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OpenAI, the firm behind the success of ChatGPT, approached Dario Amodei, the chief executive officer of rival Anthropic, offering him to replace its ousted CEO Sam Altman, reports said on November 21. Apart from offering him the top role, the board of directors also sought to discuss a potential merger between the two artificial intelligence (AI)-focussed startups, Reuters reported, citing sources who are privy to the development. Amodei declined both the offers, the sources further told the news agency.

₹324. On 10 November, the stock’s price fell during the day to a low of ₹256, which was more than a fifth lower than its issue price. Since then, the company’s stock price has recovered, and on Tuesday it closed at around ₹367, or a little over 13% higher than its issue price.

Dallas, United States & Bengaluru, Karnataka, India – Business Wire India Capillary Technologies, a Bengaluru headquartered customer loyalty technology company has been a dominant player in the Asia market for more than a decade. It expanded globally in 2021 and today, the company announced a 4X growth in the last 3 years in the US market.

Raamdeo Agrawal. India is in a different growth cycle, where aggregate earnings continue to grow faster than expected. The September quarter saw India Inc’s earnings grow by 32% versus expectations of about 25-26%, he said. Agrawal therefore remains bullish and sees potential for the market capitalisation to match India’s GDP by 2030. In a recent industry summit, Agrawal predicted the benchmark Nifty50 index to double over the next five years and even swell by 4 times in 10 years. Despite a rollercoaster journey, Nifty50 has given about 6% returns to investors so far in 2023. If earnings grow in double digits annually on a sustainable basis, the market is also ought to grow at a similar pace, according to Agrawal.

Canada with his Australian counterpart Penny Wong. In his meeting with Wong, Jaishankar raised the issue of extremism and radicalism in Canada. Jaishankar said, “Yes, I spoke about it to Minister Wong today.

Anish Damania, CEO, JM Financial, says: “We will see markets doing much better, capital raise is becoming more prolific and investors will continue to doubt this and because investors are doubting this, there is room for appreciation. The key themes which we feel will dominate the India story will be in the manufacturing sector, finance sector, logistics and infra.” Given the kind of backdrop that we are looking at, the fact that there will be triggers down the line with respect to the overall elections, the valuation picture for our own markets, where is India standing at the current juncture? According to us, and we have been having this view for some time, we are on the throes of a mega bullish market lasting for several years, starting from 2020 to 2030. And I feel that this is the biggest bull run which we will see and which will be characterised by both stock markets doing very well and capital markets also doing extremely well. This is the time when India will require the funds, there will be a lot of activity and we feel that this is a time which we need to capitalise on.

Sugar prices are soaring in many places

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the U.K. is setting up a new science initiative to help develop flood-tolerant rice, disease-resistant wheat and other crops that are more resilient to climate change

Senator Elizabeth Warren has highlighted the dangers posed by cryptocurrency scams targeting seniors, receiving support from a cybersecurity expert who endorsed her digital asset legislation as a preventive measure against future scams.

Joe Biden, the oldest president in U.S. history, is celebrating his 81st birthday in a unique and traditional fashion. On Monday, the president will participate in the annual White House tradition of pardoning the Thanksgiving turkeys. The selected stars of the show, Liberty and Bell, hail from Willmar, Minnesota, and have been enjoying a luxurious stay at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. The National Turkey Federation, responsible for the turkey selection, revealed that Liberty and Bell were given a warm welcome at the Willard on Saturday. Markus Platzer, the hotel's general manager, shared some behind-the-scenes details, noting that the turkeys had a «red carpet welcome,» a bubble bath, and even indulged in items from the mini bar.

Adele has revealed that she is married to Rich Paul. The couple were said to have married last year, with Adele, 35, reigniting suspicion when she referred to the 41-year-old sports agent as her «husband.» She is now alleged to have confirmed her marriage at her best buddy Alan Carr's comedy act in Los Angeles, with two audience members confirming the news to Deuxmoi. “I was at Alan Carr's comedy gig in LA tonight, and Adele was in the audience,' an onlooker explained. Alan asked the audience whether anyone had just married, and Adele responded,«I did.» Another audience member commented on the 'small and intimate show,' saying that when he inquired if anyone had just married, she exclaimed «I did.» “It was extremely cute and nice all around, but it dipped right before it ended.” “Adele was seated just behind me with a buddy, having the finest time,” they added.

