One more day until the weekend - happy Thursday!
Geek Gossip
#Telegram - Telegram Founder accused Reliance of using BGP hijacking to sabotage Telegram access for millions OUTSIDE India - with them hinting at a competitive war with Meta / WhatsApp.
#Apple - Apple to raise prices on devices due to high memory and storage costs, CEO Tim Cook says, citing unsustainable situation and need to maintain profit margins.
#GitHub - Hear Hear. To meet rising demand due to soaring AI driven coding activity, the platform, owned by Microsoft, that owns Azure - is turning to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for its needs. It still promises to move completely to Azure by 2027, but for now AWS seems to be its choice.
Latest Updates
TCS Partners With Tottenham Hotspur
Tata Consultancy Services partners with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club in a multi-year strategic deal, with TCS serving as the Club's Digital Transformation Partner, delivering advanced solutions across fan engagement, operations and digital ecosystem.
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Invests ₹70 Billion In Indian Data Center Operator CtrlS
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board's CPP Investments has committed up to ₹70 billion to Indian data center operator CtrlS, acquiring an 8.2% stake and partnering to develop hyperscale data centers across India, betting on India's growing role in the global AI infrastructure boom.
Changelog
Anthropic - Pauses Agent SDK pricing changes for now, allowing users to continue without additional costs.
LinkedIn - Adds new AI Essentials for Marketers initiative with free, short-form LinkedIn Learning courses in 47 languages for marketers at any career stage.
Pinterest - Introduces Business Assistant, an AI-powered collaborator for advertisers in Ads Manager and mobile.
Microsoft Edge - Allows users to sign in with a Google account from the profile menu and sign-in screen, in addition to Microsoft Account login option.
ChatGPT - Introducing a revamped Scheduled Tasks feature with improved speed, reliability, and management capabilities.
AWS Kiro - Native iOS App for Real Engineering Work.
Vercel Eve - An Open-Source Agent Framework for Building, Running, and Scaling Agents.
Tech Talk Thursdays
Lahari Chowtorri from Amazon discusses Jupyter AI, an extension for JupyterLab that integrates AI agents to assist data scientists. She explains how it supports diverse models (like Claude, Gemma, and Gemini), enhances collaboration through Jupyter Server Documents, and ensures trust with human-in-the-loop controls.
Hitendri Bomble from Red Hat explains why traditional NLP metrics like BLEU, ROUGE, and cosine similarity fail to evaluate RAG systems accurately. She advocates for decomposing evaluation into separate retrieval and generation metrics, using semantic judges like G-Eval instead of surface-level metrics, mitigating judge biases, and using adversarial test sets to expose RAG failure modes.
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