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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Amazon is entering India’s quick commerce (QCom) race, close on the heels of pilots from Flipkart and Reliance. Tata’s Big Basket has morphed into a QCom platform.

The outage has affected not only ChatGPT but also OpenAI's API and Sora platforms. «We're experiencing an outage right now. We have identified the issue and are working to roll out a fix. Sorry, and we'll keep you updated!» OpenAI posted on social media platform X.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As Artificial intelligence (AI) gains currency as a tool to help businesses improve their operations, India's mid-sized software service providers are jumping at the opportunities the new technology promises.

Recent reports have revealed that numerous users throughout the globe are eventually experiencing major difficulties and problems to access these platforms while Downdetector has already shown spikes in the outage reports. Facebook has already seen over 100,000 reports regarding the issues whereas Instagram eventually recorded more than 70,000 reports. The global users are encountering an error message while they are trying to load the applications and during such time a message from Facebook states that, ‘We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can’.

A federal judge in Texas has rejected the auction sale of Alex Jones’ Infowars to The Onion satirical news outlet

TikTok has challenged a Canadian government order to shut down the Chinese video-sharing app’s business operations in the country that was imposed over national security concerns

The woman shared her story on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), where she posted a screenshot of her conversation with a potential renter. The interaction started routinely but quickly took an unexpected turn.

Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has introduced e-adjudication and e-consultation platforms to streamline legal proceedings and foster a more business-friendly regulatory environment, a senior official said on Wednesday. Addressing the ASSOCHAM-ACCA Global Summit on Responsible Corporate Governance and Sustainability Reporting, Anita Shah Akella, CEO of the Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority (IEPFA) and Joint Secretary at MCA, highlighted the government's commitment to balancing corporate integrity with economic dynamism. The introduction of e-adjudication and e-consultation platforms aims to simplify legal procedures, improve stakeholders' experience, and bolster India's ranking in the ease of doing business.

National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) of Mumbai has approved Reliance Strategic Business Ventures Limited’s Rs 202 crore resolution plan for Karkinos Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. (KHPL), a tech-driven oncology platform, which was undergoing insolvency proceedings. The Mumbai Bench gave its nod on December 9, 2024, following approval from 100% of committee of creditors (CoC). KHPL entered the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) on May 21, 2024. The approved plan provides for 100% recovery of dues across all creditor classes, including financial creditors, employees, and suppliers.

MUMBAI: Last week, a man attacked a bank manager in Gujarat over the tax deduction on his fixed deposit interest. A video of the incident has gone viral on social media platforms, with netizens lamenting the customer's unruly behaviour as well as the country's tax system.

SME IPO of Supreme Facility Management opened for subscription earlier today and will close on December 13. The company aims to raise Rs 50 crore through the SME IPO and list the shares on NSE SME platform. Here are 10 key things investors need to know about the public offer before subscribing to the issue.

SME IPO of Purple United Sales will open for subscription today and will close on December 13. The company aims to raise Rs 33 crore through the SME IPO and list the shares on NSE SME platform. Here are 10 key things investors need to know about the public offer before subscribing to the issue.

Indian Motion Picture Producers' Association and the America's Motion Picture Association, which has an office in India, to present their views on the issue of over-the-top (OTT) content on December 20. The committee, chaired by Lok Sabha member Nishikant Dubey, will deliberate on the topic, "Emergence of OTT Platforms and Related Issues," with representatives from these associations. This development follows Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw's request for the parliamentary standing committee to take up the issue of strengthening existing laws governing social media and OTT platforms on a priority basis.

If you’ve been following Bitcoin’s recent price increase, you’re not alone. The price of Bitcoin rose to a new all-time high of over $100,000 on Dec. 5—its first time hitting a price of six digits.This came shortly after President-elect Donald Trump’s promise of a crypto-friendly administration. It has since fallen closer to $95,000, but it’s still more than double what it was a year ago.

The two trials AXA IM participated in used blockchain infrastructure and the Banque de France's tokenised cash solution and were part of the Call for Expression of Interest launched in December 2023 by the ECB to test new technologies for the settlement of wholesale financial transactions in digital central bank money.  In the first experiment, AXA IM – on behalf of AXA France – invested €3m in a digital sovereign bond issued by the Republic of Slovenia. The transaction was executed on BNP Paribas' Neobonds tokenisation platform with the settlement with a one-day settlement period an...

California lawmakers will consider a bill to require labels on social media platforms warning of their effects on young people’s lives

The Onion's bid to buy conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars is back in a Texas courtroom

Dune: Prophecy continues its prequel saga to the renowned Dune films. Episode 5 is set to release on December 15, 2024.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The buzzword on Wall Street is to “democratize" everything that was once exclusively for sophisticated investors, be it hedge-fund strategies, options trading or private markets. It was only a matter of time until the list included tax avoidance.

Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY), aims to promote innovation and agri-entrepreneurship, by providing financial and technical support for nurturing startups. Minister of State for Agriculture Bhagirath Choudhary, in his written reply to the Lok Sabha, said a financial assistance of Rs 122.50 crore has been released to 1,708 agri startups from 2019-20 to 2023-24. The funds were released through five Knowledge Partners (KPs) and 24 RKVY Agribusiness Incubators (R-ABIs) that provide training and incubate startups for implementation of this programme.

holiday shopping scams that one should watch out for this December. The social media giant has launched a worldwide anti-scam awareness campaign aimed at protecting users from fraudulent schemes during the holiday shopping season. The company, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, revealed it has taken down over two million accounts linked to scam centers in Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, the UAE, and the Philippines this year. In another instance, Meta said its enforcement efforts have removed 15,000 phishing URLs in Vietnam and 9,000 in Singapore this year to save people from holiday shopping scams. Meta in a blog post said it has partnered with a top internet safety expert and ethical hacker, Rachel Tobac, to share how scammers might be targeting people online this holiday season and how to avoid scams. Meta disrupted scam campaigns targeting holiday shoppers outside of our platforms and took thousands of malicious URLs that impersonated Meta’s apps off the internet, it said in a statement.