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@venomdetective @Anthropic @LabVenomics @iiscbangalore That’s awesome congrats

India carries the world’s deadliest snakebite burden, yet next-gen solutions remain underexplored. Delighted to receive an @Anthropic Science AI grant to accelerate antibody discovery at @LabVenomics, @iiscbangalore. #AIforScience #Snakebite #IISc #venomdetective

You think closing a VC term sheet is hard? Try closing a publisher contract 🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨

@rajkaria_ @playhunchxyz @igoryuzo @bankrbot Kill it bro

seeing a lot of noise on the TL figured i'd drop my 2 cents since we've been building deep in the ecosystem with @playhunchxyz . first off, @igoryuzo and entire @bankrbot team, they've been solid with us. responsive as hell. we integrated our skills so people can hit hunch markets straight from @bankrbot on x. they even shared about future updates and ways to go deeper. we shipped it quick. not everyone gets the same energy, but we've gotten real support. also, you're the damn founder. this is your product. don't wait around to be spoon-fed or adopted. ecosystem help is nice when it comes, but it's a bonus, not your birthright. if you need runway, figure out the way and build. excuses are easy no matter the funding. it's your job as founders to grind through it. on the token selling, i get the pressure with team and runway. but with full supply circulating early, dumping even a few % feels off. we've made less in fees than some, but we're not selling a single $HUNCH. if anything, we're acquiring more when we can. and even then we already have a stable product, with 70+ markets, real revenue, a small number for now but we a big vision, just about time we hit the right spot. the real move isn't selling to buy a couple months of runway. it's forcing revenue and pmf while the spotlight is still on you. if you couldn't crack it with all the attention, more runway alone probably won't change the game. just my take, different builders, different paths. we're heads down shipping, stacking $HUNCH, and I believe we will create the playbook on how to actually build a real product post-fair-launch. just trenches lessons learnt the hard way. just build, ship, and it will all fall in place. wagmi

@SatishShekar @culkeyF Good to see this!

Grateful to the Ministry of Culture, Govt of India for hosting the 2nd BRICS Culture Working Group meeting in Varanasi under India’s chairship. Two rich days across creative economy, AI & copyright, heritage protection, joint nominations and culture for sustainable development!

@bratrat Proud of you brother amazing stuff

🧵 1/12 June 2027. The biggest AI labs have quietly stopped bragging about parameter counts. Instead, a handful of them are now running the same 20-watt blueprint that evolution already perfected: real biological neurons, simulated at scale, on ordinary GPUs. Sci-fi you think? It’s already happening. And at Neuropeek @HiSohan just made it practical. We are about to own the layer everything else sits on.

@waitin4agi_ Thanks for the reminder. You have been an inspiration to those who want to stay independent and win through hard won customer revenue. One question: how do you reconcile this position with being an angel investor/LP?

This entire “VC slept at meeting” is pointless conversation. If you want someone from someone else you have to play by those rules, even if those rules are dumb. The solution is to just be profitable and step up your ambitions over time and be patient about growth. You don’t need them.

@PandeyMikhil Question: existing WGS providers in India who give BAM and FASTQ files give it in secure s3 buckets - transfer and delete. Am I missing something? What privacy have I not considered here?

Anyone in India or Singapore wanting access to a whole genome sequencing service that focussed extensively on privacy, please reach out.

Just triple checking..

