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MUMBAI: India’s coffeehouse chains are staring at a troubling brew. A higher customs duty on roasting, brewing and vending machines which is already in place now, will raise costs for companies, hitting their margins.Factor in the rupee depreciation and a wobbly coffee inflation and you have a perfect mix for stirring up a storm in…
Mira Murati has confirmed that chief technology officer of her AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, Barret Zoph is leaving. Murati shared a post on microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter) where she said “We have parted ways with Barret Zoph”. She continued: “Soumith Chintala will be the new CTO of Thinking Machines. He is a brilliant…
Image Credit: AI generated image In an extremely rare and shocking occurrence, the Indian rat snake was found in a ground-floor residential property in the Azad Nagar area of Andheri (West) in need of a rescue, not from any predators, fire or flooding, but from a washing machine. This rare encounter occurred on the night…
A daily office coffee binge for many professionals is nothing less than a ritual to step up to the coffee machine, and with the highest regard, a coffee cup is a brain dump for one meeting or during a marathon workday of coffee consumption. Coffee drinking has some benefits in that it makes one more…
Mark Zuckerberg and Merab Dvalishvili. Image via: @MerabDvalishvil/X Mark Zuckerberg stepped back into the combat sports spotlight this week, trading boardrooms for a training mat alongside one of the UFC’s most relentless fighters. Days after Merab Dvalishvili dropped the bantamweight title to Petr Yan, the former champion returned to the gym and shared an intense…
Thinking Machines Lab, the artificial intelligence startup founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, is reportedly in early discussions to raise a new round of funding at a valuation of roughly $50 billion. According to a report in Bloomberg, the new financing, which has not been previously reported, would more than quadruple the startup’s valuation…
Domestic jobs and careers platform Apna.co has launched BlueMachines. This is an enterprise-grade voice artificial intelligence (AI) platform that will allow organisations to deploy multilingual voice AI agents at scale. According to the company, the platform has already secured over $6 million in enterprise contracts within its first 45 days of operation. Blue Machines is…
