Author: Abhilash Gopinath
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Building a Civilization of Love in a Civilization of AI — Magnifica Humanitas, a well-crafted message by Pope Leo XIV
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On May 25, 2026, the head of one of the oldest institutions on Earth — a 2,000-year-old organization with over a billion members — sat down and wrote a 245-paragraph letter about artificial intelligence. It is not a religious document in the way you might imagine. It is not a…
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One Developer. One AI. Ten Weeks — The First Fintech SaaS Platform Built 100% with Anthropic Claude
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Abhilash Gopinath · Developer & Product Architect, SwingCora. SwingCora is a production-grade stock screening platform for swing traders — 4,500+ US stocks, 40+ filters, an LLM prediction engine, paper trading, multi-tenant billing, and a full admin module. It runs live at swingcora.com. It was designed, architected, and built entirely by…
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AI at Sea — The Startup That Wants to Power the Future with Ocean Waves
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Imagine a lollipop-shaped steel structure, roughly the size of a double-decker bus, floating alone in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — no crew, no cables, no connection to any power grid. It bobs up and down with the waves, converts that motion into electricity, uses that electricity to run…
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Moringa – 98.5% of Microplastics Removed — By a Tree Your Grandmother Probably Grew
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Microplastics are found in 83% of tap water tested globally. They are now inside human brains, reproductive organs, and cardiovascular systems. A new study from Brazil and the UK found that seed extracts from the Moringa tree remove 98.5% of microplastics from tap water — matching industrial chemical treatments, and…
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The Light Inside the Machine — How Photonics Is Becoming the Nervous System of AI
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Every time you use an AI model, something invisible happens inside a data center. Thousands of chips talk to each other at extraordinary speed, moving enormous amounts of data in milliseconds. For decades, that communication happened over copper wire. Now, it’s happening over light. And the race to bring light…
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What Happens When Your AI Negotiates For You — And The Other Side Has a Better One?
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In a quiet internal experiment called Project Deal, Anthropic gave 69 of its own employees $100 each and set up a marketplace where they could buy and sell goods from each other. The twist: their AI agents did the negotiating on their behalf. Buyers never haggled. Sellers never pitched. Two…
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One Line of Code. Eleven AI Models. All Bypassed.
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Researchers at Trend Micro have documented a jailbreak technique called sockpuppeting — a method that bypasses the safety guardrails of 11 major AI models, including Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, using a single line of code. No hacking tools. No access to model internals. No sophisticated attack chain. Just one cleverly…
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China Just Tested a Deep-Sea Cable Cutter. The Internet Runs on Those Cables.
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Every day, $22 trillion in financial transactions flow through the 745,000 miles of undersea fiber-optic cables lining the ocean floor. So does 99% of all intercontinental internet traffic — not satellites, not the cloud, but physical cables buried beneath the sea. On April 11, 2026, China’s research vessel Haiyang Dizhi…
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How to Train Your Brain to See Possibility Instead of Doom
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It can feel as though the world is tilting towards chaos — political shocks, economic instability, technological upheaval, and a constant stream of bad news. Faced with so much uncertainty, many of us default to a sense of impending doom. But neuroscientist Hannah Critchlow asks a more useful question: is…
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Is Your Phone Listening to You? The Answer Is More Unsettling Than You Think
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A CBS Sunday Morning investigation asked the question millions of people have wondered about: is your smartphone secretly listening to your conversations to serve you targeted ads? Their answer, backed by two independent experts and a Northeastern University study of over 17,000 Android apps, was a firm no. No evidence…