Nikhil Choudhary

Oilfield Nomad. Energy. Policy. Digital & AI. Curious about all. Views my own.

[Nikhil Choudhary @NChoudhary]

Hi @AnthropicAI @claudeai - you guys are charging twice for my subscription - one from App Store and another from credit card stored earlier. Every time I raise a ticket your AI Agent gives stupid response. Can you resolve it?

[Nikhil Choudhary @NChoudhary]

Looks like Argentina are unbeatable. With Referees as 12/13/14/15 men supporting.

[Nikhil Choudhary @NChoudhary]

Looks like the world cup is Argentina’s :)

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

SpaceX has exercised the option to acquire @cursor_ai in an all-stock transaction with the goal of building the world’s most useful AI models.

For the past few months, SpaceXAI has been jointly training a model with Cursor, which will be released in Cursor and Grok Build soon.

We look forward to working closely with the Cursor team to advance our frontier AI capabilities

[Nikhil Choudhary @NChoudhary]

Kohli ❤️. Well deserved. Only one along who keeps cricket exciting for me post Tendulkar!
#IPL #rcb

[Nikhil Choudhary @NChoudhary]

@ONGC_ @PetroleumMin @HardeepSPuri @OfficeofHSP @TheSureshGopi @Secretary_MoPNG @neerajmittalias Congratulations to @ONGC_ for this outstanding digital transformation project. Data & AI to produce more hydrocarbons.

[Nikhil Choudhary @NChoudhary]

Ann Rand. Atlas Shrugged. Typical playbook.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year are stolen from American workers.

If a billionaire amasses their wealth by underpaying their full-time workers so severely that they must rely on food assistance and government programs to survive, then no, that wealth was not earned by one individual - it was a wealth transfer subsidized by underpaid American workers and the public who get stuck with the bill for large corporations free-riding off our systems.

The point is less about individual morality. It’s more about how our current economic reality of shattering inequality rewards screwing over workers and exploiting essential systems at scale.

We’re talking monopoly power. Rent-seeking. Wage theft. Profiteering. Stock buybacks. Destabilizing housing markets. Companies using SNAP/EBT to underwrite their wages. Massive government subsidies or contracts to corporations following lobbying and dark money in politics with little to no oversight or accountability.

Some people get enraged that I draw attention to this. That’s on them. Let them call me shrill, dumb, inexperienced, girly, uneducated - these folks will say anything to distract from or undercut the truth that working people are getting screwed, and giving people a fair shake means we must have a grown conversation about reigning in abuse of power.

[Nikhil Choudhary @NChoudhary]

. @FurlencoSupport Day 14 of @Furlenco ghosting my collection appointments. Appalling service and zero accountability. My space is cramped and my patience is gone. Don't rent from people who won't take their stuff back! 🚫

[Nikhil Choudhary @NChoudhary]

Congratulations to @ONGC_ and @pankajkumarONGC for an outstanding vision and then execution.

#SLB and Team India is proud to be the Digital Technology partner of ONGC for this initiative.

[Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) @ONGC_]

A defining step forward in #ONGC’s digital evolution.

On 18 April 2026, the Integrated Digital Solution of the Production Operation Control Centre (NETRA) was inaugurated at the Institute of Production Engineering and Ocean Technology (IPEOT) by Director (Production) @pankajkumarONGC, marking a powerful shift from data to decisions, from insight to impact.

Guided by the vision of “Bytes to Barrel,” the POCC brings together real-time production data, advanced analytics, well and network models, optimization workflows, and digital twin technologies into a single, intelligent platform.

This is more than a system. It is a new way of operating.

Faster decisions. Smarter production. A future shaped by precision and innovation.

#YouAreEnergy #EnergyNowAndNext

[Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) @ONGC_]

A defining step forward in #ONGC’s digital evolution.

On 18 April 2026, the Integrated Digital Solution of the Production Operation Control Centre (NETRA) was inaugurated at the Institute of Production Engineering and Ocean Technology (IPEOT) by Director (Production) @pankajkumarONGC, marking a powerful shift from data to decisions, from insight to impact.

Guided by the vision of “Bytes to Barrel,” the POCC brings together real-time production data, advanced analytics, well and network models, optimization workflows, and digital twin technologies into a single, intelligent platform.

This is more than a system. It is a new way of operating.

Faster decisions. Smarter production. A future shaped by precision and innovation.

#YouAreEnergy #EnergyNowAndNext

[Nikhil Choudhary @NChoudhary]

I am looking forward to this book, @scmallaby. All three books I have read—The Power Law, More Money Than God, and The Man Who Knew—were outstanding. Each is an epic 101 course on the inner workings of the industry it represents.

