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Geek Gossip
#GalgotiaUniversity - A university showcased a robot at the India AI Summit as their own and worth 350Cr. But they were called out for instead having purchased a commercially available robot for $2800+ instead.
#SteamDeckStock - The RAM shortage isn’t just affecting PCs. Valve's Steam Deck is out-of-stock in some regions due to memory and storage shortages. None of Valve’s three listed Steam Deck configurations are currently available to buy.
Latest Updates
Reliance Jio Launches Jio Frames
Reliance Jio has launched Jio Frames, a new AI-powered eyewear. The glasses were unveiled at Reliance's 48th Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Friday. Jio also announced new features for Jio AI Cloud, including natural language search.
Infosys Partners With Anthropic For Advanced Enterprise AI Solutions
Infosys and Anthropic will develop and deliver advanced enterprise AI solutions to companies across telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, and software development. The collaboration will begin in telecommunications with a dedicated Anthropic Center of Excellence to build and deploy AI agents tailored to industry-specific operations.
Razorpay And Replit Announce Partnership
Razorpay and Replit announce a partnership to help AI-first builders in India pay for their subscriptions seamlessly. The partnership allows AI-built products to accept UPI from day one. This will enable application builders to start accepting UPI and card payments.
Emergent Doubles Annual Run-rate Revenue To $100m
Indian vibe-coding platform Emergent says it has more than 6 million users worldwide across 190 countries. Emergent claims its users have created over 7 million applications on its platform. Nearly 40% of Emergent’s users are small businesses, and about 70% have no prior coding experience.
Changelog
Google AI Mode - Enhanced UI with Hover-Activated Link Groups and Prominent Icons
Claude - New model Sonnet 4.6 released with improved coding skills, 1M token context window, and enhanced computer use capabilities.
Fire TV - New UI with rounded corners, faster interactions, and up to 20 app pinning capabilities, plus access to Alexa+.
Snapchat - Introducing Creator Subscriptions for deeper fan engagement and scalable creator revenue
WordPress - AI Assistant now available within the editor and Media Library, providing site-wide structure and design decisions, content editing and refinement, and image generation and editing capabilities.
Website Wednesday
SQL Def - A powerful CLI tool for idempotent SQL schema management. It allows developers to define a desired database state using standard SQL DDL and automatically generates the necessary "ALTER" statements to reach it. Supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and SQL Server, it simplifies migrations by focusing on the end-state rather than manual, incremental migration files.
Indie UI - A library of high-quality React components designed for SaaS products. Built with Tailwind CSS and Framer Motion, it offers pre-designed buttons, cards, and text animations that focus on modern aesthetics and smooth interactions. It helps developers quickly build polished landing pages and user interfaces by providing copy-pasteable code compatible with shadcn/ui.
Design Spells - A curated gallery celebrating "micro-interactions" and design details that feel magical. It showcases a collection of clever animations, unique easter eggs, and smooth transitions across mobile and desktop platforms. By highlighting these delightful touches, the site serves as a creative lookbook for designers and developers looking to add personality to their products.
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The Gemini Live Agent Challenge is an online hackathon where developers build next-generation multimodal AI agents that go beyond text to see, hear, speak and interact in real-time using Google’s Live API. Projects focus on immersive experiences that combine audio/vision and creative problem solving. The total cash prize pool is USD 80,000. Register here.
The Airia AI Agents Hackathon is an online competition where participants build practical AI agents that integrate with everyday platforms or orchestrate autonomous multi-agent workflows, showcasing real use cases like automated compliance, customer onboarding, or research synthesis. The total cash prize pool is USD 7,000. Register Now.
Miscellaneous
I Fixed Windows Native Development
The article introduces msvcup, an open-source CLI tool that replaces the bulky Visual Studio Installer. It downloads only essential MSVC/SDK components directly from Microsoft, enabling fast, isolated, and version-controlled builds. By using simple scripts instead of a 20GB GUI, it eliminates "works on my machine" issues and streamlines CI/CD without polluting the Windows registry.
AI is going to kill app subscriptions
Apple's App Store sees 557K new submissions in 2025, up 24% from 2024, as AI-powered app cloning makes subscription pricing obsolete and drives down app costs.
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