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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Meta just made every public Instagram profile promptable. Type someone's @ into Meta AI and it generates images of them from their recent photos. Every adult public account was opted in by default, and the person never gets notified when it happens.

Google built the same capability and made two choices Meta didn't. Gemini only generates your own likeness, and you have to pass an approval process before it turns on. Meta's version generates anyone's likeness and turns on before you know it exists.

That gap is a product decision, and the logic is simple. Ask users to opt into "let strangers make AI images of you" and single-digit percentages say yes. The feature needs a deep pool of promptable faces to feel magical. Default-on is the only setting where it works.

Here's what survives your opt-out: any images already generated from your photos. You flip the toggle and stop future generations. Everything made before you found the setting stays in circulation, and you were never told it was made.

The setting itself sits four menus deep under "Sharing and reuse," a label that sounds like it's about reposts. Opting out of AI likeness generation is filed under the same toggle as remixes and stickers.

Private accounts are excluded. Some celebrity accounts are blocked, likely for rights reasons. The profiles with lawyers got protection by default. The profiles without them got a buried toggle.

[Sarvam @SarvamAI]

We're thrilled to announce that we have raised $234M in the first close of our $300M Series B at a $1.5B valuation.

@HCLTech and @BessemerVP have joined us in this round, alongside continued support from @khoslaventures and @peakxvpartners

For countries and companies, sovereign control on the AI stack is no longer an optionality. Sarvam will be the partner of choice for this aspiration. The capital allows us to accelerate our momentum towards this full stack of models, compute, and deployments.

A huge thank you to our customers, partners, investors, and the Sarvam team for your trust and belief in what we are building. We’re just getting started.

Read more: https://t.co/VmLtpnj8gx

[Kushagra V @kv0666]

Very interesting and nice perspective!

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

US policy is becoming clear. They don’t want natural intelligence coming in or artificial intelligence going out.

[Iran in India @Iran_in_India]

The U.S. president's accusation against Iran regarding an Indian vessel in the Strait of Hormuz is simply baseless. It is an attempt to divert public attention from the brutal fact that the U.S. has attacked 3 Indian vessels in less than a week and killed 3 innocent Indian sailors. That's pathetic!

[Kushagra V @kv0666]

@mybmc the 2 lane road behind Godrej Central A to G Towers, shell colony, chembur is stuck as one lane is permanently blocked from parked autos/ vehicles. This causes traffic jams every day. Please direct to make the way as one-way unless parking infrastructure is provided.

[Dheemanth Reddy @Dheemanthredy]

this is maya speaking with real accents and dialects.

when i first heard it, i loved the tone of the voice. it sounds the way people actually talk. it’s hard to explain until you hear it.

the team absolutely cooked with this. a key step forward for maya’s voice interface.

[Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd @MEIL_Group]

Nayak, the country's biggest Diameter Tunnel Boring Machine 13.56m, is driving the Thane-Borivali Underground Twin Tube Tunnel. A game-changer for Mumbai's transit faster, safer commutes ahead!
Meil Group is executing this prestigious project.

#Nayak #TunnelBoringMachine #TBM #Thane #Borivali #UndergroundTunnel #Mumbai #MEIL #MeghaEngineering #MEILGroup

[Kushagra V @kv0666]

@RapidoCares Pls provide the refund for toll charged when it was not taken @rapidobikeapp

[Kushagra V @kv0666]

Disappointing experience with @rapidobikeapp on Apr 16 in Mumbai. Driver rerouted from Sea Link to "save time," but it took 30 mins longer. Worse? I was charged a higher fare AND a toll I never even passed. Refund this overcharge & fix the system! 🚕🛑 #Mumbai #ConsumerRights

[Kushagra V @kv0666]

President Trump tweeting his long tweet in French wd have been unbearable.... Englugh is 'so much' better.

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

That would be chic!

[Kushagra V @kv0666]

Seems MTAR tech is true deep R&D player in Indian engg sector. Now its a matter of scale.

[Prashant Nair @_prashantnair]

The fast breeder reactor opportunity for Indian cos ?

We spoke with MTAR Tech. Key takeaways here,

9.20 minutes onwards👇

- 70% of the core of the fast breeder reactor prototype (operationalised recently) was done by us
- It took 10-15 years of R&D and work to build the fast breeder reactor
- Value of work for MTAR was around Rs.150cr w.r.t fast breeder reactor
- Will need to build many more fast breeder reactors (for U-233) to be able to move to Stage-3 (thorium reactors)
- Value of order to MTAR on each fast breeder reactor could be Rs.1500cr

#Nifty #BankNIfty #Nuclear #India @CNBCTV18News

https://t.co/HqQBALAEs2

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳 @NMenonRao]

The #ceasefire (US-Iran) announcement marks a pause, but more importantly, it reveals where each actor now stands.

The United States has stepped back from the brink it created. A deadline backed by threats of overwhelming force has given way to a conditional pause built around negotiations. That signals not strength alone, but recognition of limits: military objectives may have been met, but political end states remain elusive.

Israel, for its part, finds itself in a more ambiguous position. Having driven escalation, it is now tethered to a process it does not fully control. Its objectives, particularly around regime change or long-term degradation of Iran, sit uneasily with a negotiation track shaped elsewhere.

Iran emerges with a measure of strategic resilience. It has absorbed strikes, retaliated, and then shifted the frame from ceasefire to conditions for a broader settlement: sanctions relief, security guarantees, and regional de-escalation.
In doing so, it has moved from target to negotiating actor without conceding core positions.

Pakistan’s role has unfolded not as architect, but as conduit and catalyst. It has provided the channel through which messages travelled, deadlines were softened, and a narrow diplomatic opening created. That is not mediation in the classic sense, but it cannot be dismissed with stray witticisms either.

What we are witnessing is not resolution of conflict , but repositioning.
The war has not ended. It has entered a different phase, where coercion and negotiation now proceed together.

For India, the implication is clear.

Do not read this as de-escalation alone. Read it as a system under strain, where outcomes are still fluid.
India should state its position with clarity:
support de-escalation, safeguard maritime flows, and resist alignment with any one narrative of this conflict.
This is not a moment for silence.
It is a moment for calibrated voice.

#WestAsia
#IranUSConflict
#MiddleEastCrisis
#StrategicAutonomy
#IndiaForeignPolicy
#Hormuz
#MaritimeSecurity

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Oh, this is unbelievable. The edit history on this tweet shows that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif originally copied and pasted everything he was sent, including:

"*Draft - Pakistan's PM Message on X*"

Now, obviously, Sharif's own staff don't call him "Pakistan's PM," they would just call him prime minister. The U.S. and Israel, of course, would call him "Pakistan's PM."

Would be funny if the fate of the world wasn't hanging in the balance.

[Noon @noondesign]

Today we’re emerging from stealth and announcing our $44M fundraise with support from @chemistry, @firstround, @ScribbleVC, @svangel, @AforeVC, @ElevCap, @homebrew and @Firestreakvc and industry leaders who share our vision of rebuilding product design from the ground up, with AI at the core.

Read the letter from our founders: https://t.co/PMOc3JXLSK

[Masoud Pezeshkian @drpezeshkian]

To the people of the United States of America

[Wise @trikcode]

the generation that refused to accept cookies.

is now giving AI access to their desktops, files, and bank accounts.

[Kushagra V @kv0666]

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[Kushagra V @kv0666]

@rentomojo ordered a Sofa, but post delivery have been feeling a skin irritation and bites. Next day saw a bedbug crawling around the brand new sofa. Horryfying! Can you please ensure this is resolved and replaced immediately? Ticket - REQ-RPR-BOM-06681478