Investing.com — Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) is working with SandboxAQ, a startup spun off from Google-parent Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) last year, to expand the volume of chemical reactions that companies can simulate in order to help develop new materials for drugs and batteries, according to Bloomberg News.

television has expanded with multiple display types and technologies, offering viewers an array of options to transform their home entertainment experience. Among these, LED displays have emerged as a popular choice, seamlessly blending clarity, vibrant colours, and energy efficiency. A light-emitting diode (LED) display is a technology that employs LED backlighting to illuminate the screen.

Satya Nadella's message reaffirming the company's partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI. Nadella had announced that Microsoft was "committed" to its partnership with OpenAI, while sharing the news that former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman would be joining Microsoft to lead a new AI research team.

Rohit Bajaj, Executive Director — Business Development,Strategy and Regulatory Affairs, IEX, says Now that the new regulation has come, this is GNA regulation where you can avail, you can take open access or you can schedule power up to 11 months in advance under short-term market. What we are doing is taking advantage of the regulation which is there, which is very market-friendly regulation, we are going to apply very shortly. “We are hoping that by January, we should be in a position to launch this contract.” The volume growth that you have clocked in has been fairly encouraging. Do you think that we can see a further margin expansion owing to the operating leverage? This last quarter was very good for us, Q2, where we registered close to 15% growth in overall volume terms. And after that, in October, we saw a huge demand increase. So on a year-on-year basis, the overall country's demand increased by about 22% and we got the lion's share of it. Our volume also increased by 20% in October. In the first seven months, we are at 12% and going forward as the supply constraint will further ease out because November, December, January, February, are generally the months where large supplies come in as not all the states are drawing.

Microsoft, CEO Satya Nadella has informed. “We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners," Nadella wrote on X (formerly Twitter). "We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI's new leadership team and working with them.

Vishal Goyal, Head of Research, UBS Securities, says NBFCs which are purely or mostly doing unsecured lending, are the most impacted as would be some banks which are unsecured and who have just entered unsecured and because their own cost of funding constraints might have taken additional risk. Then there is a category of large banks or top banks. They have historically been doing this business and have been taking less risk, even within unsecured. They would largely be unimpacted from a credit loss point of view. But almost everywhere we would see a slowdown.” You analyse this space pretty closely and RBI did kind of drop hints in multiple platforms about the way unsecured, especially consumer loans were growing at a very scorching pace and now they have moved. How much capital requirement or slowdown in the growth these names would have to see before they normalise? One, there is a direct impact on tier one which we estimate would be anywhere between 30 to 50 bps depending upon which bank we are talking about. Second, there is an indirect impact of increasing risk weights on lending to NBFCs which increases the cost of borrowing for NBFCs effectively and therefore, it will also have an indirect slowdown impact on overall consumer loans.

OpenAI leaders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman are poised to lead a groundbreaking AI research team at Microsoft. This strategic move comes on the heels of their departure from OpenAI, a decision that the board opted not to reverse. Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, has officially confirmed that Altman and Brockman will play pivotal roles in spearheading advanced AI research initiatives within the company. Nadella in a post on X said, «We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI's new leadership team and working with them. And we’re extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. We look forward to moving quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success.»

Ajay Srivastava, CEO, Dimensions Corporate Finance Services, says “the Indian market is about momentum investing. This market is about new stories coming out. This market is about government spending themes. So, you would waste your time if you buy value in this market. Value can go on forever to not be recognised and really speaking at PEs of 25 and 30s, except for banks, it is really difficult to find value. So, forget value.” Markets are doing much better than what everybody thought at the beginning of the year. Well, yes. The answer is yes. But if you look at the vast majority of people who have got invested in largecap funds and who got invested in the banking fund, for them it has not been a good year at this point of time. There are big pockets of market which have done reasonably well or quite well or exceedingly well in that order in the midcaps and smallcaps but if you look at the vast universe of money invested in the largecaps, that has been a very disappointing year for them and we keep saying it is going to repeat itself next year and that is the sad irony that a large portion of funds of retail public are not making even a decent return.

Grant King, the chairman of the Commonwealth’s Climate Change Authority and HSBC’s Australian operations, has joined the top ranks of a private Sydney clean energy company run by the former Australian head of US private equity firm KKR.

Taylor Swift postponed an Eras Tour concert in Rio de Janeiro Saturday after a 23-year-old fan died during her Friday night show, according to a message posted on the singer's Instagram. «I'm writing this from my dressing room in the stadium. The decision has been made to postpone tonight's show due to the extreme temperatures in Rio,» the singer said in a handwritten note on Instagram.