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Once again, India seems to be in a sweet spot. We have just hosted the G-20, the World Cup is in full swing with India coming in strong with back-to-back victories, China seems to be committing eco-political hara-kiri, and most importantly India’s economy and stock market are scaling new heights.

Warren Buffett's company unloaded a number of the smaller investments in its portfolio in the third quarter including GM, Mondelez, Johnson & Johnson, UPS and Procter & Gamble

Elon Musk are some of the high-profile names who are expected join the dinner hosted for US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco. The dinner which is being hosted by National Committee on US China relations and US-China Business Council will take place during the 30th Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on Wednesday. The forum is expected to witness hundreds of business leadeers from various fields like banking and technology attending while President Xi could also make a speech, reported CBS News.

Central-Asia Country Kazakhstan has officially launched the digital tenge project, a central bank digital currency (CBDC) designed to simplify payments and drive economic growth.

According to a recent report by Computer World, Apple is planning to allow iPhone users in the EU to install apps from outside the official App Store to comply with the region’s new Digital Markets Act. This potential change has raised concerns among cybersecurity experts about an increase in phishing attacks targeting crypto users.

OpenAI will pause accepting new users for its paid ChatGPT Plus service due to overwhelming demand, CEO Sam Altman said in a post on Tuesday. Altman's company introduced new features and upgrades at its first-ever developer conference last week, allowing users to build custom versions of ChatGPT to accomplish specific tasks. The announcements triggered a rise in demand for OpenAI's artificial intelligence tools and services. «The surge in usage post devday has exceeded our capacity and we want to make sure everyone has a great experience,» Altman wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. The AI startup said at its conference that roughly 100 million people use its services every week and more than 90% of Fortune 500 businesses are building tools on OpenAI's platform. With the new option, users will be able to create their own specialised versions of ChatGPT — simply called GPTs — that can help teach math to a child or explain the rules of a board game.

By Supantha Mukherjee and Foo Yun Chee

Apple said on Wednesday iPhone 14 users would get free access to its emergency SOS feature for another year. Introduced a year earlier, the feature allows users to share their location through satellite from areas without network by using Apple's FindMy app and send messages to emergency services.

Apple Inc to explain the abrupt end of political comedian Jon Stewart's television show on its streaming service, according to a letter made public on Wednesday, citing concerns that content related to China was behind the cancellation. The New York Times reported last month that Stewart's show on Apple's streaming service was ending, the result of creative differences. The newspaper said Stewart told members of his staff that potential show topics related to China and artificial intelligence were causing concern to Apple executives.

Executives from Microsoft Corp., Citigroup Inc., Exxon Mobil Corp. and other large multinationals are converging on San Francisco this week for an audience with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other Asian leaders as long-frosty US-China relations show only tentative signs of warming.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Tuesday was summoned to federal court for the second time in two weeks to testify in an antitrust trial threatening to topple a pillar of an internet empire that he helped build

By Jonathan Stempel

Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh gave their warm wishes on social media platform X to the nation on November 15, 2023. "It is a festival symbolising the sacred bond between brothers and sisters. My heartfelt wishes to all family members across the country on this auspicious occasion," PM Modi said in a post on X in Hindi.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged in federal court on Tuesday that he sometimes marked documents as «privileged» and never turned off a setting that caused internal chats to delete automatically after one day. Pichai was in court in San Francisco to defend Alphabet's Google from a lawsuit by Epic Games that alleges its app store policies amount to an illegal monopoly and have caused consumers to pay artificially high prices.

By Greg Bensinger

Steve Carell is set to take on the role of the title character in the revival of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.” The production, scheduled to take place at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, will commence previews on April 2, 2024, with the official opening night slated for April 24, 2024. Steve Carell, an actor with an Oscar nomination to his credit, has an extensive filmography that includes notable works such as «Anchorman,» «Foxcatcher,» and «Despicable Me.» Recently, he featured in Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City” and took on the roles of executive producer and lead in FX’s “The Patient,” earning a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. His television appearances include starring in two seasons of Apple TV+'s “The Morning Show” and his iconic role in NBC’s “The Office.” Upcoming projects for Carell include an appearance in “If,” directed by John Krasinski, his co-star from “The Office.”

Palm Springs International Film Festival will honor Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon" with the Vanguard Award. Recognizing both the film's cast and director for their collaborative excellence, the Vanguard Award will be presented to Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese, Executive Producer Leonardo DiCaprio (also an Academy Award winner), and Lily Gladstone, a nominee for the Gotham Award. All three recipients will be present at the event, as confirmed by the Palm Springs International Film Awards. Scheduled for January 4, 2024, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, the Film Awards ceremony will kick off the festival, which will continue through January 15, 2024.

A Moscow court has fined Google for failing to store personal data on its Russian users, the latest in a series of fines on the U.S. tech giant amid tensions with the West over the fighting in Ukraine

Bhojpur district of Bihar, clearly tells this. Kumar, who is currently doing his Ph.D. in Brain-Machine Interfaces at the University of Texas in Austin, cracked the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) at the tender age of 13 in 2013.

Google for refusal to store Russian users’ data on servers in Russia. A magistrate at Moscow's Tagansky district court imposed the fine on Google after the IT company repeatedly refused to store personal data on Russian citizens in Russia.

Apple Inc supplier Foxconn to log a surprise profit of 11 percent in the third quarter. This came as a surprise as the Taiwanese phone manufacturer was anticipating a fall in revenue during the July-September period.