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technology that could make tens of thousands of personalized phone calls to voters using Diemer's talking points and sense of humor. His campaign agreed to try out the technology. But it turned out that the only thing voters hated more than a robocall was an AI-backed one. While Civox's AI program made almost 1,000 calls to voters in five minutes, nearly all of them hung up in the first few seconds when they heard a voice that described itself as an AI volunteer, Diemer said.

Kennedy Jr. has not been so much in the headlines as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump over the course of the past few weeks, but this latest stance of his, has made him the biggest headline of the United States. There are strong rumors that RFK Jr. would be dropping out of the upcoming US Presidential polls 2024, and could be allying with either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, for a possible partnership and support.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his independent campaign for president Friday and endorsed Donald Trump, a late-stage shakeup of the presidential race that could give the former president a modest boost from Kennedy's supporters. Kennedy said his internal polls had shown that his presence in the race would hurt Trump and help Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, though recent public polls don't provide a clear indication that he is having an outsize impact on support for either major-party candidate. Kennedy cited free speech, the war in Ukraine and «a war on our children» as among the reasons he would try to remove his name from the ballot in battleground states. «These are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent, and now to throw my support to President Trump,» Kennedy said.

₹3,01,684 crore into the Indian stock markets till 21 August, up nearly threefold from ₹1,08,887 crore a year earlier. At the same time, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) cut their investments to ₹15,940 crore from ₹1,40,105 crore a year earlier.

polls 2024 is as tricky as it gets after Kamala Harris entered the US Polls 2024 race, and managed to secure a slight lead over Donald Trump, just 75 days before the elections. Meanwhile, this factor of odds slowly coming in favor of Kamala Harris is exciting bettors like anything, as bookmakers from across the world are watching on.

urban consumption, softer manufacturing sector growth and moderate government expenditure amid elections may have dragged down growth in the first quarter of FY25. India's economy likely grew by a median 6.85% in the April-June period from a year earlier, according to an ET poll of 14 economists, slipping from 7.8% in the last quarter of FY24 and 8.2% in the year before. The growth estimates ranged from 6% to 7.5%. The median figure is lower than the RBI forecast of 7.1% for the quarter. «Slowing of manufacturing activity and lower government expenditure during the election period likely contributed to the slowdown in output growth in the quarter,» said Shreya Sodhani, regional economist, Barclays, pencilling in 7.1% gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the June quarter. The government will release June quarter growth data on August 30. The general elections held in the April-June period impacted government spending.

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Trump has probably found another great promotional tactic ahead of the US Presidential elections 2024, and this is something no President hopeful has ever done or supported. It looks like he has turned to Elon Musk for all out-of-the-box promo ideas, and this time Musk has developed an AI system which shows both of them in an armed robbery and other crimes. The most striking factor of this entire build is the fact that the video looks very close to being real. People can now actually use Musk's AI tech to make both these individuals commit a variety of crimes, as designed in the application.

While Tim Walz’s disclosed net worth might seem modest compared to other candidates in this year’s presidential election, the 60-year-old VP aspirant is still probably far more financially stable than many retirees.

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YouTube has launched a new feature to help recover users their hacked accounts. The feature includes Artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for the hacked YouTube channels. The new features is part of YouTube Help where a creator can learn how to «recover a hacked YouTube channel». Here YouTube has an option of «Chat with our hacked Channel assistant», as per a report on Dexerto. This option will lead you to recover hacked YouTube account. YouTube AI assistant feature is currently available in English.

UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath will lead the party campaign in the upcoming bypolls on 10 assembly seats in the state. Yogi has already started touring the assembly constituencies and has covered Milkipur and Katehari assembly constituencies. On Friday, Yogi Aditya Nath was in Ghaziabad assembly constituency which is also scheduled to go for the by-poll after sitting MLA Atul Garg became an MP from Ghaziabad. On Thursday evening, a meeting of the BJP state unit, the government and the RSS took place for the first time post the Lok Sabha results to take stock of the situation and ensure better coordination between the government, the party and the cadre. The meeting took place under the leadership of RSS Sah Sarkaryawah Arun Kumar where along with Yogi, both the deputy chief ministers, state president and state general secretary (oraganisation) were present.Recently, the rumours have been floating around about differences among the leadership at the top in UP and this meeting was aimed to ease out differences and put up a united face ahead of assembly elections. Behind the scenes efforts were already going on by the RSS and the results were visible over the past few days. On August 18, deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya openly praised the CM and termed him the best chief minister among all states. Maurya has also been attending party workers meeting alongside Yogi to send out a message of truce among the party cadre.

