One of the best moments in the first Avengers movie came when Captain America asked Tony Stark: “Take away your suit and what are you?”A nonchalant Stark replies: “Genius. Billionaire. Playboy. Philanthropist.”Musk, who makes a cameo in the second Iron Man movie, must be wondering: gareeb saala. Particularly after the recent SpaceX IPO that made…
NEW DELHI: Two days after a fire tore through a five-storey residential building in southeast Delhi’s Tughlakabad Extension, killing three people and injuring eight others, police said that the blaze was a deliberate act of arson and have nabbed four persons, including a 17-year-old girl.The fire broke out around 2.24am on June 12 at a…
Meta’s Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang has admitted that the company’s open-source AI playbook no longer fits its frontier models, with Muse Spark kept proprietary after early training flagged bio risk and other safety concerns. Wang says rival AI labs are seeing the same risks scale up. Meanwhile, Meta is testing subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook,…
BENGALURU: Actor and activist Prakash Raj is set to participate in a protest organised by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) at Bengaluru’s Freedom Park on Sunday as part of a nationwide campaign demanding the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged failures in the education sector.The protest comes amid allegations of multiple examination…
Mamata Banerjee (L), Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar (C), Dr Baidyanath Ghosh Dastidar (R) KOLKATA: Amid the ongoing split in the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Dr Baidyanath Ghosh Dastidar, son of rebel TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, has issued a legal notice to former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and several party leaders. He has denied allegations…
PATNA: A heavy police force was deployed at Patliputra Railway Station in Bihar after a stone-pelting and vandalism incident erupted on the station premises, officials said on Sunday.Visuals from the railway station showed a tense situation following the unrest, with security personnel stationed across the premises to maintain law and order.According to Patna district magistrate…
KPMG has pulled its global report on “Agentic AI” after major companies and organisations named in it complained that their supposed achievements were completely made up. The professional services giant published the report, titled “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI,” with numerous false claims and bogus case studies, according to a report by…
Nitish Kumar Reddy (Video grab) NEW DELHI: India all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy produced one of the most wholesome moments of the day following India’s victory over Afghanistan in the opening ODI in Dharamsala, briefly pausing his post-match press conference to attend a phone call from his mother.The light-hearted episode quickly won hearts, with the BCCI…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday arrived in the French Riviera city of Nice, kicking off a packed European tour that will take him to France and Slovakia before culminating at the G7 Summit. The visit combines high-stakes diplomacy, technology partnerships, trade discussions and India’s growing engagement with Europe and the…
A poster reading “Isolate ourselves from Europe? Certainly not now! – No to the SVP/UDC Chaos initiative” Switzerland heads to the polls on Sunday to decide on a proposal that could make it the first European country to impose a formal limit on its population. The referendum asks voters whether the country’s population should be…
