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After nearly nine months of aggressive poaching, Meta CTO Mark Zuckerberg appears to have succeeded in his ‘almost full-scale raid” on Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab, as yet another founding member has left the startup to join Meta. In August last year, it was reported that Meta tried to buy OpenAI’s former Chief Technology Officer…
Citigroup initiated its coverage of Pine Labs with a buy rating and a target price of Rs 235. Analysts said that India’s payments fintech is on a monetization improvement trajectory, with leading players increasingly entrenched in respective core areas of leadership. While product, services and distribution build-outs into comprehensive plays will continue across the fintech…
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, says ChatGPT’s viral 2022 launch triggered a “ferocious commercial pressure race” that nobody—including OpenAI—was prepared for. Speaking to Cleo Abram, he said every major lab had equivalent systems at the time; OpenAI just shipped first. Hassabis had wanted AI kept in the lab longer, focused on scientific breakthroughs. Now…
From Silicon Valley startups to frontier AI labs and global policy platforms, alumni of Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi are increasingly visible in roles that shape how artificial intelligence is built, deployed and governed. Leaders such as Madhav Jha and Irina Ghose reflect a broader pattern. IIT BHU graduates are influencing AI across product…
Mumbai: Payment technology firm Pine Labs has partnered with OpenAI to build smarter payment systems that can take limited financial decisions on their own, aiming to simplify how businesses manage money.The collaboration will embed OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models into Pine Labs’ merchant platforms used by retailers and service providers. Instead of merely processing payments, the…
NEW DELHI: India will launch its first set of sovereign AI models, announce major national AI research programmes, expand shared computing facilities, and roll out AI labs across 500 universities at AI Impact Summit 2026.Earlier, electronics and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had said home-grown models are ready for public use and will be unveiled at…
Meta’s Reality Labs division is shifting focus from VR to wearables, despite continued development of future VR headsets. The company confirmed a significant reduction in VR investment this year, while increasing spending on wearables like smart glasses. This strategic pivot follows substantial losses in Reality Labs, with a projected peak in 2026 before expected declines….
Life has changed fast, but our bodies haven’t caught up. We’re more stressed than ever, running on less sleep, eating food that looks convenient but barely resembles what our grandparents ate. Hormones don’t like chaos. And the thyroid, a tiny butterfly-shaped gland in your neck, really doesn’t like it.And for women especially, hormones are already…
NEW DELHI: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Tuesday warned strict action against students who raised slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah during a campus protest, stating that the university “can’t be laboratory of hate.”Sharing a post on X, the university said, “An FIR has already been lodged in connection…
HYDERABAD: Pharma major Aurobindo Pharma is acquiring the non-oncology prescription business of Mumbai-based Khandelwal Laboratories Pvt Ltd on a going concern, slump sale basis for a cash consideration of Rs 325 crore in a move aimed at strengthening its presence in the domestic formulations market.The acquisition, done through its wholly owned subsidiary Auro Pharma Limited,…
