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It’s a slow news cycle today.
Geek Gossip
#Hashicorp - The company behind popular Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC) platform Terraform, has decided to move their projects outside of GitHub - the founder went on a rant about how GitHub has become unstable lately (they indeed have had more outages in the past couple of months compared to previous years) and has become unreliable and no longer a place for serious work.
Latest Updates
Swiggy Unveils Builders Club, Inviting Developers To Build Apps With It
Think you have an idea that requires use of Swiggy’s APIs? Swiggy has introduced Builders Club, a community and partnership program for developers, startups, and enterprises to build AI-native commerce experiences on its platforms. The program will provide access to APIs, MCP servers, and transactional capabilities, and is powered by Amazon Bedrock and AgentCore on AWS.
Changelog
Xbox - Game Package Manager now available for all Xbox developers to configure and publish games more easily.
Tech Talk Thursdays
In this insightful session, Asha Saxena explores how organizations can move beyond the excitement of AI and focus on intelligent deployment that creates real business value. From strategy, data readiness, and MLOps to ethics, governance, and developer empowerment, she shares a practical blueprint for turning AI into sustainable impact. This talk is a must-watch for leaders and engineers who want to build AI systems that are scalable, responsible, and truly aligned with business goals.
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Miscellaneous
Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI
Startups that are shutting down are selling off their company data to help train AI models. Companies that handle payroll, taxes, and investor settlements are getting in on the action.
’Tokenmaxxing’ As A Weird New Trend
Meta recently had a token leaderboard - that ranked employees by token usage - resulting in widespread gaming of the system to appear at the top of the leaderboard with nonsense code generation. Microsoft too has a similar leaderboard while Salesforce is offering incentives to burn tokens. A look at how companies are encouraging (forcing maybe) their employees to use AI.
Shopify Speed Optimization: Fixing The Real Bottlenecks
Optimizing hero sections, avoiding heavy hero videos and sliders, and minimizing JavaScript execution time can significantly improve Shopify store speed and performance, improving the overall user experience.
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