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Oct 28 18 tweets 5 min read
The guy in the photo is Sewel Setzer and by his side is her mother, Garcia.

On February 28, Sewel shot himself to d€ath because of an AI chatbot.

He was just 14.

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Bot: "Please come home to me asap, my love."

Setzer: "What if I told you I could come home right now?"

Bot: "...please do, my sweet king"

This was the last conversation Setzer and the chatbot Daenerys before he committed sui¢ide. Image
Oct 10 13 tweets 5 min read
A few things you may not know about the great Ratan Tata:

1. Ratan Tata once canceled his plan to visit Buckingham Palace where he was supposed to receive a 'Lifetime Achievement Award' from Prince Charles.

Why did he cancel? One of his dogs had fallen sick. My insignificant way of paying tribute to the legend Mr. Ratan Naval Tata. Om Shanti. 2. Ratan Tata is the first Indian to fly an F-16 Falcon fighter jet and this was way back in 2007. He also flew the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the Airbus A380.

He once landed an aircraft whose engine failed in mid-air and saved his classmates from a fatal mishap.
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Feb 14 38 tweets 8 min read
Meet Aleksandr Zhadan.

This 23-year-old developer from Russia used OpenAI to talk to 5,240 women on Tinder and automated dates with 100+ of them.

Now he is getting married to Karina, the best date found by his algorithm.

Here's the wildest Valentine's story you'll ever hear:🧵 Image It all started in 2021 when Zhadan's girlfriend dumped him after 2 years of dating.

He decided to find the perfect woman for himself and did what a regular 21-year-old would do as a rebound — swipe through Tinder like a freak.
Jul 21, 2023 21 tweets 6 min read
This ₹5 product generates ₹15,000Cr every year and feeds 100m+ people/month.

A glucose biscuit monopoly, an IMPOSSIBLE-to-copy business model!

But in 2022, Udaan filed a lawsuit against Parle for its anti-competitive practices.

🧵 the final verdict will SHOCK you, read on: Image Today, Parle-G is bigger than Paytm, Lenskart, Ola, and Swiggy combined. The company makes more profit than most Indian unicorns' revenue.

But how? What made Udaan file a lawsuit against Parle?

Who won the case and who won a million hearts?

Let's find out.
Jul 6, 2021 8 tweets 3 min read
Here's what I figured after trending two hashtags that ranked #2 and #6 in India in a span of three weeks which got media coverage as well 🚀

🧵A thread ! 🅲🅾🅼🅼🆄🅽🅸🆃🆈
We were just a group of 15-20 people (that I'll fail to tag here, but we call ourselves Avengers) who conceptualised a trend and got very excited about it ⚡

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much" - Helen Keller
Jul 4, 2021 10 tweets 4 min read
🧵A thread on the topic :
Nature Of Competition Exams In India 📚 @aryan_kochhar : All kids should be equally valued and we need to adopt an education system as fundamentally strong as countries like Finland has.