This is an unbelievable piece of work by Sarthak and something that requires amplification. Let me explain what he found, in simple terms. Sarthak is a Class 12 student from the 2025-26 batch, one of the 17 lakh students whose answer sheets went through CBSE's new On-Screen Marking system. He spent days reading through CBSE's evaluation tenders, scraped all 576 tenders CBSE has issued, and tracked how the rules changed across three versions of the same tender. The core finding is that the company that won the contract to scan and grade 17 lakh students' answer sheets is Coempt Eduteck. Coempt used to be called Globarena Technologies. Globarena was the company behind the 2019 Telangana intermediate exam disaster, where software failures led to 3.8 lakh students getting wrong or missing marks, and 23 students died by suicide. A government committee found systemic failure and negligence. Six months later, Globarena rebranded to Coempt Eduteck. So a company with that track record won a contract to handle 17 lakh CBSE students. Sarthak's investigation is about how the rules were rewritten to let that happen. The tender was issued three times. > First tender, February 2025. It existed, then disappeared from the public GeM portal. Sarthak scraped all 576 CBSE tenders and this one was missing from the archive entirely. > Second tender, May 2025. Four companies applied including TCS and Coempt. All four failed the technical evaluation. Cancelled. > Third tender, August 2025. Coempt won. Between the second and third tender, a series of rule changes happened, and every single one made it easier for Coempt to qualify. Here is what changed, one by one. 01. The old rules disqualified any company with a history of abandoning work, failing to complete contracts, or financial weakness. The new rules deleted this clause entirely. Coempt's Telangana history stopped being a barrier. 02. The old rules disqualified any company that was "blacklisted earlier." The new rules changed this to "currently blacklisted." Because Globarena rebranded after Telangana, removing the word "earlier" effectively erased their past. 03. The rules required Rs 50 crore average turnover over three years. Coempt's exact average came to Rs 50.86 crore. They cleared the bar by less than 1%. Earlier, a smaller company had asked CBSE to lower the bar to Rs 30 crore for fairer competition. CBSE refused. So the bar was kept high enough to block small players, but sat exactly low enough for Coempt to scrape through. 04. Software maturity is measured on the CMMI scale, 1 to 5. The old rules required Level 5. The new rules dropped it to Level 3. Coempt is a Level 3 company. 05. The cooling-off period for engaging retired CBSE officials was cut from two years to one. This makes it easier to use recently retired insiders to influence the process. 06. The old rules required experience with large projects of at least 5 lakh students each. The new rules removed the student count and counted cumulative answer-book volume across small projects instead. Coempt has many small fragmented university contracts. This helped Coempt and hurt TCS. 07. The old rules required bidders to own their own data centre and disaster recovery centre on Indian soil. The new rules allowed third-party MeitY-empanelled cloud hosting. Coempt runs on AWS and Azure. This helped Coempt and hurt TCS, which owns its own data centres. It also means student data is no longer on sovereign, Indian infrastructure. 08. The old rules required the bidder to own or control the complete source code of its software. The new rules deleted this. Coempt's platform runs on Microsoft's proprietary IIS, which they don't own. 09. A last-minute corrigendum, issued right before bid submission, removed CBSE's own power to blacklist the firm if its software failed catastrophically. So even a Telangana-scale failure couldn't get Coempt banned from future government tenders. 10. The penalty structure shifted from punishing mistakes to punishing delays. The old rules fined the vendor for wrong scanning, merged pages, and unscanned books. The new rules dropped those and instead levied Rs 50,000 per day for delays. This incentivises rushed scanning over accurate scanning. 11. The old rules had a hard accuracy threshold, error rate not to exceed 0.5%. The new rules removed this number entirely. 12. The old rules specified proper book and robotics scanners. The new rules just say "sufficient scanners." The definition was vague enough that, as Sarthak notes, the scanning could be done with a phone on a stand. 13. On the security side, the contract required a VAPT (vulnerability and penetration test) certified by CERT-In before go-live, and a restricted beta phase before launch. The system clearly wasn't restricted, because the other researcher, Nisarga, was able to access it and find vulnerabilities four days before go-live. So the mandatory security audit appears to have been bypassed. These are more than a dozen rule changes, all between the failed tender and the winning tender, all pushing in the same direction, all benefiting the one company with the worst track record in the field. The security holes Nisarga found last week now have an explanation. The system was built by a vendor that was specifically allowed to skip the security certification, the source code ownership, the data sovereignty, and the quality thresholds the original rules demanded. Following things need to happen immediately; 1. An immediate CAG audit of the tender process. 2. A parliamentary debate on the topic. 3. An independent investigation into > Why the first tender vanished? > Why the disqualification clauses were deleted? > Why the turnover bar was held exactly where it was? > Why the security level was dropped? > Why the blacklisting power was removed at the last moment? Sarthak, this is genuinely exceptional investigative work. Far better than most journalists with full resources ever manage. Take a bow. :)

