Gemini Pro 3.1 has already topped benchmarks such as Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and APEX-Agents leaderboard.
Google shares hit a fresh high on Feb. 2 before sliding sharply amid a broad selloff in tech stocks.
Stocktwits sentiment for GOOGL is ‘bearish.’
The November rollout of the Gemini 3 and Gemini 3 Pro AI models drew broad industry praise, helped secure a key Apple AI partnership, and lifted Alphabet’s stock and last-quarter earnings. Now, their next iteration is pushing the benchmarks even higher.
Google released Gemini 3.1 Pro in preview on Thursday, and tech analysts note that it is a big step up from its predecessor.
The model has shot to the top of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, four points ahead of Claude Opus 4.6. The model scores highest among peers across 6 of the 10 evaluation parameters and can run at less than half the cost of frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Gemini 3.1 Pro has shown the biggest gains in reasoning and knowledge, coding, and hallucination reduction, according to the analysis.
‘Gemini 3.1 Pro is now at the top of the APEX-Agents leaderboard,’ said Brendan Foody, the CEO of AI startup Mercor, whose benchmarking system, APEX, is designed to measure how well new AI models perform real professional tasks.
‘It also completes 5 tasks that no model has ever been able to do before,’ he said in the post, adding that the model’s impressive results show ‘how quickly agents are improving at real knowledge work.’
What This Means For Alphabet Stock
Google has been riding high since the Gemini 3 release put the company right at the forefront of AI development.
GOOGL shares gained by over 65% last year, the highest in the Magnificent Seven group. They hit a fresh record on Feb. 2, before a sharp slide amid a broad tech selloff from AI-related fears and high capex plans by Big Tech companies, including Google.
Amid the slide, Stocktwits sentiment for GOOGL remained ‘bearish,’ unchanged since Wednesday.
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Google Gemini Pro 3.1: Alphabet Updates Its Benchmark AI, Analysis Says It Undercuts OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude On Cost
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The ASHA worker’s mental health paradox
Netradipa Patil, an ASHA worker from Kolhapur, looks at 52-year-old Haseena Atar as a daughter she brought back to life. In 2019, when Atar lost her entire family within a year, she sank into depression. Patil and two other colleagues, trained in mental health awareness, stepped in. They conversed with Atar, visited her regularly and cleaned her home, brought food, and ensured she took her medicines on time. Today, Atar has regained her health and independence to a great extent, thanks to the three ASHA workers who went beyond their call of duty. Stories like these reveal the emotional labour that India’s 10.4 lakh Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) perform daily. Despite being a voluntary workforce, ASHAs are often the first point of contact in rural healthcare. They juggle maternal and child health, immunisation, TB monitoring, non-communicable disease surveys, record-keeping (online and offline), and countless other tasks. And their meagre monthly pay, varying by State — from ₹6,400 in Madhya Pradesh to ₹13,000 in Maharashtra — is often delayed. Recently, in some regions, ASHAs have taken on the duty of ‘mental health gatekeepers’ under both government and NGO programmes. The National Health Mission (NHM) has started integrating mental health modules into ASHA training nationwide. ASHAs are being asked to counsel adolescents, identify depression, anxiety and suicide risk, creating crucial awareness even as they themselves remain overburdened and underpaid. Distress calls Over 56 million Indians live with depression and 38 million with anxiety disorders. The National Crime Records Bureau recorded 1,71,418 suicides in 2023. Despite the 2017 Mental Healthcare Act decriminalising suicide, rural mental health support continues to be limited and is often stigma-ridden. This is where ASHAs, with their deep-rooted community knowledge, come in. ‘Specialised training is provided in areas where mental health issues are more prevalent. ASHAs are capable of handling this training as they understand their community well, which gives them an advantage,’ says Mohd. Sadiq Khan, a trainer with the National Health Systems Resource Centre in Jammu and Kashmir. At NIMHANS, Bengaluru, Dr. Anish V. Cherian leads Project Suraksha, a community-based suicide prevention initiative in nearby Channapatna Taluk. NIMHANS has trained over 1,000 ASHAs and Anganwadi workers to raise suicide awareness, identify people at risk, ‘reduce access to means like pesticides and alcohol’, and link them with mental healthcare options. ‘We’ve already identified over 800 cases of attempted suicide, many through ASHAs. Suicide is rarely impulsive, so identifying attempters and providing timely interventions is key,’ says Dr. Cherian. Anusuya Lokesh now recognises symptoms like hallucination, anxiety, excessive anger and restlessness as possible signs of mental illness. These would be attributed to superstitious beliefs earlier. ‘Now we know it’s brain chemistry. And there’s no shame, treatment is possible,’ says the ASHA worker from Rampura, Channapatna. In Madhya Pradesh, 14,570 ASHAs have been trained in mental health, neurological disorders, and substance abuse since 2020, says Dr. Prabhakar Tiwari, Senior Joint Director, National Health Mission. Though there is no data yet, mental health clinics in the State are showing evidence of this awareness initiative ‘percolating to rural areas,’ he says. For most ASHAs, mental health is new terrain. ‘I didn’t know we could talk and make someone feel better,’ says Sita Chaurey, an ASHA from Narmadapuram, who was trained by Sangath, a mental health non-profit working with the Madhya Pradesh government. Since 2019, about 5,000 ASHAs have been trained across several districts, says Dr. Anant Bhan, principal investigator at Sangath. The organisation pays the ASHAs a small sum for their work. Chaurey and her peers screen pregnant and postpartum women using the PHQ-9, a question-based depression checklist. ‘Building trust is
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I Replaced My Entire Workflow with AI Agents for 7 Days. Here’s the Unfiltered Truth.
