A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Indians to stop buying gold for a year in the national interest, GTRI backed the appeal, saying surging gold imports are straining India’s foreign exchange reserves and widening its trade imbalance. In its report, the think tank said, “GTRI has supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal asking...
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Anthropic & OpenAI now make for $2T revenue backlog of Google & other cloud providers
Representative Image. Left: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Right: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Claude maker Anthropic and ChatGPT parent OpenAI now reportedly account for a major share of future revenues at major cloud providers, including Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others. A report claims that the contracts of two of the biggest cash-burning artificial intelligence (AI) companies...
Explosives at PM Modi convoy route: NIA team leaves for Bengaluru a day after the scare
NEW DELHI: A day after gelatin sticks were found at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s convoy route, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) took matters into its hands and left for Bengaluru on Monday.The probe agency will will assist local police in the probe, ANI reported citing officials.“A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team is enroute to the...
Meta to lay off 8,000 employees this month, CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s clear message for staff
Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs on May 20 as CEO Mark Zuckerberg rebuilds the company around small, AI-powered teams. With capex hitting a record $125–145 billion this year, CFO Susan Li admitted there’s no clean answer for what Meta’s ideal headcount even looks like anymore. The company wants builders who can ship alone what teams...
SC asks Mamata to file fresh plea on SIR deletions exceeding Bengal vote margins
File photo NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday asked former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to file a fresh plea related to victory margin being less than deletion of votes in the Speical Intensive Reivison (SIR), which was one of the burning poll planks of the outsed TMC.A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant...
‘Appeasement over national self-respect’: PM Modi invokes Nehru at Somnath Amrit Mahotsav
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday accused first PM Jawaharlal Nehru of “prioritising appeasement over national self-respect”, claiming that he “opposed” the restoration of the Somnath Temple. Speaking at Somnath Amrit Mahotsav, the prime minister credited Congress stalwarts Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Dr Rajendra Prasad for devoting themselves for restoring the temple in...
Inside OpenAI co-founder’s diary, now star witness in the Musk vs OpenAI drama
Greg Brockman has been keeping a journal since 2010, when he was a college student figuring out what to study. Last week, he sat in an Oakland federal courthouse and read it aloud to a jury, while roughly 1,200 strangers watched on a YouTube livestream.The OpenAI president and co-founder spent two days walking the court...
The story behind Pokhran: How one ‘peaceful explosion’ in 1974 made India a nuclear power
At 8:05am on May 18, 1974, the stillness of the deserts north-east of Jaisalmer was shattered as the earth shook under the tremendous force of India’s first nuclear test. With the press of one button, India became the sixth country, after the US, Russia, UK, France and China, to have harnessed the power of the...
‘Your utility is done’: Oppn warns of petrol, diesel price hike after PM Modi’s appeal to cut fuel use amid West Asia crisis
NEW DELHI: Opposition parties on Monday upped the ante against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for urging citizens to reduce fuel and edible oil consumption amid the ongoing West Asia crisis, claiming that fuel prices are set to rise now that assembly elections are over.This comes after PM Modi urged people to reduce edible oil usage,...
Time for Mumbai Indians to bench Suryakumar and Tilak ; rest Jasprit Bumrah
File photo of Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Varma. New Delhi: Mumbai Indians became the second team to crash out of the Indian Premier League after losing to Royal Challengers Bengaluru in a last-over thriller on Sunday. The result means the mighty MI unit will go without silverware for a sixth consecutive season — the longest...
