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Ai News
Elon Musk announced that xAI is postponing the launch of Grokipedia to the end of the week.
AWS crash exposes risks of single-cloud dependence.
OpenAI partners with Hollywood to crack down on celebrity deepfake videos.
Anthropic expands Claude into life sciences.
The medical AI startup OpenEvidence has reportedly raised $200M in funding.
OpenAI employees claimed that GPT-5 had cracked 10 previously unsolved math problems.
AWS: Why It Crashed?
A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage early Monday caused widespread disruptions across popular platforms including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, and even ChatGPT.
The problem started in the US-EAST-1(Virginia) region and was eventually traced back to an internal DNS failure within AWS’s EC2 network. Amazon said it applied recovery measures, and most systems are now back to normal.
The outage began around 3:11 AM ET, knocking out critical cloud infrastructure and APIs across multiple services. Updates from AWS indicated that things were largely restored by 12:13 PM ET.
The downtime didn’t just affect entertainment and consumer apps. It also hit business tools like Perplexity, Airtable, Canva, Zapier, and even the McDonald’s app, disrupting operations for countless users and companies that rely on AWS.
Amazon later explained that the root cause was an internal system monitoring network load balancers, which mistakenly throttled the launch of new EC2 instances.
The incident underscores how dependent the internet is on AWS and why companies need multi-cloud strategies and strong redundancy plans to stay resilient.
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Go to Gemini and select ‘NanoBanana’ as your model.
Enter your prompt and hit Enter.
Sample Prompt:
“Create a 1:1 minimalist conceptual advertisement for the brand: [BRAND]. Do not repeat the brand name in any part of the text or visual.
Include:
A bold headline (max 6 words),
A short supporting subheadline (optional),
A symbolic, photorealistic visual that reflects the message,
The official logo of the brand, placed once at the bottom,
A short slogan (max 6 words) aligned with the brand’s tone.
Style: minimal, clever, high-resolution, cinematic lighting, strong negative space, professional layout.”
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Idea of the Week: Build A Chrome Extension
This Chrome Extension Does Almost “Nothing”
Today’s story is about a Chrome extension that does almost nothing.
And that’s why it works.
A few years ago, a developer built a tiny Chrome extension called WikiRoulette (later cloned dozens of times under names like RandomWiki and WikiEveryday).
What does it do?
Each morning, when you open a new tab, it shows you one random Wikipedia article.
That’s it.
Just one random article about anything from Roman architecture to the world’s smallest frog.
It sounds useless… but that’s the point.
The extension turned curiosity into a habit.
People loved starting their day learning something completely random and sharing it on Reddit or TwitterSoon, it had tens of thousands of daily active users.
A few clones on the Chrome Web Store now show 100,000+ installs each.
The developer didn’t even need to maintain it.
Wikipedia is the engine.
The extension just pulls a random article link each day using Wikipedia’s open API.
It’s a 20-line JavaScript project that turned into a passive audience of curious people.
So how does it make money?
Two ways:
1. New tab ads: Most users keep the extension as their “default new tab.” That’s prime real estate. By embedding a small search bar or an unobtrusive ad banner, the developer earns ad revenue on every new tab opened.
2. Newsletter upsell: One clone launched a daily “Random Fact Email” that links back to the site. It built a 30,000+ subscriber list, monetized with sponsorships and affiliate links.
A niche audience. Zero content creation. Fully automated.
Let’s do some quick math:
If the extension has 100,000 users, and 20% of them open 10 tabs a day with ads,
that’s 200,000 ad impressions daily.
At a $5–$8 CPM (typical for new-tab search ads), that’s roughly $1,000–$1,600/month in ad revenue from something that took a weekend to build.
Add newsletter sponsors or donations, and you’re looking at a $2,000–$3,000/month micro business.
Not bad for a project that literally shows you random Wikipedia pages.
Here’s what I love about this story:
It’s not about information.
It’s about curiosity as a product.
People are bored of being productive.
Sometimes, they just want something interesting, once a day, to make them feel smarter.
That’s a business.
Now imagine replicating this idea in other niches:
A Chrome extension that shows one random startup pitch each morning.
One that gives you a random business idea per tab.
One that reveals a random painting or space photo each day.
Or even one that sends you a random Wikipedia article from your city.
Each one can be monetized the same way like ads, newsletter, or upsell to premium curiosity content.
So next time someone says your idea is “too simple,” remember that someone out there is earning money every day from showing people random Wikipedia articles.
That’s your alley dispatch for the week. Next one drops soon.
— Arman from Fringe Alley