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Geek Gossip
#TechInterview - A glimpse into the interview process of Sarvam AI - an Indian startup in the Voice generation AI domain. A candidate describes in detail what they were interviewed about (surprisingly, no DSA) and how they approached it.
#GoogleCEO - Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai faced boos and a walk out by students at Stanford University’s commencement speech.
#Xbox - Did you know that YouTube makes more money off XBox content, than XBox does from selling their own products and games. This was revealed by Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft.
#Meta - Meta employees are growing increasingly unhappy, with a recent report suggesting the Applied AI team is on the verge of revolt after a worker hijacked a livestreamed presentation with an expletive-laden meltdown. The team, tasked with supporting AI research, has been formed through surprise emails and has reported low morale, with employees describing the work as "soul-crushing."
Latest Updates
Sarvam Secures $234 Million In Funding, Becoming India's Newest AI Unicorn
Sarvam, a Bengaluru-based AI startup, has raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, becoming India's newest AI unicorn. The company aims to develop sovereign AI capabilities, partnering with HCLTech to commercialize its technology and expand its presence in sectors like banking, insurance, and defense.
India-france Digital Ties Strengthen
India and France are strengthening their digital ties under the India-France Special Global Strategic Partnership, with the Indian government's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) already available at multiple locations in France, including the Eiffel Tower and key airports.
Changelog
Adobe - Enhanced AI-powered video creation capabilities with automatic background music and color adjustment.
MacOs 27 - Resizable iPhone Mirroring window with support for custom app sizes.
Facebook - AI Mode for answering questions, AI-powered editing capabilities, and virtual wardrobe changes.
Google Earth - Flight Simulator Now Available Globally on Web
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Sem | A semantic version control tool that works on top of Git. It parses your code with tree-sitter, extracts every function, class, and method as an entity, and diffs at the entity level instead of lines. This means you see "function blahh was modified" instead of "lines x-y changed."
Mitos | ASCII art generator for brand assets
Skills | Agent Skills for Google products and technologies
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Miscellaneous
An Introduction To Loop Engineering
Loop engineering is replacing yourself as the person who prompts the agent. You design the system that does it instead. A loop here can be thought of a recursive goal where you define a purpose and the AI iterates until complete.
AI-Driven Content Discovery
Interest in answer engine optimization is growing as AI-generated responses and conversational interfaces become more prevalent. A proposed file, llms.txt, aims to help large language models understand a site's most useful content, but its effectiveness and adoption are still uncertain.
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