India has become the flavour of the US presidential elections. For the first time, two Americans of Indian origin, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy, figured as possible candidates for the presidential elections. When JD Vance became former President Donald Trump's running mate, spotlight fell on his wife Usha Vance, an Indian American and practicing Hindu. With the nomination of Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s candidate for the presidency, once again India has come to foreground. In her speech on Thursday night in which she formally accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency, Harris spoke at length about her childhood days when she was raised by her mother Shymala Gopalan alone, who had divorced from her Jamaican American husband. What Harris said about her mother Harris started her speech by remembering her mother. «But I’m no stranger to unlikely journeys. So, my mother, our mother, Shyamala Harris, had one of her own. And I miss her every day, and especially right now. And I know she’s looking down smiling. I know that,» she said.

defamation case filed against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over a 2018 incident as the plaintiff could not appear citing ill health, his lawyer said. The court has now fixed September 5 as the next date for hearing in the case, plaintiff Vijay Mishra's lawyer Santosh Kumar Pandey said. «Mishra did not appear in the court today due to ill health. An application was given to the court seeking time to present evidence, which was accepted and the MP-MLA court has given the date of September 5 for next hearing. »On this date, the plaintiff will have to present evidence in the court through the lawyer," Pandey said.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has lowered India’s growth forecast by 20 basis points each for this year and the next, citing a contraction in central government expenditure. The bank now expects the nation’s economy to expand at 6.7% in calendar 2024, and 6.4% in 2025. The current year’s downgrade factors a 35% year-on-year contraction in government expenditure during the April-June quarter that coincided with the weeks-long general election, the US bank’s economist led by Santanu Sengupta wrote in a report Friday. India’s growth next year will be hampered by the government’s commitment in the budget to bring down the fiscal deficit to below 4.5% of gross domestic product. Expansion will also face headwinds from slower real consumption growth, driven by a slowdown in household credit due to the Reserve Bank of India’s stricter rules to control unsecured lending by banks, the economists said.

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₹9,879 crore. The first six weeks of the quarter that included Akshaya Tritiya saw 20% retail growth. However, a steep rally in gold rates, election-led restrictions in many markets, very few wedding dates and an unprecedented heatwave across the country hurt the overall consumer demand during the quarter, Titan said in its earnings announcement.

Jay Shah, the current secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), has emerged as the leading candidate to succeed Greg Barclay as the International Cricket Council (ICC) chair. The BCCI is confident that Shah will be elected unopposed, given the widespread support he has received from various cricket boards, which have expressed their desire for him to lead the global cricket body, a top source from the board has confirmed. To secure his nomination, the ICC requires a proposer and a seconder. Reports indicate that England and Australia are likely to back Shah's candidacy, further solidifying his bid for the top position.

ET Markets analysed data of all companies with a market capitalization of at least Rs 5,000 crore and found that there were 40 companies which reported over 50% drop in their net profits in Q1.

«The S&P is still above 5600, has rebounded almost every single thing that it has lost that day. So, I think the more that we get clarity on this type of data, then the more that we are going to see markets factor in more than 100 basis rate cuts by the end of the year,» says Nadia Elbilassy, Sr Market Analyst, Equiti Group. Now, dovish minutes really coming in from the Fed, decreased risks to inflation, labour markets are also at a better place is a sense that seems to be coming out. So, are the markets then factoring in one cut and what do you really make of the minutes? Nadia Elbilassy: Yes, markets are pricing in by 60% that we are going to see a 25 basis point rate cut in September and 30% 50 basis point. So, there is still a division, but it is definitely lower than the past few months, especially after the very weak NFP payrolls that we saw.