An Initiative by UP Govt. announced to bring AI Parks, large-scale data center infrastructure, AI Commons, and an AI University to the state.

Puch AI is a 1-year-old startup with revenue of less than ₹50 Lakh/year, and valued at ~₹400 crores. Currently they have a WhatsApp chatbot as a product.

Source: Yogi Adityanath

A user username is a unique, optional name that WhatsApp users can set in order to display their username instead of their phone number in the app. Usernames can be used in lieu of profile names when personalizing message content for individual users.

Usernames are an optional feature for users and businesses. If a username is adopted by a WhatsApp user, their username will be displayed instead of their phone number in the app. Business usernames are not intended for privacy, however. If you adopt a business username, it will not cause your business phone number to be hidden in the app.

WhatsApp users are limited to 1 username, but are able to change them periodically. Changing a username does not affect the user’s phone number or business-scoped user ID, and does not affect the user’s ability to communicate with other WhatsApp users or businesses on the WhatsApp Business Platform. User usernames have the same format restrictions as business usernames.

Source: META

Delve built a machine designed to make clients complicit without their knowledge, to manufacture plausible deniability while producing exactly the opposite.

According to a detailed Substack investigation by DeepDelver, a leaked Google spreadsheet containing links to hundreds of confidential draft audit reports revealed that Delve generates auditor conclusions before any auditor reviews evidence, uses the same template across 99.8% of reports, and relies on Indian certification mills operating through empty US shells instead of the "US-based CPA firms" they advertise.

Audit Integrity & Independence

• Delve breaches AICPA/ISO rules by acting as auditor, generating pre-drafted assessments, tests, and conclusions
• Delve relies on audit firms that rubber stamp reports because genuine independent verification would expose the evidence as fabricated or deficient
• Named leadership (Karun Kaushik, Selin Kocalar, Charles Nwatu, Taher Lokhandwala, Isaiah de la Fuente, Varun Gurnaney) is complicit in intentional misconduct

Misrepresentation to Customers

• Delve misleads clients by claiming reports are produced by US-based CPA firms, when in reality they are produced by Delve and rubber stamped by Indian certification mills
• Delve leads clients to believe they are compliant when they are not
• Delve helps clients mislead the public by hosting trust pages that contain security measures that were never implemented
• Delve lies to clients when directly questioned, denying documented facts about the leak and report generation
• Delve markets AI-driven automation while the product is practically devoid of AI, relying on pre-populated templates, manual forms, and fabricated evidence

Product & Process Deficiencies

• Delve’s product is unable to get companies truly compliant
• Delve’s platform forces companies to choose between adopting fake evidence or performing mostly manual work with little real automation
• Unable to deliver real compliance through its platform, Delve depends on fraudulent auditors who rubber stamp reports for clients, falling back on off-platform manual work with external vCISOs and good auditors only when complaints or profile threaten its business interests

Regulatory & Compliance Risk

• Delve’s process results in clients violating GDPR and HIPAA requirements, exposing them to criminal liability under HIPAA and fines up to 4% of global revenue under GDPR
• Companies relying on Delve face regulatory, contractual, and reputational risk

The above individuals knowingly participated in Delve's deliberate misconduct regarding audit practices.

Delve Team

Delve was founded in 2023 by Karun Kaushik and Selin Kocalar, both Forbes 30 Under 30 members and MIT dropouts who met as freshmen. They started with a medical AI scribe, pivoted to compliance after hitting HIPAA headaches themselves, and went through Y Combinator in 2024.1

In July 2025, Delve raised $32 million in Series A funding led by Insight Partners. Before that they had raised a $3.3 million seed round and went through Y Combinator.

Delve’s pitch is speed through AI. They claim to get companies compliant in days rather than months, using what they call “agentic AI” through an “AI-native” platform.

Their marketing promises AI agents that automatically collect evidence, write reports, and monitor compliance gaps without human busywork.

Who it affects

Compliance exists so that when a startup says “we’re SOC 2 certified,” or “HIPAA compliant,” or “GDPR compliant,” a hospital or a bank or a defense contractor can trust that claim enough to share data. When that trust is manufactured instead of earned, the damage doesn’t stop at the company that bought the report. It flows downstream to their customers, their customers’ customers, and eventually to individuals whose medical records, financial data, or personal information ends up exposed because someone cut corners.

HIPAA and GDPR weren’t created as paperwork exercises. They exist because criminals actively want health records to sell, identities to steal, and systems to ransom. Faking compliance doesn’t just violate some abstract professional code. It leaves actual people unprotected against actual threats.

Delve’s clients are in an impossible position. They paid for expertise they didn’t get, received platforms showing 100% completion that meant nothing, and were handed the same pre-fabricated evidence as a thousand other companies. They were told this was how compliance worked now: fast, automated, handled. They published trust pages broadcasting security measures they never implemented, because Delve said those pages were accurate. Now they face liability for representations they made in good faith, based on assurances that turned out to be lies.