I Replaced My Entire Workflow with AI Agents for 7 Days. Here’s the Unfiltered Truth. Saboor Tahir 3 min read · Just now Just now — Listen Share I was drowning. As the founder of Think AI 360, my days had become a monotonous blur of keyword research, client emails, and the constant, gnawing pressure to stay ahead of the AI curve. I was spending four hours every single day on ‘grunt work’ — the kind of soul-draining tasks that leave you too exhausted to actually be creative by the time you’re done. So, I decided to do something radical. I handed the keys to my professional life to a team of AI Agents for exactly one week. I didn’t just use ChatGPT to ‘write a poem.’ I used autonomous agents like Manus AI to plan my strategy, execute deep-dive research, and manage my entire content workflow. Here is the unfiltered, raw truth of what happened when I stopped working and started directing. The Setup: My Digital ‘Board of Directors’ I didn’t just want a chatbot; I wanted a team. I structured my week around three specific AI personas that I treated like employees, not tools: 1.The Strategist (Manus AI): Tasked with high-level planning and multi-step execution. 2.The Fact-Checker (Perplexity/Grok): My eyes and ears for real-time data and source verification. 3.The Editor (Claude 4): My partner for refining tone and scrubbing away that ‘robotic’ AI smell from first drafts. My goal was simple: Automate 80% of my output without losing 1% of my human perspective. The Turning Point: The ‘Human vs. Agent’ Efficiency Gap On Wednesday, I ran a ‘Stress Test.’ I took a topic I’d been planning — how to use AI for SEO writing — and I raced my own agents. The Task Human Me (The Old Way) The Agent Team (The New Way) The Verdict Topic Research 90 Minutes 3 Minutes AI Wins (Found 12 more sources) Drafting 1,500 words 180 Minutes 15 Minutes Draw (AI needed my ‘human touch’) Internal Link Strategy 45 Minutes 2 Minutes AI Wins (Zero broken links) Total Time ~5 Hours ~20 Minutes 93% Time Saved The results were staggering. But time isn’t everything. In the creator economy, trust is the only currency that matters. The ‘Dark Side’: Where the Agents Failed Me It wasn’t all magic and efficiency. By Thursday, I hit the ‘Uncanny Valley.’ I asked the agents to write a personal reflection on my First $1,000 Freelancing Month. The result? It was grammatically perfect. It was also dead inside. It lacked the grit, the late-night anxiety, and the specific smell of the cheap coffee I drank when I landed my first big US client. It couldn’t replicate the feeling of that first $1,000 hitting my account. The Lesson: AI can simulate logic, but it cannot simulate scars. I realized that my value as a creator isn’t in the information I provide — it’s in the scars I share. The Verdict: Will I Ever Go Back? Absolutely not. This experiment taught me that we are entering the era of the ‘Centaur Creator’ — half human, half machine. By offloading the mechanical, repetitive tasks to my agents, I spent my Friday doing something I hadn’t done in months: Actually thinking. I wasn’t just ‘producing content.’ I was building a brand. I even had the mental bandwidth to conduct a massive AI Stress Test & Hallucination Gauntlet that I never would have had the energy to finish manually. My Advice to You If you are still using AI as a ‘search engine,’ you are already falling behind. You need to start using
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Woman ‘died’ for 27 minutes and woke up demanding to write down two words
Woman ‘died’ for 27 minutes and woke up demanding to write down two words
For 27 minutes, Tina Hines was clinically dead.
