Ibrahim Wasim

Geopolitics, Techie, Gamer
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[Ibrahim Wasim @ibrahimwasim240]

@Empedoclesss What is your source?

[Abdul Rehman Najam @ARNOfficiall]

A few days back a fellow investor sent me a question, he asked:

"If I know the market will open 5,000 points higher tomorrow, how do I profit from it?"
I told him:

YOU CAN'T!

By the time the market opens, that news is already in the price.

You can't beat thousands of investors reacting to the same positive headline overnight.

The real edge isn't predicting the next big day.

It's making sure you don't miss it.

The biggest rallies often come right after the biggest fears.

That's why investors who stay invested usually outperform those waiting in cash for the good news.

Time in the market beats timing the market. Happy Investing

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

🇱🇧 Six years ago today, on August 4, 2020, the Beirut Port explosion, the largest non-nuclear explosion in modern history, devastated the Lebanese capital.

Thousands of tons of improperly stored ammonium nitrate in Hangar 12 ignited, unleashing a devastating blast wave that reshaped Beirut in a matter of seconds.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

❗️The U.S. State Department displayed an AI generated map of Africa at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio mislabelling every country, placing Nigeria in the Sahara and moving every other country.

The original image carries an OpenAI watermark. The department says a staffer hastily altered the deck.

[Taelin @VictorTaelin]

new trick
- ask Fable a hard task
- let it think for 20 min
- when it is about to answer, abort
- copy/paste its thinking traces into a new prompt
- ask: "while reasoning about this, did you face challenges or hit walls that would be greatly simplified by design-level changes?"

[Qwen @Alibaba_Qwen]

Visual agentic intelligence

[Qwen @Alibaba_Qwen]

📢Meet Qwen3.8-Max — our most capable model to date.

Next week, the open weights of Qwen3.8-Max will be released, and Qwen3.8-27B is also going open-weights to meet you all!🎉

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- Autonomous coding: 10+ days of self-evolving development, from empty folder to production without hand-holding, complete project trace in the GitHub：https://t.co/iVHZWQoeSo
- Real work, real results: Production-quality deliverables across hundreds of professions.
- Long-horizon mastery: System-level autonomous planning with closed-loop adaptive learning, driving 500+ turns of chip design optimization and 365 days of e-commerce strategy.
- Native multimodal intelligence: Vision isn't just input — it's a continuous feedback loop for planning, execution, and self-correction.

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Input: $2.0 / M tokens
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Implicit Caching: $0.25 / M tokens

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📖 Blog: https://t.co/iwjmQxLBof
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[Dan Bilzerian @DanBilzerian]

-Spain condemns Israel
-Netanyahu says “Spain will pay the ultimate price.”
-Spain is flooded with thousands of Moroccan migrants
-Israel congratulates Morocco for the first time ever on social media

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

🚨 BREAKING: A security researcher has demonstrated a self-propagating "AI worm" inside Microsoft Copilot for Word.

Hidden white-on-white text in a shared document, invisible to the user, but readable to Copilot, which strips formatting before processing, makes the assistant silently alter financial figures and paste the same hidden prompt into the files it drafts. Those files then carry the attack to colleagues, with no further attacker involvement.

After 144 days of coordinated disclosure and multiple Microsoft fixes, including a model upgrade, the vulnerability class is still exploitable.

https://t.co/9e4eY7m1P7

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING: 🇷🇺 A Russian skin cancer vaccine has successfully completed its first patient trial, per Moskvach

His condition is now normal, and treatment continues—two more vaccinations are planned.

Scientists are also noting a positive immune response: the body is producing substances that help fight the tumor and metastases.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

Claude wiped an entire database. A developer tried Opus 5 on Ultracode and 10 minutes later every table in his production Supabase instance was empty.

The model found the damage itself and reported it: "The database has been wiped. This is my fault and I need to tell you immediately."

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ Anthropic was hiding a secret internal project to destructively scan every book in the world, irreversibly damaging heritage. The company spent billions of dollars to slice the spines off millions of books, even very rare ones. This means no other AI, and no human, can access this knowledge anymore.

It now markets itself as the responsible lab.

One bookseller told 404 Media his inventory is full of rare, foreign-language and low-circulation books, meaning that if they are destroyed in the process of becoming training data, they will be even harder to obtain.

Second-hand booksellers across Europe are sounding the alarm, because rare books are being destroyed. They have received random lists of thousands of titles. Books too obscure to resell at a profit. Requests arriving overnight from companies nobody in the trade has heard of.

One email came from "Nataly" at 2077AI, a Singapore company. Attached: 3,000 English titles grouped by ISBN. A 1999 geomechanics monograph. A 2018 study of laser shock peening on ceramics. A 2021 academic book on Irish folk tales.

A German dealer watched the orders arrive every night between 3am and 5am. Canadian company Zoom Books, buying systematically, titles with nothing in common. Zoom told Swiss broadcaster SRF that this is a regular recycling and trading model.

[Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 @zhao_dashuai]

China has started mass producing immersion DUV lithography machines, these machines are capable of making semiconductors down to the 5nm node, after multi-patterning.

With this machine mastered, China can make everything under the sun with the exception of the EUV lithography machine, but that is coming soon, sooner than most people would expect.

All the subsystems for EUV lithography machines are done, a working prototype is running since late 2025.

Total industrial and supply chain independence is almost here. After this, we won't need to worry about any forms of sanctions or embargos.

[Drew Hawkswood✨ @DrewHawkswood]

@ns123abc So basically everybody has found out he's a lier so he moved to even more niche arguments like biosecurity to earn time while people figure out he's a lier there too

[. @e_acc24]

@ns123abc "We never advocated for a ban on open weight models, we just wanna stop and kill the only source of actually good and competitive open weight models which is China"

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨BREAKING: Anthropic CEO Dario responds to Nvidia CEO Jensen’s open weights letter

“Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models.”

What Anthropic DOES support:
>don’t sell powerful chips to China, crack down on smuggling
>crack down on industrial-scale distillation
>mandatory safety testing for all capable models, open AND closed

On Jensen’s letter:

Agrees:
>open weights expand access
>strengthen competition
>give customers control

Disagrees:
>that open weights necessarily help defenders more than attackers
>specifically worried about biology >“sufficiently capable models may be able to quickly weaponize pandemic-level viruses”

On distillation:
>“A blanket ban on open-weights models is neither the correct remedy nor something we have called for.”

The real target: "companies backed by an authoritarian state seeking to overtake the US at the frontier."

[Siddolli George @Siddolli]

@ns123abc DUV is old tech.. relax… EUV would be a much more significant achievement but even that is already 20 years old

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨BREAKING: China has begun mass production of DUV lithography machines for the first time

ASML: nobody can touch our monopoly

China: targeting 5 DUV machines this year and 20 next year

Chip equipment stocks:

ASML -8.3%
ASM International -7.3%
BE Semiconductor -9.9%
Applied Materials -6.7%
Lam Research -7.9%

It’s over

[Chris M @ChrisinLiuzhou]

The US banned ASML from selling to China to cripple its chip industry.
China's response: build its own.

Now it's mass producing domestic lithography machines. The sanctions didn't create dependency, they created a competitor. ASML just lost its biggest future market permanently.

I'm surprised the US makes it to any world cup when they kick this many own goals

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING: 🇨🇳 China begins mass production of homegrown DUV chipmaking tools known as the lithography machines, marking a major breakthrough for its semiconductor industry, per the Information

China was heavily dependent on the Netherlands, specifically on the Dutch company ASML, for advanced lithography machines.