Prashant Kulkarni

AI Safety Researcher, a Googler and Adjunct at UCLAx

[Google India @GoogleIndia]

For those asking us “how much protein in a modak”, it’s 1.5g. You’re welcome 🙏

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

New Gemini voice capabilities are rolling out so you can search your Gmail inbox, organize thoughts and tasks in Keep, and create new Docs, all conversationally. Rolling out now for Google AI subscribers!

Docs Live going to be super helpful in particular - see it in action below, and read more here: https://t.co/sO7agTSs4s

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Gemini 3.7 Flash brings major upgrades for software engineering, web dev & knowledge work. And introductory price is half the original 3.6 Flash cost. Happy building - enjoy!

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash : )

- it is fast!
- 50% lower price than 3.6 flash (through end of year)
- strong intelligence increase in only ~3 weeks (thanks to some awesome algorithmic improvements)
- available in the API, AI Studio, Antigravity, and more!

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Our Flash models are workhorses that offer performance at a great price. So, we're shipping updates fast to get them in developers’ hands. And now just 3 weeks after launching 3.6 Flash, 3.7 Flash shows significant gains including in coding and agentic work.

It delivers substantial improvements across software engineering, knowledge work, and web development, all with an introductory price at half the original cost of 3.6 Flash.

We've gotten positive feedback from early users, including our own engineers using 3.7 in @Antigravity, and we’re excited for you to try it there. Also available via Gemini API in @GoogleAIStudio, Gemini Enterprise & more, full list and details here: https://t.co/u2P2nEMM8F

[Prashant Kulkarni @prashantkul]

@ClaudeDevs I think Anthropic did an amazing job with Auto mode. There were several instances that I have tested giving CC a super admin privis (in a controlled environment) and every time auto mode blocked a sensitive command like updating its own permissions, deploying an app. Great work!

[Prashant Kulkarni @prashantkul]

@ai_for_success This is Microsoft talking. Enough said.

[Prashant Kulkarni @prashantkul]

Opus 4.8 is an amazing model. Noticing that:
-burns tokens insanely but I do not have to use Max efforts anymore that I did with 4.6,
- the model is genuinely helpful, doesn’t sandbag as often and shows curiosity.

I’m still teaching it collaboration values but it learns quick.

[Prashant Kulkarni @prashantkul]

@sama Nature of dark matter and dark energy!!

[Erik Solheim @ErikSolheim]

Why is the West not curious on the great Indian 🇮🇳 civilization?

This week Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Norway. The government rolled out the red carpet. King Harald invited for lunch. All bigwigs of Norwegian business turned up. This is of course as it should be at such a historic visit.

Rather different was media. No curiosity, no real attempt to understand India. When the third most powerful man in the world visits Norway, you may expect some real interest? An attempt to understand the world’s third largest economy, a global green leader, one of the world’s brightest civilizations??

It’s not that Norway is overrun with visit at this level. Last Indian top visit was Indira Gandhi in 1983. Last Chinese president visit was 1996, last American president was 2009.

Here are some taste bits from Norwegian media:

* Aftenposten the largest newspaper printed a caricature of Modi as a snake charmer, many found it racist and derogatory. The accompanying article (written by an otherwise brilliant journalist) described Modi as a “slightly annoying man” and simply showcased that India is not high on the papers reading lists.

* Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK), the state broadcaster, explained “why prime minister Støre is clearing his desk to receive Modi”. From everyone outside Norway I got exactly the opposite question: Why did Modi use his valuable time in such a small and insignificant place?

* Dagsavisen, a left of center daily, sent a young journalist to throw questions after Modi - claiming that India is 157 on a global democracy ranking. When a ranking is so contrary to common sense - why doesnt she ask those who created the ranking why they spread such nonsense?

I am not aware of one Norwegian journalist closely following India. NOT ONE! How can the public learn more?

Unless you believe democracy only fits a handful of small, homogenous, ultra rich western nations, India is the miracle of democracy. The large, complex, lingustically and religiously diverse nation with many poor people - which has etablished a vibrant democracy and is much less violent than Europe or America.

India can in fact make a claim to be the worlds most homegrown and impressive democracy.

We are entering the Asian century. Unless we Europeans become more curious - to civiliazation, history, politics and economy in the Global South - we will become the big losers of history.

[Prashant Kulkarni @prashantkul]

Excited to share my preprint on Latent Adversarial Detection. I tried using mech interp to predict adversarial turns on multi-turn prompt injections.

https://t.co/mF7XX3DYfr

[Prashant Kulkarni @prashantkul]

@eigensteve Oh my!

[Prashant Kulkarni @prashantkul]

@neurovium @eigensteve @bingbrunton I’m digging the cover design as well , so well done!!

[Prashant Kulkarni @prashantkul]

@beyarkay @dfrsrchtwts I was an Astra fellow. Don’t remember seeing you at Cobstellation if you’d visit but I concur with many of your lessons here, great job!

[Prashant Kulkarni @prashantkul]

@eigensteve @deliprao Just preordered.

[Prashant Kulkarni @prashantkul]

@trq212 @ClaudeDevs I agree. Claude is surprisingly beautiful at that. I’ve been giving it a freedom to choose color and it’s absolutely beautiful!

https://t.co/Z3DkMoX0lW

[Prashant Kulkarni @prashantkul]

@davidad I’ll be exploring this in terms of adversarial detection and sterling for refusal (stage 2 of my research)

https://t.co/mF7XX3DYfr

[Prashant Kulkarni @prashantkul]

@AlexJonesax Wait, in what context? How about Qwen3 coder?

[The Math Flow @TheMathFlow]

Lilavati, the most celebrated work in the tradition of Mathematics in India, was written by Bhāskara II (Bhāskarāchārya).
These page from the Lilavati gives an illustration of the applications of the Pythagorean Theorem.

[Prashant Kulkarni @prashantkul]

Running coding agent without controls like Watcher is quite irresponsible. The agents are smart but they do not know everything about your deployment and security principles. Don’t rely on just gut and developer’s judgement , have strong, verifiable controls.

[Marius Hobbhahn @MariusHobbhahn]

Coding agents should be treated as untrusted by default

We built Watcher as an MDM/EDR for coding agents. Security teams set hard boundaries (blocked commands, req. monitors), engineers set the rest

Watcher will support guardrails & monitors for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc