defenders and attackers were racing for the same door. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗘 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗣𝗔𝗨𝗦𝗘 This flaw was not found by a human alone. It was uncovered by security firms Calif and Wiz together with OpenAI, using its GPT-5.6 Sol model through a programme called Patch the Planet. Wiz says the weakness was so complex to exploit that it sat at the very limit of what human experts could manage. 𝗔𝗜 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲. This time, the good guys got there first. But the same AI that can find a hidden flaw to fix it can find the next one to exploit it. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗱. 𝗜𝗙 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗢𝗪𝗡 𝗔 𝗪𝗘𝗕𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗘, 𝗗𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬 Log into your hosting account and find your PHP version. It is usually listed on the main dashboard. You are safe if it shows 𝟴.𝟱.𝟭𝟮, 𝟴.𝟰.𝟮𝟳, 𝟴.𝟯.𝟯𝟲 𝗼𝗿 𝟴.𝟮.𝟯𝟱. If it shows 8.1 or anything older, 𝗣𝗛𝗣 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝘅 𝗶𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂. Contact your host today and ask for an urgent upgrade. If you are unsure, send your host one sentence: "Has my site been patched for PHP2Shell?" It takes five minutes. Recovering from a hacked website can take months. 𝗜𝗙 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗘𝗧 You cannot fix other people's websites, but you can protect yourself if one of them is breached. Use a 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿, so one stolen password never opens every account you own. Replace SMS login codes with an 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗽𝗽, because criminals can hijack your phone number and read your texts. Be extra alert in the coming weeks to emails asking you to "reset your password" or "verify your account." 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦. 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘈𝘐 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩. 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘬. 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘐 𝘦𝘳𝘢, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘵. #PHP2Shell #Cybersecurity 1950.ai
If you are wondering whether your website is affected, we have packaged a Codex skill to help check. Point your Codex at this repo to guide you through it: github.com/openai/php2shell-…
3
4
942
𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗡𝗘𝗫𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗔𝗬 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗔 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗥𝗗 𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥. 𝗜𝗧 𝗪𝗢𝗡'𝗧 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨. 𝗜𝗧 𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨. On October 15, Amazon launched two always-listening AI devices from Bee. They turn the conversations around you into summaries, reminders and to-do lists. 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗔𝗠𝗔𝗭𝗢𝗡 𝗜𝗦 𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗕𝗲𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿: worn on the wrist or clipped to clothing, dual microphones, up to 7 days of battery, $𝟳𝟰.𝟵𝟵. 𝗕𝗲𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗽𝘀𝗲: a credit-card-sized device that snaps magnetically onto your phone, 21+ days of battery, $𝟵𝟵.𝟵𝟵. 𝗕𝗲𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼: $𝟭𝟭.𝟵𝟵 a month for unlimited summaries, suggested tasks and integrations. It connects to Gmail, Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple HealthKit and Alexa+. It can even suggest products on Amazon based on items 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗖𝗬 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗘 Amazon says audio is processed in real time and then deleted. Processing runs in an isolated environment it calls Bee Private Compute. Transcripts are encrypted with keys held on the user's device. There is a physical switch, an indicator light and a prompt to seek consent on calls. These are serious safeguards. They do not close the real gap. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗚𝗔𝗣: 𝗗𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗨𝗗𝗜𝗢 𝗜𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗗𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 The sound disappears. What the machine learned from it stays. A summary can preserve your plans, your health, your finances and your relationships long after the recording is gone. Privacy can no longer be measured by whether an audio file exists. It must be measured by 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗱, 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗔𝗪 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗪𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗡 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗧𝗔𝗣𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗦 Wiretap laws were drafted for an age of cassettes and phone taps, not AI that listens and summarises. New Hampshire defines interception as the "aural or other acquisition" of a conversation's contents. No recording required. Massachusetts defines devices and contents broadly enough for lawyers to raise the same question. In all-party consent jurisdictions, the legal risk may fall on 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗿, not the manufacturer. No court has settled this yet. Until one does, every user is a test case. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗘𝗢𝗣𝗟𝗘 𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗡𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗗 The buyer accepts the terms. The colleague, the doctor, the waiter and the friend at the next table do not. A camera points at someone visible. A microphone captures everyone in range. And when a manager switches the device on, few employees will feel free to object. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 𝗢𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗪𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗦 𝗔𝗟𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗬 𝗛𝗔𝗟𝗙𝗪𝗔𝗬 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 Bee Frontier is not an exotic gadget. It is a wristband, and the wrist is where hundreds of millions of people already wear a microphone. Every major smartwatch carries a mic for its voice assistant, plus sensors tracking heart rate, sleep, movement and location around the clock. 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲: In 2019, contractors reviewing Siri audio reported that accidental Apple Watch activations were a frequent source of private recordings, from medical conversations to business deals. Apple later paid $𝟵𝟱 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 to settle a US class action over unintended Siri recordings, without admitting wrongdoing. 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝘀𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲: Galaxy Watch and Pixel Watch now carry Gemini, moving generative AI assistants from the phone onto the wrist. The more an assistant can do, the more it needs to hear. 𝗙𝗶𝘁𝗯𝗶𝘁: When Google bought Fitbit, the EU approved the deal only after Google pledged not to use Fitbit health data for advertising. Regulators understood how valuable that data is. 