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Top experts issue warning about AI technology, sign 'Statement on AI Risk'

Top AI scientists, researchers and others have issued a new warning about the perils that artificial intelligence poses to humankind.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink gets USFDA green light for clinical human trials — time to move things with your mind?

Neuralink announced on social media that recruitment for human trials would begin soon. The company has been perfecting the implant surgery...

Meta layoffs: Singapore jobs at risk as Facebook’s parent company begins third round of cuts

Meta eliminated some 11,000 jobs globally in November 2022; of them, an estimated 50 were from Singapore. The second round of layoffs came...

Would leave Europe if current form of regulation was adopted, says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

OpenAI CEO and tech entrepreneur Sam Altman said yesterday that his firm would potentially exit Europe if the upcoming artificial...

Google announces new policy to delete inactive accounts

Tech giant Google announced an update to its inactive account policies. An official statement read that it plans to delete accounts that...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tells US lawmakers 'AI regulation is essential'

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the company responsible for creating Artificial Intelligence chatbot ChatGPT and image generator Dall-E 2,...

Indian-origin Dylan Jadeja set to be new CEO of Riot Games

Indian-origin executive A Dylan Jadeja has been appointed as the new CEO of Riot Games, the developer of smash-hit video games like...

India rolling out nationwide lost cell phone tracking system from May 17

The Department of Telecom, India, is reportedly rolling out from May 17 a new system nationwide to track lost/stolen mobile phones using...

Who is Linda Yaccarino, Elon Musk's choice for new Twitter CEO?

Twitter owner Elon Musk confirmed that NBCUniversal executive Linda Yaccarino will take over as Twitter's chief executive officer (CEO),...

SAP and Google Cloud expand partnership to build the future of open data and AI for enterprises

The new offering enables customers to build an end-to-end data cloud that brings data from across the enterprise landscape using the SAP...

Singapore proposes new law to fight cybercrime; cites 25% online crime spike

Singapore has introduced a bill in its parliament to crack down on the whole gamut of cybercrime, from misinformation campaigns and...

Artificial Intelligence is a serious threat to human existence, says new scientific report

The unchecked advance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) could pose a serious threat to human existence, says a new report published by BMJ...

Indian-origin VP Kamala Harris discusses AI risks with Google's Sundar Pichai, Microsoft's Satya Nadella and other tech CEOs

Indian-American Vice-President Kamala Harris met with the heads of Google, Microsoft and two other companies developing Artificial...

LinkedIn has over 100 million Indian users: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

Microsoft's Indian-American Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella announced that professional social networking platform LinkedIn now has 100...

Sacked Indian-origin CEO Ankiti Bose at heart of Zilingo debacle: Reports

According to media reports, Ankiti Bose, the Indian-orgin co-founder of Singapore fashion start-up Zilingo who was sacked as CEO in May last...

Twitter blue tick restored for high profile accounts, dead celebrities

Confusion surrounding Twitter’s blue tick policy continues after a number of high-profile accounts got blue check-marks reinstated, even...

Twitter does away with legacy blue ticks; catch Big B and Sachin's hilarious responses

Microblogging platform Twitter has followed through on CEO Elon Musk’s promise to remove legacy verified blue ticks from all accounts,...

Meta layoffs in Singapore: Promoted a month ago, laid off this week

Meta, the parent company of the social networks Facebook and Instagram, has started its second round of layoffs in Singapore. It is expected...

Watch: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes shortly after takeoff

SpaceX's Starship rocket exploded minutes after takeoff during its first test flight. Reportedly the most powerful rocket ever built, the...

Tim Cook connects with Apple fans at the Saket store launch

The DLF Select Citywalk Mall in Saket, New Delhi was abuzz today because of Apple’s big event. Apple CEO Tim Cook launched the company’s...

Tim Cook meets PM Modi, to open second Apple store in New Delhi on April 20

Apple CEO Tim Cook met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi today, a day before he is set to open the second Apple store in...

Tim Cook welcomes customers at Apple's first Indian store in Mumbai

A massive crowd gathered at Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex today as Apple CEO Tim Cook threw open the gates to the company’s first store in...

Netflix down for 11,000 users in the US; company denies outage report

Netflix, the hugely popular streaming service, was down on Sunday night for around 11,000 viewers in the United States, as per an outage...

Clips of Elon Musk accusing journalist of lying during interview go viral

Billionaire and Twitter CEO Elon Musk, in an impromptu interview with the BBC, said that running the social media platform has been "quite...