An X user countered Nvidia-backed startup Starcloud's plan to build data centres in space as a way of reducing their environmental impacts and operational costs. "The only way to cool GPUs in space is with extremely massive radiators, which is impractical," the user said. "Ultimately, solar-powered AI satellites are only way to achieve a Kardashev-II civilization," billionaire Elon Musk replied.

Dhravya Shah, 20-year-old Indian-origin Founder of supermemory, shared a job seeker's cold email, which had the subject "Report of issue in supermemory_ai". Shah noted that the email's sender called him "CEO bro", confessed that he wrote it using AI and accepted that he did so "to get attracted from you". Shah also noted the sender didn't sell himself "hard enough".

A Reddit user shared a screenshot showing his CEO criticising him for working from home without taking permission. The user apologised, saying he'd twisted his leg and had trouble walking, which he should've mentioned in the email "informing" the CEO that he'll work from home. "Why don't you ask but notify? A very very special warning to you," CEO said.

US-based startup founder Samuel Spitz mocked a recent report that claimed Chinese and Russian spies are using "sex warfare" to steal Silicon Valley secrets. "This beautiful Chinese girl...was standing outside my office, of all places! She suggested we go to impromptu drinks. She was so interested in my work and LLMs," Spitz joked. "I might be in love," he added.

Nvidia-backed US startup Starcloud plans to build four-kilometre-long data centres in space to reduce their operating costs and environmental impacts. The five-GW centres can use vacuum of space as an infinite heat sink, skipping the need of fresh water for cooling, and can use uninterrupted and unlimited solar energy, avoiding batteries. Starcloud expects space-based centres to be 10x cheaper.

A consumer commission in Chennai has ordered Gulf Air to pay around ₹1.4 lakh in compensation to a passenger. The airline stopped the passenger from boarding a flight at Moscow airport because his passport only had his first name and no surname. The passenger argued that he had earlier flown from India to Moscow on the same passport.

Zerodha CEO Nithin Kamath said venture capital used to be "an exotic term" in India around 15 years ago and "most popular VCs were dads, uncles and aunts". The funding and entrepreneurial ecosystems are now growing, with VCs moving towards more challenging areas like deeptech, he stated. "Entrepreneurship has become aspirational in parts of the country," he noted.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman directed officials to use tech-driven parameters for GST compliance. "Risk-based parameters must do the heavy lifting...not the taxpayer...We don't want anybody from the GST field formations adding one little more burden on the taxpayer," she said. "Don’t carry a GST 1.0 mindset...We don’t have the time and luxury of another 70 years to develop," she added.

Top 10 international mutual funds and fund-of-funds (FoFs) delivered returns between 33% and 72% over the past year, according to ACE Mutual Fund data. Over the past three years, the returns ranged from nearly 12% to 63%. The funds operated in sectors including technology, artificial intelligence, consumer spending, semiconductors and natural resources.

IndusInd Bank's former Deputy CEO Arun Khurana has deposited 50% of the alleged insider trading gains with SEBI, according to a notice from BSE. Restrictions on his bank accounts were also lifted. In May, SEBI barred Khurana, ex-CEO Sumant Kathpalia and three other bank officials from the securities market and ordered them to deposit alleged illegal gains of ₹19.78 crore.