Alphabet Inc. and Google chief executive officer Sundar Pichai Google CEO Sundar Pichai has a message for anyone who thinks the company missed the AI chatbot wave: it didn’t. It just didn’t ship first. In a conversation on Stripe co-founder John Collison’s podcast Cheeky Pint, Pichai made a pointed reference to the Blake Lemoine saga—the…
Disney is preparing to cut as many as 1,000 jobs in the coming weeks, marking one of the first significant actions under the new CEO Josh D’Amaro, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The layoffs will mainly affect the company’s marketing department, which was recently consolidated as part of a broader cost-cutting effort. As…
NEW DELHI: Union minister for petroleum and natural gas Hardeep Singh Puri will visit Qatar on April 9-10, amid ongoing tensions in the Middle East and concerns over global energy supplies, reported ANI.The visit comes after a two-week ceasefire was announced between the US and Iran. The region remains volatile due to the evolving situation…
Iran has warned it could pull out of its fragile two-week ceasefire with the United States if Israeli strikes on Hezbollah continue, signalling a rapid deterioration in an already shaky truce agreed only days ago.According to Iran’s state-linked Tasnim news agency, an informed source said Tehran is “considering the possibility” of withdrawing from the agreement…
The old rule for deadly heat was simple enough: if the wet-bulb temperature hit 35°C, that’s when humans can’t survive. That’s been the standard for years. But a team of researchers just threw that number into question, and what they found is honestly pretty concerning, especially if you’re older or someone who spends time outside…
Kerala is out for voting on Thursday and the noise is over.The ‘Kalashakkottu’ has ended, the loudspeakers are off and after weeks of rallies, temple runs, church visits, candidate selfies and backroom arithmetic, the election is back where Kerala likes it best – booth by booth, ward by ward, vote by vote.Now the real contest…
FILE (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) Mark Zuckerberg‘s Meta has released Muse Spark, the company’s first-ever artificial model from one of its highest-paid teams, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Mark Zuckerberg assembled its Superintelligence Labs team last year under Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang. In June 2025, Facebook founder Zuckerberg hired Wang as part of a $14…
‘Ketamine Queen’ sentenced to 15 years in jail in Matthew Perry case Three years after the death of Hollywood actor Matthew Perry, 42-year-old Jasveen Sangha, also known as ‘Ketamine Queen’ Wednesday was sentenced today to 180 months in federal prison for her long-running drug dealing activities, including selling ketamine that contributed to at least two…
File photo NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday urged voters in Kerala, Assam and Puducherry to turn out in large numbers as polling got underway in the three states.In a post on X, PM Modi emphasised the importance of strong participation in Kerala, calling on voters—especially youth and women—to take part actively in…
Photo credit: X/NASAEarth Nasa’s Artemis II astronauts have captured a stunning new Earthrise image, Earth appearing to rise over the Moon’s horizon, while orbiting the far side of the Moon, the space agency announced on X on Thursday.In the photograph, released by Nasa, our blue planet appears as a delicate crescent against the stark lunar…