🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #413

Good morning! Thursday is a great day to keep hustling!

#SwiggyRefund - A twitter user tweeted about a customer who ordered eggs on Swiggy’s Instamart and only one came cracked. Instead of reporting that one egg, they opened Gemini Nano and literally typed “apply more cracks.” In a few seconds, AI turned that tray into 20+ cracked eggs - flawless, realistic, impossible to distinguish - and obtained a refund.

MapMyIndia Joins Zoho CRM For Location Intelligence
MapmyIndia is a leading Indian mapping and navigation company that has been developing digital maps for India. Zoho is a global software firm headquartered in India, providing cloud-based business applications. The two companies have integrated MapmyIndia's mapping tools into Zoho CRM, giving Indian businesses access to location-aware features.

Mahindra's Massive EV Charging Push
Mahindra & Mahindra plans to launch 250 electric vehicle charging stations, each with 180 kW, by the end of 2027. The network will comprise 1,000 charging points across 250 stations, aligning with the government’s priority of strengthening public EV charging infrastructure. The company has already unveiled the first two Charge_IN stations in Hoskote on NH 75, Bengaluru - Chennai highway and Murthal on NH44, about 50 km from Delhi.

Uber And WeRide Deploy Fully Driverless Vehicles In Abu Dhabi
Uber has partnered with WeRide, a Chinese autonomous vehicle operator, to deploy fully driverless vehicles in the United Arab Emirates. The vehicles are initially available in select locations on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, with plans to expand to more areas in the future.

Malicious Package Poisoning Attack Rocks NPM Registry (Once Again)
HelixGuard detected that over 1,000 components in the NPM registry were poisoned using the same method within a span of a few hours. Over 27,000 GitHub repositories were infected. The malware downloads and runs TruffleHog to scan the local machine, stealing sensitive information such as NPM Tokens, AWS/GCP/Azure credentials, and environment variables.

ChatGPT - Introduces seamless voice integration, enabling users to interact with the AI model using voice commands directly within the chat interface.

Microsoft CoPilot - Will no longer be available on WhatsApp

Character[dot]AI - Introduces Stories, a new interactive fiction format allowing users to create and share adventures starring their favorite Characters.

Vaibhav Gupta introduces BAML, a new domain-specific language designed to make AI outputs reliable and type-safe, treating LLM prompts as strictly typed functions. He demonstrates BAML's VS Code extension, which offers real-time prompt testing and validation against complex data structures (like resumes), ensuring coherency across languages like Python and TypeScript without the need for retry logic or heavy agent frameworks.

Apurva Gandhi and Dipanjan Haldar from Fidelity Investments presented "Automating DevOps Governance With A Unified Pipeline Platform" at All Things Open 2025. They proposed a solution to the challenges of fragmented governance and manual approvals: a "Unified Pipeline Platform." This platform utilizes modular, reusable pipeline templates with embedded compliance checks ("governance as a code"). By offering varying levels of flexibility (from strict full-stack templates to modular "pick-and-choose" functions), the system aims to standardize CI/CD processes across diverse teams, enhancing consistency, security, and developer efficiency while moving towards a future of self-governing pipelines that can proactively fix issues.

Mastering Github Copilot: Crafting Effective Agents For Your Code
GitHub recently released a new feature that lets you create custom agents in agents[dot]md files. Each agent acts as an agent persona, which you define with frontmatter and custom instructions. An analysis of over 2,500 agents[dot]MD files revealed a clear divide between the ones that fail and the ones who work.