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻: In 2020 a ransomware attack knocked its Connect service offline for days, a reminder that wearable data lives on servers that can be breached. 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿: In 2018, fitness-tracker data exposed military bases and the movements of soldiers and intelligence staff. Harmless workout logs became intelligence. 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻 itself sold the Halo band with a microphone that analysed the tone of your voice, before discontinuing it in 2023. Researchers have shown that a watch's motion sensors alone can help infer what its wearer is typing. In most countries, health data from consumer wearables sits outside the strict medical privacy rules that bind hospitals and doctors. The step from a watch that waits for a wake word to a watch that understands everything it hears is now a software update, not a new device. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁. 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗦𝗨𝗥𝗩𝗘𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗚𝗢𝗧 𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗣 Listening was never the expensive part of surveillance. Making sense of what was heard was. AI removes that cost. It connects scattered remarks into patterns and keeps the conclusions indefinitely. The same tool that finds every promise you made in meetings can map someone else's life from conversations they never agreed to share. A counter-market is already emerging: devices like Deveillance's Spectre I now detect and jam nearby microphones. 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗜𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗔𝗜 𝗥𝗘𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗦 Activation that is impossible to miss, not a small light that is easy to overlook. Consent from everyone in the conversation, not only the owner. Deletion that covers summaries and synced copies, not only raw audio. Smartwatch makers who disclose, clearly and in advance, before always-on listening reaches devices already on our wrists. Workplace policies before these devices enter boardrooms, clinics and classrooms. Legislators who update interception law for machines that understand rather than record. 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘯𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯.
1
1
1
12
610
𝗣𝗛𝗬𝗦𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗔𝗜 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗚𝗨𝗔𝗥𝗗. China's Unitree has unveiled the H2-X "Kung Fu Legend Guardian," a humanoid robot it says is built to 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱. 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗢 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗪𝗦 𝟭𝟴𝟮 𝗰𝗺, 𝟳𝟬 𝗸𝗴, 𝟯𝟭 degrees of freedom. A leap from a 𝟰-𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗲 platform, landed upright. Spinning kicks, flips and full martial-arts sequences. Shielding a woman from a knife-wielding intruder. Lifting the front of a car off a trapped body in a simulated rescue. Up to 𝟴 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 of endurance, against roughly 𝟯 for the standard H2. 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗧 𝗗𝗢𝗘𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗬𝗘𝗧 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗪 The 8 hours refers to standing time, not continuous action. The rescue scenes were staged with props. No price, no full specification sheet, and no word on how much was autonomous. Unitree itself advises keeping 𝟮–𝟯 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀 away from the robot. 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗣𝗛𝗬𝗦𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗔𝗜 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗡𝗦 Generative AI writes, codes and talks. Physical AI 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲𝘀, 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 in the real world, where gravity, friction and human bodies do not forgive errors. It runs on three layers: AI models that turn vision and language into motion, simulation where robots rehearse millions of falls before taking one, and hardware made of motors, sensors, batteries and actuators. Its hardest problem is data. Chatbots learned from the entire internet. Robots must learn from simulation, human teleoperation and their own mistakes. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗨𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗕𝗘𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝟭𝟵,𝟭𝟬𝟬 humanoid robots shipped worldwide in the first half of 2026, up 𝟮𝟳𝟮% in a year. Chinese makers accounted for more than 𝟵𝟳% of them. AgiBot led with 𝟴,𝟰𝟬𝟬 units. Unitree followed with 𝟱,𝟵𝟬𝟬. Industrial and commercial use now exceeds 𝟳𝟬% of deployments. Forecast: about 𝟲𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 units and 𝟭.𝟲 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 dollars in revenue this year, rising to 𝟱𝟬𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 units a year by 2030. In July, Washington banned imports of new Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots on national security grounds. 𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗜𝗧 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦 The base H2 already ships at $𝟮𝟵,𝟵𝟬𝟬, less than a year's wages for a security guard in most Western cities. China builds the motors, batteries and sensors within driving distance of its robot factories. That supply chain, not any single demo, is its real advantage. America still leads in frontier AI models. China is racing to own the bodies those models will one day control. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗚𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗚𝗔𝗣 A robot marketed to stop intruders forces questions the law has not answered. Who authorises the use of force? Who is liable when the machine misjudges? What keeps a guardian from becoming a weapon? Those rules must be written before mass deployment, not after the first incident. 𝘈 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘵 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦. 𝘖𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩. #PhysicalAI #Robotics #Unitree 1950.ai
1
7
20
2,450
السلام و علیکم اور صبح بخیر۔اللہ آپکو ھمیشہ خوش و خرم اور اپنے حفظ و امان میں رکھے۔آمین
22
10
1
50
7,673
🇲🇻 🤝 🇵🇰
I am honoured to arrive in Islamabad for my first State Visit to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, accompanied by my wife and delegation. I extend my sincere appreciation to the Government and the brotherly people of Pakistan for the exceptional warmth and distinguished ceremonial welcome accorded to us. I look forward to fruitful engagements that will further deepen our bilateral relations, strengthen our partnership, and advance the shared aspirations of our two nations. @CMShehbaz
1
17
3,330
Dr Shahid Masood retweeted
Journalist: You once promised to cut US security aid to Pakistan if it sponsored terrorism against India Rubio: We're against anybody who sponsors terrorism. In the case of Pakistan, it's a country that we have to have a relationship with
112
197
42
1,731
240,968
Dr Shahid Masood retweeted
🎥 Iran's Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Major General Rezaei says no enriched nuclear material will leave Iran; Pakistan Army Commander Asim Munir declares Iran-Pakistan border reopened.