While preparing for a hike with her husband Brian, she experienced a severe cardiac arrest which stopped her heart. In a desperate bid to save her, Brian administered CPR, ultimately reviving her with assistance from paramedics.
During the ambulance journey to hospital, Tina repeatedly drifted in and out of consciousness. By the time medical staff stabilised her condition, she had effectively been dead for nearly half an hour.
On regaining consciousness and unable to speak, Tina immediately seized a pen and paper. With trembling hands and barely opened eyes, she scrawled just two words: “It’s real.”
Initially, her husband Brian was baffled by the mysterious message. Was she referring to her suffering?, reports the Mirror. Or the hospital surroundings?
When he queried whether this was her meaning, Tina shook her head.
Only when their daughter suggested heaven did Tina acknowledge with a nod.
After making a complete recovery, Tina was able to articulate her experience and explain the profound message she’d written. She told journalists she had felt an unprecedented sense of tranquillity and serenity.
Moreover, Tina maintains she witnessed ‘Jesus standing’ before a ‘glow’ with outstretched arms.
“The colours were so vibrant,” she recalled. “It was so real.”
Following her extraordinary ordeal and complete recovery, Tina proceeded to write a book chronicling her experience, discussing how the episode fundamentally transformed her perspective on existence, fear and mortality itself.
Whilst for many people, encounters like Tina’s suggest proof of life beyond death, it should be acknowledged that opinion remains divided.
Numerous medical professionals contend that during bodily shutdown, the brain undergoes an intense spike in activity which may trigger hallucination-like phenomena.
This, coupled with pre-existing beliefs about what the hereafter might entail, could provide an alternative interpretation for what she witnessed and subsequently documented.
Nevertheless, Tina remains utterly convinced that she genuinely glimpsed the other side, and that her visions were nothing less than a portal into the authentic afterlife.
“Jesus is real,” she insists. “Heaven is real.” -
ABLECHILD: Identity as a Diagnosis: How Psychiatric Power Redefines Reality & Dodges Accountability
Identity as a Diagnosis: How Psychiatric Power Redefines Reality and Dodges Accountability Republished with permission from AbleChild. Nothing about the mass murder that occurred at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia last week is real except the names of the dead. The murderer, 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar (AKA Jesse Strang), labeled by Canadian law enforcement as a ‘gun person, wearing a dress,’ not gun man, and a transgender, not male, explained that ‘we identified the suspect as they chose to be identified in public and social media.’ ADVERTISEMENT This explanation is so utterly insane that it must be asked up front if the ‘gun person,’ Strang, had self-identified on social media and in public as a Pirate, would the Canadian Royal Mounted Police, (RCMP) report that ‘an 18-year-old Pirate’ was responsible for the murders? Clearly there’s as much provable evidence that Strang was a Pirate as he was a woman, so the conversation must be had if it is appropriate to assign identification by what is believed to be and not what is biologically correct. For the record, though, Abel Mwansa (12), Kylie Smith (12), Zoey Benoit (12), Tricaria Lampert (12), Ezekiel Schofield (13) Shannda Aviugana-Durand (39), Emmet Jacobs (11 shooters step-brother) and Jennifer Jacobs (39 shooters mother), are the very real people – ‘kids’ – males, females, not transgenders, real ‘kids’ who are dead. Unlike ‘transgender,’ there is no made-up pretend word that describes these people other than what they are…dead. The same goes for the more than two dozen wounded, many still fighting for their lives. There isn’t another pretend word for the boys and girls wounded, except victims…victims of what psychiatry has labeled a delusional, mentally ill boy. Jesse Strang, the ‘gun person’ reportedly had a long history of mental illness including Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Attention Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and was prescribed psychiatric mind-altering drugs as ‘treatment’ from a very early age. ADVERTISEMENT Among the known mind-altering drugs that Strang had been prescribed were Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI’s) known as antidepressants and antipsychotics. Two specific drugs have been reported, including Sertraline (Zoloft) and Risperidone (Risperdal). What are some of the side effects associated with Risperdal? Aggressive behavior, agitation, anxiety, confusion, depression, mania, nightmares, blunted affect are some of the known possible side effects for this antipsychotic. Furthermore, the following side effects are associated with Zoloft: aggressive reaction, confusion, agitation, anxiety, nervousness, insomnia, emotional lability, aggravated depression, aggression, depersonalization, mania, paranoia, abnormal thinking, psychotic disorder, hallucination, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempt. The