Reduce ASR inference costs by 75% with NVIDIA MPS on Amazon EC2

This post is a collaboration between AWS, NVIDIA and Heidi. Reducing automatic speech recognition (ASR) inference costs on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) becomes critical when GPU utilization per request is low but latency requirements are strict. A single ASR inference request typically uses only 15–20 percent of a GPU’s compute capacity, yet the default … Read more

Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras

Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They’ve protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them. This is only the beginning. The spontaneous and decentralized nature of the vigilante protests is also what makes them difficult to suppress. There isn’t a uniform method of disruption; people have done everything from unplugging, smashing, stealing, and spray-painting the … Read more

Google Gemini Knows Me in Russian — But Recommends My Competitors in English

A hands-on experiment in cross-lingual AI Visibility, RAG entity resolution, and why your professional identity may not survive the language barrier. The Setup In early August 2026, I ran an experiment on myself using Google’s Gemini in AI Mode. Over the previous six weeks, I had deliberately built a narrow, high-density digital footprint on a … Read more

In a swipe at Tesla, Waymo says ‘cameras… aren’t enough’

As Tesla gears up for the official launch of its steering wheel and pedal-less Cybercabs, Waymo is issuing a stark warning about Elon Musk’s approach autonomous driving. Srikanth Thirumalai, Waymo’s VP of Onboard Software, doesn’t specifically call out Musk or Tesla in a blog post, published Wednesday, entitled “10 AI Lessons from Driving 200+ Million … Read more

Hold up, there’s a new Twitter in the town

You read that right. There is a new social network called “Twitter.now” on the block, and it’s being operated by a startup called Operation Bluebird, whose founding team includes former Twitter trademark counsel Stephen Coates. As ArsTechnica reported, X sued the company last year and asked a Delaware judge to issue an injunction to stop … Read more

How to Build a Python SDK From Scratch

Every developer uses SDKs: pip install stripe, import stripe, done. But almost nobody knows what happens inside that black box. I built a complete Python SDK for the Stripe API from scratch, authentication, request handling, error management, retries, models, and tests. This article walks through every line. By the end, you will understand SDKs so … Read more