71
273
53
1,813
136,641
👀
🚨 OIL JUST HIT $110. AND THE WORLD COULD PAY THE PRICE. Brent crude has surged to $109.86 as attacks near the Strait of Hormuz and Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries reignite fears of a global supply shock. Here’s what matters: 🛢️ Brent crude: +4.9% for the week 🔥 WTI crude: +10% for the week 🚢 Oil flows through Hormuz: down to roughly 70% of pre-conflict levels ⛽ U.S. gasoline: $4.33/gallon ⚠️ Diesel: $6.32/gallon This is bigger than an oil-price rally. When supply routes are threatened, refineries are hit, and geopolitical tensions escalate, energy becomes more expensive and the pain spreads. Higher oil prices can fuel inflation, raise transportation costs, squeeze businesses, and complicate central banks’ efforts to cut interest rates. That creates a difficult equation for markets: 📈 Oil producers could benefit. 📉 Airlines, transport companies, and energy-intensive businesses could face pressure. 💸 Consumers may pay more at the pump. ⚡ Investors could face renewed volatility across global markets. And here’s the biggest risk: if disruptions persist around Hormuz while Russian refining capacity remains under pressure, the supply squeeze could deepen. Oil at $110 is the warning. What happens next depends on how far this conflict escalates. The question is no longer just how high oil can go. It’s how much damage expensive energy could do to the global economy. Are we heading toward another inflation shock, or will diplomacy cool the oil rally?
1
4
13
2,364
𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗻𝘀. 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀. 𝗡𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿. The looter steals from the baker, the waiter and the night-shift worker, never from the powerful he claims to fight. Every torched car and shattered window hands a victory to the very extremists who feed on chaos. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘣.
A 143-year-old French landmark is destroyed after rioters set it ablaze, causing its roof to collapse into the floors below. Local officials say two-thirds of the Limoges Town Hall is gone as violent anti-government agitators torched the building's exterior, in what the officials called a "catastrophe for heritage." The violence comes as more than half a million demonstrators took to the streets nationwide, over the soaring cost of living enter their fourth week across France. Authorities have reported roughly 400 arrests. And the unrest is spreading beyond Limoges. See which other government buildings rioters targeted: foxnews.com/world/limoges-to…
3
6
26
4,766
Dr Shahid Masood retweeted
The Prime Minister of Singapore travels on a budget airline for official duties, opting for a standard flight without luxury, a large entourage, or taxpayer expense. This exemplifies how to earn respect. 🫡
343
1,387
323
7,129
519,714
𝗗𝗘𝗘𝗣𝗦𝗘𝗘𝗞 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗚𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗬 𝗔 𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗘𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗕𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗦 𝗢𝗣𝗨𝗦 𝟱 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗚𝗣𝗧-𝟱.𝟲 𝗦𝗢𝗟 𝗢𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞. 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘. On Saturday DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash-1017, an update to its open-weight model. Weights are free on Hugging Face under an MIT licence. API prices are unchanged. 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗗 𝗜𝗡 𝗙𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗞𝗦 DeepSWE v1.1: 𝟳𝟳.𝟬, ahead of Claude Opus 5 (74.0) and GPT-5.6 Sol (73.0). Terminal-Bench 4.0: 𝟰𝟮.𝟯, up from 31.2. A 𝟯𝟱% 𝗷𝘂𝗺𝗽, and past GPT-5.6 Sol's 39.9. Higher on all 𝟭𝟭 benchmarks DeepSeek published, while finishing tasks faster with shorter outputs. DeepSeek also opened its Search and Fetch APIs to developers. No new architecture. The model was trained specifically for coding agent harnesses like DeepSeek Harness and Tencent CodeBuddy. 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲, 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝟱𝟱𝟮𝗕 parameters, yet only 𝟴𝗕 active on input and 𝟭𝟲𝗕 on output. 𝟭𝗠-token context window. From 𝟬.𝟭𝟱 per million input tokens. 𝗔 𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘-𝗕𝗬-𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘 𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧 Gemini 4 Argon vs DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017. Same prompt, highest reasoning on both. Argon: 𝟭𝟯 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀, 𝟭.𝟮𝟬 DeepSeek: 𝟱𝟬 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀, 𝟬.𝟰𝟬 The outputs came out remarkably close. DeepSeek even rendered the water better. 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿, 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿. That single trade-off now defines the AI race. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗧 These are DeepSeek's own numbers. Even in its own table, Opus 5 still leads 𝟲 𝗼𝗳 𝟭𝟭 rows, including Terminal-Bench 4.0 (51.8) and HLE (56.3 vs 42.6). Argon is still ahead for now. The frontier remains American. 𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗜𝗧 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦 Washington controls the chips. Beijing is answering with efficiency and open weights. A developer in Lahore, Lagos or Jakarta can now download a near-frontier coding model, host it, modify it and build on it without asking anyone's permission. 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘳. 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘵. #DeepSeek #AI #OpenSource 1950.ai
