.Babar

Climate Activist and Weather Tracker | The Mind Behind @PWP_Weather

[.Babar @babar_talks]

The importance of a circle in the universe! From galaxies to winds to the human life cycle to religious events. The weaker force always rotates around the stronger force (planets around the Star, cyclones around stronger hurricanes, two black holes and so on).

#Artology

[.Babar @babar_talks]

Roads are broken across #Karachi. I am not sure why no authority is interested in fixing them. Just a matter of a mammoth rain!

Sadly, a beautiful city it could had been.

[.Babar @babar_talks]

Indian social media warriors fuelled hate against Muslims and Pakistanis, now see what is happening..

If you light a fire, it will burn you too.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Instead of giving British teenagers weekend/holiday work, we’ve imported endless Indians to fill those roles.

That is a shocking deal on so many levels.

[.Babar @babar_talks]

Reminds me of August 2020 or any major rain for that matter in #Karachi.

Anyways, may everyone’s difficulty and hardship ease with time.

[PakWheels.com @PakWheels]

Flooded cars reported in Lahore as heavy rain causes water to enter the parking area

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: European regulators hit Google with a $1 billion fine for illegally undercutting competition through its dominance as a search engine, a move likely to intensify trans-Atlantic trade tensions. https://t.co/7cPEDIf5k5

[.Babar @babar_talks]

AI adoption is tied to a country's GDP. For companies in countries like #Pakistan, it will put a huge economic pressure to use AI tokens in day-to-day tasks.

Even in the States, the adoption rate is low, and it's much cheaper to outsource to India or Eastern Europe.

[News from Google @NewsFromGoogle]

Earlier this week, we shared some recent AI highlights across Google.

Here are some milestones showing our progress from the past few months ↓

🚀 The Gemini app now has 950 million monthly active users, with daily active users tripling in the last year.

🔨 More than 9 million developers are building each month with our models across our APIs and key developer products.

📽️ Since launching Omni at I/O in May, there’s been a 40% increase in daily active users creating videos in the @GeminiApp.

📈 Our latest Gemma 4 models have been downloaded over 300 million times since launching in April.

👥 Our agentic development platform @GoogleAntigravity has more than 2.4 million weekly active users.

🔎 Since expanding AI Mode in Search globally last October, we’ve surpassed 1 billion monthly active users.

🖥️ Nearly 90% of Fortune 100 companies are using Gemini Enterprise.

[Barry Schwartz @rustybrick]

Large publishers are strongly considering blocking Google Search completely https://t.co/3iyD3X233I

[.Babar @babar_talks]

Truck Art is Pakistani culture (Indus); it hasn’t been pushed down our throats by white people.

On the contrary, such brightly coloured liveries are usually discouraged by aviation experts due to high temperature risk and maintenance costs.

[Waqas Ahmed @waqas03]

Seriously! Has this been proposed by canva Pakistan? If thats so, its utterly disgusting; without a thought and full of disdain....i wonder when we will get out of this mandatory cultural truck art which has been pushed globally down the whitemans throats but gained no international appreciation or acceptance..... sick of this south asian shitart bound within pasleys, mughal fresco(rangamazi) and mehndi inspired designs over infrastructure. Have you ever wondered how hideous our decorations are compared to rest of world aesthetics....we need color pallets, branding , tech aesthetics, not this dulhan ke tarhan sajana shitshow.

[.Babar @babar_talks]

Gemini with Gems would have been tailored to do a Ministers job tbh.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has appointed Kanishka Narayan as the UK's first ever Minister for AI

[.Babar @babar_talks]

Just in another article, research found it only contributes 1% of the traffic.

[Nick Fox @thefox]

We’ve been continuing to improve how we show links in our AI features in Search, to make it easy for people to click to websites. One of my personal gripes (as the team knows!) is whenever I can’t easily find a link for something I want to go deeper on.

As we’ve continued to iterate, we’re now sending billions of clicks to websites every week through AI features in Search alone. We’re not done with this work – we recently added the ability to connect your subscriptions and select preferred sources, and have more to come!

