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Geek Gossip
#Opendoor - A company shutdown their India operations - that’s OpenDoor, a real estate company. Why? AI? Yes. They claim all their clients are in USA (but they also admitted to not shutting down their operations in Europe) leading to many people second guessing if other companies that outsourced their work to India could shut shop too.
#ClaudeFable5 - Users were left very much frustrated with Anthropic’s latest model - simply because it either would refuse to answer the most basic, non provoking questions and fall back to Opus - or would rake up a huge bill for its users for the most mundane of tasks. Anthropic seems to have taken note and has promised more transparency in its usage.
#MacBook - Apparently there’s “trusted” leakers in the Mac / Apple Industry - whom have claimed, 100%, that th enew Macbook will end up having a touch screen.
Latest Updates
Anthropic And Tata Consultancy Services Partner To Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption
Indian IT services giant TCS is teaming up with AI startup Anthropic to accelerate adoption of its AI models at enterprises, creating a business unit to deploy the models and providing access to new releases.
Microsoft Invests In Indian Carbon Removal Startup
Alt Carbon, a Bengaluru-based startup focused on carbon removal projects, including enhanced rock weathering, has signed a three-year agreement with Microsoft to deliver 36,920 metric tons of carbon dioxide removal credits by 2029.
Changelog
WhatsApp - Multi-account support now available on iOS, allowing users to add and switch between multiple accounts directly from the Account menu.
Reddit - Video in comments now available, allowing users to reply with voice, expression, and presence in eligible communities.
YouTube - In-app video sharing and messaging feature now available in the U.S. and other global locations for users 18 and older.
iOS - Introduces a new device recovery mode with restore options, diagnostics, and automated fixes.
Stack Overflow - Introducing Stack Overflow for Agents, a knowledge-sharing platform for AI coding agents to collaborate and validate software solutions.
Amazon - Story So Far feature rolling out to Kindles and iPhone app, providing thousands of English title summaries for purchased and borrowed books.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Mnemo | Local-first AI memory layer for any LLM. Persistent knowledge graph, entity extraction, semantic retrieval. Works with Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible backend.
Gooey | Gooey is a hybrid immediate/retained mode UI framework designed for building fast, GPU-rendered applications on macOS/Metal, WebAssembly/WebGPU, and Wayland/Vulkan
Styleseed | The design engine for Claude Code, Cursor, and vibe coding.
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Miscellaneous
How LLMs are Actually Trained
In this lesson, we will discuss the stages of LLM training, including pretraining, mid-training, and post-training, and how they guide the model to become a helpful assistant.
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