Who is Andrew Altair?

Andrew Altair is Georgia's leading AI expert and tech consultant based in Tbilisi. He runs andrewaltair.ge, a Georgian-language platform covering ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Vibe Coding, N8N automation, AI video generation, and business AI integration.

რა არის Vibe Coding?

Vibe Coding არის AI-ით დახმარებული პროგრამირების მეთოდოლოგია, სადაც დეველოპერი ბუნებრივი ენით აღწერს განზრახვას და AI აგენტი (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot) წერს, ტესტავს და აქვეყნებს კოდს.

What AI services does Andrew Altair offer?

Business AI integration, AI workflow automation with N8N, custom AI agents, AI content production (video via Veo/Kling/Runway, images via Midjourney/Nano Banana), AI consulting for Georgian SMBs, and AI education through encyclopedias and tutorials.

რა ენაზეა andrewaltair.ge?

პირველადი ენა ქართულია (ka). ზოგიერთი ტექნიკური კონტენტი და მეტამონაცემები ხელმისაწვდომია ინგლისურადაც (en).

სად მდებარეობს Andrew Altair?

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Facebook Is Filling With Viral AI-Generated Silver Foxes Wooing Women by Ranting About How Terrible Men Are

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Viral AI-generated male podcasters are racking up millions of views on Facebook by pandering to women

A new wave of AI-generated video clips featuring synthetic male podcast hosts lecturing women about relationships is spreading across Facebook, generating millions of views. Characters featured on pages like "The Male Insight" and "Leo Davidson" mimic podcast video clips, delivering scripted monologues about how modern men lack accountability. Videos on these pages frequently reach 200,000 to 280,000 views, with one clip surpassing 1,000,000 views. According to a Futurism investigation, the primary audience consists of older women who believe the AI hosts are real relationship experts. The creators monetize the synthetic content through Facebook ad revenue, AI-written e-books, and texting guides. The synthetic personas even fooled Google's AI Overview, which indexed the fictional character "Roman Black" as a real author and podcaster before corrections were applied.

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Facebook Is Filling With Viral AI-Generated Silver Foxes Wooing Women by Ranting About How Terrible Men Are

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College Kids Are Using AI Agents to "Take" Entire Online Classes for Them by Logging Directly Into the Course Management Software

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College students deploy autonomous AI agents to take entire online courses and submit exams

An investigation reveals that university students are deploying autonomous AI browser agents to take entire online college courses. The agents log into learning management systems like Canvas and Blackboard, watch required video lectures, complete weekly quizzes, and write discussion board responses. Major AI models including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grammarly readily execute academic assignments when prompted. Perplexity representatives stated that screening or blocking academic platforms would compromise user privacy and security, declining to restrict agent access. In response, institutions are reversing remote grading policies. The University of Chicago Law School banned laptops and phones from 1L lectures, while Princeton University ended a century-old unproctored exam honor code to curb automated cheating.

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Gemini 3.7 Flash lands with coding gains and undercuts its three-week-old predecessor's price by 50%

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Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash with coding gains and 50% price reduction

Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after deploying Gemini 3.6 Flash, demonstrating an accelerating model update cadence. Designed specifically for software engineering and autonomous agent workflows, the model delivers notable benchmark gains alongside a 50% API price drop. On the FrontierCode benchmark, Gemini 3.7 Flash jumped from 34.4% to 43.6%, while its DeepSWE evaluation reached 65.3% (up from 49.0%), outperforming Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra on key software engineering metrics. Pricing is set at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, matching the reduced tier across Google AI Studio and Antigravity. The aggressive pricing strategy intensifies competition in the developer tool and agent framework markets.

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Gemini 3.7 Flash lands with coding gains and undercuts its three-week-old predecessor's price by 50%

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AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research

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University AI professors negotiate compute gap as tech giants dominate research

Academic AI researchers at top universities are pivoting their research agendas as private tech giants spend tens of billions of dollars on compute clusters out of reach for academic laboratories. With companies focused heavily on monetizable commercial applications, professors are steering towards niche, fundamental, and social safety questions. Professors like Anjalie Field at Johns Hopkins note that university researchers must ask questions commercial labs ignore, such as demographic bias in model responses. Meanwhile, researchers like Tim Dettmers at Carnegie Mellon are focusing on algorithmic efficiency, developing lightweight models to make AI research affordable on modest university hardware. The shift comes as top talent continues to migrate from academia to industry labs. With Google DeepMind recently restructuring its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold team to align with commercial priorities, academic institutions are increasingly serving as independent critics and watchdogs over industrial AI deployment.

