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Artificial intelligence continues both to astound and confound. Google’s recent launch of its new Gemini AI tools was a mess, producing images of Founding Fathers and Nazi soldiers as people of color. When asked if Elon Musk or Adolf Hitler had a more negative effect on society, Gemini responded that it was “difficult to say." Google pulled the product over “inaccuracies." AI is the next wave of computing and human interface but it’s definitely out over its skis.

Apple has reversed course under regulatory pressure and cleared the way for a nettlesome adversary, video game maker Epic Games, to set up an alternative store for iPhone apps in Europe

Saudi oil giant Aramco says it made $121 billion profit last year, down from its 2022 record due to lower energy prices

Ramadan starts, ANI reported on Sunday citing an Express Tribune report The report said the people of the neighbouring country are already facing a two to three-fold increase in the prices of essential kitchen items like vegetables, sugar, edible oil, ghee, meat, eggs, and pulses. This substantial increase in prices of essential commodities has added to the economic sufferings of low- to middle-income consumers. Experts see a further hike in commodity prices during the holy month of Ramadan, with a general surge of 31.5% in recent months.

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Investing.com — Here are the biggest analyst moves in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) for this week.

Mobile phone manufacturing in value terms jumped 21-fold to Rs 4.1 lakh crore in India in the last 10 years as government policy measures like PLI played a critical role in attracting global players to boost local production, industry body ICEA said in a statement. India now produces 97 per cent of its total mobile phone demand locally and 30 per cent of the total production in financial year 2024 is meant for export, the India Cellular and Electronics Association said. «Mobile phone production surged from Rs 18,900 crore in 2014-15 to an estimated Rs 4,10,000 crore in FY'24, registering an increase of 2000 per cent. In 2014-15, mobile phone exports from India were a mere Rs 1,556 crore. The industry expects to end FY24 with an estimated export of Rs 1,20,000 crore. This would mean a 7500 per cent increase in exports over a decade,» ICEA said. According to a note on manufacturing, in the field of smartphones, Apple and Samsung, have played a crucial role in boosting mobile phone exports from the country.

Ramadan began on Sunday, people in Pakistan are bracing themselves for a hike in essential commodities, including food items, The Express Tribune reported. According to the report, the country already records a two to three-fold inflation in the prices of essential kitchen items, including vegetables, sugar, edible oil, ghee, meat, eggs, and pulses.

Maya Rudolph as Molly Wells, a billionaire navigating life after a high-profile divorce. The new season promises to delve deeper into Molly's philanthropic efforts and her budding romantic interests, offering viewers an intriguing glimpse into her world. Plot

Inox Cinema Complex in Srinagar. Hibban, says Shah, is hooked to the e-gaming zone at the complex. As night falls, they make their hour-long journey back to Tral. This very ordinary weekend activity was the stuff of dreams in Kashmir as recent as five years ago. Shah says it is safe now to drive at night, all the way back to Tral. “The Valley has been peaceful in the last few years. Some of the sectors such as tourism and construction have witnessed a boom never seen before,” Shah tells ET. Five years ago, in February 2019, a suicide attack killed 40 Indian soldiers in Pulwama, bringing New Delhi and Islamabad perilously close to a full-blown war. The incident, which happened on the eve of the 2019 general elections, drummed up nationalistic fervour in the rest of India and was one of the factors that helped BJP sweep the polls. And one of the first steps taken by the new government under Narendra Modi was to scrap Article 370 of the Constitution, a provision that granted special status to Jammu & Kashmir. The Centre divided the state into two Union territories: Jammu & Kashmir, and Ladakh. It was an unpopular decision in the Valley but there were no big protests as all local political leaders and separatist-leaning youth were under preventive detention.

iOS 18 update is currently on the cards and iOS users are anticipating enhanced user experience features on their Apple devices. Here are the details on all you need to know about Apple's latest update

I don’t remember seeing a thing quite like that," remarks Greg Joswiak on digital artist Dhruv Jani’s labyrinthian game. Jani and other digital artists who brought their creations to life with iPads and MacBooks at the recently concluded India Art Fair 2024, are meeting Joswiak, senior vice-president of worldwide marketing at Apple, at the tech company’s Mumbai office. “One of the things we see constantly indicative of this generation is (that) they are always trying to make the world better," says Joswiak, who was in India last month.

ChatGPT, is rapidly approaching Apple's spot as the world's second-most valuable company.. In a remarkable rally driven by AI advancements, Nvidia's market valuation has surged from $1 trillion to over $2 trillion in just nine months, surpassing Amazon.com, Google-parent Alphabet, and Saudi Aramco along the way, according to a report by CNBC-TV18.

Meta Quest 3 not only offers better value but stands as the superior product overall. Dismissing suggestions of similarity between the devices, he emphasized that the Quest is distinctly superior.

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The largest weekly outflow on record for technology stock funds hasn’t dimmed the broader euphoria that is driving US equities to “ferocious” gains, according to Bank of America Corp. strategists. 

stocks at the fastest rate on record and continued to pour money into investment grade bonds and cash equivalents in the week to Wednesday, Bank of America said on Friday, citing data from EPFR. Tech stocks saw $4.4 billion of outflows in the latest week, their «largest outflow ever» and the first outflow in nine weeks, BofA said in its weekly roundup of fund flows in and out of world markets, without specifying how far back its figures went.

Investors have been treating Broadcom like the next Nvidia. They forgot about the iPhone. Broadcom’s market value has more than doubled over the past year, and its stock has been the third-biggest gainer on the PHLX Semiconductor Index in that time behind Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices.

NEW DELHI : India’s mobile phone exports are expected to cross ₹1.2 trillion at the end of this financial year, reaching a major milestone propelled by the government’s thrust on phone makers such as Apple and Samsung to manufacture locally. The exports would account for nearly one-third of the total domestic production of mobile phones, projected at about ₹4.1 trillion in FY24, the Indian Cellular and Electronics Association said on Thursday.

European Union regulators want to question Apple over accusations that it blocked video game company Epic Games from setting up its own app store

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince has transferred another 8% of shares in the kingdom’s oil giant Saudi Aramco to the country’s prominent sovereign wealth fund