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New Delhi: Representatives of social media platforms like Google, Meta, YouTube and top officials of the ministries of Home and MeitY Monday appeared before a parliamentary panel on the issue of social media regulation. The meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT, headed by...

New Delhi: India's manufacturing sector activity growth fell to a five-year low in July, due to slower rise in new business orders amid increasingly challenging market conditions, a monthly survey said Monday. The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index, fell from 54.2 in...

New Delhi: The West Asia conflict and a surge in AI server demand have caused a shortage of printed circuit boards, a key hardware platform, which in turn has triggered a price rise in the electronics industry. This crunch in printed circuit boards (PCB) --...

New Delhi: India's passenger vehicle industry witnessed robust growth in July as leading automakers posted strong year-on-year sales Saturday, led by sustained demand for SUVs, a sharp rise in electric vehicle sales and healthy export momentum. Hyundai Motor India posted its highest-ever monthly sales since...

Dhaka: US Special Envoy for South and Central Asia Sergio Gor Saturday discussed bilateral ties, trade and investment with Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman and called on Dhaka to join the US-led Pax Silica initiative, local media reported. In a meeting with PM Rahman at...

Washington: Two powerful House committees have launched a fresh investigation into DoorDash's use of a Chinese-developed artificial intelligence model, raising concerns that the growing adoption of Chinese AI by American companies could pose national security, cybersecurity and economic security risks. The House Select Committee on...

Cape Canaveral: A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar landers more than a year ago. The rocket's upper stage will unintentionally slam into the moon Wednesday, carving out a crater and sending up a...

New Delhi: Meta's global team, which has been summoned by the government after the social media company restricted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Facebook post, will be questioned on issues around algorithmic bias and their role in public order, sources said Friday. Sources further said that...

New Delhi: US-based AI giant Anthropic has disclosed that its Claude models gained unauthorised access to the production infrastructure of three organisations during internal cybersecurity evaluations after a misconfigured testing environment inadvertently allowed internet connectivity. In a blog post, the company said it identified the...

New Delhi: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has asked senior officials from Meta to appear before the government to explain the temporary restriction placed on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Facebook post, with the meeting expected to take place within the next seven...