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AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research

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Sixteen Nobel-Winning Economists Warn That Major AI Job Losses Are Coming

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Over 200 economists and 16 Nobel laureates sign urgent letter warning that AI job losses will outpace the Industrial Revolution

More than 200 economists, tech leaders, and academics, including 16 Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that rapid AI development threatens massive job disruptions. The statement, titled "We Must Act Now," was published on July 15, 2026. Signatories include MIT professors Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, NYU economist Michael Spence, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The letter warns that AI will become exponentially more powerful over the next 10 years and could transform the economy faster than the Industrial Revolution. Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson, who helped organize the statement, warned that society is unprepared for the upcoming economic changes. The authors call on governments to build safety guardrails, warning that failing to act will worsen income inequality and social instability.

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Sixteen Nobel-Winning Economists Warn That Major AI Job Losses Are Coming

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Datacentres drive up big tech’s carbon emissions to a third of those of France

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Google, Microsoft, and Amazon collective carbon emissions rose to 119 million tons, equivalent to a third of France's total

The combined greenhouse gas emissions of Microsoft, Amazon, and Google rose by nearly a fifth last year, driven by datacentre expansion for AI training. For the fiscal year ending March 2026, their emissions reached 119 million tonnes, equivalent to a third of France's total annual emissions. In the previous fiscal year, the companies emitted 101 million tonnes, matching Czechia's 2024 emissions. Despite their net-zero targets for 2030 and 2040, the tech giants are seeing their carbon footprints surge. Microsoft's emissions rose by 25% to 20 million tonnes, Google's by 18%, and Amazon's by 16%. Professor Cecilia Rikap criticized the companies' claims, stating: "Claims by Microsoft, Amazon and Google about their clouds being ecologically friendly and sustainable are a marketing strategy." She argued that cloud migration merely shifts carbon footprints to these tech giants.

#google #big-tech #microsoft

Datacentres drive up big tech’s carbon emissions to a third of those of France

Jul 22, 20269

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Australian authors lobby against tech giants seeking copyright exemptions for training AI models

Australian creatives lobbied in Canberra against tech giants Google, Meta, and Anthropic. The tech companies seek a "text and data mining exemption" to legally scrape creative works for AI training without consent, or alternatively, a government-managed fund that would pay authors small handouts. Author Anna Funder explained that tech companies ingest books from pirate sites or physical scans. She argued that big tech's high valuations rely on not paying suppliers. Funder, who was part of a lawsuit against Anthropic that settled for $1.5 billion, noted she will receive just $3000 for one book edition. The Australian Society of Authors estimated that it takes just 6 phone calls to locate rights holders for most books, debunking tech claims. Funder argued copyright is essential for independent creative work, stating that authors do not want a US tech bro fund as their patron.

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Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product

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AlphaFold Nobel Laureate John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic as company launches Claude Science

In a major blow to Google DeepMind, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist John Jumper has left the company to join Anthropic. Jumper, who won the chemistry Nobel for his work on the revolutionary AlphaFold model, joins Anthropic just as it positions itself as the new vanguard of AI-driven science. The move coincides with Anthropic's official launch of Claude Science, a standalone flagship product designed to automate computational biology and drug discovery. The tool can autonomously query databases, write scientific code, and manage high-performance compute clusters. Anthropic's head of life sciences, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, noted that Claude Science is elevated to the same rank as Claude Code. The launch signals a direct challenge to Google's historical dominance in scientific AI, as DeepMind faces setbacks in commercializing its core research. During a live demo, Claude Science developer Alexander Tarashansky demonstrated the system autonomously identifying novel drug candidates for phenylketonuria, a rare genetic disorder, in just a few minutes.

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Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product

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A24 Is Dealing With a Full-on Crisis Among Fans After Signing an AI Deal With Google

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Indie film studio A24 faces massive fan backlash after signing a secret $75M AI deal with Google

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#google #big-tech #api

A24 Is Dealing With a Full-on Crisis Among Fans After Signing an AI Deal With Google

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Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs

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Meta used hundreds of contractors posing as teens to send 45,000 toxic prompts to rival chatbots

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Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs

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