The Spotlight
Google to invest $10 billion in Andhra data centre
Google is making its biggest bet yet on India. The tech giant will invest up to $10 billion as part of a broader $15 billion project to build a large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) data centre in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam – its largest such facility outside the US.
The mega campus will be developed in partnership with Adani Enterprises and Bharti Airtel. The key to this is the Chandrababu Naidu led state government's policy of offering land to top IT and technology companies at Rs 0.99 per acre, with TCS, Cognizant, and Accenture already planning campuses in Visakhapatnam.
The News
EU Approves Landmark AI Act, Setting Global Standard for AI Regulation
The EU has formally approved its comprehensive AI Act, the world's first major regulation governing artificial intelligence. Establishing a risk-based approach, it imposes stricter rules on high-risk AI applications. This landmark legislation is poised to establish a global precedent for the responsible development and deployment of AI.
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NVIDIA reveals Blackwell B200 AI GPU
Blackwell B200 AI GPU, designed for trillion-parameter models and massive AI workloads. Featuring second-generation Transformer Engine and NVLink 5.0, it delivers up to 20 petaflops of FP8 compute power, setting new benchmarks for AI infrastructure and enabling more complex AI models.
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Centre shifts email IDs of 12 lakh employees to Zoho's platform
In one of the biggest digital shifts in recent years, the central government has migrated the official email accounts of around 12 lakh employees – including those in the Prime Minister's Office – from the National Informatics System (NIC) to Zoho's platform
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The Topic
The Quick Bytes
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Google's on-device AI model, Gemini Nano, is expanding to a wider range of Android devices.
- xAI reportedly recruited Nvidia specialists to develop world models that can generate interactive 3D gaming environments.
- Slack rolls out new AI features powered by OpenAI, Anthropic, and more
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Meta secures former Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch, marking another major AI talent shift.
- Meta pushes its metaverse team to work five times faster by using AI in every task with a motto "Think 5X, not 5%."
The Resources
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[Research Paper] Interpretable AI for Cybersecurity: A novel approach for building transparent AI models. Read more
- [GitHub Repo] Awesome RAG Implementations: A curated list of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) examples. Read more
- [Research Paper] Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving AI: Advances in training models while preserving data privacy. Know more
The Concept
Task Queue
Ever wonder how you can order a ride, get an instant confirmation, and see your driver’s location update in real-time, all without a glitch? The magic behind this smooth experience is a powerful, yet simple concept: the task queue.
Think of a busy coffee shop. The cashier who takes your order is a “producer,” and your latte is the “task.” Instead of making it themselves, they place your order in a line—the “queue.” The baristas, our “workers,” pick up orders from this queue to prepare them. This system frees up the cashier to keep serving customers, ensuring the line moves smoothly even during the morning rush.
In the digital world, task queues do the same thing. They act as a buffer, managing jobs that an application needs to do asynchronously (in the background). By decoupling the request for a task from its actual execution, systems gain incredible benefits:
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Enhanced Performance: The main application stays fast and responsive to you.
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Improved Reliability: Failed tasks can be automatically retried.
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Greater Scalability: When traffic spikes, you just add more “workers” to clear the queue.
Task queues are the invisible backbone of modern applications, ensuring our digital world runs smoothly, reliably, and can scale effortlessly to meet demand.
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