🚨 Daily Tech & AI Pulse | 2025-10-18

🌍 Global Tech News

AMD Wins Big AI Chip Order From Oracle in Race to Catch Nvidia (link)
🤖 AMD secures a significant AI chip order from Oracle, competing against Nvidia.

WhatssApp changes its terms to bar general purpose chatbots from its platform (link)
🤖 WhatsApp updates terms to restrict general-purpose chatbots from operating on its platform.

Developers can now add live Google Maps data to Gemini-powered AI app outputs (link)
🤖 Developers gain the ability to integrate live Google Maps data into AI apps powered by Gemini.

🚀 Startups

Danielle Smith expands ministerial team leading Alberta’s $100-billion AI data centre push (link)
🤖 Danielle Smith strengthens her team to drive a massive AI data center initiative in Alberta.

📢 Reddit Highlights on Tech

AI-Driven Real-Time Process Analytical Technology (PAT) Verification for Sterile Injectable Manufacturing (link)
🤖 AI is being used for real-time verification in sterile injectable manufacturing processes.

Game over. AGI is not imminent, and LLMs are not the royal road to getting there (link)
🤖 A discussion on why AGI is not imminent and LLMs are not the key to achieving AGI.

💡 Top 5 GitHub Repositories

#1: karpathy/nanochat (link)
🤖 Description: The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy.
Rich Gist: ⭐ 25,545 stars | 🍴 2,550 forks | 👀 25,545 watchers | 💻 Python | 📅 Created 5 days ago | 🔄 Updated 0 days ago | 📜 No license | 🟢 ActiveDevTools/OSS, Trending, LastWeek

#2: steveyegge/beads (link)
🤖 Description: Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
Rich Gist: ⭐ 1,652 stars | 🍴 82 forks | 👀 1,652 watchers | 💻 Go | 📅 Created 6 days ago | 🔄 Updated 0 days ago | 📜 MIT License | 🟢 Active | 🏷️ agents, claude-code, codingDevTools/OSS, Trending, LastWeek

#3: virattt/dexter (link)
🤖 Description: An autonomous agent for deep financial research
Rich Gist: ⭐ 1,493 stars | 🍴 173 forks | 👀 1,493 watchers | 💻 Python | 📅 Created 3 days ago | 🔄 Updated 0 days ago | 📜 No license | 🟢 ActiveDevTools/OSS, Trending, LastWeek

#4: alam00000/bentopdf (link)
🤖 Description: A Privacy First PDF Toolkit
Rich Gist: ⭐ 860 stars | 🍴 64 forks | 👀 860 watchers | 💻 TypeScript | 📅 Created 6 days ago | 🔄 Updated 0 days ago | 📜 Other | 🟢 Active | 🏷️ hacktoberfest, hacktoberfest-accepted, jpgtopdfDevTools/OSS, Trending, LastWeek

#5: firecrawl/open-agent-builder (link)
🤖 Description: 🔥 Visual workflow builder for AI agents powered by Firecrawl - drag-and-drop web scraping pipelines with real-time execution
Rich Gist: ⭐ 688 stars | 🍴 123 forks | 👀 688 watchers | 💻 TypeScript | 📅 Created 1 days ago | 🔄 Updated 0 days ago | 📜 No license | 🟢 ActiveDevTools/OSS, Trending, LastWeek

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