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u/m m · 1 hr ago

A user on X had tweeted today (hence deleted) that their confidentiality was breached when blinkit swapped their sensitive visa documents with someone else's application.

Blinkit, Zomato's quick-commerce app, lets customers upload PDFs for fast prints from dark stores, but a recent complaint about printing visa documents highlighted risks as operators review files, check them before packing, and store data.

Others shared mishaps like receiving a child's political map instead of court papers or a stranger's bank statements and PAN details. While Blinkit apologizes and claims to delete files after printing, many advise against using it for confidential info, favoring personal printers instead.

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u/m m · 2 hr ago

Google is inviting AI-first startups to apply for Google for Startups Accelerator in India.

A three month, equity-free program for Indian AI startups building Agentic AI, Multimodal AI, Physical AI solutions or developing specialized Sovereign AI models.

Get expert mentorship across AI, Cloud, Product, Design and Growth, and so much more!

Applications closes on April 19, 2026.

Read more here.

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u/m m · 3 d ago

YC President Garry Tan on their internal social announced that Delve has been asked to leave YC.

The same has been confirmed by a tweet from Delve co-founder Selin Kocalar.

After the initial substack article on them about using generic templates for SOC 2 reported earlier, more information came about about them where details emerged that they likely stole the IP of a fellow Y Combinator company (SimStudio) and ripped off another (Oneleet).

The link for Delve on YC's company list has also been removed: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/delve

YC has not officially announce anything as of yet.

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u/m m · 5 d ago

Startup Sahayak
is an AI-powered digital platform launched by Razorpay in March 2026, in strategic partnership with the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) and Startup India.

It serves as an "AI co-pilot" for early-stage founders to bridge the gap between having an idea and executing it.

Key Features and Benefits

  • AI-Generated Roadmaps: In approximately 120 seconds, the tool creates a personalised startup roadmap based on your industry, idea, and experience.
  • Zero-Fee Incorporation: DPIIT-recognised startups can receive company incorporation assistance with zero professional fees, excluding only mandatory government charges.
  • Idea Validation: The platform uses AI to analyze market sentiment, competitive landscapes, and industry trends to validate business ideas.
  • Access to Government Schemes: It provides a mapped database of relevant central and state government grants, schemes, and incentives for which a founder might be eligible.
  • Founder Enablement: Access to regular knowledge sessions via the Startup India Hub on topics like applied AI, marketing, and product development.
  • Ecosystem Support: Includes mentorship opportunities, pitch deck reviews, and entry into curated founder communities for networking.

Target Audience

The initiative specifically aims to support early-stage ventures and entrepreneurs, with a strong focus on fostering innovation in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities across India.

Source: Razorpay

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u/m m · 5 d ago

Google has officially upgraded the storage for its AI Pro (formerly AI Premium) plan from 2TB to 5TB at no additional cost. This change was announced on April 1, 2026, and is rolling out globally to all subscribers.

Plan Updates:

  • Storage Increase: The plan now includes 5TB of cloud storage (a 3TB increase), which is shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos.
  • No Price Hike: The monthly subscription fee remains unchanged at $19.99/month (or ₹1,950/month in India).
  • Availability: This upgrade is rolling out globally to all new and existing Google AI Pro subscribers as of April 1–2, 2026

Included Benefits:

  • Gemini Advanced: Access to Google's most capable AI models for reasoning, coding, and creative projects.
  • Workspace Integration: Use Gemini directly in Google Docs, Gmail, and other apps.
  • Premium Features: Includes 10% back on Google Store purchases and enhanced video calling features like noise cancellation in Google Meet.

Source: shimrit ben-yair

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u/m m · 5 d ago

Razorpay's biometric authentication delivers up to 95% transaction success rates. For businesses, that’s a great relief on the last mile.

Key Details of Razorpay Passkey:

  • Reduced Friction: Aims to eliminate issues like OTP delays, wrong entries, and redirect loops, reducing checkout abandonment.
  • Increased Security: Uses on-device tokenized authentication, enhancing security and reducing card payment failures by up to 95%.
  • Compatibility: Supported for transactions with major card networks like Visa and Mastercard.
  • RBI Compliance: Fully compliant with the RBI’s two-factor authentication framework.

