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Videos captured the moment an Israeli airstrike brought down an entire residential building in central Beirut early Wednesday, as strikes intensified across Lebanon, amid repeated Israeli warnings. The strike occurred around 5.30 am reported Aljazeera, flattening the structure and sending up a large cloud of dust and smoke.The video shows an enormous cloud of dust…
Indian firms on Tuesday curtailed natural gas allocations to industrial consumers amid expectations of supply constraints. (AI image) Middle East war impact: Indian buyers of liquefied natural gas are currently looking at alternative sourcing strategies to make up for disrupted supplies from Qatar, after the Gulf producer halted output in the wake of an Iranian…
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is now telling investors that it expects to spend around $600 million on compute infrastructure by 2030. This new spending target is a sharp reduction from the $1.4 trillion figure which OpenAI CEO Sam Altman touted last year. According to a report by CNBC, the company is now offering a more defined timeline…
OpneAI has now told investors that it is targeting $600 million in total compute spending by 2030. As reported by CNBC, this new figure showcases a sharp decline from the $1.4 trillion figure which OpenAI CEO Sam Altman touted months ago. This move the company raises concerns but its expansion plans which were outpacing its…
India’s state-owned Bharat Petroleum Corp (BPCL) and private refiner HPCL Mittal Energy Ltd (HMEL) have each bought one million barrels of Venezuelan Merey crude oil, marking BPCL’s first-ever purchase and HMEL’s first in two years, according to Reuters sources on Wednesday. The deals, arranged through trader Vitol, will increase India’s Venezuelan oil imports to at…
Shipments of Russian oil to China are projected at about 2.07 million barrels per day for February delivery. (AI image) Even as US President Donald Trump wants the world to stop buying crude oil from Russia, China’s purchases of Russian crude are set to hit a new record in February. China’s procurement of Russian crude…
CHENNAI: A number of flights were unable to land at Chennai airport on Wednesday morning due to dense smoke from Bhogi festival celebrations, officials said. Runway visibility dropped to around 300 metres from 7:00am and remained low until 8:00am, temporarily affecting flight operations. Authorities said conditions were expected to improve later in the day. The…
Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has shared concerns about how artificial intelligence (AI) may change the structure of software teams. Sharing a post on microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter), Vembu said that AI is making senior software architects more productive, but at the same time it is also reducing the need for junior engineers. This shift,…
BENGALURU: Masayoshi Son-led SoftBank Group pared its holding in Ola Electric Mobility to 13.5% from 15.6%, in what appears like a staggered exit from the electric 2-wheeler maker that was once among its marquee India bets. SVF II Ostrich (DE), a SoftBank affiliate and Ola Electric’s second-largest shareholder after founder Bhavish Aggarwal, sold 9.4 crore…
NEW DELHI: Delhi’s air quality worsened again on Saturday after a brief improvement earlier in the week, with several parts of the city recording pollution levels in the ‘very poor’ and ‘severe’ categories. Residents across the capital woke up to thick smog, which reduced visibility in many areas. According to data from the Central Pollution…
