Author: Nik
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From Chai to Croissant: How UPI Quietly Conquered the Streets of Paris
Let me paint you a picture. It’s a chilly Tuesday evening in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. A young Indian tourist walks into a tiny boulangerie near the Pantheon. She points at a perfectly golden pain au chocolat. The baker smiles. She pulls out her phone. The baker expects a card, maybe some crumpled euros.…
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Google’s Nobel-Winning AI Researcher John Jumper (AlphaFold) Is Leaving for Anthropic
Another heavyweight is reportedly leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic — and this time, it’s a Nobel Prize winner. John Jumper, the scientist behind AlphaFold — arguably the most significant AI breakthrough outside of large language models — is said to be moving from Google DeepMind to Anthropic. If true, it’s a signal that the AI…
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Meta Leads ₹8,550 Crore Investment in CRED — Kunal Shah to Lead WhatsApp
Meta Leads ₹8,550 Crore Investment in CRED — Kunal Shah to Lead WhatsApp In what’s being called Meta’s biggest bet on the Indian market yet, the social media giant has led a staggering ₹8,550 crore (~$1B+) investment round in fintech startup CRED. The deal reshapes India’s fintech landscape overnight, but the bigger headline? Kunal Shah,…
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This Startup Pays Workers $1/Hour to Wear Cameras and Train AI — and Honestly, I’m Conflicted
Imagine getting paid a dollar an hour to wear a camera on your head while you fix someone’s AC. That’s the deal Human Archive is offering India’s gig workers. And depending on who you ask, it’s either a smart on-ramp to the AI economy — or something that sounds way too dystopian to ignore. I…
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Claude Is Now Inside Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook — Here’s What You Can Do With It
If you spend your day flipping between Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint — and let’s be honest, who doesn’t — Anthropic just gave you a reason to stop copy-pasting context into a chat window. Claude is now inside all four Microsoft 365 apps. Not as a browser tab you switch to. As a sidebar that…
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Google Gemini Omni Leaked — Native Video Model Shocks AI World
Right now, inside the Gemini app, there’s a new option. A tab that says “Video Generation.” And if you tap it, you see: “Start with an idea or try a template. Powered by Omni.” That’s the leak. And it changes the video AI game more than any model release this year. What Actually Happened It…
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AI Agent Wars Heat Up: Hermes Tops OpenRouter & DeepSeek V4 Flash Runs Locally on MacBook
The AI agent landscape just witnessed two major shifts this weekend. Hermes Agent — an open-source, self-learning AI agent from Nous Research — has overtaken OpenClaw to claim the #1 spot on OpenRouter’s global token consumption leaderboard. Meanwhile, Redis creator Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez) released ds4, a dedicated inference engine that runs DeepSeek V4 Flash entirely…
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Meta Just Opened Its Ad System to Claude and ChatGPT — Here’s What It Means
Something interesting happened at the end of April. Meta flipped a switch that most people barely noticed — but it changes how advertising on Facebook and Instagram works. Meta launched something called Meta Ads AI Connectors. It’s an official MCP (Model Context Protocol) server at mcp.facebook.com/ads that lets you manage your entire Meta ad account…
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Airbnb Says AI Writes 60% of Its New Code — Are Developers Becoming Managers?
Airbnb Says AI Writes 60% of Its New Code — Are Developers Becoming Managers? Last week on their Q1 2026 earnings call, Airbnb dropped a number that made the tech world do a double-take: 60% of their new code is now written by AI. CEO Brian Chesky didn’t just slip it in as a footnote.…
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“Over Half Our Code Is Written by AI” — Freshworks Cuts 500 Jobs and the Indian SaaS World Is Taking Notes
So here’s a number that should make every software engineer sit up straight. Dennis Woodside, the CEO of Freshworks, said it plain as day during their Q1 earnings call this week: “Over half of our code is now written by AI.” That’s not a futuristic prediction. That’s a Tuesday morning fact for a Nasdaq-listed Indian…