🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #153

It's Thursday! Just one more day until the weekend!

#ZomatoCEO - Did you know that Deepinder Goyal is still not taking a salary from Zomato till 2026? Like, he's still CEO and everything! Even when the company is doing super well and making lots of cash!

#Uber - Well - Uber is branching out. They have started hiring “gig workers” in India, US, Canada and other countries - to carry out data annotation work in a new division. They call it Scaled Solutions and it's already helping out companies like Pokémon Go and a self-driving trucking software firm. The pay isn't all that bad either, contractors get paid monthly.

Ola Electric Unveils Range Of Electric Scooters For Gig Workers
Ola Electric is an Indian company that operates in the electric vehicle (EV) sector, with a focus on making EVs more accessible and affordable for the masses. Today, they've launched two models each under the S1 and Gig ranges of electric scooters, with features like dual batteries, portable charging, and more! Speaking of which, Honda Activa announced their two wheeler EV Fleet. Ola Electric could now face fierce competition because the Activa brand is quite popular in the two wheeler segment.

International Law Enforcement Takes Down Massive Pirate Streaming Service
A major pirate streaming service that served over 22 million users worldwide and made €250 million per month has been dismantled by an international law enforcement operation. The service, which redistributed content from popular platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime, was shut down after a two-year investigation and resulted in the seizure of over 2,500 illegal channels and servers.

Cloudflare Loses 55% Of Customer Logs In 3.5-hour Bug Incident
Cloudflare says a bug in the logpush service caused customer logs to be lost for 3.5 hours on November 14. The company processes over 50 trillion customer event logs daily, of which around 4.5 trillion logs are sent to customers.

Sora API Leak Exposes OpenAI's Video Generator To Protest And Criticism
A group appears to have leaked access to OpenAI’s video generator. The group published a project on the AI dev platform Hugging Face seemingly connected to the tool. It claims that OpenAI is pressuring early testers to spin a positive narrative around the tool and failing to fairly compensate them.

Google Maps - New stair "callouts" now displayed directly in walking directions on Android and iOS.

Instagram - Testing a new collage feature for Stories, allowing users to create a collage of images from their camera roll.

Anthropic - Claude AI Chatbot Now Responds in Multiple Styles

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Meesho Open-sources AI Platform
Meesho, an e-commerce company, has announced open-sourcing its machine-learning platform, used by over 2 million sellers and 160 million plus consumers. The platform handles tasks such as catalogue listing, pricing recommendations, and fraud detection, and is built to deliver unparalleled cost-efficiency.

Becoming A Staff Engineer At Google At Just 28 Years Old
Ricky, a new grad, was promoted from Junior to Staff at Google within 3 years, with a total compensation growth from $180K to $520K. He attributes his success to good technical and soft skills, taking ownership, and planning his promotions.

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