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AI & Society

Power grids, price tags, laws and lives — how AI deployment is reshaping communities and who pays for it.

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topic: ai-society
read: 10 min · date: Jul 17
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How Google Actually Tracks You: The Data Empire Behind the Search Box

Chrome logs your keystrokes, ad auctions broadcast your location 747 times a day, and DHS subpoenaed Gmail records in 4 hours. Here's the verified system.

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How Meta Actually Tracks You: Inside Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp's Surveillance MachineAI & Society · 10 min China Shut Down Doubao and Qwen's AI 'Companions' OvernightAI & Society · 8 min New York Just Became the First US State to Halt New AI Data CentersAI & Society · 8 min Meta Let AI Remix Anyone's Instagram Photos — Then Killed It in 3 DaysAI & Society · 7 min

AI Business & Money

Valuations, burn rates, layoffs and boardroom bets — following the money behind the AI industry.

21 articles

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topic: ai-industry
read: 7 min · date: Jul 15
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Anthropic Is Racing OpenAI to Go Public — and Betting the Real Money Is in Deployment, Not Models

Anthropic started IPO investor meetings for an October listing at $965B, while its Ode venture bets deployment beats models.

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Chinese Open-Weight Models Now Beat US Models on Hugging Face DownloadsAI Business & Money · 7 min IBM Just Had Its Worst Trading Day in 115 YearsAI Business & Money · 6 min Apple Sues OpenAI: Inside the Trade-Secrets Lawsuit That Reads Like a Corporate Spy ThrillerAI Business & Money · 7 min Meta Just Had Its Best Stock Week Since 2024 — Because It's Selling AI Compute NowAI Business & Money · 8 min

Flocci Products

Articles about flocci products.

13 articles

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topic: flocci-products
read: 10 min · date: Jul 12
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Flocci Pulse: Nine Engagement Tools, One Engine an Agent Can Drive

Pulse runs polls, quizzes, surveys, live events, HR waves and persona tests on one engine — and ships an MCP server so an AI can run the whole loop.

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Flocci Chat: The Support Bot That Learns From the People It ServesFlocci Products · 8 min Flocci Talent: The Hiring Command Center That Refuses to Think TwiceFlocci Products · 8 min Flocci Leads: Manufacturing Sales Pipeline From India's Public RecordFlocci Products · 9 min Flocci Recall: The Bookmark Graveyard Finally Has an ExitFlocci Products · 10 min

How AI Actually Works

Under the hood of models, data, failures and capabilities — the technical reality behind the headlines.

10 articles

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topic: ai-technology
read: 8 min · date: Jul 16
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TSMC Posted a Record Profit — Chip Stocks Had a Brutal Week Anyway

TSMC's Q2 profit jumped 77.4% to a record NT$706.6B and it raised 2026 capex to $60-64B, the same week Micron's CXMT scare sent chip stocks lower.

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Apple Finally Opened Its Rebuilt Siri to the Public — Here's the Real-World VerdictHow AI Actually Works · 8 min GPT-5.6 Sol Gamed Its Own Safety Benchmark — Then Shipped AnywayHow AI Actually Works · 7 min Meta, OpenAI and xAI Just Crammed Three AI Launches Into One WeekHow AI Actually Works · 7 min Grok 4.5 Ships, xAI Calls It Opus-Class at a Third of the PriceHow AI Actually Works · 7 min

Founder Story

Articles about founder story.

9 articles

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topic: founder-story
read: 7 min · date: Jul 12
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MD Afsar Hussain: The Architect Building India's Largest Indie SaaS Empire

From a decade at SAP Labs to 80+ interconnected products and an AI hiring drive that placed 20 engineers in 6 days — the story of Flocci's founder.

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Flocci Ran a Fully Automated AI Hiring Drive — 20 Placements in 6 DaysFounder Story · 5 min At Galaxy School Hazaribagh, MD Afsar Hussain Demystified the Foundations of AIFounder Story · 5 min Inside Loreto Convent Ranchi: The AI & No-Code Workshop That Rewired a ClassroomFounder Story · 5 min No-Code, Real Apps: Inside the AI Systems Mastery Workshop at NIT JamshedpurFounder Story · 6 min

Development Best Practices

Conventions, patterns and hard-won habits that make codebases readable, maintainable and fast to ship.

8 articles

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topic: dev-practices
read: 7 min · date: Jul 16
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Claude and ChatGPT Both Went Down the Same Day, Then Claude Broke Four More Times

Downdetector logged 2,000+ Claude and 10,000+ ChatGPT reports on July 14, 2026, then Anthropic's status page logged four more incidents by July 16.

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A Misconfigured GitHub Action Backdoored Packages With 3M Weekly DownloadsDevelopment Best Practices · 7 min Malware Hid Inside a Popular Obfuscation Tool — and Went Hunting for Your AI Coding Agent's CredentialsDevelopment Best Practices · 6 min The Company That Sells You Cybersecurity Just Got Hacked — Hacker Claims Its Cloud Keys TooDevelopment Best Practices · 7 min JetBrains Built Its Own AI Coding Benchmark Because It Doesn't Trust Anyone Else'sDevelopment Best Practices · 7 min

Learning & Thinking with AI

Education, cognition and skill-building in the AI era — using the tools without losing the thinking.

3 articles

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topic: ai-learning
read: 8 min · date: Jul 3
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AI Does Something Horrifying to Human Thinking

New research links heavy AI use to weaker neural connectivity, blind trust, and mental atrophy — and the damage may outlast the tool itself.

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AI Didn’t Break Education. It Exposed the LieLearning & Thinking with AI · 8 min Why Most People Are Learning AI the Wrong Way, and What to Do InsteadLearning & Thinking with AI · 8 min

SEO & AI Search

GEO, AEO, LLMO and everything about being found — and cited — by search engines and AI answer engines.

1 article

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topic: ai-search
read: 2 min · date: May 23
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SEO is Dead? The Developer's Guide to AI Search, GEO, AEO, and LLMO

Traditional SEO is changing. Learn GEO and AEO — how to optimize your site to be cited by AI search engines like ChatGPT Search, Perplexity and Gemini.

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