That is where the anger should go. Delve built a machine designed to make clients complicit without their knowledge, to manufacture plausible deniability while producing exactly the opposite.

Source: X

European Commission is introducing EU Inc. To make building and growing a business across the EU faster, simpler, and smarter.

Key Points:

• Start a company in less than 48 hours
• No minimum capital requirement
• Fully online and borderless

Innovators and founders won’t have to navigate 27 different rulebooks anymore. No more delays that slow down innovation. Just one set of rules designed for startups, scaleups, and global investors.

EU Inc. is the Commission's proposal for an optional "28th regime" EU-wide company form: fully online setup in <48h for <€100, no minimum capital, one harmonized rulebook (instead of 27 national ones), borderless Single Market access, digital ops/lifecycle, flexible shares, simplified insolvency.

Main features of EU inc. include:

• Faster registration: Entrepreneurs, founders, and companies will be able to found an EU Inc. company within 48 hours, for less than €100 and with no minimum share capital requirements.
• Simpler procedures: EU Inc. companies will only need to submit their company information once, via an EU-level interface connecting national business registers together. In a second step, the Commission will establish a new central EU register. EU Inc. companies will obtain their tax identification and VAT numbers without having to resubmit paperwork.
• Fully digital operations: Corporate processes will be digital by default throughout a company's lifecycle.
• Helping founders restart faster and cheaper: EU Inc. companies will have access to fully digital liquidation procedures. Innovative startups will have access to simplified insolvency procedures to facilitate the winding down of operations. This enables founders to try and test innovative ideas and start again if needed.
• Better conditions to attract investment: Today's proposal will remove in-person formalities, provide digital procedures for financing operations, and simplify the transfer of shares. There will be no more mandatory involvement of intermediaries for share transfers, and liquidation procedures.The proposal will also allow Member States to give EU Inc. companies access to the stock exchange.
• Better means to attract talents: EU Inc. companies will be able to set up EU-wide employee stock option plans. The stock option will only be taxed on the income generated once it is sold. This is a crucial factor in ensuring attractiveness, particularly for innovative startups.
• Full access to the Single Market: EU Inc. companies will be free to choose the Member State in which they incorporate. The proposal includes a blacklist of prohibited practices to ensure that EU Inc. companies are treated the same way as any other national companies.
• Strong safeguards against abuse: National employment and social laws are not affected by the proposal. They will apply to EU Inc. the same way they apply to any other business under national company law. The applicable safeguards of the Member State of registration will apply in full to the EU Inc. company, including when it comes to rules regarding co-determination.
• Flexibility of shares: EU Inc. companies will have the flexibility to create different classes of shares with varying economic or voting rights. This can, for example, help founders protect their business against hostile takeovers.

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X is testing a "dislike" or downvote button, likely styled as a broken heart icon, specifically for replies to improve conversation ranking.

Recent code discoveries in the X iOS app suggest this feature is designed to demote low-quality or irrelevant replies, acting as a private sentiment tool rather than a public dislike count.

Key Details on the X Downvote Button:

• Targeting Replies: Unlike previous tests that considered broad downvoting, current development focuses on ranking replies to posts.
• Broken Heart Icon: Evidence spotted in the iOS app points to a broken heart icon next to the "Like" button, allowing users to express disapproval.
• Private Functionality: Similar to the previously tested "dislike" mechanism in 2021, the new downvotes are expected to be used to improve content ranking behind the scenes rather than displaying a public tally, according to Storyboard18.
• Previous Testing: This initiative follows tests from 2021 and 2022 and aligns with current efforts to manage spam and improve reply visibility, notes

Grapevine the Indian platform for anonymous salary and career discussions has launched TAL - a job finder app aka AI Talent Agent.

The AI agent leverages data from 3 years and 1M users on Grapevine to find suitable roles, salaries and other details by scanning jobs online and sending you curated jobs.

Source: X

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Meta's planning these cuts (per Reuters) to offset exploding AI infrastructure costs, such as billions in data centers, GPUs, and training for their Llama models and AGI push, while betting AI tools will supercharge productivity so fewer employees can handle the load.

No date has been set for the cuts and the magnitude has not been finalized, the people said.

If Meta settles on the 20% figure, the layoffs will be the company's most ​significant since a restructuring in late 2022 and early 2023 that it dubbed the "year of efficiency." It employed nearly 79,000 people as ​of December 31, according to its latest filing.

The company laid off 11,000 staffers in November 2022, or around 13% of its workforce at the time. Around four months later, it announced it was cutting another 10,000 jobs.

Source: Reuters