AI
- DEFENSE TECH · AIDEFENSE TECH · AI · 3 min
Anduril-Meta win $159 Cr US Army contract for AI smart glasses
Defense-tech startup Anduril and Meta prototype augmented-reality glasses for soldiers, integrating drone strikes via voice commands and AI models like Google’s Gemini—part of a $20 Bn Army push for unified battlefield software.
18 May, 10:37 pm IST - AIAI · 2 min
Amazon’s new Alexa+ powered feature can generate podcast episodes
Amazon on Wednesday rolled out Alexa+ Podcasts, a generative-AI feature that turns any spoken prompt into a finished audio episode, according to techcrunch.com.
18 May, 09:29 pm IST - AIAI · 2 min
Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'
Linux kernel maintainer Linus Torvalds told the Linux Kernel Mailing List on 18 May 2026 that the volume of duplicate vulnerability reports generated by AI…
18 May, 09:29 pm IST - STARTUPS · AGRITECHSTARTUPS · AGRITECH · 2 min
₹50 Cr Agri Innovation Centre opens in Kalaburagi to lift farmer incomes
Karnataka’s state-backed centre will train 5,000 farmers yearly in climate-resilient crops and precision farming, aiming to double incomes by 2025.
18 May, 08:35 pm IST - PRIVACY SAASPRIVACY SAAS · 2 min
Open-source tool scrubs 500+ data broker sites monthly—150 GitHub stars in 2 weeks
GitHub-hosted auto-identity-remove automates opt-outs from 500+ people-search sites, cutting manual privacy work from hours to minutes. India’s data broker exposure grows as global tools emerge.
18 May, 07:34 pm IST - AI HARDWARE · OPTICSAI HARDWARE · OPTICS · 3 min
LetinAR raises $30M to scale thumbnail-sized AI glasses optics
Seoul startup’s PinMR™ lens tech hits 50K/month output; targets 2L/month by 2026 for global AI glasses brands.
18 May, 06:36 pm IST - D2C GROWTH · AHMEDABADD2C GROWTH · AHMEDABAD · 3 min
D2CX 12-week program targets ₹100 Cr+ D2C brands in India
Inc42’s hands-on D2CX Converge event in Ahmedabad shares scaling playbooks from top 1% founders for India’s consumer brands.
18 May, 05:36 pm IST - AIAI · 2 min
CUDA Books
CUDA programming resources got a curated boost this week as GitHub user alternbits published “awesome-cuda-books,” a single repository listing 25 hand-pick…
18 May, 10:24 am IST - AIAI · 2 min
VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025)
Rural Vermont will see 150 payphones reactivated this summer after the state awarded a $1.3 million contract to Waitsfield Telecom to convert legacy coin b…
18 May, 10:23 am IST - RURAL CONNECTIVITY · GLOBAL SAAS PLAYBOOKRURAL CONNECTIVITY · GLOBAL SAAS PLAYBOOK · 3 min
Vermont’s ₹2.1 Cr VoIP payphone project offers rural SaaS template
A $250K VoIP payphone pilot in rural Vermont revives public telephony—lessons for India’s 1.2 L unconnected villages.
18 May, 09:30 am IST - GLOBAL SAAS · OPEN SOURCEGLOBAL SAAS · OPEN SOURCE · 2 min
Semble cuts AI code-search token use 98%, GitHub stars hit 1.2k
MinishLab’s open-source tool slashes token costs for AI agents, amassing 1.2k GitHub stars in weeks.
18 May, 08:29 am IST - AIAI · 2 min
Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely
Two EA-18G Growler electronic-warfare jets collided mid-air during the Mountain Home Air Force Base airshow on Sunday afternoon, forcing both pilots to eje…
18 May, 08:24 am IST - AIAI · 2 min
Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep
Semble, an open-source code-search engine built by Amsterdam-based MinishLab, hit the front page of Hacker News on Thursday after its creators claimed the…
18 May, 08:23 am IST - AIAI · 2 min
GitHub Trending: NirDiamant/agents-towards-production — End-to-end, code-first tutorials for building production-grade GenAI agents. From prototype to enterprise deployment.
Three new open-source repositories vaulted into GitHub’s daily trending list on 11 June 2024, drawing a combined 4,200 stars in under 24 hours, according to github.com.
18 May, 04:23 am IST - AIAI · 2 min
Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial
Elon Musk filed a 46-page complaint in San Francisco Superior Court on Thursday seeking to block OpenAI’s planned conversion to a for-profit entity and dem…
18 May, 02:24 am IST - AIAI · 2 min
EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process sensitive gov data
The European Union is drafting rules that would bar member governments from using U.S. cloud providers to process sensitive public-sector data, according to osnews.com citing CNBC.
18 May, 02:23 am IST - AIAI · 2 min
Americans Are Smashing Flock Cameras
At least 25 Flock Safety surveillance cameras have been destroyed across five U.S. states since April 2025, according to stateofsurveillance.org.
18 May, 12:23 am IST - AIAI · 2 min
TechCrunch Mobility: The AI skills arms race is coming for automotive
Automakers are pouring more than $50 billion into AI talent and compute this year, according to techcrunch.com, as the race to build fully autonomous vehic…
17 May, 10:24 pm IST - AIAI · 2 min
If you’re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don’t mention AI
AI speechwriting startup Commencement.ai has raised a $12 million Series A led by General Catalyst, the company confirmed to techcrunch.com on Tuesday, val…
17 May, 10:23 pm IST - STARTUPS · APPLE ECOSYSTEMSTARTUPS · APPLE ECOSYSTEM · 3 min
Electron beats SwiftUI for Markdown: 20-yr dev’s 8-paragraph verdict
Artem Loenko’s 2026 experiment shows Electron delivers out-of-the-box Markdown rendering, Git diffs, and text selection—features Apple’s native SDKs still lack after 20 years.
17 May, 08:36 pm IST