This initiative is aimed at reducing the ~35% of online card transactions that fail due to OTP issues, offering a seamless and secure alternative for digital payments in India.

Source: Razorpay

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u/m m · 5 d ago

GLM-5V-Turbo does native multimodal coding, balanced visual and programming capabilities, and deep adaptation for Claude Code and Claw Scenarios.

The model can understand design drafts, screenshots, and web interfaces to generate complete, runnable code, truly achieving the goal of "seeing the screen and writing the code.

GLM-5V-Turbo leads in benchmarks for design draft reconstruction, visual code generation, multimodal retrieval and QA, and visual exploration. It also performs exceptionally well on AndroidWorld and WebVoyager, which measure control capabilities in real GUI environments.

Regarding pure-text coding, GLM-5V-Turbo maintains stable performance across three core benchmarks of CC-Bench-V2 (Backend, Frontend, and Repo Exploration), proving that the introduction of visual capabilities does not degrade text-based reasoning.

The leading performance of GLM-5V-Turbo stems from systematic upgrades across four levels:

  • Native Multimodal Fusion: Deep fusion of text and vision begins at pre-training, with multimodal collaborative optimization during post-training. We developed the next-generation CogViT visual encoder, reaching SOTA in general object recognition, fine-grained understanding, and geometric/spatial perception. We also designed an inference-friendly MTP structure to ensure high efficiency.
  • 30 Task Collaborative RL: The RL stage optimizes over 30 task types simultaneously, covering STEM, grounding, video, and GUI Agents. This improves perception and reasoning while mitigating the instability often found in single-domain training.
  • Agentic Data and Task Construction: To solve the challenge of scarce Agent data, we built a multi-level system ranging from element perception to sequence-level action prediction. We use synthetic environments to generate verifiable training data and inject "Agentic Meta-capabilities" during pre-training (e.g., adding GUI Agent PRM data to reduce hallucinations).
  • Multimodal Toolchain Extension: Beyond text tools, the model supports multimodal search, drawing, and web reading. This expands the perception-action loop into visual interaction. Synergies with Claude Code and OpenClaw are enhanced to support full-loop task execution.

Source: Z AI

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u/m m · 6 d ago

2026 has many layoff in tech companies till date. Below is list of major tech layoffs for past three months.

  • ASML 1,700 people
  • Atlassian 1,600 people
  • Amazon 16,000 people
  • Salesforce 1,500 people
  • Epic Games 1,000 people
  • Block 4,000 – 5,100 people
  • WiseTech Global 2,000 people
  • Oracle: 20,000 – 30,000 people
  • Meta (Reality Labs) 1,500 people
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u/m m · 6 d ago

Yupp AI launched in June 2025 was a San Francisco-based AI platform designed to compare over 500 AI models (like GPT-4, Claude, Gemini) side-by-side, allowing users to select the best response to queries or image generation requests. It operated as a, crowdsourced, free service, letting users earn rewards for evaluating and rating AI outputs to generate training data.

As per Co-founder and CEO Pankaj Gupta, the website will be up for another 15 days during which time users can download their chat data. New users won’t be able to sign up and existing users won’t be able to create new conversations after today.

Source: Pankaj Gupta

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u/m m · 6 d ago

OpenAI raises $122 billion to accelerate the next phase of AI, says the company.

OpenAI was the fastest technology platform to reach 10 million users, the fastest to 100 million users, and soon the fastest to 1 billion weekly active users. Within a year of launching ChatGPT, they reached $1B in revenue. By the end of 2024 they were generating $1B per quarter. OpenAI are now generating $2B in revenue per month. At this stage, they claim that they are growing revenue four times faster than the companies who defined the Internet and mobile eras, including Alphabet and Meta.

The round was anchored by their strategic partners Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank, with continued participation from OpenAI's long-term partner, Microsoft. SoftBank co-led the round alongside a16z, D. E. Shaw Ventures, MGX, TPG, and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.

Source: OpenAI

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