Spread the love Meta’s Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang has admitted that the company’s open-source AI playbook no longer fits its frontier models, with Muse Spark kept proprietary after early training flagged bio risk and other safety concerns. Wang says rival AI labs are seeing the same risks scale up. Meanwhile, Meta is testing subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and...
A giant world of fungi beneath our feet
Spread the love A new study published in Science has reported the first global map of the earth’s vast underground network of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. These fungi have sustained plant life for millions of years but their scale and distribution has been largely invisible until now. Using machine learning and data from more than 16,000 soil cores, an international...
KPMG pulls its ‘Excellence in Agentic AI’ report after companies named in the report ‘complain
Spread the love Representative Image KPMG has pulled its global report on “Agentic AI” after major companies and organisations named in it complained that their supposed achievements were completely made up. The professional services giant published the report, titled “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI,” with numerous false claims and bogus case studies, according to a report by...
Deaths in Brazil raise concerns about India’s dengue vaccine, DengiAll
Spread the love The recent death of two people in Brazil during its dengue vaccination campaign, leading to the shot’s suspension on June 8, is a crucial wake-up call for India. This is because the dengue vaccine in Brazil, Butantan-DV, is pretty similar, if not identical, to India’s soon-to-be-launched dengue vaccine, DengiAll. Both the Brazilian and Indian vaccines have been several...
‘The presser can wait’: Nitish Reddy pauses interaction to answer mom’s call – Watch
Spread the love Nitish Kumar Reddy (Video grab) NEW DELHI: India all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy produced one of the most wholesome moments of the day following India’s victory over Afghanistan in the opening ODI in Dharamsala, briefly pausing his post-match press conference to attend a phone call from his mother.The light-hearted episode quickly won hearts, with the BCCI sharing a...
Macron talks, Trump meeting, G7 summit and tech ties: What’s on PM Modi’s Europe agenda
Spread the love Prime Minister Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in the French city of Nice on Saturday, beginning a busy Europe tour that includes visits to France and Slovakia, followed by participation in the G7 Summit. The trip will focus on key diplomatic meetings, technology partnerships, trade discussions and strengthening India’s ties with Europe and...
‘You’re getting discombobulated’: ‘Commander in Chief’ Trump shares AI war image
Spread the love US President Donald Trump (File photo) US President Donald Trump on Saturday shared an AI-generated, military-themed image of himself on Truth Social, portraying a larger-than-life “Commander in Chief” amid escalating tensions in the Middle East and ongoing diplomacy with Iran.The striking visual shows Trump standing on the deck of a naval vessel, binoculars in hand, overlooking a...
Late-night ride in client’s Mercedes turns fatal for car dealer, friend in Bengaluru
Spread the love BENGALURU: A late-night drive in a Mercedes-Benz SUV ended in tragedy near Hoskote after the vehicle crashed into a divider on the Satellite Town Ring Road shortly after Friday midnight, killing two occupants.Car dealer Rizwan, 30, who was driving the SUV, was thrown out of the vehicle and fell into a water-filled area below the bridge, while...
Woh Con Tha: Army officials and veterans nab ’21-year-old Brigadier’ in UP
Spread the love A 21-year-old man, Aryan Verma, posing as a Brigadier with fake military insignia and commandos, was apprehended in Shahjahanpur. LUCKNOW: A man dressed as a Brigadier, travelling in an SUV adorned with military insignia and flanked by self-styled commandos, may have looked every bit the senior army officer he claimed to be. But a carefully laid trap...
Science Snapshots: June 14, 2026
Spread the love Sea star sports nature’s optic fibres to focus light A remarkable structure in the chocolate-chip sea star (Protoreaster nodosus) has come to light. On the tip of each arm, a skeletal part contains an array of cone-shaped structures that, like optic fibres, transmit 70% of incident light and concentrate it nearly 3x at the base. Overall, the...
