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🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #331
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Geek Gossip
#Airtel-PerplexityPro-Reviewed - A user decided to test the outputs from Perplexity Pro, Free version and Airtel’s version of Perplexity Pro. What they found was that Airtel’s version performed significantly poorer than the others - including the FREE version!
#AirbnbScandal - An AirBnb guest were asked to reimburse damages to a property they stayed at - but they were able to identify the images provided by the AirBnB host as AI generated or edited - bringing to light rise in AI based malpractices.
#Apple - Bye Bye Siri? Apple is reportedly developing an in-house chat app to rival ChatGPT.
#VineRestored - Our subscribers are a mix of GenZs and Millennials so we’d like to let you know that before TikTok or Instagram Reels, there use to be Twitter Vines. 6 seconds is all that they were allowed and they created what we know of as the first batch of “influencers”. Anyway, it shut after couple of years. But Elon Musk, who owns Twitter now, claimed to have found archives of “Vines” and may be planning to bring it back to life.
Latest Updates
Vinfast Expands Into India
VinFast is a Vietnamese electric-vehicle maker with global ambitions, now opening its first Indian factory in Tamil Nadu, which will produce 150,000 cars annually and create up to 3,500 jobs.
Microsoft Blocks Indian Oil Refinery From Cloud Services
Microsoft disconnected Indian company Nayara Energy, a 49% owned Russian oil refinery, from its cloud resources due to EU sanctions related to Russia's war in Ukraine, but restored access before a court clash.
Airtel Launches Sovereign Cloud And AI-powered Software Platform
Airtel, an Indian telecom giant, has launched a sovereign cloud platform and an AI-powered software platform that aims to help businesses and telcos worldwide with cloud optimization, customer experience, and cost savings. The company has also partnered with Singtel, Globe Telecom, and Airtel Africa to deploy its new platform.
SAP Acquires Smartrecruiters
SAP, a leading enterprise software company, has acquired SmartRecruiters, a talent acquisition software provider, to strengthen its human capital management (HCM) suite. The acquisition will enhance SAP's recruiting and hiring capabilities with AI-powered tools, making it easier for companies to find and retain top talent.
Changelog
Google Chrome - Predictive Back feature allows users to preview previous page before navigating away.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Git Mcp | Put an end to code hallucinations! GitMCP is a free, open-source, remote MCP server for any GitHub project
Wren | The Wren Programming Language. Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language.
AI Agents For Beginners | 11 Lessons to Get Started Building AI Agents
In Case You Missed It
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Job Board
UI Developer @ Astria Digital (Onsite - Bengaluru)
✨Experience : 5+ years (Javascript | UI/UX Design | React.js | React Native | Material UI)
💰Expected Salary : ₹20L – ₹40L / year
Fullstack Engineer @ Nanonets (Onsite - Bengaluru)
✨Experience : 5+ years (Python | Javascript | React.js | Go (Golang))
💰Expected Salary : ₹20L – ₹30L / year
LLM Engineer @ TIFIN (Remote)
✨Experience : 3+ years (Generative AI | LLM Frameworks | RAG)
💰Expected Salary : ₹30L – ₹40L / year
Software Engineer- Backend @ Datavruti (Onsite - Mumbai)
✨Experience : 3+ years (Node.js | REST APIs | TypeScript)
💰Expected Salary : ₹30L – ₹32L / year
Miscellaneous
Full Breadth Developers
The software industry is at an inflection point with generative AI rendering entire product categories obsolete and upending the job market, but full-breadth developers with both technical and product capabilities are set to gain, while companies and workers who don't adapt to this shift will likely lose out.
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