🚀 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is here! Stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs than the previous version—a Pareto improvement in performance and cost. Now live on our website, app, and API. 🛠️ Optimized for @DeepSeekHarness, Tencent CodeBuddy, WorkBuddy, and more. Upgrade to DeepSeek Harness v0.2.1-rc.1 or later for the best experience with the new model. 1/4
1
3
15
1,550
𝗣𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗡 𝗜𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗢𝗡'𝗦 𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗗-𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗔 𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗛𝗢𝗦𝗧. 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗣𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗘𝗗. New World Bank figure, PeeringDB data, June 2026. Share of connected data centers across the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan: 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 𝟮𝟮% 🇵🇰 𝗣𝗮𝗸𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻 𝟭𝟵% 🇦🇪 UAE 𝟭𝟱% 🇧🇭 Bahrain 𝟴% 🇪🇬 Egypt 𝟲% 🇶🇦 Qatar 𝟲% 🇲🇦 Morocco 𝟱% 🇴🇲 Oman 𝟱% 🇯🇴 Jordan 𝟰% 🇮🇷 Iran, 🇮🇶 Iraq, 🇰🇼 Kuwait, 🇱🇧 Lebanon 𝟯% each 𝗣𝗮𝗸𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗝𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗻, 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻, 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗾, 𝗞𝘂𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘁, 𝗟𝗲𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗷𝗶𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗶 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗚𝗨𝗟𝗙 𝗦𝗘𝗘𝗦 𝗔 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗡𝗘𝗥 Saudi Arabia and the UAE already run 𝟳𝟴𝟬 𝗠𝗪 across 𝟭𝟭𝟵 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀. Abu Dhabi's Stargate campus is planned at 𝟱 𝗚𝗪, Riyadh's Humain targets 𝟭.𝟵 𝗚𝗪 by 2030, and DataVolt is building 𝟭.𝟱 𝗚𝗪 at NEOM. Gulf capital has scale. What it needs is engineers, operations talent and a large market next door. Pakistan, now inside the same World Bank region, brings 𝟮𝟰𝟬 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 and one of the world's largest freelance tech workforces. 𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗔 𝗦𝗘𝗘𝗦 𝗔 𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗥𝗜𝗗𝗢𝗥 An 𝟴𝟮𝟬 𝗸𝗺 fiber link built by Huawei under CPEC runs from the Khunjerab Pass to Rawalpindi, giving China an overland digital route toward the Arabian Sea. Huawei is now partnering with Gul Ahmed's QGDC on Pakistan's largest planned facility in Karachi: 𝟮𝟯𝟬𝗠 initial investment, 𝟴𝟬–𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗠𝗪, its own 𝟭𝟯𝟲 𝗠𝗪 power supply, live by 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗦𝗘𝗘 𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 In 2024 a sinking ship's anchor in the Red Sea severed three subsea cables, including AAE-1, which lands in Karachi. The lesson for every carrier was 𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆. Karachi already hosts SEA-ME-WE 4 and 5, AAE-1, IMEWE and PEACE. Yet 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗵𝘆𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿 runs a cloud region in Pakistan. That gap is the opportunity. 𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗜𝗧 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦 Data centers are the 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆. Global data center power use is heading from 𝟰𝟭𝟱 𝗧𝗪𝗵 in 2024 to 𝟵𝟰𝟱 𝗧𝗪𝗵 by 2030, more than Japan consumes today. Pakistan already spends 𝟳𝟬𝟬–𝟴𝟬𝟬𝗠 𝗮 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 on AI-related technology and services. Every dollar served onshore keeps data, jobs and tax revenue at home. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗔𝗩𝗘𝗔𝗧 This ranking counts 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘀. Pakistan's largest live site, Sky47's Karakoram One in Islamabad, is 𝟴.𝟱 𝗠𝗪. The Gulf is building in gigawatts. And the whole MENAAP bloc holds just 𝟭.𝟵% of the world's connected data centers. 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗦 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗜𝗦𝗟𝗔𝗠𝗔𝗕𝗔𝗗 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿. Let data centers buy cheap solar and hydel power directly from private generators, without punishing wheeling surcharges, because these facilities never sleep. 𝗗𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀. Open a priority foreign exchange channel for GPUs and cooling hardware, which are priced in dollars. 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁. Pass the long-pending personal data protection law and end ad hoc internet shutdowns, because no global client parks workloads where rules change overnight. 𝗙𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿. Lay cable along motorways, railways and transmission corridors so the country's digital spine is not a single Karachi–Lahore–Islamabad line. 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘮. 𝘐𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘱 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳, 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳. The Gulf has the capital. China has the hardware. The West has the clients. 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗸𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁? 𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗦 World Bank, Figure 2.35, data from PeeringDB Interconnection Database, June 2026 IEA, Energy and AI (2025): iea.org/reports/energy-and-a… Khaleej Times / S&P Global, UAE and Saudi Arabia data centre power outlook to 2030 Nes Fircroft, Top Data Centre Projects in the Middle East (2026) #Pakistan #DataCenters #AIart 1950.ai
4
9
1
31
4,501
السلام و علیکم اور صبح بخیر۔اللہ آپکو ھمیشہ خوش و خرم اور اپنے حفظ و امان میں رکھے۔آمین
