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A seven-day plan for learning AI at ten minutes a day — and the three things it leaves out
The plan is sound and the safety warning is the right one. Wednesday is the day that matters, and the article is too modest about why.
World
“Maxxing” is Dictionary.com’s word of the year, and “data centre” was on the shortlist it beat
A suffix that attaches to anything, chosen by a dictionary measuring social media. The runners-up say more about 2026 than the winner does.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s tech journalists met to discuss AI and agreed it is an opportunity — the four questions a newsroom actually has to settle went unasked
The speakers were right that the craft is changing. A policy, rather than an attitude, is what decides whether a newsroom survives being…
Bangladesh
A Bangla book and app for Ireland’s driving theory test — built by someone who sat it, for people translating the question before answering it
The theory test is a real barrier for Bangla speakers in Ireland, and the design choice here is the right one. The pricing deserves a…
World
He burned a goat, generated a photograph of his own cremation, and got a real death certificate — the murder trial stopped for eighteen months
The generated image was the cheap part. What makes this a technology story is that a municipal records process accepted photographs as…
Technology
Jack Dorsey’s Block built a speech model that learned from recordings of people talking — and never read a word of text
It listens and speaks at the same time, laughs mid-sentence, and holds the thread when you pause. The interesting claim is about how it was…
Technology
Gigabyte has put a Tk 14 lakh AI workstation on sale in Dhaka — here is the arithmetic on whether buying beats renting
On-device AI does cut cloud dependence, as the distributor says. Whether it cuts cost depends entirely on how many hours a month the…
World
SpaceX has leased $40bn of chips it will not own, and Musk says most of the 200-odd companies renting GPUs will not survive
The structure matters more than the number: SpaceX gets the compute without the chips ever appearing on its balance sheet as assets it…
World
The owners of Elvis’s songs are suing Anthropic for $41m — and the strongest line in their complaint is a quote from Claude
Anthropic says it will defend the case fully. It is the third music-rights suit in ten months, and it lands in the same week as the…
World
Anthropic filed 335 pages, and the number that should worry investors is not the loss — it is that five customers are a quarter of the business
The paperwork for what may be the largest stock listing in history is out. The existential-risk language has been there since September…
Technology
When did you last remember a phone number? The quiet cost of letting AI do the thinking
Handing a mental task to a machine is convenient. Done often enough, experts warn, the judgement you were exercising stops getting…
Technology
The Amazon has lost 240 million acres of primary forest — the size of Texas and California together
Fifteen per cent of the Amazon’s primary forest is permanently gone. The researchers say the real story is not a looming tipping point but…