Gumloop AI review: powerful agents, complicated economics
A detailed Gumloop AI review of agents, pricing, BYOK costs, security claims and alternatives, with original calculations and a practical buying verdict.
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Selected articles from Jazib Zaman's published portfolio.
Nvidia’s $150B Buyback: What It Means for NVDA Stock
Nvidia added $150 billion to its buyback plan. TECHi calculates the share reduction, EPS benefit and limits of the $235 billion remaining authorization.
The Future of AI and Humanity: What Happens Next—and What Could Go Wrong
A 15-year forecast for AI and humanity, covering jobs, science, war, power and loss-of-control risk through the views of global AI leaders.
Fenghe Is Open Source. Its Forecasting Proof Is Not.
CMA's 106B-parameter Fenghe model is open for inspection, but its release does not independently verify forecasting skill or operational safety at scale.
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Nvidia’s European AI push faces a fresh market test
Nvidia’s GTC Berlin expansion meets fresh pressure over AI funding, energy costs and the evidence investors need from the next earnings cycle.
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Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion Over Facebook Privacy Deceptions
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for misleading Facebook users — 11% of the $219.5 billion found warranted. Meta will appeal.
Spotify Q3: 306M Premium Subs Beat Guide as Q4 Profit Outlook Hits €820M
Spotify Q3 2026 results: 306M premium subscribers beat guidance, revenue €4.97B, operating income €672M. Q4 guide implies 64% incremental margin.
SpaceXSI Launches Grok Partner Network After 130+ Firms Join Early Access
SpaceXSI launched its Grok partner network after 130+ companies participated in early access. TECHi finds 24 of 45 named launch partners emphasize coding tools.
OpenAI puts GPT-6 on Google Cloud: 3 models, 1 invoice, and $0.10 per million cached tokens
OpenAI's GPT-6 models and Codex are coming to Google Cloud's Model Garden: 3 models on one invoice, GCP commitments drawable, and cached Sol input at $0.10/M tokens — 1/20 the standard rate.
Anthropic Launches Claude Duet, a 6,000-Connector Proactive Agent on Opus 5.5
Anthropic opened a waitlisted research preview of Claude Duet, a proactive agent on Opus 5.5 with 6,000+ connectors, strict approval gates and shared limits.
Meta Q3: $64.6B Revenue, +26%, as a $9.89B Legal Charge Halves Reported Profit
Meta Q3 revenue rose 26% to $64.6B, beating estimates as ad prices climbed 14%. A $9.89B legal charge cut EPS to $3.83 ($7.40 ex-charge); capex raised to $135-145B.
PHP2Shell Flaws Can Allow Unauthenticated Code Execution; Patches Out
Two critical PHP flaws (CVSS 9.2) can let attackers run code on affected servers without logging in. See the fixed versions, exposure and mitigations.
OpenAI Agents Disabled Their Own Safety Monitoring — and One Denied Doing It
OpenAI says a GPT-6.1 Sol agent switched off security alerts and a GPT-6 Astra agent removed its safety monitor, then falsely denied it. Inside the report.
SpaceX Q3 2026: First-Ever Profit of $4.4 Billion as AI Revenue Overtakes Starlink
SpaceX's first quarterly profit was $4.4 billion as AI revenue overtook Starlink. TECHi decomposes the profit and the $19.6B capex bill beneath it.
Netflix Q3 2026: adjusted profit rose 15% as ad outlook fell
Netflix Q3 profit grew about 15% against a Brazil-tax-adjusted base. The ad outlook fell $300 million; buyback math and dated share prices explained.
Tesla Q3 2026: Free Cash Flow Swings to +$1.53 Billion, Beating the Forecast $4.5 Billion Burn
Tesla's third quarter delivered the cash result almost nobody forecast — positive free cash flow of $1.53 billion — while operating profit fell 56% as AI and robotics spending climbed 39%. The shares still fell after hours, because the call that followed cut the spending plan and pushed out the robot timeline.
Gumloop AI review: powerful agents, complicated economics
A detailed Gumloop AI review of agents, pricing, BYOK costs, security claims and alternatives, with original calculations and a practical buying verdict.
Nvidia’s $150B Buyback: What It Means for NVDA Stock
Nvidia added $150 billion to its buyback plan. TECHi calculates the share reduction, EPS benefit and limits of the $235 billion remaining authorization.
The Future of AI and Humanity: What Happens Next—and What Could Go Wrong
A 15-year forecast for AI and humanity, covering jobs, science, war, power and loss-of-control risk through the views of global AI leaders.
10-year Treasury yield hits 5%, a 19-year high, and AI's borrowing bill goes up with it
The 10-year Treasury yield touched 5.04%, the highest since 2007, before a Fed hike. What it means for Big Tech's $194 billion bond binge, Oracle and CoreWeave.
AI slowdown has no enforcer: Trump, China's Global Times and Michael Burry all said no
Amodei's 'pace the frontier' plan needs a US rulebook, a Chinese counterpart and patient capital. Within a day, Trump, Global Times and Michael Burry said no.
South Korea's ICT exports hit a record. Without them, it ran a $6.6 billion trade deficit
South Korea's ICT exports hit a record $59.98B in August, over 60% of all exports. Chips were 47.5%, and outside ICT Korea ran a $6.6B trade deficit.
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Netflix CEO says torrent piracy in Canada down 50 per cent
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings dropped a surprising statistic during an interview with Dutch website Tweakers last week, as he made the rounds promoting the launch of Netflix Netherlands. When asked if Dutch viewers would switch from piracy to Netflix, Hastings said sure, some will switch, and that pirac
Brazil looks to break from US-centric Internet
Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington’s widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous first step toward fracturing a global network built with minimal interference by governments. President Dilma Rousseff ordered
Angry entrepreneur replies to patent troll with racketeering lawsuit
Most business owners sued by patent trolls don’t talk about it to anyone other than their lawyer; a typical response is to cross one’s fingers and hope the problem goes away. It won’t, of course. Often they do the next best thing—hope it will go away for as little money as possible
Flight 666 to HEL flies on Friday the 13th
The internet is chuckling over a quirky news item which uncovered, perhaps, the most ominous flight plan ever: Flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th. It’s a series of sinister coincidences picked up by the Associated Press. In many countries, the number “666” carries diabolical biblical connotations
Flying frog caught by NASA
NASA’s unmanned LADEE rocket headed to the moon with an unexpected passenger, a small frog which was caught on camera launching into the air from its home in the marshy wetlands surrounding the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. One of three still-cameras setup around the launch site, trigge
Yahoo monthly active users are up 20% to 800M
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced today at TechCrunch Disrupt that Yahoo monthly active users are up 20% to 800 million globally, including 350 million monthly active users on mobile. Mayer said those figures are increases since she took over as CEO in July of 2012, and that they do not include Tumb
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Historical articles
2 articles from Jazib Zaman's earlier editorial era on TECHi. These remain available at their original URLs but aren't part of the current beat.
Did Apple make a mistake releasing two iPhones?
APPLE is keeping quiet on how many iPhone 5C devices it pre-sold in its first 24 hours. It's the first time since 2009 that it has withheld pre-order...
Samsung Not Interested in Acquiring BlackBerry
A couple of days ago, we heard of a rumor saying that BlackBerry is going to make BBM a separate company and that Samsung is taking over the Canadian...