RCMP has reported that Strang had been hospitalized in a psychiatric ward and received assessments under the Mental Health Act (a process for involuntary admission for mental health referred to as ‘apprehend for assessment’). Moreover, authorities had visited the Strang home multiple times for mental health related calls, including a final visit in the Spring of 2025 regarding concerns about self-harm. Like all the mass shooter cases involving mental health and transgender, no specific mental health data or drug regimens are made publicly available. Without this data, it is impossible to know what cocktails of drugs Strang had been forced to take at a very young age and, worse, without this information, it is impossible to fully understand what might have driven Strang to murder. The adverse effects for just two of the known drugs prescribed clearly could have contributed to Strang’s murderous behavior. But more importantly, who in the British Columbia behavioral health industry was responsible for tracking Strang’s ‘treatment?’ Strang did not diagnose himself or prescribe his own drugs. A real person was
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Go on, try out the Delhi Turing Test
In case you didn’t know via neat dissemination and/or propaganda platforms, this week, Delhi’s hosting the AI Impact Summit . It’s the perfect setting for a Turing Test – not to check if machines can pass off as humans, but to check if humans can get away by pretending to know about AI. When you hear a panelist solemnly declare today, ‘We must synergise quantum blockchain with generative intelligence,’ you’ll know he or she has read three buzzwords in this paper this morning. Real experts are muttering about gradient descent and hallucination rates, only to be drowned out by someone insisting that AI will soon replace ‘all jobs, including politicians’. (Spoiler: AI still can’t nail a punchline without it sounding like a dad joke.)The summit promises ‘impact’, but the real impact will be on coffee machines, which must withstand the stress of fuelling 500 conversations that begin with, ‘Actually, ChatGPT is just autocomplete’. The true test will be spotting the difference between those who can explain neural radiance fields and those who think it’s a spiritual thing. So, let’s run the Delhi Turing Test If you say, ‘AI is the new data,’ you’re bullshitting.If you say, ‘AI models collapse under distribution shift,’ you’re probably legit.If you say, ‘AI will soon achieve consciousness,’ you’re a Keanu Reeves fan who should be at a comic con.
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10 Forgotten Anime That Deserve a New Season More Than Rent-a-Girlfriend
Ever since its debut in 2020, Rent-A-Girlfriend has been consistently receiving new seasons, and its fifth season has been confirmed for April 2026. Yet, while Rent-A-Girlfriend keeps coming back with new sequels, an entire graveyard of forgotten but beloved anime await their resurrection with a new season. These anime have gripping plotlines, as well as loyal fanbases who are still silently begging for their favorite series to continue. Despite their chokehold on the audience, these anime have disappeared after just one or two seasons. It’s time to remember the underrated gems that have made fans yearn for a renewal, and which frankly deserve more attention than Rent-A-Girlfriend . Stars Align Is Yet to Resolve Its Cliffhanger Stars Align , a brilliant slice of life sports drama, was supposed to receive 24 episodes back when it aired in 2019. However, the episode count was abruptly cut down to 12 shortly before airing, which resulted in an unresolved ending. Episode 12 also presented a huge cliffhanger, which was clearly meant to be continued in the next cour. Creator and director Kazuki Akane’s efforts to secure funding have yet to yield any results and, as the days pass, Stars Align is taking a deeper dive into the forgotten anime territory. The anime’s focus isn’t only on tennis, but also on the personal lives of the players and the trauma they have faced. It delivers an emotionally raw storyline, which can immediately engage viewers. With Stars Align being an original anime, there is no source material that can give fans closure about the plot, which is yet another reason why it desperately needs a second season. Drifters Is a Niche Dark Fantasy Anime Drifters , a dark isekai anime, debuted in 2016 with 12 episodes. At the end of the 12th episode, a second season was announced. However, season 2 never came around, and instead, 3 OVAs were released along with special edition manga volumes. A lack of source material was part of the reason behind the anime’s near-abandoned second season. After a single season and 3 OVAs, there has been no continuation of the Drifters anime. Its mix of dark fantasy and extreme gore makes it a niche anime, which has been quickly overshadowed by other series that are more frequently updated. Its unique approach to the isekai genre has made Drifters stand out, and both its beautiful production and unresolved storyline have made fans demand a sequel. Land of the Lustrous Faded Away After a Strong Debut A hallucination of Gems shattering