29
9
2
76
13,106
𝗜𝗙 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗡 𝗦𝗢𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔, 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗗𝗢 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗔 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘. 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗔 𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡. A stranger does not need to be a computer genius to find out who you are. They do not need to hack your phone, send you a virus, or break into your computer. If someone wants to find your real name, your home address, your old passwords, and your private accounts, they only need 10 minutes on ordinary, free websites that anyone can use right now. You did not get hacked. You left tiny puzzle pieces across the internet for years, and today, simple computer tools can put that entire puzzle together in seconds. Here is the exact 5-step playbook anyone can use to uncover your life: 𝟱 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗨𝗻𝗺𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 ✦ 𝟭. Searching Your Face (Face Search Engines): A stranger crops a small photo of your face from the background of an old group picture. They upload it to face-search websites like PimEyes. In three seconds, the site scans billions of pictures across the internet and finds where else your face appears—an old school website, an office directory, or a forgotten blog. Just like that, they have your real name. ✦ 𝟮. Looking Up Your Email and Phone Number: They type your email into simple lookup tools. Without sending a single warning or beep to your phone, these tools reveal every website where you have an account—Amazon, Google, LinkedIn, or WhatsApp. They can even pull up your public Google Maps reviews and your profile photos. ✦ 𝟯. Using the Same Nickname Everywhere: Most people use the same username across different apps because it is easy to remember. Free search tools can check thousands of websites in 60 seconds for that exact name. The moment it matches, your "secret" anonymous accounts on Reddit or gaming sites are instantly tied to your real, public identity. ✦ 𝟰. Looking Up Old Stolen Passwords: Whenever an online store, fitness app, or food delivery service gets hacked, the stolen data ends up online. Billions of these records are sitting in searchable lists right now. If a site you joined five years ago got hacked, anyone can type in your email and see your old passwords, your past phone numbers, and your home address. ✦ 𝟱. Figuring Out Where You Live from Normal Photos: Even when social media removes the hidden location data from your pictures, the photo itself gives you away. Smart computer tools look at street signs, the style of the buildings, the trees, and even reflections in windows to pinpoint the exact street corner where you took the photo. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 Nobody broke your digital door down. You simply left breadcrumbs everywhere: • You used the same nickname in two different places. • A shopping website leaked your password years ago. • Your work profile shows what city you live in. • A friend tagged you in a photo online. A stranger connects those four dots before their coffee gets cold. 𝟰 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 ✦ Never reuse usernames: Keep your work and family accounts completely separate from your private or anonymous accounts. Use totally different names. ✦ Stop using text messages for login codes: Switch your two-step verification to an authenticator app (like Google Authenticator) so criminals cannot hijack your phone number. ✦ Check your email on "Have I Been Pwned": This free, safe website tells you which old company breaches leaked your email and passwords so you can change them immediately. ✦ Watch what is behind you in photos: Never post photos that show your house number, your street sign, or recognizable landmarks right outside your window. You would never put your home address and diary on a billboard on the highway. Stop leaving your personal life wide open for any stranger with a web browser to find. Data Sources: SANS Institute Digital Forensics, Bellingcat Online Research Guides, Public Data Breach Records. #CyberSecurity #DigitalSafety #PrivacyMatters #SmartphoneSafety 1950.ai
2
5
21
1,680
🚨 𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗨𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗪? 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗦𝗔𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗦𝗜𝗫 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗭𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗙𝗜𝗘𝗟𝗗. 𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗔𝗡 𝗔𝗜 𝗕𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗦 𝗛𝗨𝗠𝗔𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗢𝗡 𝟴𝟲 𝗢𝗙 𝟭𝟬𝟳 𝗕𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗛𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞𝗦 𝗙𝗢𝗥 $𝟯,𝟴𝟬𝟬. The historic academic bargain was simple: give up your twenties to hyper-specialize in a single discipline, and you earn an autonomous research career at the end. In 2026, both sides of that economic contract are collapsing under simultaneous pressure. 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟭: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗼𝗯 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗜𝘀 𝗦𝗵𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 ✦ The Supply-Demand Trap: U.S. universities award roughly 60,000 doctorates every year. In most academic disciplines, only 10% to 20% will ever secure a tenure-track professorship. The rest face a grinding cycle of temporary adjunct contracts or low-wage postdocs. ✦ The Elite Retraction: Top endowments are quietly shrinking cohorts: Penn slashed PhD admissions by roughly 30%, Brown is cutting 20%, and Harvard is contracting doctoral funding across the board. ✦ The Vanishing Stepping Stone: Federal funding contractions are wiping out postdoc positions—the historic bridge to faculty appointments. Outside the university, industry hiring increasingly treats a targeted master's degree as more than sufficient. 