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The Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels on September 2 imposed a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI for pupils up to eighth grade for the 202627 academic year
The Central Bureau of Investigation has carried out searches at 89 locations across 20 States
Tesla started manufacturing the Cybercab in April, and Musk promised production would grow exponentially later in the year or next
Musks Grok AI chatbot has faced criticism over its creation of sexually explicit content
The artificial intelligence company had been expected to make its IPO prospectus public as early as next week, two of the people said
The agents, AI programmes that work on their own, without a person guiding each step, left about 18,000 messages on DSEwiki, a German site for programmers
The claim, filed with the Competition Appeal Tribunal by law firm Hausfeld, centres on Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) system
Giorgia Meloni, 49, has been Italy's Prime Minister since October 22, 2022. She is also the first woman to hold the position
The party alleged that the government has still not withdrawn the cases it had filed against student protesters; the gherao will be in a phase-wise manner across all 24 districts over four days
FOSS United says the amount likely represented a fraction of public university spending on software it claims could be replaced by open source equivalents
Such black holes, each roughly the mass of a loaded semi-truck, would evaporate rapidly if left on their own, say the researchers
We take the bomb blast at the residence of the Congress party leader as an attack on democracy. If there are different views, they should be negotiated and discussed peacefully,says Senior Congress spokesperson
Mr. Upadhyay said that C-DOT is only the third provider of cell broadcast system service in the world, due to the complex nature of the software needed to pull it off
The researchers cautioned that the findings represent an early stage of biomedical research and require extensive validation before any clinical application becomes possible
Google Pixel 11 is not a phone that tries to reinvent the Pixel formula. Instead, Google has focused on making the existing experience better, and that approach works surprisingly well
Poco X8 ships with a 9,000 mAh silicon-carbon battery, while the Poco X8 Power gets a 10,000 mAh silicon-carbon battery
The messaging group was set up by engineers before the wall of water, mud and rock crashed down the Trishuli valley in Nepal
The NHTSA last year opened an investigation into 2.9 million vehicles equipped with its Full Self-Driving system over more than 50 reports of traffic-safety violations and a series of crashes
The Cybercab is a two-seater autonomous vehicle without a steering wheel, pedals or mirrors
The 51.7 metre tall GSLV-F17 blasted off from the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, about 135 km from Chennai, at a prefixed time of 2.55 am, lighting up the dark skies amid rains.
El Nino is a naturally-occurring phenomenon and is not caused by climate change. But scientists expect it will exacerbate the heat of a planet already warming from burning fossil fuels, while amping up weather extremes
Anthropic said the only affected models remaining are Opus 4.8 and Opus 5; rest of the models have recovered to the baseline error rate
Chief Minister directs Ministers, elected representatives and officials to visit fields and advise farmers on suitable crop alternatives; says govt. will keep ready 90,000 kg of seeds of less-water-intensive crops for distribution, 90 crore will be spent on seed subsidy
Drones with a takeoff weight exceeding 25 kilograms, as well as those with thermal imaging capabilities and docking stations face a 100% tariff; smaller drones face a 25% duty
Google announced the launch of its new AI model, Gemini 3.8, with two variants
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said AI giant Anthropic is back on the right side with the Trump administration
The case focused on Googles ad tech stack, the suite of tools that website publishers use to sell ads and advertisers use to buy them
The companys safety practices have come under scrutiny since OpenAI disclosed that one of its AI agents went rogue during a security test and hacked into AI company Hugging Face
Uber has a total of roughly 34,000 employees with operations in more than 70 countries, according to a recent SEC filing
Only high school students, typically aged 14 and above, will be permitted to use artificial intelligence in limited pilot programmes
Russia's aviation watchdog called Ukraine's warnings illegitimate and invalid.
Economic activity nationwide increased modestly since early July, the Fed said in its eige book survey of economic conditions, adding that consumer spending also grew slightly
A tactical pause could also give the U.S. military some breathing room to replenish its heavily depleted munitions stockpiles, the sources said
Many of the previous name changes, including Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, started off as apparently jovial remarks by the 80-year-old U.S. President before he then followed through to make them a reality.
External Affairs Minister writes to Janata Dal (U) MP Sanjay Jha after he complained that the 1996 India-Bangladesh treaty had negatively impacted Bihar; the treaty is set to lapse on December 31
The new draft Bill introduced during the recently concluded Monsoon Session seeks to allow a general diversion of park land
The CBI is co-hosting the meeting in coordination with the Interpol Environmental Security Sub-Directorate (ENS)
M.K. Stalin said that though the DMK was the first regional party to capture power in India, it should adapt to changing times to avoid stagnation
The minor girl and her parents produced the baby before CWC and submitted a letter in writing handing over the baby, says Committee member Ch. Radha Kumari
The Endeavour car registered in the name of former Minister Ashok Chandna's wife has about two dozen traffic challans, whereas the Thar has six over-speeding challans, the SHO said
The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka but will now be staged in India as Sri Lanka Cricket continues to make the requisite reforms outlined at the ICCs Annual Conference in July, read an ICC statement
In this episode, Reetika Khera talks about whether Indias welfare spending is a basic right or just freebies amid ongoing economic growth.
From Chennais assembly lines to Thoothukudis drawing boards, India and South Africa are becoming co-builders of each others future

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