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[shobhit mathur @shobweet]

When Amazon hired me on an H-1B visa, Amazon was making losses for 10 straight years. It was operating out of a rented building where we worked on door desks in small cabins. I was in the initial team that built AWS.

Today AWS contributes more than 60% to Amazon's profit. The stock price has gone 300x. Amazon's buildings have changed the skyline of downtown Seattle. Jeff Bezos went on to become the world's richest man.

There were about a hundred H1B visa holders like me in the initial team of Amazon. Good luck building companies and wealth without these 'indentured servants'

[Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו @netanyahu]

My salute to the Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar for his extraordinary bravery.

Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door, and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the attacker — preventing a catastrophic mid-air disaster.

He saved the lives of 174 people, including Israeli citizens and other nationals.

I wish Captain Machchhar a speedy and full recovery.

He is a true hero.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in our new Claude 5.5 family.

It performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 for most tasks, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5.

[Engineering at Meta @Meta_Engineers]

Today we’re announcing Petal: the world’s first petabit-class transoceanic subsea cable and the first to deploy multi-core fiber at scale.

Spanning 7,000 km (4,000+ mi) between France and the United States, Petal will deliver 1 Petabit per second (1 Pbps / 1,000 Tbps), doubling the capacity of today’s most advanced transatlantic systems.

Petal is set to enter service in 2029, setting a new standard for high capacity, high density SDM subsea cable designs.

Read the full technical breakdown on our engineering blog: https://t.co/Ksn9oM9gBA

[Proctor @proctor_tweets]

@ValorLeaks u good bro?

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

Hmmm... 😬

[Pulkit Madan @pulkitim]

Apple designers cooked with this new siri animation 😍 #apple

[legit apple leaks @leaks_legit]

iPhone 18 Pro will be able to make phone calls

[Flo Crivello @Altimor]

GPT3 writing code. A compiler from natural language to code.
People don't understand — this will change absolutely everything. We're decoupling human horsepower from code production. The intellectual equivalent of the discovery of the engine. https://t.co/QGJbQRBdQv

[Sam Altman @sama]

today we launched ChatGPT. try talking with it here:

https://t.co/uWra8LKFMN

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Yesterday, the PM visited DU, gave a political speech and even invoked the term “Dimagi Naxal,” while speaking very little about the state of our educational infrastructure.

Today, a hostel building in South Campus has collapsed, with students feared trapped under the debris. The number of casualties is still unknown.

For how long will students in this country have to pay the price for failing infrastructure and neglect?

Adivasi students are dying in tribal belts due to a lack of care and support, and even students studying in the national capital are not safe.

Students deserve safe classrooms, safe hostels and basic dignity. Is that really too much to ask?

Will the PM visit DU again and explain how did this happen?

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Students are trapped under the debris, and locals are trying to rescue them with their bare hands.

Not a single person from the administration is in sight.

When every minute could save a life, where is the administration? And for how long this will continue to happen?

[Aishani Khanna @Aishani_Khanna]

hidden pothole on Varthur road cost me a crushed ankle, emergency plastic surgery, 5 days in hospital, and₹1.97L.This could happen to ANY of us tomorrow.Fix the roads now!
@BBMPCOMM @GBA_office @krishnabgowda @BangaloreMirror @BangaloreTimes1 @BangaloreBuzz
#bloreroads @gkcs_

[Srikanth Narasimhan @srikanthn1975]

Why does a broken road take a year of neglect, but just 7 days to fix when citizens unite? 🚨

For over a whole year, Rainbow Hospital Road was left in an unmotorable state with dangerous craters and abandoned work. But when citizens joined hands for a Freedom Walk and held the authorities accountable, the work that was stalled for 12 months got done in just 1 week!

This is proof that real change doesn’t come from empty political promises—it comes when citizens stand together and demand results. If we can fix this road in 7 days, imagine what we can achieve for 100s of broken roads across Bengaluru when we work as a team. True progress requires proactive citizen leadership, not indifferent administration.

Report an issue in your ward to BNP. Call us at [phone].

We will work along with you to deliver what your ex-corporators didn’t. Choose leaders who care. Join @NammaBNP.

[Garrus @SrGarrus]

Un modder de The Witcher 3 que creó un pack mejorando texturas, personajes, armas y un montón de cosas visuales del juego original ha confirmado que CD Projekt Red le contactó y han colaborado juntos en The Witcher 3 Remastered.

Muchas otras compañías le habrían denunciado

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Getting paid only ₹2,000 a month for cooking, washing utensils & cleaning the school.

The govt school staff are being exploited. They deserve better pay.

[Harshil Mathur @harshilmathur]

4 billion payments. 3 trillion data points. One model trained on all of it.

Meet @Razorpay Vulcan - India’s first transformer-based AI foundation model for payments.

Built, trained and hosted in India, in partnership with @nvidia and @awscloud.

Until now, every payments problem was solved separately: routing, fraud, risk, personalisation and more.

We asked: What if one model could understand how money moves?

And like LLMs are trained on text to understand language, Vulcan is trained on payments to understand how money moves.

Already running in beta across 51,000+ businesses, Vulcan is delivering:

- 8–10% improvement in payment success rates - the ultimate measure of whether a payment simply works.
- 8x more international card fraud detected.
- 5x more fraudulent or disputed transactions identified.
- 1–2 lakh more purchases completed every month through better checkout personalisation.

And we’re just getting started. The best part? Every payment Vulcan sees makes the next one smarter.

We’ve spent years building the infrastructure that moves money for India. Now, we’re building the intelligence that understands and improves it. 🔥

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

When the Govt Fails, People Step Up!

First ever computer arrives at my village.

Change is possible!

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Kids in my village have got the benches in their school!!!

This is probably one of the biggest and happiest moment in my life. Thank you to all the staff and people from village who made this possible!

#SchoolThikKaro

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

An Indian engineer in Bengaluru got tired of potholes destroying his car.

So he built an app with Codex that detects them, finds who is responsible, and files a complaint.

Here is how it works. He installed a dashcam with GPS and an accelerometer. The app records everything while he drives.

A vision model classifies every pothole by size. Small, medium, large.

But here is the clever part. Most Indian roads are under warranty.

The contractor who built them is legally responsible for fixing potholes for free.

His app searches through 2,900 government contracts, finds the exact tender number, identifies the officer responsible, attaches the photo and geolocation, and generates a ready-to-file complaint.

One drive to work. 12 potholes detected. 12 complaints ready.

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