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Pre-1947, my great grandfather infront of his ancestral house in present day Whitefield #Bangalore #whitefieldrising

📢Dear Citizens Submit Your Enumeration Form to Your Booth Level Officer (BLO) Today 🗓️ Last Date to Submit: 08 August 2026 Don't have the Enumeration Form? Fill it out and submit it online at voters.eci.gov.in ✅ Quick. ✅ Secure. ✅ Easy. Ensure your Enumeration Form is submitted on or before 08 August 2026 to complete the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process. #GreaterBengaluruAuthority #SIR

Bitter cost of Bengaluru's café boom WHEN COFFEE REJECTS YOU Doctors are seeing a growing number of young people in their OPDs for whom caffeine intake is doing more harm than good, with rising cases of coffee-related health issues and OPD visits among the city's population. Source: Times of India #health/medicine

GOOD START TO FY27 Reliance Industries' various business segments demonstrate strong performance indicators for FY27, with segment-wise revenue showing growth across Oil to Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Retail, Digital Services, and Others divisions. #business

Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit. Demand for Fable has been challenging to predict, which is why we rolled it out to subscription plans in stages, extending access several times as we secured additional capacity.

📣 Service Update: AWS Billing Console We are investigating issues with Cost Explorer reflecting inaccurate estimated billing data. 📊 Track status: go.aws/aws-hd #AWS #AWSSupport

Meta Plans to Hire Top Amazon Computing Executive as it Weighs Cloud Push wsj.com/tech/meta-plan…

China just erased America's AI lead axios.com/2026/07/17/chi…

Big news: Kimi-K3 by @Kimi_Moonshot is now #1 in the Frontend Code Arena with 1679 pts, surpassing Claude Fable 5. This is a 17-place jump from Kimi-k2.6 (#18 -> #1). In Frontend, Kimi-K3 ranked #1 in 6 of 7 domains: Brand & Marketing, Reference-Based Design, Data & Analytics, Consumer Product, Simulations, and Content Creation Tools, landing #2 only in Gaming behind Fable 5. The full model weights will be released by July 27. Congrats to the @Kimi_Moonshot team on this major milestone!

Introducing Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence 🔹 2.8 Trillion Parameters, 1 Million Context, Native Multimodal 🔹 Kimi Delta Attention enables up to 6.3x faster decoding in million-token contexts 🔹 Attention Residuals deliver ~25% higher training efficiency at <2% additional cost 🔹 Built for long-horizon agentic coding and self-evolving workflows Kimi K3 is now live on on Kimi.com, Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and the Kimi API. Open Weights by July 27, 2026. 🔗 API: platform.kimi.ai 🔗 Tech blog: kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3

Investment of $3 Billion Gives Databricks $188 Billion Value Databricks, a data intelligence startup, reached a $188 billion valuation following a $3 billion investment, representing a 40% increase in its worth as AI adoption drives demand for its software. Source: Wall Street Journal #technology

The jobs apocalypse that wasn't Leading companies in professional services are responding to the AI revolution by updating hiring practices and training programs rather than cutting graduate positions, contrary to widespread predictions of job losses. #business/technology

China start-up Moonshot set to cut US lead in frontier AI Chinese AI start-up Moonshot is releasing a large language model with capabilities approaching those of Claude Opus 4.8, narrowing the gap between Chinese and US frontier AI development. Source: Financial Times #technology

We’re excited to announce that Databricks is raising strategic funding, valuing the company at $188 billion. We’ll use this new capital to accelerate our AI offerings for customers, including: - Unity AI Gateway, our multi-AI governance solution that helps enterprises govern and control the costs of their AI - Genie, our AI coworker that turns business data into trusted answers and actions - Lakebase, our serverless Postgres database built for AI agents databricks.com/company/newsro…

This Anglo-Indian family has worked with the Indian Railways since 1856 thehindu.com/life-and-style…

Out Of Cooking Gas? Instamart Can Now Deliver An LPG Cylinder In Just 10 Minutes food.ndtv.com/news/out-of-co… via @NDTVFood

Hyderabad is moving towards overtaking Bengaluru in terms of traffic. Day by Day so many reels made on how bad Hyderabad traffic is turning out to be !!

#Agumbe breaking the week-long dry spell, heavy showers lashed the this region. Rainfall of up to 80 mm was recorded across Agumbe and nearby villages within a few hours, benefiting the Tunga and Bhadra river catchments.

Agumbe,"Cherrapunji of South India", has gone bone dry. Not a drop of rain in the last 1 week. Waterfalls & streams have dried up It averages 7,304 mm of annual rainfall but is witnessing an unprecedented monsoon failure. Impact on Western Ghats & rivers could be far-reaching

News article announcing HCLTech's acquisition of Guardian India Operations for $10.5 million, involving transition of 2,000 US-based employees #hcltech #acquisition #guardian #tech

Wipro Q1 net remains flat, margins down to multi-qtr lows Wipro's IT services revenue remained flat at Rs 3,352 crore in Q1 compared to the previous quarter, with operating margins declining to 16% as the Bengaluru-based firm faces cautious client spending and uncertainty in decision-making. #business