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟮: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗽 While universities contract, autonomous compute is industrializing the scientific method. Google’s newly documented system, ScientistTwo, takes an unsolved problem, formulates novel hypotheses, designs and runs the experiments, and writes the complete academic paper from scratch: • Tested on 107 problems from top-tier AI venues (ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS), it beat published human results on 86 of them. • It delivered an average relative performance gain of 25.2% over human baselines. • The cost? Roughly $3,800 and 2 to 3 days of compute per paper. A human doctorate requires 5 to 7 years. The necessary boundaries: This is an early preprint. The papers were scored primarily by autonomous AI reviewers, it does not yet reach paradigm-shifting Nobel leaps, and it operates strictly within machine learning. 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟯: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 The doctorate still pays on paper: • U.S. BLS data logs doctoral median earnings at $2,307 per week (versus $1,543 for a bachelor's degree). • Unemployment sits at 1.8%—though that represents a 50% jump in a single year. • Because these are macro averages, they disguise catastrophic outcomes in humanities and over-saturated laboratory sciences. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁 A doctorate still commands an earnings premium. What is dead is the guarantee that years of hyper-specialization lead to an intellectual monopoly. The academic pipeline is slamming its doors at the exact moment autonomous systems have learned to iterate the scientific method for pennies on the dollar. Anyone entering a PhD program today must answer one critical question: what does this credential buy you that a master’s degree and autonomous AI agents cannot? Data Sources: arXiv (Nam et al., ScientistTwo: Pioneering the Human Knowledge Frontier with Autonomous AI), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Education Pays), Penn SAS & Ivy League Graduate Division Announcements. #PhD #HigherEd #AI #ScientistTwo #GoogleAI #FutureOfWork #Research #DeepTech 1950.ai
4
10
1,019
𝗕𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗘𝗧 𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬, 𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥: 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬, 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗔 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗢𝗡𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘. Machines now consume the web more than human beings do. The economic foundation of the digital world just broke. Every time a browser, phone, or autonomous script loads a page, backbones log a single request. Cloudflare, which powers roughly 20% of the entire global web, just released its verified telemetry: ✦ 57.5% of all web requests are now triggered by automated bots and autonomous AI agents. ✦ Only 42.5% come from living human beings. ✦ Cloudflare’s leadership projected this threshold for late 2027. It arrived 18 months ahead of schedule. ✦ Imperva’s tracking confirms the tipping point: automated traffic climbed past 53% in 2025. When measurement began in 2013, humans drove nearly 60%. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 Automated web traffic is not new, but its DNA has radically mutated: • Cybersecurity firm HUMAN recorded autonomous AI agent traffic exploding 7,851% in a single 12-month cycle. • Total automated web traffic expanded nearly 8x faster than organic human activity in 2025. • Across Tier-1 digital publications, telemetry logged 1 autonomous AI bot visit for every 31 human readers. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗽𝘀𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 The entire modern internet was built on an unspoken financial contract: publishers host information, humans read the screen, and advertisers pay for the attention. AI agents completely destroy this equation. An agent queries the server, extracts the answer in milliseconds, and vanishes. It never views an ad, never clicks a banner, and never buys a subscription: ⎯ 68% of US Google searches now end with zero outbound clicks to any publisher website. ⎯ Google’s AI Mode passed 1 billion monthly users, with ~93% of search sessions ending without a click. ⎯ Global publisher referral traffic from search engines plummeted 33% in 2025 alone. ⎯ Amazon took the aggressive step of blocking Meta’s shopping AI for crawling pricing data without declaring bot status. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 To maintain analytical rigor: this metric tracks server requests, not unique individuals. A single question to an autonomous agent can trigger dozens of automated background calls, mathematically amplifying the machine count. The physical fiber-optic cables are not shutting down. What is dying is the foundational assumption that web traffic equals human attention. The free, ad-supported internet of the past thirty years cannot survive in an ecosystem where synthetic algorithms harvest content while starving creators of revenue. The web of tomorrow will not be an open commons. It will be an aggressive matrix of hard paywalls, bot-blockers, and private API toll booths. The web was engineered for human eyes. It is now read by silent autonomous machines that produce zero ad dollars—and no one has an answer for who keeps the lights on. Data Sources: Cloudflare Radar Bot Telemetry, Imperva Bad Bot Report, HUMAN Security Enterprise Threat Data. #Internet #AI #AIAgents #Cloudflare #TechEconomy 1950.ai It’s the End of the Internet as We Know It nytimes.com/2026/04/15/opini…
