New Delhi: Jacob Coxon, an AI researcher at Anthropic, announced his resignation Wednesday, alleging that leading technology firms, including OpenAI, are acting irresponsibly in an unchecked race toward developing superintelligence and "gambling with our lives". Coxon, who spent the past three years conducting pre-training research...
Bhubaneswar/Baleshwar: A day after at least five orangutans were rescued from a forest in Odisha's Baleshwar district, a joint probe was launched by the state police's STF and the WCCB on suspicion that an international wildlife smuggling racket might be behind the animals' sudden appearance...
Bhubaneswar: Philippines' International Rice Research Institute has joined hands with the Odisha government to scale up cultivation and commercialisation of indigenous crop varieties, with a focus on Kalajeera rice, officials said Wednesday. A delegation of the institute led by its principal scientist Dr Nese Sreenivasul...
Moscow: Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday that there is no slowdown in India’s Russian energy imports which continue to set records. “I don’t want to give you any figures for understandable reasons, but every month we have a new record,” Peskov said in a...
Kochi: Indian fisheries scientist Dr P. Krishnan has been elected chair of a global network of regional fisheries bodies at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), giving India a prominent role in international fisheries governance for the next two years. Krishnan, Director of the...
Canberra: Australian social media users would be given a choice to opt out of algorithms under proposed laws announced by the government Tuesday that would let users have more control over what they see on their social media feeds. "We'll require social media platforms to...
New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: IT major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has won a contract worth Rs 122.6 crore to implement the next phase of the Odisha State Workflow Automation System (OSWAS 3.0). The project aims to modernise the state's paperless governance system and will extend the company's...
New Delhi: Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), under the chairmanship of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, on Monday approved capital acquisition proposals worth nearly Rs 1.10 lakh crore for the Indian armed forces. The DAC accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN), or in-principle administrative approval, to various acquisition...
New Delhi: US tech giant Apple is deepening its technology footprint in India, with recent hiring focused on artificial intelligence (AI), data platforms, software engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation, Apple Ads, Siri language capabilities, and manufacturing intelligence, a report said Monday. The report from GlobalData said...
New Delhi: Supreme Court Monday refused to grant six months extension to the High-Powered Committee for submitting its final report on definition and protection of the Aravalli Hills. A bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana directed...
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By Dilip Cherian The death of Rakesh Mehta, former Chief Secretary of Delhi, is deeply saddening. But beyond the shock...
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It is surprising that the administration in Paris, France, in charge of managing institutions like the Eiffel Tower bent over...
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The judiciary is one of the three pillars of Indian democracy that the people traditionally trust, most for the redress...
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