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Pune, India Katılım Şubat 2010
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I worked out way more between 2020-2022 (and even the 10 years before that) compared to what I did between 2022 and 2024. So, what really changed to make such a difference in just the last 2 years? Here’s what I’ve learned, simplified for you: /thread
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If you have already bought a new smartphone, Congratulations!! You have saved yourself a lot of money.. I am repeating this...the best time to buy a smartphone was yesterday, next best is today. Don't wait for BBD, GIF sales for good deals, you will not get it! I don't see the situation improving for another 12 months atleast. And I am pretty confident we will never see pre-2025 smartphone prices....EVER! This is a PSA - please spread... #PSA
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Hinjawadi–Shivajinagar Metro deadlines missed: ❌ March 2025 ❌ Sep–Dec 2025 ❌ March 2026 ❌ May 2026 (Phase 1: Maan–Baner) ❌ June 2026 (Phase 1: Maan–Baner) ⏳ July 15, 2026: likely to be missed too. Pune's IT corridor desperately needs this metro. Lakhs of commuters are stuck in traffic every single day. Trial runs have been happening since January and 6 months later we are still stuck with dates. Pune has waited long enough. Hopefully, this is the last deadline we miss. @MetroPuneri @OfficialPMRDA @CMOMaharashtra @metrorailpune
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I love AI. But this is where I draw the line. If companies can use my public Instagram photos to generate AI images of me by default, that's not a feature. That's my identity becoming someone else's product. AI companies shouldn't profit from people without their explicit consent.
TrakinTech@TrakinTech

🚨 Instagram is becoming UNSAFE! To prevent your pictures from getting misused, turn this setting off right now. Here's how to disable it: 👉 Go to Profile 👉 Click on the top right corner 👉 Scroll down to Sharing & Reuse 👉 Turn Off "Allow reuse of your content with AI" REPOST AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE

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Looking at the conditions across Mumbai and Pune today, I genuinely feel nobody should be out unless it’s absolutely necessary. Roads are flooded, traffic is at a standstill in many places, trees have fallen, and landslides have been reported. We’ve told our entire team to stay home today. No questions asked. Please don’t take unnecessary risks. Stay safe. 🙏 #Punerains #Mumbairains
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These youngsters remotely switching off e-rickshaws in the middle of a trip for Reels and "pranks" is going to cause another traffic jam and nothing else. It's dangerous, irresponsible, and could easily cause an accident.🤦 Also someone's family runs on it, so please stop doing this. The real issue here isn't the app. It's that critical infrastructure was shipped with almost no security in the first place.
TrakinTech@TrakinTech

A mobile app called BAT-BMS is going viral for allegedly connecting to nearby e-rickshaws via Bluetooth and switching off their battery output, potentially stopping the vehicle while it's being driven. If true, should this app be banned? Source - Insta/hegotwhips

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The more I use open models, the more convinced I become that we're watching the Android moment for AI. Maybe they won't always be the absolute best but they're becoming good enough, ridiculously cheap, and available to everyone. When a similar workload costs $500 instead of $4,800, this stops being a benchmark discussion and becomes an economics discussion. That's exactly how industries get disrupted. The opportunity here is massive, but so are the risks. Personally, I'm increasingly betting on what many would call "dangerous" open-source models here at our place. It's easy to create great content using frontier models behind expensive APIs. The real moat, in my opinion, will be when you can create equal or better quality content using open models running on your own infrastructure. That's when the economics really start to break. I've started using Mimo via Hermes recently and honestly I'm impressed. What are you guys using these days? DeepSeek? Qwen? Something else?
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A few years ago, the AI race was about who had the biggest model. Today, it's becoming about who owns the entire stack. Google has TPUs. Amazon has Trainium (& Inferentia) Microsoft has Maia. Meta has MTIA. Now OpenAI is joining with Jalapeño, its first custom inference chip. Everyone wants lower costs, tighter optimization, and less dependence on Nvidia's increasingly expensive GPUs. The AI industry is quietly entering its custom silicon era. 2023 was the year of AI models. 2026 might be remembered as the year of AI chips. The bigger question now: Will Nvidia become the Intel of the AI era, or the TSMC of the AI era?
OpenAI@OpenAI

We’ve designed and built our first AI chip: Jalapeño. Designed from the ground up by OpenAI and brought to production with @Broadcom, Jalapeño is purpose-built for the LLM workloads powering ChatGPT, Codex, the API, and future agentic products. Chips are foundational to the AI economy. Building our own expands our full-stack platform from products to models to infrastructure, and will help us scale intelligence, serve more people, and expand access to AI.

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Can anyone tell me how banning Telegram is a solution here? Telegram isn't a chat app for most builders in India. It's the default deployment layer for AI agents, trading bots, automation pipelines. My team runs on it. So does much of the dev ecosystem I know. Blocking it for six days because NEET leaked on Telegram misses the point. The leak didn't happen because of Telegram, it happened because the exam chain of custody broke. Paper leaks move to WhatsApp, Signal, email, USB drives, printouts, whatever channel exists. Killing one pipe doesn't fix the plumbing. And it doesn't even work for the stated goal. Anyone who wants Telegram opens a VPN in 30 seconds. The exam cheaters aren't stopped. The builders are. Now every agent, bot, and scheduled workflow hitting a Telegram webhook is dead till June 22. Not just ours. Thousands of them. For an exam security measure that doesn't address the root cause. The collateral damage is the actual digital infrastructure people built while nobody was watching.
ANI@ANI

