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Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath has the internet talking after posting a short, high-production video clip featuring Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. This sparked an immediate speculation about a rare podcast appearance by the billionaire executive. Kamath, known for hosting the ‘WTF is?’ podcast, shared the video on X (formerly Twitter) showing the two executives…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has made another notable public appearance with Googlers, featuring prominently in the launch video for Antigravity, the company’s newly unveiled AI coding tool. His appearance in the promotional video alongside Varun Mohan, co-founder of Windsurf (whose core team Google recently acquired for $2.4 billion), underscores his “full-time” return from retirement to…
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have moved into the top 5 richest people in the world, after a massive reshuffle in the global wealth rankings, according to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List. The rapid increase in their wealth has been directly attributed to the successful launch of Google Gemini 3 AI model. Essentially, Larry…
Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, has called on companies like Google and OpenAI to pay for using the encyclopedia’s content to train their large language models (LLMs). Wales argued that the current situation is unfair to Wikipedia’s donors who support the platform’s infrastructure costs. Wales suggested that Wikipedia’s content is a massive part of…
Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, has publicly intervened in a heated editorial dispute over the platform’s article on the “Gaza genocide,” raising concerns that the page violates the free online encyclopedia’s fundamental principle of neutrality. Wales’s intervention – accusing the article of taking sides in a major controversy – is in line with the…
New York’s political landscape shifted dramatically with Zohran Mamdani’s election as the city’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor, an openly socialist candidate who ran on housing affordability, debt relief and public ownership. But four years before this moment, a warning circulated quietly among Silicon Valley’s most powerful figures. In a late-night email sent in…
HCL co-founder Ajai Chowdhry has suggested that India should meet its demand for rare-earth minerals by recycling e-waste. Chowdhry, who is also the Chairman of the National Quantum Mission, has proposed this solution to reduce dependency on foreign sources. He claimed that 30-40% of domestic demand can be met through this “non-mined” route. This approach…
MUMBAI: Optimo Capital has raised Rs 150 crore ($17.5 million) in series A funding, led by founder Prashant Pitti along with existing investors Blume Ventures and Omnivore, the company said on Tuesday. Around 4.8 crore small-business owners (75% of total) don’t have credit-history, making it difficult for them to access large-ticket business loans from banks/NBFCs….
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman has defended AI startup Anthropic after it came under fire from the Trump administration over artificial intelligence (AI) regulation in Silicon Valley. Not only Anthropic, Hoffman also sided with tech giants like Google and OpenAI, saying that these companies are deploying AI in the right manner. Why Hoffman is defending Anthropic…
OpenAI’s founding team member Andrej Karpathy OpenAI cofounder and AI researcher Andrej Karpathy has strongly pushed back against the “agentic AI” hype, characterizing the current generation of autonomous AI systems as “slop.” Karpathy has directly challenged the notion that autonomous AI agents are on the cusp of delivering as promised, positioning himself in contrast to…
