Ascend
JugalAscend is your weekly guide to students and young professionals navigate global education, career growth, and visa journeys with clear, actionable insights every week.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 60 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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Top 30 AI Certifications You Need to Get Hired in 2026
Hey, Jugal here 👋 I’m the voice behind the weekly newsletter “Ascend.”
In this week’s article, I’ve documented all 30 AI certifications actually worth your time in 2026, the exact order to take them in, and what to build alongside each on...
How to Prepare for FAANG AI Engineer Internship Season Before Applications Open
I’m Jugal Bhatt, an AI Engineer at Amazon. Before joining Amazon, I was a Founding Software Engineer at LiteLLM, where I worked on infrastructure used by thousands of developers building AI applications. Over the years, I’ve prepared for co...
Super Big Immigration news: The F-1 Duration of Status Era Is Over
I’ve been tracking this rule since it resurfaced last August, and today it stopped being a “proposed change” you could ignore.
This morning, DHS announced the final rule ending Duration of Status (D/S) for F-1 students. It publishes in the...
How to Make Claude Code Virtually Unlimited With 9Router
Claude Code is at its best right before it becomes unavailable.
You are deep inside a refactor. It has finally understood the architecture, found the actual source of the bug, changed six files, and started running the tests.
Then the mes...
Claude’s Entire Fable 5 System Prompt Just Leaked
Someone just leaked the entire system prompt Claude designed for its Fable 5 model.
It is more than 1,200 lines long and over 120,000 characters.
Grab it here:
Fable 5 System Prompt
Or use this link - https://github.com/elder-plinius/CL...
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