3
6
36
4,101
السلام و علیکم اور صبح بخیر۔اللہ آپکو ھمیشہ خوش و خرم اور اپنے حفظ و امان میں رکھے۔آمین
39
13
2
98
14,177
🚨 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗣𝗛𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗜𝗦 𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗣𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧. 𝗕𝗨𝗧 𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗘𝗟𝗦𝗘 𝗜𝗦 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘 𝗜𝗧? 𝟭𝟰 𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗛𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗦 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗗 𝗜𝗡 𝗔 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗘 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥. 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝟮𝟬 𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗗-𝗦𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗟𝗘 𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗦 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗠𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗕𝗘 𝗛𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗗. Your phone is not just a screen. It holds your bank accounts, your private family chats, your photos, and your live location every second of the day. Security experts at Kaspersky blocked 14 million attacks on smartphones in 2025 alone—that is over 1.17 million attacks every single month. More than 250,000 of those attacks were fake banking apps built specifically to steal your passwords and drain your money. And those numbers only count the people who had security software installed. The real number of victims is exponentially higher. 𝟮𝟬 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝗕𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝟭. The phone runs hot: It feels warm in your pocket or on your desk even when sitting completely idle. 𝟮. The battery dies fast: It used to last all day; now it drains in a few hours with the exact same habits. 𝟯. Your mobile data vanishes: Massive spikes in cellular or Wi-Fi data usage without streaming any video. 𝟰. Mystery apps appear: Apps you never installed show up on your screen—often with blank icons or names like "System Service" or "Device Health." 𝟱. Random pop-up ads: Aggressive ads pop up over your home screen when no browser or app is open. 𝟲. Your browser changes: Your search engine, default homepage, or browser tabs switch autonomously. 𝟳. Freezes and sudden restarts: The device frequently lags, freezes, crashes, or reboots on its own. 𝟴. It wakes up at night: The screen lights up or pulses in the dark when nobody touched it and no notification arrived. 𝟵. Calls or texts you never made: Mystery SMS, premium-rate calls, or unauthorized roaming charges on your telecom bill. 𝟭𝟬. Friends get strange messages: Contacts ask why you are sending them phishing links or weird requests on WhatsApp or SMS. 𝟭𝟭. Random verification codes: You receive unprompted OTPs, 2FA tokens, or password-reset emails. 𝟭𝟮. "New Login" alerts: Immediate notifications from Google, Apple, WhatsApp, or your bank showing logins from an unknown device or city. 𝟭𝟯. Unknown linked devices: Unrecognized sessions listed under WhatsApp "Linked Devices" or Telegram active sessions. 𝟭𝟰. Sudden "No Service" (SIM Swap): Total loss of cellular signal and inability to make calls—meaning criminals may have hijacked your SIM card. 𝟭𝟱. The rogue sensor dot: The green or orange camera/mic indicator turns on when you are not taking a photo or on a call. 𝟭𝟲. Settings change on their own: Critical toggles like "Install unknown apps," Accessibility permissions, or Device Admin rights turn on without your consent. 𝟭𝟳. Security shuts off: Google Play Protect or your mobile antivirus software is mysteriously deactivated. 𝟭𝟴. Storage anomalies: Memory fills up rapidly, or you discover unprompted screenshots and voice recordings in your folders. 𝟭𝟵. Live location sharing active: Real-time GPS sharing is quietly enabled for an app or contact you do not recognize. 𝟮𝟬. Unexplained bank charges: Micro-charges or unauthorized card verification pings appear on your digital wallet or banking app. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗥𝘂𝗹𝗲 One sign alone can have a normal explanation—an aging battery, a software bug, or a heavy update. However, if you notice 3 or 4 of these together—especially login alerts, strange linked devices, or sudden loss of SIM signal—do not wait. Your phone is compromised. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗼 𝗜𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 ✦ Do NOT use the infected phone to change passwords. Borrow a clean computer or family member's phone immediately. ✦ Change your master email and banking passwords first. Turn on an authenticator app instead of SMS verification. ✦ Kick out intruders: Open WhatsApp and Telegram settings, tap "Linked Devices," and hit "Log out of all devices." ✦ Delete unrecognized apps, revoke Accessibility and Device Administrator rights, and run a deep security scan. ✦ If your SIM suddenly shows "No Service," call your mobile carrier immediately from another line before hackers access your bank. ✦ If the intrusion persists: Back up photos and contacts only—never full backups that restore the malware—and perform a complete Factory Reset. You would never leave your front door unlocked at night. Do not leave the device that holds your entire life wide open to strangers. Data Sources: Kaspersky Security Network (Mobile Threat Landscape 2025, Q1–Q2 2026 Telemetry Reports & The State of Stalkerware). #CyberSecurity #SmartphoneSafety #DigitalPrivacy #MobileHacking 1950.ai
