This Week I Learned - Week 31 2026
This Week I Learned -
* "Models learn from "exhaust," the prompts people write, the tools agents use, and especially the corrections people make when the model is wrong. Every correction is distilled into institutional know-how.
In consuming intelligence, you are creating intelligence.
If learning flows in only one direction, economic value converges toward the owners of the learning infrastructure rather than the creators of the knowledge itself.
In the cloud era, enterprises accumulated data. In the AI era, they accumulate learning.
A company should be able to use a model without giving up the knowledge that makes it unique." - Satya Nadella
* Wire services such as PTI, ANI, Reuters, AP, and AFP provide verified facts to other outlets, which then adapt the content to their own style. Their business model depends on reader trust in the accuracy of the wire’s reporting and on receiving compensation for the verification work. While search engines direct readers to the original source, large language models extract the facts, omit sourcing and verification, and deliver responses without attribution.
News agency Asian News International (ANI) sued AI research firm OpenAI in November 2024 for using its content to train ChatGPT without permission or payment. According to the Delhi High Court, storing ANI’s articles to train ChatGPT is covered under Section 52 of India’s Copyright Act, which allows private use and research without it being considered infringement. The court also noted that ANI couldn’t prove ChatGPT reproduced or “memorized” its actual reports, so no infringement occurred.
* Slack AI can summarize forum discussions from the past week or within a chosen date range.
* BitChat is an open-source Bluetooth mesh messaging application developed by X co-founder Jack Dorsey. Being a decentralised peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth mesh networks, it requires no internet connection, no servers and no phone numbers.
* At least six Nvidia-backed neocloud companies, CoreWeave, Together AI, Nebius, Lambda Labs, Crusoe and Nscale are in talks with Indian operators to lease data centre capacity for artificial intelligence (AI).
Neoclouds, or "babyscalers," differ from hyperscalers like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud by focussing solely on renting Nvidia GPU clusters for AI training and inference.
A 20-year tax holiday for foreign cloud providers, announced in this year's Union Budget, along with abundant engineering talent and low infrastructure costs, has made India the most attractive data centre destination in the region. - ET
* The Hype Literacy Toolkit for Journalists - Hype is characterized by the fascination with the future: Exaggerated and unrealistic promises of value development are coupled with a strident optimism that captures the attention of investors, technologists, politicians, journalists, and the general citizenry. Hype leverages uncertainty and emotions like hopes and fears, linking these to strong expectations.
* The Government uses gazettes as its primary means of publishing laws and bringing them into force and these are published as PDFs. India’s legal publishing system remains fragmented and dependent on PDFs, making it difficult for citizens, lawyers and even courts to access, track laws and amendments in force; adopting open legal publishing standards would make laws more accessible and strengthen democratic participation.
Many African countries have adopted the Akoma Ntoso standard, a markup language specifically designed for legal documents. They use an open-source legal publishing platform called Indigo, which allows users to add or edit laws. [US & UK use modified versions of Akoma Ntoso]. - Sushant Sinha, founder of legal search engine, Indian Kanoon
* Elon Musk’s companies directly employ ~160k people (Tesla ~135k, SpaceX ~22k, X ~2.5k, others). - Grok
* What the hell is El Niño, really?
* Tropoworks provides drone-assisted systems to transport tea leaves from fields to processing factories. In the trial phase, it has successfully carried loads of 12 kgs for 5-10kms in Kerala's Idduki for HML.
* India’s digital economy, valued at ₹32 lakh crore in 2025 and accounting for about 12% of GDP, together with more than 1.03 billion active internet users and around 22 billion monthly UPI transactions, is driving demand for data centre infrastructure.
* The number of Indians with an annual income of ₹100 crore or more has increased from 142 to 576 between the assessment years (AY) 2021-22 and 2025-26.
* About 82% of working women in India are in informal employment according to a 2018 ILO report, spanning agriculture, home-based production, domestic services and micro-enterprises.
* 11-month rental agreements remain standard across India to avoid compulsory registration and elevated stamp duty under the Registration Act 1908, which applies to leases of 12 months or longer, while enabling easy annual renewals.
Legal security deposit (not rent itself) limits:
- Bengaluru: No hard statutory cap under Karnataka Rent Act; amount is contractual (market often 6-10 months). Recent amendment only decriminalised penalties.
- Mumbai: No statutory cap under Maharashtra Rent Control Act; contractual (market 3-6 months).
- Hyderabad: Telangana Act limits advance to 1 month’s rent; excess can be challenged.
* Early 20th-century British playground chants (which likely adapted older Celtic sheep-counting numbers or Anglo-Saxon counting tokens) -
Eena meena mackeracka
Rare rye dominacka
Chicka racka romerica
Om pom push!
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