Telegram access restricted in India for re- NEET following recommendations of NTA "Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has issued notification a direction under Section 69 A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, restricting access to the Telegram platform in India for a defined and limited period ending 22 June 2026, covering the day of the NEET (UG) 2026 re-examination and its immediate aftermath. A direction requiring the platform to disable, in India, the message-editing feature in respect of messages already posted, for a defined period ending 30 June 2026, addressing the specific structural feature through which the platform has been used to fabricate after-the-event “paper leak” evidence in respect of national examinations." : National Testing Agency (NTA)

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Delhi-Meerut RRTS doing 1.25L daily riders proves the model. Build it right, people show up. But why is Maharashtra not getting it? Mumbai-Pune isn't just another corridor. It's the financial backbone of the state. Missing Link fixed the ghat. Flights don't exist. Trains are slow, terminate far from where people work. A 180 kmph RRTS linking BKC, Navi Mumbai Airport, Pune (Hinjewadi/Kharadi) isn't a nice to have. It's the only way this corridor scales. Meanwhile Maharashtra just got a Mumbai-Hyderabad bullet train approved on paper. That's almost 10 years away if it happens. Mumbai-Pune RRTS could be running in half that time, serving 10x the daily economic activity. Ridership math is already there. Two metros, massive commuter flow, airport connectivity, zero alternatives. Delhi-Meerut proved demand. Mumbai-Pune needs political will to stop treating it like a highway problem and start treating it like a productivity problem. What's stopping the feasibility study?
National Capital Region Transport Corporation Ltd.@officialncrtc

Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Namo Bharat recorded its highest-ever daily ridership on Monday, 8th June, with approximately 1,25,500 commuters travelling on the corridor in a single day. @NamoBharatDelMT @MoHUA_India @UPGovt @DelhiGovDigital @mlkhattar @tokhansahu_bjp @ADB_HQ @NDB_int

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I don't know if you've noticed this or not.... but the CBSE fiasco revealed something most people miss about Gen Z. They don't just rant on social media or forward messages on WhatsApp. 👉 Vedant Shrivastava exposed answer sheet mix-ups. 👉 Sarthak Siddhan dug through procurement documents and questioned the tender process. 👉 Nisarga Adhikary uncovered security vulnerabilities in the evaluation system. This generation is far more aware, investigative, and willing to challenge institutions than people think. Which is why I keep saying: once frontier AI models become even more capable, every company, government body, and institution will be under far greater scrutiny. The people using these tools won't just be developers. They'll be curious 18-year-olds with time, skills, and a reason to ask difficult questions.
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Don't worry @GyanTherapy - The entire tech community is with you! It's crystal clear that this is a targeted negative PR against you. Saddened to see this! Absolutely shameful!!
Rakesh@GyanTherapy

It's Shameful For the whole Tech Industry - A Negative PR against a tech creator ! I never thought I’d see the day when money would be spent not on improving a product but on trying to damage a creator’s reputation. They tried multiple ways to get promotional coverage from me. I declined because I had trust concerns & many people already know that. I simply did my job honestly & shared what I found. If the brand disagreed, that’s their choice. But now I am seeing coordinated attempts to push a false narrative around Gyan Therapy along with multiple posts targeting me personally. Honestly I have one question ? What exactly do you gain from this? People know me because of my work, not because of any manufactured narrative. Reputation built over years cannot be erased by a few sponsored attacks. What disappoints me the most is seeing personal attacks extend beyond me and even include my family. That is a line that should never be crossed. If someone believes this pressure, negativity or character assassination will make me stop speaking honestly - they are mistaken. I have always tried to do my work with integrity and I will continue to do so.

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We’ve been tracking the Indian smartphone market closely at Trakin Tech for years, but honestly… this is one of the first times the festive demand outlook looks this uncertain. We collaborated with TechArc to understand changing consumer buying behaviour, and the findings were quite interesting. Consumers are no longer upgrading blindly every year. Price hikes are finally starting to impact real buying decisions. What surprised me the most? Gen Z buyers still seem relatively unaffected, while the ₹15K–₹30K segment is facing the maximum pressure. The Indian smartphone market is changing much faster than most brands expected.
TrakinTech@TrakinTech

🚨 TRAKIN TECH x TECHARC REPORT We’ve been analyzing festive season smartphone demand in India… and honestly, the numbers are shocking 👀 If smartphone prices keep increasing, the industry could face a massive slowdown. Here’s what’s happening behind the scenes 🧵👇 @techarcinsights

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@manast10 @r3dash Last time karna tha ho nahi sakaa. Let us know next time when you will be playing, will join if possible
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@8ap Aey, you guys need to plan the next Delhi trip better and play a proper match here @8ap @r3dash
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Finally....After a long time, we played cricket at Trakin Tech. We weren't getting time for it because of intense summer heat and a lot of internal projects :)
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The Cockroach Janta Party is viral right now, but I genuinely feel this is one of those internet trends that will disappear as fast as it appeared. Yes, the frustration around jobs, exams, and the system is real. But social media movements built purely on memes rarely sustain long enough to create actual impact. The internet moves too fast. Today it’s cockroaches. Next week it’ll be something else....maybe Chipkali?
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@MetroPuneri @OfficialPMRDA @CMOMaharashtra @metrorailpune @vabbyshabby @GyanTherapy @manast10 @r3dash