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Geek Gossip
#SamAltman - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is planning to visit India in mid-February, his first visit to the country in nearly a year. The visit comes as New Delhi prepares to host a major AI summit expected to draw top executives from Meta, Google and Anthropic.
#Tesla - Indians won’t have much impact with this news, but still tech gossip worthy. The autopilot feature of Tesla - their USP - is now behind a $99 subscription!
#AppleAds - (More) Ads are coming - this time on the Apple App Store! OpenAI bit the bug and now its time for Apple to show more ads.
Latest Updates
Juspay Secures $50m In Follow-on Funding, Valued At $1.2b
Juspay, and Indian payment infrastructure company, has raised $50 million in a Series D follow-on round from WestBridge Capital, valuing the company at $1.2 billion.
Ex Google Executive And Co-Founder of Flipkart Launch Ed Tech Startup
Former Google GM and VP Peeyush Ranjan has launched Fermi[dot]ai, an AI-first edtech startup aimed at transforming high-school STEM education across India and the United States. The company is rolling out its learning platform through subsidiaries in both countries, beginning with mathematics and physics.
Karnataka Approves Setting Up Of AI-COE With Nasscom
The Karnataka government has approved the setting up of an Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence (AI-CoE) The Centre will be built at the KEONICS facility in HSR Layout, Bengaluru. The initiative is aimed at strengthening Karnataka’s innovation ecosystem.
Apple's iPhone Gains Ground In India
Apple, the tech giant behind the iPhone, has seen significant growth in India, shipping about 14 million units in 2025, making it the iPhone's strongest year yet in the world's second-largest smartphone market by volume. This growth is attributed to the iPhone's product portfolio, growing demand, and wider availability of iPhones across various sales channels. Apple has been expanding its presence in India by ramping up local manufacturing and broadening its retail reach, including opening its fifth Apple Store in the country.
Wikipedia Partners With Big Tech Giants To Monetize Its Content
Wikimedia Foundation, the operator of the online encyclopedia, said it also signed on AI startup Perplexity and France's Mistral AI. The non-profit has been pushing for greater adoption of its enterprise product.
Changelog
Google Photos - Introduces "Me Meme" feature, a generative AI-powered tool to create personalized memes using your photos.
Windows Paint & Notepad
- Notepad: Expanded Markdown support with strikethrough formatting and nested lists, new welcome experience, and improved AI text features with streaming results.
- Paint: Coloring book AI-powered feature for creating unique coloring book pages, and fill tolerance slider for precise color application.
GitHub Copilot SDK - Embeds the Copilot agentic core in any application, providing programmatic access to the same production-tested execution loop that powers GitHub Copilot CLI.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Claude Code Recipes | 100 ready-to-use Claude Code recipes for knowledge workers.
Remove Windows AI | Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11
Swark | Create architecture diagrams from code automatically using large language models (LLMs).
In Case You Missed It
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The Elasticsearch Agent Builder Hackathon is an online challenge where developers create context-driven, multi-step AI agents that combine search, workflows, reasoning, and tools to automate real-world tasks using Elasticsearch’s Agent Builder platform. The total cash prize pool is USD 20,000. Register here.
Miscellaneous
The DataList Element On iOS 26
iOS 26 Safari is causing problems for users of Apple's mobile operating system. Users are unable to search for a song on The Session without having their input obscured by a datalist suggestion.
CSS Web Components For Marketing Sites
A new way of building web components could be used for marketing site design systems. Instead of using Shadow DOM, a "regular" web component is dynamically generated at runtime using JavaScript -- kind of like an SPA. The markup in an HTML Web component is parsed, rendered, and styled as normal HTML.
Ralph Wiggum Goes Viral
An AI agent went viral for a unique but simple execution statement that allows the agent to iterate better.
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