Mint: “India does not have the economic muscle to build GPU infrastructure, like the US or China. However, a growing pool of experienced engineers, and a handful of startups, are betting on a different future—offline AI, powered by smarter chips…For instance, a surveillance camera in a remote area that needs to detect intruders instantly can’t afford to rely on uploading footage to a distant data centre in order to take quick action. It must process that data locally to trigger real-time alerts. Or in railway safety systems, edge-enabled cameras mounted at crossings or on train engines can instantly detect obstructions on the tracks like stalled vehicles or pedestrians and trigger alerts without waiting for cloud-based processing to take action. To be clear, edge AI is not about replacing the cloud entirely. It’s about shifting critical intelligence closer to the problem.”
Matthew Hennessey: “Market capitalism isn’t perfect – what economic arrangement is? – but I defy you to name an alternative that allows people to follow the course they set for themselves as far as talent and ambition will carry them, regardless of race, color, creed, or family name. The circumstances of your birth don’t matter in an environment that rewards effort and encourages personal improvement. In the long scope of human history, the upward mobility enabled by free markets is rare – so rare you could only call its existence here and now a miracle. We’re all luckier than any of us realize to be living inside a miracle.” [via CafeHayek]
WaPo: “Awe is a powerful emotion we feel when we encounter something vast, complex or beyond what we normally experience. It can produce “little earthquakes in the mind,” as one awe researcher put it, that change how we see the world and our place in it. Awe makes us feel more connected and makes us (and our worries) feel small — but in a good way. Research has linked the emotion to a panoply of psychological and physical benefits — less stress, less rumination and more connection and life satisfaction. In short, it is awesome that our brains can experience awe…Nature is an endless source of awe, but so are inspiring people performing acts of kindness or courage.”
SaaStr: “When your AI can deliver intelligent, personalized responses in under 10 seconds, waiting 4-24 hours for a human follow-up doesn’t just feel slow—it feels broken. Prospects who were excited and engaged suddenly go cold. Not because they lost interest in your product, but because the dramatic shift in responsiveness signals that something went wrong. They assume they’ve been handed off to a less capable team member, or worse, that you’re not that serious about their business. Your AI inadvertently trained them to expect instant, intelligent responses. Then your humans failed to deliver.”