[.Babar @babar_talks]

Cognitive ability and processing power of the human brain will no doubt suffer with the advancement in AI, but isn’t that how evolution works?

Our species have forgotten much of our ancestor’s hunting capabilities.

[CLaE @leafs_s]

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Is AI making us stupid?

https://t.co/8RN822QgbY

[.Babar @babar_talks]

Simulation by ECMWF looks promising, backed by historical data.

This is the best chance southern #Pakistan has for this monsoon season.

Any system that moves far west this year from Bay will easily be fuelled by the ‘warm’ SSTs of the North Arabian Sea near Gujarat.

#Karachi

[PWP @PWP_Weather]

📫MONSOON STATUS #2

Furthermore to our post of July 11 & July 14, b/w July 20 & 22, there can be localized VERY HEAVY RAINS in NE #Pakistan due to interaction between westerlies & a strong LPA.

We are awaiting the last week of July for Sindh, when the 3rd LPA may impact #Sindh.

[.Babar @babar_talks]

Google has invested a great deal of £ in AI, a product that has hit their highest revenue generator, Search/Paid Search.

Personalised AI overviews will reduce any sort of visibility a brand strives to achieve to target upper funnel audience.

[Google @Google]

We’re introducing two new ways you can explore and create visual content on Search 👇

1️⃣ Discover and organize visuals in Google Images on desktop

When you open the brand-new browseable home for Google Images, you’ll now see a dynamic, immersive image gallery that’s updated in real time and intelligently tailored to your unique interests.

You’ll be able to browse and save ideas to your collections, and they’ll appear as tabs above the main gallery, making it easy to jump back in and continue searching.

This new experience will roll out on desktop over the coming weeks in the U.S. in English. Just make sure you’re signed into your Google Account to try it out.

2️⃣ Create images in AI Overviews in Search

Using our latest Nano Banana model, you can turn any text prompt into a custom visual — directly in the Search results page.

Simply go to https://t.co/XdSBcSrWwH or open the Google app, type in the image you want to create and that's it.

Image generation in AI Overviews will roll out over the coming weeks in English, for all the regions that currently support image creation in AI Mode.

[.Babar @babar_talks]

Had this been Russia or China or any Muslim country, the reaction would’ve been very different.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer will announce a midnight social media curfew for 16 and 17-year-olds tomorrow

[Jokkerr🇵🇰 @jokkeerrr2]

غُربت انسان سے صرف روٹی ہی نہیں چِھینتی, اُس کی عزتِ نفس بھی چِھین لیتیٔ ہے۔

[.Babar @babar_talks]

@joshwoodward @GeminiApp Image generation is bad. The follow up responses are not accurate at times.

[• @Al__Quraan]

“He will give you better than what has been taken from you.”

— Al Qur’aan [8:70]

[.Babar @babar_talks]

If only we had Western Ghats, we would experience torrential downpours by evening or morning, similar to Mumbai and Colombo.

Sadly, all this moisture goes upwards.

#Karachi

[PWP @PWP_Weather]

☁️What a beautiful day in #Karachi!

Persistent cloudy weather with drizzle is common in the city from July till early September, synonymous with the monsoon season. It highlights the city’s occasional semi-oceanic climate.

[.Babar @babar_talks]

Similar to how they started locking smartphones so we can't replace old batteries and are forced to buy a new phone.

[Ryan McCaffrey @DMC_Ryan]

It isn't even about PlayStation vs. Xbox at this point. It's about corporations vs. consumers.

[𓆏 @ibeenyoung_]

Can't stop thinking about the fact that there's a Pakistani Panjabi movie from 1986 where Hitler survives WW2, runs off to Panjab, settles down with a local wife and raises a son named Hitlar who grows up to be a gangster in rural Panjab.

[.Babar @babar_talks]

Western propaganda has polluted our minds, a society’s worth is judged by women’s clothes.

[Ziganá 🇵🇰 @ZiganaKhan]

PIA ads, before & after General Zia Ul Haq.

Which way Pakistan? :)