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The government is set to soon notify changes under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) that will ease foreign direct investment (FDI) norms for overseas companies with up to 10 per cent Chinese shareholding, a senior official told news agency PTI on Thursday.Once notified by the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), the revised framework will…
Airbnb and Anysphere, maker of AI coding platform Cursor, may be in trouble. According to a report in Semafor, two Republican-led House committees are probing Airbnb and Anysphere over their use of Chinese AI models. According to the report, the House Homeland Security Committee and House China Select Committee have jointly sent letters to the…
Chinese proverb of the day (Image generated via Google Gemini) Learning is no longer just for classrooms and libraries in today’s world. People are always learning new things by reading articles, watching videos, going to online classes, and more. This has made it easier to get information, but it has also made things harder. A…
In what can be called a display of athleticism by machines, dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots ran past professional runners in a half-marathon in Beijing on Sunday (April 19). The performance was dominant as they not only broke last year’s record but also surpassed human runners to reach the finish line, seemingly confirming Elon Musk’s…
China and America seemingly can’t stop banning each other’s gadgets, technology and more. The result is a deepening power struggle over who controls the hardware behind the next era of energy and computing. According to a report in Reuters, Chinese officials have held initial talks with providers of equipment to make solar panels as they…
US lawmakers are pushing the government to take action against Chinese and Russian companies that are allegedly copying American AI systems. According to a report by Bloomberg, Republican members of the US House have proposed a law that seeks to direct the US government to identify foreign companies using improper query-and-copy techniques on American models….
Chinese proverb of the day (Image generated via Google Gemini) A lot of people put off making important decisions in their daily lives because they think they are already too late. There is often a feeling of regret about not starting earlier when you want to start a new job, learn a new skill, get…
R Vaishali (Photo by Niki Riga) NEW DELHI: A round-robin format like the Candidates was always going to have a fair share of surprises for every player, and India’s Vaishali Rameshbabu was served a cold one on Sunday evening at the Cap St Georges Hotel & Resort in Cyprus.Just twenty-four hours earlier, we were celebrating…
It begins with an Instagram reel: an influencer touting the most potent weight-loss peptides. Two taps, and the feed is flooded with peptide-fuelled weight-loss journeys. Then the descent into rabbit hole begins: YouTube explainers, AIsimplified scientific papers, Reddit thread obsessions, private chat groups. It ends with a shipment from China of powdered weight-loss medication, unapproved,…
China may have suffered its largest data breach ever after a cyberattack recently targeted one of the country’s supercomputers. According to a CNN report, a hacker has allegedly accessed and stolen more than 10 petabytes of sensitive data from a state-run system, including what are said to be classified defence documents, missile schematics, and research…