Goooooo Siddaramiah for PM 🚀

My fault. Happens every night at 3am when I’m coaxing goading pleading and manipulating Claude code into running detach and executing the full workflow without asking me yet another permission so I CAN GO TO SLEEP @AnthropicAI

@acorn @IndiaDST Haha funding… they can’t even release datasets from AI kosh or API access from API Setu 😂😂

This is the perennial problem of Indian government funded R&D. Allocations are rising. Disbursement is as stuck in bureaucracy as ever. This is the single biggest feedback I have got from scientists across the country and across disciplines. Fix the plumbing! @IndiaDST @ANRFIndia

@juhiroddam @feudalmondays 😂😂

@bratrat @en2_ai Thank you Sharat!

@nikhilv @en2_ai Many congratulations! So cool!

Introducing @en2_ai (entu, ಎಂಟು, eight) - an applied AI lab from Bangalore. We’ve been heads down building learning platforms, finetuning multimodal AI models, executing Randomized controlled trials, training reasoning models, and crafting narrative tools for world building. We work with multiple Indian government ministries, multilaterals like the UN, and also got incubated by NVIDIA Inception (yay credits!) The world is a complex place - we’re excited to build products and platforms that simplify complexity, achieve unprecedented outcomes and make the world a better place. In the meantime, check out a preview of our platform Flycatcher, a foundational part of our narrative infrastructure.

Miss the days when BJP meant beer joint pub, our favorite watering hole in Indiranagar BDA complex Bangalore.

@waitin4agi_ @AzeAlter Masterclass

Hey Aze, just saw this. We follow a tight quality control process for all our videos and this video was split among a team of 11 people each chunked into doing various parts of the video. It's likely one of our editors was inspired/has seen your work, fed it into an image generator and generated something similar. As a video team where each video can have 1000s of images, we've been trying to make sure this never happens especially considering this was a free video with lots of personal spend. I delayed the video the video by a week to make sure every part is checked to explicitly make this this doesn't happen. As such I apologize on behalf of the team (they've had a earful right as I saw this), but mainly I also take responsibility for not finding a way to QC sources which are modified with AI. It's just a challenge with long videos like this and I'm trying to find a better way. I'm added robot source image credits in the description of the video attributed to you. If there's any other way I can make this better, please DM me. Apologies again. I could've DM'd you this but I dropped a note publicly -- it's best to be transparent when we make a mistake and I personally believe it's the only way to grow through our fuck ups. Sorry again.

Sagar, your creative team stole my robot design from my YouTube series RED RAINBOW. The bottom two images are mine. That’s my cat next to a plushie version of the robot. I designed all the components to the character and used AI to finalize the look and animation. Modifying or taking inspiration from something is a different story. But they took the bow tie, the bezels, everything. A blatant copy paste. @waitin4agi_ @Atharva_Mestry9 @sagartheamruth

I’ve always had a thing for shoes. Almost an indecent romance with a well-crafted heel. To understand that obsession, I went down into the industrial guts of Agra. That’s where I met Ismail. Full story: ugraindia.com/build-shoe-bra…

@SaiDrGaddam Stay prepared for first and second appeals! Hope this comes through.

Update: I’ve just filed my first RTI application demanding to know the official SOPs and whether GST officers are legally authorized to use personal WhatsApp calls for verification. I am incredibly grateful that the RTI system exists! It is our strongest weapon against bureaucratic apathy and opacity. We don't have to accept unprofessional behavior in silence. If you face arrogant officials or shady processes, don't back down Please file an RTI, force transparency, and make them answer on paper. It is super easy. Ping if you need pointers. 🇮🇳👇 #RTIAct #Transparency @GSTMumCentral @cbic_india