Mirchi

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[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

Fareed Zakaria stood at Bard College’s commencement.

He had a trigger warning.

“I’m about to utter the two most provocative letters in English today. AI.”

Students braced to boo.

Instead, he flipped it.

“I don’t want to talk about AI. I want to talk about HI. Human Intelligence.”

The story:

He pointed to the human brain. 3 pounds. ~20 watts.

Less power than a laptop charger.

AI data centers? They consume enough electricity to power entire cities.

His point: humans aren’t “inferior computers.” We were never computers at all.

The lesson:

“A machine can write a sad poem. But it cannot weep at a funeral. It can generate a love letter. But it cannot fall in love.”

Human intelligence doesn’t win on speed. Or efficiency.

It wins because it’s embedded, consciousness, emotion, morality, memory, relationships, lived experience.

The takeaway:

Don’t ask “what’s left for humans to do?”

Ask “what does AI reveal about everything humans already do, that’s irreplaceable?”

Curiosity. Wisdom. Empathy. Critical thinking.

These aren’t soft skills anymore.

They’re the moat.

Build the tech. Use the tech.

But champion HI, human imagination, human inspiration, human interconnection.

“Our imperfections aren’t bugs in some system’s code. They’re the cracks that let the light in.”

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇱 The merger between the U.S. and Israel has a third piece almost nobody is talking about. While Section 224 fuses the militaries, Section 622 moves to fuse the intelligence services...

Buried in a 192-page intelligence authorization bill from Sen.Tom Cotton, Section 622 would legally require the president to "expand and enhance intelligence sharing" with Israel across nearly every topic of intelligence interest in the Middle East.

It would prohibit any reduction in that sharing except for a "specific and identifiable national security concern," then force a detailed report to Congress within 15 days justifying it.

Read that mechanism again carefully.

It strips the president of the ability to limit what America tells Israel, then makes any attempt to do so a political fight the Israel lobby can frame as being "against Israel's security."

It welds the intelligence spigot open by law.

Now stack the three pieces moving through Congress at once:

-The Stutzman resolution phases out visible aid.

-Section 224 integrates the militaries.

-Section 622 mandates intelligence sharing.

Each one is less publicly accountable than the last.

Aid is a line item voters can see.

Intelligence liaison happens in the dark, where no price tag ever appears.

The strategy is to move the relationship out of public view precisely as public support collapses.

And the timing is the most scandalous part.

The Pentagon just rated Israel a "critical" espionage threat.

Congress's response to all of it is to legally mandate that America share more secrets with the country its own spy agencies say is robbing it.

Source: Responsible States Craft / Writer: Daniel

[Mirchi @anjuman]

@ShashiTharoor Stop fooling yourself as "friends" of the US. Each country/govt is on its own in this multipolar world. No one is really looking out for anyone except their own interests.

[Mirchi @anjuman]

@narendramodi @BharatInnov2026 And what's in it for those who do?

[Multi @Multi_mike01]

I Put Together Every AI Model Available on https://t.co/0OIBJy3WZP and Their Pricing Into One Directory

Over the past few days, I decided to take a closer look at the models available on https://t.co/0OIBJy3WZP LLM Service and organize them into a format that's actually easy to understand.

The result is this https://t.co/0OIBJy3WZP AI Model Directory & Pricing Guide.

It brings together 28 AI models from 7 leading AI providers and organizes them into clear pricing tiers, making it easier to compare what you're getting for your money.

As new models continue to launch at a rapid pace, keeping track of pricing, features, and model availability can quickly become overwhelming.

So I decided to compile everything currently available on https://t.co/0OIBJy3WZP into a single directory.

Inside, you'll find models from:

• OpenAI
• Anthropic
• Google
• DeepSeek
• MiniMax
• Moonshot AI
• https://t.co/VHqoVnPyuz

Along with their pricing and classification tags.

To make comparisons easier, the models are grouped into:

➟ Low Tier (<1 Credit)
➟ Mid Tier (1–3 Credits)
➟ High Tier (≥5 Credits)

You'll also find tags that indicate whether a model supports:

➡ Vision
➡ Function Calls
➡ Flagship Status
➡ Premium Features

One thing that stood out while putting this together is just how many choices users have today.

Whether you're looking for a cost-efficient model, a balanced option, or access to the most advanced models available, having everything organized in one place makes comparison much easier.

Hopefully this directory saves you some time the next time you're evaluating AI models

👉 Try it now: https://t.co/KbWEHPnT7p

#TRONEcoStar @justinsuntron #BAI @BAI_AGI

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

🚨Michael Burry just said Elon Musk and Nvidia's deal is built on fake numbers.

