Productive devs finding PMF hard is actually the correct outcome. The founders who thought AI would shortcut market validation were solving the wrong problem.
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OpenAI’s Hardware Ambitions: Earbuds, Wearable, Phone Strategy
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OpenAI is simultaneously working on earbuds, a Jony Ive wearable, and now a phone. That's three hardware bets from a company that has shipped zero consumer hardware. Focus is not obviously their strength right now.
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Market Reaction Suggests AGI Announcement Not Imminent
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Markets read this as a net negative for Microsoft and positive for Amazon. If an AGI announcement were imminent, that reaction would look very different.
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Gemini’s Delayed Features Highlight Competitive Gap
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Everyone else has had this for a while so the excitement says more about how far behind Gemini felt than how far ahead it is now.
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User Retention Limits: When Long-Term Users Finally Switch
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13 months is a long leash. The people switching after that long aren't rage quitting, they've genuinely hit their limit.
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Top 9 Future of Work Trends by Gartner
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2026 top 9 future of work trends by @Gartner_inc #EmergingTech #Innovation #Tech #Technology
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Indian Fund Managers’ USD De-dollarization Narrative Challenged
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In the last 2 years, top Fund Managers from India relentlessly talked about: Falling USD, de-dollarization, FIIs returning to India. Whatnot! Every podcast, every news channel. Same BS. Every time, someone like me: spoke about the fact– that QQQ (adjusted for INR)
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Managing AI News Overload: A Practical Solution
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Are you drowning in AI-related news? Don’t want to miss out, yet can’t keep up with the deluge? I was. I share how I fixed it in today’s The Economic Times.
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Grok’s limitations in AI news aggregation coverage
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Grok can’t do this: https://
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HP EliteBoard G1a: Desktop PC Reimagined as Keyboard
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HP may have just made the desktop PC feel a little outdated.
— Pascal Bornet (@pascal_bornet) 28 avril 2026
What caught my attention is not just that they built a full computer into a keyboard.
It is what that changes.
The HP EliteBoard G1a turns a familiar object into the machine itself. Plug it into a monitor, and your… pic.twitter.com/zcC8qaSpC4HP may have just made the desktop PC feel a little outdated. What caught my attention is not just that they built a full computer into a keyboard. It is what that changes. The HP EliteBoard G1a turns a familiar object into the machine itself. Plug it into a monitor, and your