India, Feb. 11 -- Cognitive warmup. A few thoughts to start off with. Random, unrelated musings, but wanted to get these off my chest.

It was in August of 2025 when AI startup Perplexity made a cheeky $34.5-billion bid to buy the Chrome browser from Google. Aravind Srinivas was all over social media feeds, and you wouldn't have been criticised for feeling he's larger than life (and that Perplexity is awesome). Here we are, six months later, and the latest peep we have heard from Perplexity is the Model Council.

How times change, when a bubble is to be kept inflated.

Secondly, it is being reported that Nvidia Corp. will pause new gaming GPU releases in 2026. The reason? A global memory chip shortage is believed to be the reason. You don...