Yann LeCun, widely regarded as the ‘godfather of AI’ and Meta’s most famous former employee, has now shared a blunt message for students navigating the hype and fear surrounding artificial intelligence: don’t listen to CEOs, and don’t skip college. In an interview with Axios, LeCun cautioned that exaggerated claims about AI’s risks are already harming…
Google DeepMind employees in the UK are not happy with the company’s new artificial intelligence (AI) deal with the US government. The UK-based employees of the company have reportedly launched a bid to form the world’s first union at a frontier AI lab. According to a report by Fortune, the UK’s Communication Workers Union, which…
A blast near Amritsar’s Khasa cantonment and a scooter fire in Jalandhar have sparked political outcry against the Punjab government. NEW DELHI: Two separate blast-like incidents in Punjab within hours of each other triggered panic and set off a political slugfest on Tuesday.In Amritsar, a suspected explosion was reported around 10:50pm near the Khasa cantonment…
KL Rahul (Pic credit: IPL) NEW DELHI: Delhi Capitals opener KL Rahul will be disappointed with his and his team’s performance against Chennai Super Kings at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Tuesday, as they suffered an eight-wicket drubbing at home. Rahul contributed just 12 off 13 balls for the home side, but those runs were…
WhatsApp parent Meta has published a new security advisory for the instant messaging app. WhatsApp Security Advisories 2026 Updates announce patches for two vulnerabilities. WhatsApp has fixed these two security flaws that the company says can be misused to interfere with the way media and attachments are handled on users’ devices. According to Malwarebytes Labs,…
US President Donald Trump has congratulated PM Modi on his “historic” election victory, a White House spokesman said Tuesday, in an apparent take on the recent round of assembly polls that were headlined by BJP’s big win in West Bengal.White House spokesman Kush Desai spoke of Trump’s warm sentiments for Modi, noting that the US…
Project Freedom was meant to help restore the flow of oil from the region and the global economy’s eventual return to normalcy by guiding stranded ships out of the Gulf through the largely closed waterway. But if during the “pause”, global shipping firms and the insurance companies working with them are stymied by Iranian interference,…
JALANDHAR: A blast took place in a scooter parked just outside the BSF Punjab Frontiers headquarters in Jalandhar around 8pm on Tuesday, injuring the vehicle’s owner.The nature of the blast was not yet clear and police were questioning the injured youth, Gurpreet Singh, who works with a courier firm.His father Kashmir Singh, who retired from…
SIVAGANGA: In the end, every vote made it count, literally, in Tirupattur constituency in Sivaganga district when TVK candidate R Seenivasa Sethupathy defeated DMK minister K R Periyakaruppan by just one vote in the Tamil Nadu assembly election. While Sethupathy secured 83,375 votes, Periyakaruppan polled 83,374 votes.The fight, which dragged on till 1.30am, was between…
Former India cricketer and outgoing Trinamool Congress MLA Manoj Tiwary on Tuesday said his association with the party has ended. He alleged that he was denied a ticket from Howrah’s Shibpur constituency because he refused to pay Rs 5 crore.The 40-year-old, who is Bengal’s highest run-scorer in first-class cricket with 10,195 runs, served as minister…