[Colossus @colossusmag]

We're publishing an exclusive chapter from @scmallaby's brilliant new book about Demis Hassabis and DeepMind.

This is the inside story of Project Mario. How DeepMind's co-founders spent 4 years trying every mechanism they could think of to put guardrails around AGI, only to watch each one fail, and conclude that the only safeguard was themselves.

It reveals that Hassabis ran a secret hedge fund team inside DeepMind trying to beat Renaissance Technologies; Mustafa Suleyman assembled lawyers for a $5 billion walkaway plan; Reid Hoffman committed $1 billion of his personal fortune to back them; Google kept saying yes and no at the same time—and the endless negotiations left Hassabis so distracted that when the transformer paper dropped in 2017, he was less alert to its significance than he might have been.

Meanwhile, OpenAI was fighting the mirror-image battle with Musk, Altman, and Sutskever tearing each other apart over the same question: who gets to control AGI? Musk proposed folding OpenAI into Tesla. When that failed, he stormed out. When OpenAI's nonprofit board finally tried to assert authority in 2023, it was crushed in days.

Both camps arrived at the same unsettling conclusion, that governance structures don't hold. The best safeguard either side could come up with?

Trust us.

Read the chapter in the link below.

[Nikhil Choudhary @NChoudhary]

@jordan_ross_8F OpenClaw

[Nikhil Choudhary @NChoudhary]

Well, #Dhurandhar2 is amazing and made for theaters. I hope its success brings a change to the crap Bollywood currently generates!

[Nikhil Choudhary @NChoudhary]

I love tech and will buy the day Apple makes it. Meta - no chance.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: Meta sold 7 million Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025 alone.

Workers in Kenya are watching the footage.

Not metadata. Not anonymized clips. The actual videos. People undressing. People in bathrooms. People having sex. Bank cards. Medical documents.

The blurring is supposed to protect privacy. It fails constantly. The contractors see everything.

Here is the part that should stop you cold: You did not buy the glasses. You did not agree to the terms of service. You did not consent to anything. But if someone wearing Meta glasses walks into your bedroom, your bathroom, your doctor's office, your home, a contractor on the other side of the world may be watching you right now.

The person wearing the glasses consented. Everyone else in the room did not.

Meta's defense is that this is all disclosed in the privacy policy. They are technically correct. Buried in language so dense that 99% of users never read it. And even if they did, it would not matter, because the terms govern the wearer's data. Not yours. You are not a party to the contract. You are the product being annotated.

Millions of AI-enabled cameras walking around in public. Recording constantly. Uploading to servers. Reviewed by humans earning a few dollars an hour to label your most intimate moments so the algorithm gets smarter.

This is not a bug. This is the business model.

The EU is already asking questions. MEPs submitted formal inquiries to the Commission this week demanding answers on GDPR compliance. The problem is obvious: European data protection law requires consent from data subjects. Bystanders are data subjects. Bystanders never consented. The entire architecture violates the regulation by design.

Meta's response has been silence and a reference to terms of service that do not apply to the people actually being filmed.

Google Glass died because people called the wearers "Glassholes" and banned them from bars. Meta solved the social problem by making the glasses look normal. They did not solve the privacy problem. They hid it.

Seven million units sold in 2025. The installed base is accelerating. Every unit is a potential surveillance node operated by someone who may not understand what they are feeding into the system and reviewed by contractors who see everything the algorithm cannot process.

The question is not whether this becomes a scandal. The question is whether the scandal arrives before or after the glasses are on 50 million faces.

Watch the EU. If Brussels moves on GDPR enforcement, Meta faces a choice: disable human review in Europe and cripple the AI training pipeline, or accept fines that could reach billions. Neither outcome is priced into the stock.

The glasses are selling faster than ever.

The contractors keep watching.

And somewhere right now, someone you have never met is looking at footage of you that you never knew existed.

[Nikhil Choudhary @NChoudhary]

Rest in peace. How to lose everything and win big was a great book!

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

A Final Message From Scott Adams

[Nikhil Choudhary @NChoudhary]

The Zomato gig worker issue is another reminder: while John Galt might not be real, the villains in Atlas Shrugged are. Reading Ayn Rand should be a priority before graduation to get rid of this armchair punditry.

[Nikhil Choudhary @NChoudhary]

Brilliant article on Tesla's approach and evolution of computer vision!

#TeslaAI #ComputerVision

[Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy]

https://t.co/Jr4i7tHUCr

[Nikhil Choudhary @NChoudhary]

Holy cow. @ManUtd win at #Anfield. Wow. Nice Diwali gift!

[Nikhil Choudhary @NChoudhary]

Why does every @netflix original need a gay, interracial angle in the storyline?

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