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Geek Gossip
#Unacademy - Once a unicorn, the founder of Unacademy has revealed that their evaluation has now dropped below $500M and how their journey has been a rollercoaster over the past couple of months.
#SocialMediaSurveillance - Planning to apply for a US Visa or visit USA? Be ready to hand over all your social media details to US immigration - the scrutiny over your social media posts is now increasing and travellers are being denied entry based on what they posted.
#Amazon-Quick-Ecommerce - Taking a leaf out of their experience with India’s quick e-commerce and 10 minute delivery, Amazon has started offering single day deliveries of groceries across cities in USA.
#NASA - NASA just lost contact with a mars orbiter and will soon lose contact with another one. By design - not a catastrophe.
#PersonOfTheYear - TIME magazine has named the person of the year. It’s the “Architects of AI” - comprising the CEOs shaping the global AI race from the U.S.
Latest Updates
Zoho Takes Over Government Email Services
Around 12.68 lakh official email accounts across various ministries and departments have been migrated to a Zoho cloud-based platform. Of these, 7.45 lakh accounts belong to Central government employees.
Google For Startups Hub Launched In Hyderabad
Google has opened its first hub in India, a $1 billion investment, at T-Hub in Hyderabad, aiming to support product-focused AI startups from Telangana. The hub will provide resources, mentorship, and networking opportunities to selected startups, with the goal of creating India's next Google or a $1 billion company.
Okta Expands Operations In India
Okta, a cloud-based Identity and Access Management (IAM) service platform, is expanding its operations in India, investing heavily in research and development in Bengaluru to boost its AI-driven identity advancements.
Disney Partners With OpenAI To Unlock New Possibilities In Imaginative Storytelling
Disney and OpenAI have reached an agreement for Disney to become the first major content licensing partner on Sora, OpenAI’s short-form generative AI video platform. As part of this three-year licensing agreement, Sora will be able to generate short, user-prompted social videos that can be viewed and shared by fans. Disney will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, and receive warrants to purchase additional equity.
Changelog
WhatsApp - Voice call messages get a makeover.
OpenAI - Released GPT-5.2, a new model offering advanced capabilities for developers and professionals in three flavors
Google Disco - Introduces GenTabs, a feature that uses AI to proactively understand complex tasks and create interactive web applications to help users complete tasks.
Microsoft - Expands bug bounty program to include all online services, regardless of code ownership, and now offers rewards for critical vulnerabilities in third-party dependencies impacting Microsoft services.
Visual Studio Code - Adds multi-agent orchestration and integration, improved background agents, and TypeScript 7.0 Preview support.
Microsoft Teams - Enables native screen and window sharing experience on macOS with native picker, with increased security and a more streamlined experience.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Vibesdk | An open-source vibe coding platform that helps you build your own vibe-coding platform, built entirely on Cloudflare stack
Fresh | Text editor for your terminal: easy, powerful and fast
Streamdown | A drop-in replacement for react-markdown, designed for AI-powered streaming.
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Tech Lead @ Elucidata (Remote)
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Miscellaneous
Gemini API Key Frustration
Google Gemini 3 Pro is a large language model (LLM) coding assistant, but its pricing and purchasing process are convoluted.
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