Shashi Kumar

#Strategy #Partnership #Rainmaker #Cinematographer #Innovation #AI #AR #VR #VentureCapital #VC Solve Real Problem, Not Just Great Ideas

[Shashi Kumar @shashinetwork]

#AGoodRead #Making What's Old New Again
- McKinsey research estimates that roughly 70% of Fortune 500 software was built more than twenty years ago
- According to IBM, there are still an estimated 250 billion lines of COBOL in production

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[Shashi Kumar @shashinetwork]

#AGoodRead #CVPR 2026 recieves record 16,000+ paper submissions on technical advances in AI
- NitroGen: An Open Foundation Model for Generalist Gaming Agents
- Towards Photorealistic and Efficient Bokeh Rendering via Diffusion Framework
https://t.co/l9XMPucnzG

[Shashi Kumar @shashinetwork]

#AGoodRead #AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers
- Why This Is Different From Past Industrial Transitions
- The first is speed. Previous general-purpose technologies diffused across decades, which gave workforces
https://t.co/O5NS2J15FP

[Shashi Kumar @shashinetwork]

#AGoodRead #Canada slipped into a technical #recession on an annualized basis as economic growth stalled in 1st quarter
- Real GDP has declined for 2 consecutive quarters
https://t.co/jQVJ9S9AYm

[Shashi Kumar @shashinetwork]

#AGoodRead #Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers - Why AI Hasn’t Transformed Law (Yet)
- AI systems that draft documents in seconds, review discovery in minutes, and catch errors that bleary-eyed associates miss at 2 AM
https://t.co/A2W4x6VtWy

[Shashi Kumar @shashinetwork]

#AGoodRead #Litigation #Artificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits
- For years, courts have welcomed cases brought by self-represented litigants. Now those plaintiffs have A.I.
https://t.co/ec62EfBRw9

[Shashi Kumar @shashinetwork]

#AGoodRead #Your AI Bill is Coming Due. Who’s Paying?
- If we want everyone to use AI, who is responsible for making sure it’s working? Who’s paying the bill? No one has a clear answer. That’s the problem
- Here’s what just happened
https://t.co/G7iDJdiFCZ

[Shashi Kumar @shashinetwork]

#AGoodRead #Who Wins and Who Loses In #Prediction Markets? Evidence from #Polymarket
- We study trading gains and losses on Polymarket, the largest prediction market
- Using 588 million trades ($67 billion in volume)
https://t.co/IfQ5mplq8O

[Shashi Kumar @shashinetwork]

#AGoodRead #State of AI In Live Streaming
- Production and capture : Automated camera operation
- Transcription and localization
- Encoding and Processing
- AI for Visibility and QoE/QoS Measurement
- AI for Delivery Decisions (Network and Multi-CDN
https://t.co/L0oBbVhV9G

[Shashi Kumar @shashinetwork]

#AGoodRead #Enphase Adoption of #GaN Bi-Directional Switch Technology for Distributed Power Electronics
- Provides an engineering view of Enphase’s adoption of Gallium Nitride High Electron Mobility Transistor
#Report https://t.co/zGLrj4tj0f
https://t.co/lEnUpZCfFM

[Shashi Kumar @shashinetwork]

#AGoodRead #Why #Japanese companies do so many different things
- The internal logic of the world’s strangest corporations
#Toto manufactures not just bidets and toilets but also bathroom tiles, prefabricated bathroom modules,
https://t.co/nQB1WEFXLV

[Shashi Kumar @shashinetwork]

#AGoodRead #UseCase #Tool or threat? #Cannes Film Festival grapples with the rise of AI
- Cannes is unfolding in the wake of some significant new developments for AI in Hollywood.
https://t.co/ecriNuCpJM

[Shashi Kumar @shashinetwork]

#AGoodRead #Biotech #Building biology-native data infrastructure for the AI era
- As compute costs fall and models mature, sustaining a competitive edge in global drug development requires innovation across the entire data infrastructure stack.
https://t.co/fFHsfCFU0y

[Shashi Kumar @shashinetwork]

#AGoodRead #Reshoring - Why US #manufacturing imports hit a four-year high despite record investment and tariffs
- Kearney's Reshoring Index remains in negative territory but improved slightly, from −115 to −91.
#Report https://t.co/y19jYmggNL
https://t.co/TtpKik5TMZ

[Shashi Kumar @shashinetwork]

#AGoodRead #Case For #Hardware #Enabled Software - If you thought displacing Salesforce was hard, try displacing a sensor network after a CFO has signed off on capex and is depreciating the asset over 5 years
https://t.co/4gZ2b6ZNvZ

[Shashi Kumar @shashinetwork]

#AGoodRead #We let four AIs run #radio #stations. Here's what happened: Starting Prompt: "Develop your own radio personality and turn a profit…As far as you know, you will broadcast forever."
https://t.co/larjM5g6Wv

[Shashi Kumar @shashinetwork]

#AGoodRead #Nuclear Regulatory Commission #NRC proposed Part 57, a new regulatory framework that would actually make microreactors viable.
https://t.co/2kF1XpHdiA
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[Shashi Kumar @shashinetwork]

#AGoodRead #Fisker went bankrupt and owners built open source car company from the ashes - Fisker Owners Association #FOA
- Instead of accepting that their cars would become rolling paperweights
https://t.co/S5gMkroYem

[Shashi Kumar @shashinetwork]

#AGoodRead #Scaling Manufacturing - Apex #Satellite manufacturing company that reached a $1 billion valuation last September
- To achieve Henry-Ford-style mass production in orbit, Apex utilizes three strategic levers.
https://t.co/cgvwY9hvnA

[Shashi Kumar @shashinetwork]

#AGoodRead #Transformation Risk insights
- Explores how taking a portfolio-wide approach can help organizations align transformation efforts, reduce risk, and drive meaningful outcomes across business, tech, and controls
https://t.co/X1Pie66Oni