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Geek Gossip
#ProntoPitch - 20 minutes. That’s all it took for Indian Startup Pronto to secure investment from solo investor Lachy Groom. The Indian Startup is rapidly growing to cater to an increasing demand of maid services.
#VSCode - Microsoft finally fixed a bug that would claim code changes made by humans was made by AI instead.
Latest Updates
Zomato Founder Deepinder Goyal Launches Temple
Indian entrepreneur Deepinder Goyal has officially unveiled the first batch of devices from his new health-tech venture, Temple, marking the startup’s transition from concept to early user rollout.
Freshworks Lays Off 500 Employees as AI Cuts Jobs
SaaS firm Freshworks has laid off around 500 employees, or nearly 11% of its global workforce, as it restructures operations amid the growing adoption of artificial intelligence across the software industry.
India Orders Infosec Red Alert In Case Mythos Sparks Crime Spree
Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks
Apna Mart Lays Off 10% Staff, Shifts Base to Gurugram
Quick commerce startup Apna Mart has laid off around 10% of its workforce, marking its first reported job cuts, as part of a broader restructuring exercise linked to AI adoption and a shift in its operational base from Bengaluru to Gurugram.
Anthropic taps SpaceX's Colossus Supercomputer to solve Claude compute crunch
Anthropic mentioned that this new additional compute from SpaceX will be used directly to improve capacity for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers.
Changelog
Google Search - Updates to AI Mode and AI Overviews to help you easily find relevant websites, deep insights and original content from across the web.
Tech Talk Thursdays
From AWS - Building a robust platform on serverless extends beyond mere infrastructure; it's about creating a powerful integration platform, treated as a product for consumers including other engineering teams in the organization. Explore why this approach dramatically improves engineering efficiency, emphasizing "paved paths" while carefully avoiding over-generalization pitfalls.
Codex is no longer just a coding assistant in a terminal. In this workshop, Vaibhav and Katia show how it becomes a full software engineering system, combining frontier models, the Codex app and CLI, plugins, automations, and subagents that can explore, review, and execute work in parallel. The session also dives into custom subagents: showing how specialized agents with different models, permissions, and tools can speed up code review, research, debugging, and long-running tasks while keeping control and safety in place.
Dreema Patel from Adobe explores how AI acts as a force multiplier for managing the "invisible complexity" of cloud-native systems. She outlines three key pillars: AI-Driven Knowledge Systems that make institutional knowledge queryable through RAG, AI-Assisted Development that automates boilerplate to shift focus toward high-level design, and AI-Enabled Testing & Onboarding that uses historical data to predict failures and speed up engineer ramp-up.
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Miscellaneous
Design[dot]md Explained - The Format Reshaping How AI Builds UI
Google has open-sourced the spec. What is DESIGNp[dot]md and why should product teams care?
How to be Successful Interviewing for Big Tech
An honest take on how to ace interviews by a former employee of Facebook and Amazon, now working at Postman.
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