in Land Of The Lustrous. Image via Studio Orange Land of the Lustrous captivated fans with its atmospheric settings in 2017. Its blend of 2D animation with CGI was ahead of its time, but it only ended up receiving a single season consisting of 12 episodes, with no follow-up whatsoever. Even though Season 1 itself offered some closure, it did not cover the entire story from the manga, which has left fans wanting more. Despite being a brilliant series, it has a rather niche appeal and a melancholic tone. Additionally, the intense competition of the anime landscape made Land of the Lustrous slowly fade from the memories of fans. Nonetheless, the anime has more potential than plenty of popular series and deserves another season. Rokka: Braves Of The Six Flowers Offers a Locked-Room Mystery Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers main cast pose together Image via Passione Rokka aired in 2015 with 12 episodes, offering an entirely new take on the isekai genre. However, the anime only covered one out of the six novel volumes, leaving the story incomplete. The
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Oracle NetSuite’s Quiet AI Revolution: How Evan Goldberg Is Playing the Long Game While Wall Street Chases Hype
While the technology world fixates on generative AI startups commanding eye-watering valuations and mega-cap companies racing to pour billions into GPU infrastructure, Oracle’s NetSuite division is charting a decidedly different course. Under the steady hand of founder and EVP Evan Goldberg, NetSuite is building an AI strategy that prioritizes practical utility for small and mid-sized businesses over investor-friendly spectacle — a calculated bet that substance will ultimately outpace sizzle in the enterprise software market. The approach stands in stark contrast to the prevailing mood on Wall Street, where AI has become the magic word that can send stock prices soaring or cratering depending on whether a company’s earnings call includes enough references to large language models. NetSuite’s position is that AI should be embedded, contextual, and genuinely useful — not bolted on as a marketing exercise. It’s a philosophy that Goldberg has been refining for years, and one that is now manifesting in a wave of new product announcements that deserve closer examination. Goldberg’s Counter-Narrative to the AI Investment Frenzy In a detailed conversation with diginomica, Goldberg laid out his thinking on why NetSuite’s AI strategy deliberately avoids the breathless hype cycle that has consumed much of the technology sector. His argument is nuanced but ultimately straightforward: the companies that will win with AI in the enterprise are those that understand the specific workflows and pain points of their customers, not those that simply layer a chatbot on top of existing software and call it innovation. Goldberg has been at this for decades. He founded NetSuite in 1998 — the same year Larry Ellison, Oracle’s co-founder and his longtime collaborator, helped back the venture. The company was a cloud ERP pioneer long before ‘cloud’ became a ubiquitous buzzword. That history gives Goldberg a particular vantage point on technology hype cycles. He has watched trends come and go, and his instinct is to focus on what actually moves the needle for NetSuite’s core constituency: the small and mid-sized businesses that rely on the platform to run their operations. Where SMBs Actually Stand with Artificial Intelligence The question of where small and mid-sized businesses go from here with AI is not merely academic. These companies represent the backbone of the global economy, yet they are often underserved by the AI conversation, which tends to center on the needs and budgets of Fortune 500 enterprises. NetSuite’s answer, as reported by diginomica, is to meet these businesses where they are — with AI capabilities that are embedded directly into the ERP workflows they already use, reducing the need for specialized technical talent or expensive implementation projects. This is a critical distinction. Large enterprises can afford to hire teams of data scientists, build custom models, and experiment with cutting-edge AI architectures. A 200-person manufacturing company or a growing e-commerce brand operating on NetSuite cannot. For these businesses, AI needs to arrive pre-configured, contextually aware, and immediately useful. It needs to reduce the time a controller spends on month-end close, help a supply chain manager anticipate disruptions, or enable a sales team to prioritize leads without requiring anyone to write a prompt or understand how a transformer model works. NetSuite’s Fresh AI Product Announcements Unpacked NetSuite has rolled out a substantial slate of AI-powered features that reflect this embedded philosophy. The announcements span multiple functional areas, including financial management, procurement, supply chain operations, and customer relationship management. What ties them together is a consistent design principle: AI should operate within the natural flow of work, surfacing insights and automating tasks without requiring users to switch contexts or learn new interfaces. Among the most notable additions are