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🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #224
Daily dispatches from the world of technology.
Friday's here - let's make the most of the day!
Geek Gossip
#Reddit - Reddit will now issue warnings to users who “upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies”. What? How about banning that content altogether so users cannot participate in them? 🤷🏽♀️
#InterviewCoder - A Columbia University student is facing a disciplinary hearing after he used an AI program to land internships at Amazon, Meta, and TikTok. 🤯
Latest Updates
India Launches AI Kosha And Compute Portal
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) launched AI Kosha and the IndiaAI Compute Portal on March 6. These initiatives are part of the India AI Mission to provide startups and researchers with access to datasets and high-performance computing resources for artificial intelligence development. 22 of the 67 proposals received under the mission are for developing LLMs.
Changelog
App Store - Introduces AI-powered summaries of app reviews, leveraging Apple Intelligence to provide an overall summary of reviews in a short paragraph.
DuckDuckGo - AI-generated answers now source information from across the web, and web search is coming soon to its AI chatbot
Google Search - Added AI Mode, a dedicated tab powered by Gemini 2.0 that provides AI-generated answers and summaries, with a redesigned interface for easier follow-up questions.
1Password - Added "Nearby Items" feature, allowing users to tag entries with physical locations and surface relevant information on the mobile app when in close proximity.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Browser Use | Make websites accessible for AI agents
GoatDB | Lightweight NoDB for Deno & React
Semaphore | Semaphore is an open source CI/CD platform. Self-host Semaphore on your own servers or on a cloud provider.
In Case You Missed It
🎁 We now have a dedicated page to list all events. We will be updating this page EVERY WEEK. We will of course be publishing new (and coming-soon) events in this section but for a comprehensive list of events, check the link(s) below:
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Salesforce's Agentforce Virtual Hackathon invites developers to build AI-powered agents using Agentforce, its agent development platform. With $140,000 in prizes, participants must create innovative solutions solving business problems. The event is online, beginner-friendly, and runs until May 1. More details here.
Job Board
AI / ML Lead @ SettleMint India (Onsite - New Delhi)
✨Experience : 8+ years (Machine Learning | SQL | Image Processing | NLP | Generative AI)
💰Expected Salary : ₹40L – ₹45L / year
Software Engineer - Scala @ Maropost (Onsite - Chandigarh)
✨Experience : 3+ years (Scala | API)
💰Expected Salary : ₹35L – ₹45L / year
Senior Data Scientist @ Oneture Technologies (Onsite - Mumbai)
✨Experience : 4+ years (Python | SQL | Amazon S3 | Neo4J | Amazon Redshift | Fraud detection | AWS Lambda | AWS SageMaker)
💰Expected Salary : ₹35L – ₹45L / year
Miscellaneous
Rethinking Redux: Is Global State Management Still Relevant?
Redux's dominance in React state management is waning, with alternatives like React Query and API caching gaining traction. Is it time to move away from global state management for "normal" enterprise-CRUD applications?
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