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The team from icōd.ai met with Advisor to CM on AI & Special Initiatives Ali Dar to explore how their AI-powered no-code platform can empower Punjab’s workforce and support the delivery agenda for The Office of AI.

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When Hammad Malik built a simple Urdu WhatsApp bot and gave it to his driver to try out, he didn’t expect 800 people to be using it within two days. That early experiment showed him that millions of Pakistanis are excluded from digital services because they cannot interact with technology in their own languages. Uplift AI was born from this insight. Founded in March 2024 by Malik and fellow former Apple and Amazon engineer Zaid Qureshi, the startup is building voice-based technology that lets people speak to devices in their native languages. The company has announced that it has raised $3.5 million in funding from Y Combinator, Indus Valley Capital (Aatif Awan) and others to expand its work. Uplift AI began with Balochi and Sindhi deliberately. The aim was to prove the technology using the hardest languages with the least available data. Balochi, in particular, posed a major challenge: less than 5pc of Pakistan’s population speaks it, and even fewer can write it, leaving almost no usable data online. As a result, the company had to generate entirely new, local data sources from scratch. Link to the full story in comments.

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The 𝐟𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐭, chaired by PM Shehbaz Sharif, has approved new designs for 𝐑𝐬100, 𝐑𝐬500, 𝐑𝐬1,000, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐬5,000 notes. This is a formal policy decision, not a social-media rumor. The redesigned notes will incorporate advanced security features aligned with global standards, informed by input from international experts. The artwork will reflect #Pakistan’s diversity, history, the role of women in development, and climate-related themes. A review committee will finalize the designs, with rollout expected around late 2026. To be clear, the viral claims in 2025 were correctly denied by #SBP. This time, the process is official. Existing notes remain valid, and there’s no demonetization or exchange deadline. Curious how others see the broader impact?💥 State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) | Prime Minister's Office | National Institute of Banking and Finance Pakistan | Cabinet Secretariat | Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan #PakistanEconomy #SBP #PropTech #PakistanCurrency #FederalCabinet

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Proxy engineer fraud is a growing concern in our industry. At PayNest, we’ve had to terminate a few engineers in recent months after uncovering that they were acting as fronts for dubious software houses. This is a clear breach of trust and professionalism, and no fancy narrative or sugar coating can justify such deception.

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SDKs and docs are more than references - they shape how developers and even agents interact with your API. In this video, Fern's Danny Sheridan and Deep Singhvi show us how they generate SDKs and developer documentation directly from API specifications, and why they chose Auth0 as their identity and access management provider. You’ll learn: 🔵 How agentic experiences rely on high quality SDKs and docs 🔵 Fern’s approach to improving productivity across the API lifecycle 🔵 Why Auth0 provides the security and scale needed for modern identity 🔵 A live demo from Fern’s leadership team showing the integration in action Watch the full video and see how developer experience and agent experience come together. https://bit.ly/3VjKEZq #AIAgents #DeveloperExperience #IdentitySecurity #Auth0 #APIs

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MEET PAKISTANI TALENT Rehan Jalil Rehan Jalil is currently the CEO of Securiti. He was the SVP and GM for Cloud Security at Symantec, leading research and development for Cloud Security Products.Rehan came into Symantec with $4.7B acquisition of Bluecoat, where he ran cloud security. He came into BlueCoat via the $280M acquisition of Elastica, that he founded and ran as CEO. Elastica innovated CASB and drove it to become an important security category. Prior to that, he was the founder and chief executive officer of WiChours, an innovator in deep packet inspection centered packet core, which was used to deploy some of the earliest 4G networks. WiChorus was acquired by Tellabs for $180M. Previously, he was Chief Architect at Aperto and helped innovate multicore processors at Sun Microsystems. He was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur finalist in 2010 and Top 25 Disruptor in 2015.He holds an AMP from Harvard Business School, an MSEE from Purdue University and a BS from NED University. Pakistani-Owned Tech Company Sold for $1.7 Billion Securiti AI, founded by Pakistani entrepreneur Rehan Jalil, has been acquired by Veeam for about $1.7 billion. The company provides data-security and AI-governance tools used to protect and manage data across cloud platforms. Jalil will join Veeam as president of security and AI after the deal closes later this year. The acquisition is celebrated as a major success for Pakistani talent in the global tech industry. READ MORE https://lnkd.in/dgQ9JFck

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