Pranav Dixit

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Meta Correspondent at Business Insider

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Es hora de que Silicon Valley apoye al Ejército, según el responsable de Tecnología de Meta

1 day ago | businessinsider.es | Pranav Dixit |Ramón Armero

El responsable de Tecnología de la matriz de Facebook dice, coincidiendo con la alianza de Meta y la startup militar Anduril, que es hora de volver a apoyar al Ejército. Andrew Bosworth, cree que esta asociación supone un "regreso a los buenos tiempos" para los vínculos de Silicon Valley con el Ejército estadounidense.
Szef technologii w Meta: Czas, by Dolina Krzemowa znów otworzyła się na wojsko

2 days ago | businessinsider.com.pl | Pranav Dixit

Meta ogłosiła niedawno współpracę z firmą Anduril, specjalizującą się w technologiach obronnych, przy projekcie dla armii USA Szef działu technologii Meta określił partnerstwo jako "powrót do łask" w relacjach Doliny Krzemowej z wojskiem Anduril twierdzi, że projekt nie jest finansowany z pieniędzy podatników, a wojsku USA ma przynieść oszczędności rzędu miliardów dol. — Dolina powstała na trójstronnej współpracy: wojska, nauki i prywatnego przemysłu.
Meta's Llama AI team has been bleeding talent. See where all the top researchers have gone.

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Rosalie Chan |Pranav Dixit |Henry Blodget

Meta's open-source Llama models helped define the company's AI strategy. Yet the researchers who built the original version have mostly moved on. Of the 14 authors credited on the landmark 2023 paper that introduced Llama to the world, just three still work at Meta: research scientist Hugo Touvron, research engineer Xavier Martinet, and technical program leader Faisal Azhar. The rest have left the company, many of them to join or found its emerging rivals.
Here are the 6 biggest takeaways from Google I/O, where the tech giant proved it has real AI momentum

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Rosalie Chan |Charles Rollet |Pranav Dixit |Henry Blodget

Google made literally 100 announcements at I/O this week, a clear sign that the tech giant intends to dominate every aspect of AI, from its overhaul of Search to its latest AI models and wearables tech. The event was packed and, at times, felt electrifying. Google showed impressive stats about how its AI has taken off. It had plenty of far-out goals, too, like building a universal AI assistant and extended reality glasses that give directions in real time.
25 Python Libraries You’re Probably Not Using (But Should Be in 2025)

2 weeks ago | medium.com | Pranav Dixit

Discover the most underrated and powerful Python packages that can instantly boost your productivity, automate workflows, and simplify complex tasks. No hype — just tools that work. IntroductionAs Python developers, we often rely on the classics — requests, pandas, Flask, and maybe numpy. While those are powerful, an entire ecosystem of lesser-known libraries can save hours of development time, make code more readable, and even solve problems you didn’t know you had.
Meta: Was die neue interne Mitteilung für Mitarbeiter bedeutet

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.de | Pranav Dixit

Mark Zuckerberg möchte mehr „leistungsschwache“ MItarbeiter entlassen. AP Photo/Jeff Chiu Meta hat Manager angewiesen, mehr Mitarbeitende in der Leistungsbewertung als „unter den Erwartungen“ einzustufen. Die Überprüfungen zur Jahresmitte könnten den Weg für weitere leistungsbezogene Kürzungen ebnen.
Internal Memo: Meta Increases Employees Rated "Below Expectations"

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Monica Melton |Pranav Dixit |Jyoti Mann |Henry Blodget

Meta is expanding the ranks of its lowest-rated employees in mid-year performance reviews, a move that could lead to more performance-based cuts. Meta is telling managers to put more employees in "Below Expectations", the lowest performance bucket during this year's mid-year performance reviews, according to a memo shared on Meta's internal forum on May 14, which was viewed by Business Insider.
Google turns to Warby Parker to develop smart glasses, competing with Meta's Ray-Bans

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Sarah Gray |Ana Altchek |Pranav Dixit |Henry Blodget

Google is taking aim at Meta's Ray-Ban glasses with a version of its own AI eyewear line, styled by Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. "We want you to be able to wear glasses that match your personal taste," Google's Android XR lead Shahram Izadi said at Google I/O. The glasses are part of Google's Android XR platform and are a partnership with Samsung, the company announced at its Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday.
Meta's Llama has reached a turning point with developers as delays and disappointment mount

3 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Monica Melton |Emma Cosgrove |Pranav Dixit |Henry Blodget

At LlamaCon, Meta's first-ever conference focused on its open-source large language models held last month, developers were left wanting. Several of them told Business Insider they expected a reasoning model to be announced at the inaugural event and would have even settled for a traditional model that can beat alternatives like DeepSeek's V3 and Qwen, a group of models built by Alibaba's cloud firm.
Building a Real-Time API Token Leak Detection and Response System Using Python

3 weeks ago | medium.com | Pranav Dixit

API tokens, OAuth keys, and secret credentials are the gateways to sensitive infrastructure. From cloud access to database queries, these credentials fuel the automation of modern applications. However, when exposed, these same tokens become a golden entry point for attackers. The rise in token-related breaches (GitHub, CircleCI, Heroku, etc.) proves how token leaks are not rare accidents — they’re frequent and lethal.