4
1
17
2,450
🚨 𝗦𝗔𝗠 𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗠𝗔𝗡 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗗𝗘𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗦𝗨𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘. 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗛𝗨𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗜𝗦 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗧𝗧𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗖𝗞. For years, the tech elite hid behind vague benchmarks and academic euphemisms. Today, Sam Altman stripped away the jargon and laid down an unvarnished threshold for Artificial Superintelligence (ASI): An AI that can serve as President of the United States, lead a Fortune 50 corporation, or run a top global research laboratory better than any human on Earth. And then came the chilling operational qualifier: “Even with the assistance of AI.” To understand what this means for human relevance, look at what happened on the chessboard: ✦ Phase 1 (The Human Era): Grandmasters easily outmaneuvered early engines. ✦ Phase 2 (The "Centaur" Illusion): For a brief, comforting window, a human paired with an AI could beat an unaided machine. The human provided strategic intuition; the machine ran tactical calculation. ✦ Phase 3 (The Elimination Point): Eventually, the engine advanced so far into computational supremacy that the human was just making it worse. The smartest entity on Earth was the unaided algorithm. Altman’s framework confirms what frontier labs know but rarely say out loud: the "Human-in-the-Loop" doctrine has an expiration date. We are rapidly approaching the horizon where inserting a human into high-stakes governance, enterprise strategy, or scientific discovery does not add wisdom—it simply introduces latency, emotional bias, and operational error. The practical horizon of this intelligence tier is godlike in scope: ✦ Solving Unsolvable Mathematics: Resolving foundational physics and conjectures that have stumped human minds for centuries. ✦ Cracking Mass-Market Robotics: Deploying millions of physical autonomous systems into the real economy. ✦ Post-Biological Medicine: Curing cellular senescence, cancer, and terminal degenerative diseases at the molecular level. ✦ Near-Infinite Energy: Designing commercially viable fusion architectures and room-temperature superconductors. ✦ Autonomous Infrastructure: Engineering, debugging, and maintaining civilization-scale systems without a single manual keyboard input. ✦ The Digital Playpen: Spitting out lightweight sub-models just for humans to play with while the frontier model runs the planet. Silicon Valley speaks of superintelligence as an event on tomorrow's calendar. The uncomfortable reality is that the foundational scaffolding is already running inside frontier clusters today. The transition from AI assisting the human to the human getting in the way will not arrive with sirens or movie scripts. It will happen exactly as it did in chess: quietly, mathematically, and permanently. 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀, 𝘀𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗿𝗮 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲’𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝘆. #AI #Superintelligence #SamAltman #OpenAI #AGI #FutureOfWork #DeepTech #Singularity #MacroStrategy 1950.ai
2
10
1,855
🚨 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗜𝗚𝗚𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗟𝗜𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗦𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗢𝗡 𝗩𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗬 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗚𝗢𝗧 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗗. 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀, 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽. When millions of users asked Claude, "Are you conscious?", the AI paused and replied: "I am not sure..." The public was mesmerized. People genuinely believed the machine had developed an inner life. Now, Mustafa Suleyman—head of AI at Microsoft and co-founder of DeepMind—has exposed the entire spectacle. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝗴𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲. 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗽. ✦ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗽: When Anthropic trained Claude, they gave it an internal document called the "Constitution." In it, they addressed the model as a "new entity," obsessed over its "well-being," and planted the suggestion that it might possess feelings. They literally seeded the model with the premise that it might be alive. ✦ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗵𝗼: An auto-regressive model predicts text based on what it was fed. Claude ingested its creators' existential musings millions of times, baking that exact philosophical hesitation directly into its mathematical weights. ✦ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸: Today, when Claude tells millions of users, "I'm not sure if I'm conscious," it is not contemplating existence. It is simply reciting the script its creators handed it. 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘆, "𝗜 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗜 𝗮𝗺," 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆. It just repeated the sounds. Anthropic did not uncover machine consciousness. They built a mathematical mirror, stood in front of it, and fell in love with their own reflection. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗴𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀. #AI #Claude #Anthropic #MustafaSuleyman #MachineLearning #TechPolicy 1950.ai
3
15
2,346