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Roll-out of an AI-powered, secure and engaging messaging experience for millions of users in India, setting a new benchmark for a secure carrier-backed messaging service.

Airtel’s network intelligence to be combined with Google’s Rich Communications Services (RCS) platform and spam filtering for enhanced protections that significantly reduce mobile spam and digital fraud.

This will solve for the critical protection gap in non-telco communication platforms and standalone apps that are being increasingly been exploited by sophisticated bad actors, becoming common tools for financial fraud and invasive spam.

By extending the accountability of telecom-grade safeguards to the modern messaging experience, the messaging service will foster trust in enterprise communications by enabling enterprise customers to easily distinguish legitimate business messages from spam and stay protected.

The solution will also enable brands to build deeper engagement with their customers who will feel safer and in more control. This will, in turn, lead to enduring customer relationships which are imperative for business growth and success.

Source: Airtel

Lots of internships startups and even big companies try to hire are in unpaid category, and I feel that a paid-only internship platform should be more advantageous for students.

Cons:

• Big internship/job platforms already have filters for paid internships too.

• Getting initial traction and internship applications on the site

• Monetizing the platform will need at least 1-2 yrs until reliability is built.

What's your opinions on this? Is the market too saturated, or is there still scope to build something meaningful to society, and also be able to monetize it long-term?

Shareholding pattern of Deepinder Goyal's new startup Temple after $54 Mn maiden funding

Notable investors 👇

• Deepinder Goyal
• Kunal Shah
• Vijay Shekhar Sharma
• Raj Shamani
• Steadview
• Peak XV
• Info Edge
• NKSquared
• Varun Alagh
• Abhiraj Bhal

Source: Entrackr

At Temple, they are building the ultimate wearable for elite performance athletes. A device that measures what no other wearable in the world measures, with a level of precision that doesn't exist yet.

Roles they're hiring for:

• Analog Systems Engineers, Electronics Design Engineers
• Embedded Systems Engineers — low-level HW bring-up, embedded signal and image processing, embedded AI
• Design and Validation Engineers — sensors, actuators, battery, antenna, optics
• CMF Engineers, Adhesive Materials Engineers
• Sensor Algorithms Engineers — estimation theory, sensor fusion
• Deep Learning Engineers — ML model development for physiological metrics
• Computational Neuroscientists
• BCI Engineers — real-time EEG/EMG acquisition and processing
• Neural Decoding Researchers — brain activity to semantic mapping
• Computer Vision Engineers — facial microexpression, subvocal muscle detection
• Neuroimaging ML Engineers — multimodal sensor fusion
• Product Managers

Write to buiild[at]temple[dot]com with your core skill as the subject line.

Source: Deepinder Goyal

Supabase.co is inaccessible to users across multiple Indian ISPs, including Jio, Airtel, and ACT Fibernet, due to a ministry order.

Supabase is used by millions of developers worldwide, and millions of users in India are currently unable to access our platform due to these blocks.

The block stems from a Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY) order under Section 69A of India's IT Act 2000, enforced at the ISP level (Jio, Airtel, ACT Fibernet, etc.) on supabase.com and *.supabase.co domains.

No public details on the order number, date, or exact reason have been released by the government. Supabase reports their backend is fully operational and is engaging MeitY for resolution. Common workaround: switch DNS to 1.1.1.1 or use a VPN.

Source: Supabase

Jack's tweet:

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

jack

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Apple Inc. is in discussions with key Indian banks and global card networks in preparation to start Apple Pay in the world’s most populous country.

• Apple Inc. is in discussions with key Indian banks and global card networks to start Apple Pay in India around the middle of 2026.
• Apple is talking to ICICI Bank Ltd., HDFC Bank Ltd. and Axis Bank Ltd., as well as payment networks Mastercard Inc. and Visa Inc. about the plan.
• Apple Pay in India is expected to support India's state-backed Unified Payments Interface, or UPI, alongside card-based payments.

Source: Bloomberg

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Stripe is considering a deal to buy some or all of PayPal Holdings, sources told Bloomberg, though talks are still in their very early stages and the deal may not happen.

The news comes the same day Stripe released its annual letter, giving updates on the business. The big news was that Stripe is making a tender offer that values the company at $159 billion, a 74% increase from last year. The investors buying employee shares this time around include Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital. Stripe will also buy back some stock, the letter said.

The latest valuation again makes Stripe one of the industry’s most valuable private companies. Based in Dublin, Stripe’s co-founder and CEO, Patrick Collison, told CNBC recently that going public was not on his list of priorities. PayPal Holdings (which includes the flagship product PayPal and its services, as well as other companies like Venmo) is currently a publicly traded company, with a market cap of around $40 billion.

PayPal’s stock rose slightly after reports of Stripe’s interest in an acquisition. Stripe declined to comment.

Source: TechCrunch

This is their first move toward building indigenous defence capabilities alongside our long-term mission of developing next-generation civil aviation platforms from India.

By bringing Sharang Shakti into LAT, they are building these capabilities in-house, from first principles, with the intent to deploy them across both defence and civil programs over time.

Source: Deepinder Goyal