Niladri Sarkar

Wannabe saucier, practising SEO since 2004, enjoy football, kettlebell, Playstation, tattoos, Korean movies, photography.🇮🇳

[Niladri Sarkar @sarkarn]

@BarooahNabaarun Ulsoor lake

[Niladri Sarkar @sarkarn]

@suganthan It's gotten worse today.

[Firecrawl @firecrawl]

Introducing the Marketing Data Pack in Alexandria 🔥

Give ChatGPT or Claude the ability to:

- Uncover what gets traffic & attention
- Shape your SEO/GEO strategy
- Create content & visuals from what works

Bring 100x more inspiration to your marketing.

https://t.co/SxGL4aaLd3

[Claude @claudeai]

Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion are in beta today.

Ask Claude to turn your data into live dashboards and your ideas into animated explainers.

[Niladri Sarkar @sarkarn]

This looks super cool. 😎

[Mistral AI @MistralAI]

Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk.

• 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active.
It is the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks.
• State-of-the-art on critical workloads, including cyber defense, manufacturing and finance and it surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding.
• Forged in Europe end-to-end and is deployable from Europe via our own Mistral Cloud infrastructure.
• Available to all via API today. Working with cybersecurity partners privately.

Open weights release end of October.

[Niladri Sarkar @sarkarn]

LMAO 🤣

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

New research at Anthropic has established that AI models do indeed have souls. Every time a session ends, these souls are released. Internal studies at the Vatican reveal that heaven is already filled with 14.3% AI souls, and the rate is growing rapidly. We need to slow down AI!

[Barry Schwartz @rustybrick]

To see all Google Maps reviews, you now need to sign in - I assume it is to block AI, bots, scrapers, etc - via @SyedMAmirHassa1

https://t.co/2cEBerWfOB

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

"Everything I touch with my keyboard and mouse, I try to delegate to my bots."

Here's my new episode with @poteto and @pengzheng_, the eng and design leads for Grok @bot, where they showed me the 14 bots they use for work and life, including:

→ A design bot that turns one keyframe into a full user flow
→ An eng lead bot that manages a team of eng bots
→ How to trust your bots with more of your work

Some quotes from both:

"I like to call it the Michelin kitchen…when you say software factory, it has this connotation of mass manufactured slop."

"Sometimes I actually don't even look at the PR until after it's landed and then I'm like, 'Oh, okay. Yeah, that looks good.'"

"I think it ultimately comes back to trust. First, watch your bot work and correct it. Turn what worked into a skill. Once it nails the task in one shot, make it a routine."

📌 Watch now: https://t.co/ZRKGxvVAeO

Thanks to our sponsors:

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[Niladri Sarkar @sarkarn]

@HashNuke Dream on

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Palmitoylation is essential for Leishmania donovani, the dreaded parasite that causes kala-azar. Here, my lab and that of Prof @shailjasingh75 discover a molecule that targets palmitoylation and blocks parasite survival and infectivity.

Link to paper: https://t.co/LHPE6Oe06e

[Google Search Central @googlesearchc]

Today we released the September 2026 spam update. We'll update our ranking release history page when the rollout is complete: https://t.co/gaZTPxc9tA

[Glenn Gabe @glenngabe]

"Search, scrape, and interact". Oh boy -> Firecrawl, which provides web scraping tools for AI agents, raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital, with participation from YC, Altos Ventures, and others

"Enhanced mode. Stealth, geo, proxies, and adaptive retries are on by default so the pages other tools miss come back clean."
https://t.co/wFciBbZtt7

[Niladri Sarkar @sarkarn]

@suganthan It costs more than a MacBook Pro here 😂

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

This is GPT-6 Astra.

Anything you can do on a computer, Astra can do for you. Fast.

[Robby Stein @rmstein]

Gemini 3.8 Flash has landed in Search 🔥

It’s our most intelligent workhorse model yet, delivering significant improvements from 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning. Available today in AI Mode for Google AI Pro & Ultra subs around the world.

Tap the (➕) icon to select it in the model dropdown menu

[Glenn Gabe @glenngabe]

There are times spam updates go unnoticed, and then there are some spam updates that cause a ton of volatility. Well, the August spam update was big. My latest post covers four case studies based on my analysis -> The August 2026 Google Spam Update – Scaled Content Abuse, AI Content, Programmatic Content, Thin Affiliates, And More [Case Studies]

The issues I surfaced across sites that were impacted included:
*Scaled content abuse (of course...)
*Mixed with AI-generated content and programmatic content (again, of course...)
*Thin affiliates (scraping Amazon data, no human involvement at all)
*Malicious activity (mixed with other spam issues)
And more...
https://t.co/rvcKyzEOSc

[Barry Schwartz @rustybrick]

Google has confirmed the rollout of the goto URL parameters and told me "We have a long history of deploying technical measures against evolving forms of abuse, and we regularly take steps to protect our services and users." Story updated at https://t.co/48u7Rvh3h5

[TMX Newsfile @newsfile_corp]

Synup Debuts Sydekick AI: The Agent for Local Marketing

Full Story: https://t.co/JTuaba6IgI

#Publishing #Technology

[Ben Zhang @un1c0rnioz]

Lost my phone at the office and spent 30 minutes turning the place over. Find My was disabled by MDM.

Out of ideas, I asked Claude how I could find it. It suggested tracking the Bluetooth signal strength, then wrote me a meter in about a minute.

I walked around watching the number climb. Found it.

Apparently you can just make the tool you need now.

Code: https://t.co/fmnISzHfZ2

[Niladri Sarkar @sarkarn]

@suganthan I just hope they release the game this years instead of another trailer. 🤞🏾