Burry published a detailed breakdown calling the entire structure "Fugazi", his word for fake.

He is alleging that billions of dollars in Nvidia chips are being hidden off balance sheets, and that American retirees are unknowingly funding the whole thing.

Nvidia, the world's largest AI chip company sold $5.4 billion worth of its most advanced GPUs, the GB200, to a company called Valor.

Valor is not a real operating business. It is a special purpose vehicle, a shell company created specifically to hold these chips and nothing else. Nvidia also invested $1.9 billion of its own money directly into Valor on top of the sale.

Those 100,000+ chips are now physically inside xAI's data center. xAI is Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, the one that builds Grok. xAI is using every single one of those chips right now to run its AI models.

But here is what Burry is flagging.

Neither Nvidia nor xAI owns those chips on paper. Valor, the shell company holds legal title. That means $5.4 billion in GPU assets do not show up on Nvidia's balance sheet as inventory.

They do not show up on xAI's balance sheet as assets. They are legally invisible to both companies.

Nvidia gets to book the $5.4 billion as a completed sale and record it as revenue. xAI gets full use of the chips without owning them. And the risk disappears into a shell company in the middle.

Now here is where American retirees enter the picture.

Valor needed $3.5 billion in debt to fund this structure. Apollo provided it. Apollo is one of the largest asset managers on earth with $1.03 trillion under management and $834 billion specifically in private credit.

Apollo raised the $3.5 billion, packaged it into debt securities, and sold those securities to Athene.

Athene is Apollo's own insurance company. It sells fixed and indexed annuities, retirement savings products, to ordinary Americans.

When a retiree buys an Athene annuity, they believe their money is sitting in safe, stable investments. That money is now inside a structure funding Elon Musk's AI data center.

The numbers inside Athene are most alarming.

Athene holds $74.2 billion in reserves. It has moved $217 billion in assets into a captive insurer based in Bermuda, meaning those assets sit outside normal US insurance regulation and oversight.

Of the entire portfolio, 34.7%, equal to $103 billion, is classified as Level 3 assets.

Level 3 is an accounting classification that means there is no observable market price for these assets. No outside party can independently verify what they are actually worth.

The leverage sitting on top of those unpriced assets is 16 times.

Burry's says:
Every step of this structure is technically legal and publicly disclosed. But the entire thing was deliberately engineered across 8 to 12 steps to move credit risk off balance sheets and away from any market pricing.

- Nvidia books the revenue.
- Apollo collects the fees.
- xAI gets the computing power.
- And retirees sitting at the bottom of a 16x leveraged Bermuda insurance structure, holding $103 billion in assets with no market price carry the risk without knowing it exists.

[Mirchi @anjuman]

@China_hp1 Absolutely! Love that country. Visited once and wasn't enough

[Mirchi @anjuman]

@Sofia50020Sofia Liver

[Mirchi @anjuman]

@Noahpinion Source please? Would be a lot more credible if each of these data had a source attached

[Richard @ricwe123]

When the illusion finally shatters, what’s left isn’t just disappointment,it’s total embarrassment.
The man you invested your faith in isn’t a savior at all, just an empty act stitched together with arrogance, noise, and relentless self-promotion.
All that confidence, all those grand promises, all the swagger,it collapses into something painfully small the moment it’s tested against reality.

There’s no hidden genius, no bold disruptor underneath it all.
Just a loud, impulsive figure flailing through responsibilities he clearly wasn’t equipped to handle, drowning incompetence in a flood of bluster.

In the end, what once looked like strength turns out to be nothing more than cheap theatrics.
Not leadership,just a gaudy performance.

A caricature.
A spectacle.

And the real sting isn’t that it was absurd,it’s realizing how long it took to admit you were taken in by all his bullshit....

[Mirchi @anjuman]

Now let the clean up begin! Frustrated and appalled

[Rajat Jain @RajatJain]

As an Indian, the recent revelations about the massive H-1B visa fraud ring are deeply frustrating.🇮🇳💔

Former U.S. Diplomat recently exposed what she describes as "industrialized fraud" coming primarily out of our own backyard.
Here are the staggering facts being reported:
🚨 220,000 H-1B visas were processed in Chennai alone in a single year (2024).
🚨 71% of all global H-1B visas go to India, but the integrity of this data is under heavy scrutiny.
🚨 Entire markets in places like Ameerpet, Hyderabad, have been accused of openly selling fake degrees, forged bank statements, and counterfeit certificates.
🚨 Widespread use of proxy interviews and fake employer letters to bypass basic coding tests.

Who pays the real price for this? Honest Indian engineers.
Thousands of hardworking Indian students and IT professionals grind for years, genuinely master their craft, and play by the rules—only to lose the lottery to scammers with counterfeit papers. Not only does this rob deserving candidates of opportunities, but it completely destroys India's global credibility in the tech world.

A system built on "rishwat" (bribery) and fake profiles needs a total clean-up. We should want a system that rewards true merit, not the best-forged documents.

[Mirchi @anjuman]

@elonmusk Isn't that good for a country that's suffering from fractured infrastructure, lagging literacy, pollution problems and herbal stagnant quality of life for the large percentage of population

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Mirchi @anjuman]

@MurraySuggests That's brilliant!!

[Mirchi @anjuman]

@OccupyDemocrats Good for him! He's finally getting his voice

[Mirchi @anjuman]

@TulsiGabbard Bless you and Abraham. Praying for his full recovery. Stay strong

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

India has sent 96 people to America who started billion dollar companies. No one else is even close.

There's only about 5 million Indians in America. Almost one in 50,000 of them is a unicorn founder!

What a holy, special, beautiful people.

I will always fight for them.

[ProfGeorgeWerner @ProfGWerner]

@BrandiKruse @CBSNews Yes, because opinions of an intern on one camera shot outweigh 32 years of independent reporting.

When the First Amendment is officially set on fire, we all know exactly where you'll be. Letting the suits tell you what to think and write.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Today the EU made American AI illegal in 27 countries.

The reason is ONE sentence Microsoft's own lawyer said under oath:

This morning in Brussels, EU Tech Chief Henna Virkkunen unveiled the Cloud and AI Development Act. It's the most aggressive anti-American tech move from Europe since GDPR.

The law forces EU public sector procurement in banking, healthcare, defense, and energy to apply mandatory non-price factors favoring software and hardware built inside the EU. Microsoft Azure can be cheaper, AWS can be faster, Google Cloud can have the better model, and EU governments MUST legally prefer European alternatives.

AWS, Microsoft, and Google currently control roughly 70% of the European cloud market. Brussels is now openly targeting greater independence from US providers in cloud, AI, and semiconductors.

The largest regulatory market-share transfer in tech history is being written into law right now.

But the real story is how this happened...

On June 10, 2025, a man almost no one outside Brussels had heard of walked into the French Senate. His name is Anton Carniaux, Director of Public and Legal Affairs at Microsoft France.

Senator Dany Wattebled asked him under oath whether he could guarantee that data belonging to French citizens, stored on Microsoft European servers, would never be transmitted to US authorities without explicit consent from the French government.

Carniaux answered honestly. He admitted he could not guarantee it, because Microsoft must comply with the US CLOUD Act regardless of where European data physically sits. One sentence of sworn testimony from Microsoft's own counsel killed every sovereign cloud defense Big Tech had spent five years building.

It became the legal foundation for the law unveiled today.

Then Trump accelerated the divorce.

January 2025 brought executive orders expanding US surveillance authorities. Vance went to Munich and attacked European democracies on stage.

The tariffs followed and so did the Pentagon's $200 million AI contract war that ended with OpenAI replacing Anthropic after Hegseth labeled it a supply chain risk. So did OpenAI's Stargate and yesterday's Trump AI Executive Order, whose Section 3 lets the White House pick which AI companies get 30-day early access to frontier models. American AI was officially declared a US government strategic asset.

Europe heard every word of it.

On May 12, Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch told the French National Assembly that Europe had 24 months to build sovereign AI infrastructure or become a permanent US VASSAL state.

And the response came fast:

April 24: Cohere acquired Germany's Aleph Alpha for $20 billion with both Germany's and Canada's digital ministers in the room at the Berlin announcement. May 30: SoftBank committed up to $87 BILLION for French nuclear-powered data centers, the largest AI infrastructure project in European history.
Yesterday: EU Parliament announced it's dropping Google for French search engine Qwant tomorrow. France ordered every government workstation off Windows and onto Linux.

Today the Cloud and AI Development Act made all of it law.

- Mistral is building a 1.4 gigawatt AI campus near Paris by 2028 with Nvidia, MGX, and Bpifrance
- SAP's EU AI Cloud, launched last November, runs on Cohere, Mistral, and SAP's own sovereign infrastructure
- McKinsey forecasts $600 billion in sovereign AI needs by 2030

None of that money is going to Silicon Valley.

The America First AI policy built a wall around the world's most regulated economy, and American companies are on the wrong side of it.

Microsoft's lawyer told the truth in a Senate hearing nobody watched. Trump turned that admission into a national security narrative while the EU turned that narrative into procurement law.

And one entire continent walked away from the American tech stack...