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David Beckham was recently spotted partying with the Who’s Who of B’town. Beckham, who is a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF was on a visit to India. During his stay, many big shots of the tinsel town, such as Shah Rukh Khan and Sonam Kapoor arranged grand soirees in his honour.

Vijayashanthi on Saturday accused the BJP of failing to initiate action against Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao despite labelling him as "corrupt" and indicated that both the BRS and the saffron party are together. Addressing reporters here, she said searches were conducted by central agencies such as ED on several leaders but not against Rao.

The Hill. In a hypothetical match-up between Biden and Haley, the poll showed that Haley led with 55 per cent while Biden at 45 per cent, the report citing the poll stated. The poll was conducted from 2 November-7 November wherein 856 registered voters and 668 probable voters participated.

OpenAI researchers — Jakub Pachocki, Aleksander Madry and Szymon Sidor — told associated they had resigned, Reuters reported on Friday. This further deepened the crisis at the company behind ChatGPT. The information came after the board of the the artificial intelligence company ousted its co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sam Altman earlier in the day.

Rajasthan assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday stated that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is dedicated to delivering on all the commitments it made to the people of Rajasthan. While addressing a rally in Bharatpur, Modi said, “BJP will fulfil all promises it made to people of Rajasthan, this is Modi's guarantee." Furthermore, Modi slammed the Congress government in Rajasthan, alleging the party sent the state to the top in a number of crimes and riots by letting anti-social elements loose with its policy of appeasement, PTI reported. Also Read: BJP manifesto for Rajasthan ahead of election: ₹450 per LPG cylinder, ₹1,200 for EWS students Modi taunted state Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, and said, "The people have decided not to vote for the “jadugar" and that Congress will vanish from the state after the election.

ChatGPT, on Friday fired CEO Sam Altman after its board «lost confidence in his leadership abilities». OpenAI announced that chief technology officer Mira Murati will step in as interim CEO.

Altman’s ouster. The company pushed out Altman after a review found he was “not consistently candid in his communications" with the board of directors. “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI," it added.

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI as chief technology officer (CTO), has been appointed as the company's interim CEO with immediate effect as the company seeks a permanent replacement. Murati's appointment comes after OpenAI in a recent statement announced the departure of co-founder and CEO, Sam Altman. The company said an internal review highlighted Altman's lack of consistent transparency in communications with the board of directors.

OpenAI’s firing of Sam Altman followed wide-ranging disagreements between the chief executive officer and his board — in particular Ilya Sutskever, an OpenAI co-founder and the company’s chief scientist, according to a person familiar with the matter. The debates included differences of opinion on AI safety, the speed of development of the technology and the commercialization of the company, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing private information.

Sam Altman followed wide-ranging disagreements between the chief executive officer and his board — in particular Ilya Sutskever, an OpenAI co-founder and the company’s chief scientist, according to a person familiar with the matter. The debates included differences of opinion on AI safety, the speed of development of the technology and the commercialization of the company, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing private information.

OpenAI on Friday fired its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman after a review found he was “not consistently candid in his communications" with the board of directors. “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI," the company said. Sam Altman expressed his love for the time he spent at OpenAI and the transformative impact it had on him personally and the world.

China's growing influence across Central America. With the Chinese ambassador at his side, Bukele toured the seven-story building, erected at a cost of $54 million paid for by China. The building sprawls over 24,000 square meters (260,000 square feet), and contains gamer and robotics areas, interactive digital screens and both a digital library and shelves containing 360,000 books, the government said on Tuesday. A day later, the son of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Laureano Ortega, inspected 250 Chinese-made buses and thanked Beijing for the «special relationship» he asserted was lifting the nation out of poverty. «The new politics of the region has accelerated China's influence and put distance between the United States and Central America, from the leftist authoritarian Ortega regime to the right-wing authoritarian Bukele regime,» Evan Ellis, a researcher at the US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, told AFP. Since Costa Rica switched diplomatic relations from Taipei to Beijing in 2007, China has steadily gained ground in Central America, establishing relations with Panama (2017), El Salvador (2018), Nicaragua (2021) and most recently Honduras earlier this year. «China's efforts in Central America have mostly been driven by an interest in isolating Taiwan,» Margaret Myers, a specialist in China and Latin America at the Inter-American Dialogue, told AFP. In Central America, only Guatemala and Belize are among the dwindling 13 nations that still maintain diplomatic ties with Taiwan, a self-governing island that China considers part of its territory.

OpenAI president Greg Brockman said he is departing from the company just hours after the board fired chief executive officer Sam Altman. Brockman, who helped found OpenAI alongside Altman, said in a post on X that he was quitting. The company had said earlier in the day that he would step down as chair of the board but remain as president, reporting to the CEO.

Kristalina Georgieva said on Friday this week's meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping is a badly needed signal that the world needs to cooperate more.

ChatGPT-maker Open AI fired the co-founder and CEO Sam Altman after a review found he was “not consistently candid in his communications" with the board of directors. In a statement, the company said, “the board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI." Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology officer, will take over as interim CEO effective immediately, the company said, while it searches for a permanent replacement. Also Read: Who is Mira Murati, the creator of ChatGPT, and now OpenAI's interim CEO? After his removal, tech leaders have reacted and praised Altman for his accomplishments in the world of AI.

Donald Trump can remain on the state's presidential primary ballot, said Colorado District Judge Sarah Wallace on Friday. He rejected the arguments that Trump violated his oath of office by engaging in an insurrection. This came after similar court decisions in Minnesota and Michigan that left Trump on the ballot in those states, according to a report published by AFP. The rulings mark a victory for the former Republican President as he staves off well-funded legal challenges seeking to bar his return to the White House in elections next year.

bond market after the banking regulator Thursday assigned higher risk weights to unsecured advances, potentially increasing debt supply by pushing these borrowers to sell corporate bonds while making it more expensive for banks to lend to this credit subsegment. Corporate bond yields, therefore, are set to head north as a large section of non-banking finance companies (NBFCs), hitherto relying on bank funding, increase debt supply to garner incremental capital, prompting investors to demand higher rates of interest. «There could be some widening in terms of credit spreads for NBFCs.

Mira Murati has worked behind the scenes at OpenAI, overseeing the development and delivery of revolutionary products such as ChatGPT and DALL-E. Now she is stepping into the limelight as its interim CEO. Murati, 34, was elevated to the top position at the high-profile company Friday when OpenAI's board of directors ousted Sam Altman, the company's co-founder and CEO. The company said that Murati had a «unique skill set» and would provide «a seamless transition while it conducts a formal search for a permanent CEO.»

Xi Jinping rarely bothers to glad-hand or to try charming a crowd. His public appearances in China are carefully crafted, with fawning cadres and adoring fans positioned around him. So, when Xi landed in San Francisco this week to meet with President Joe Biden, to try to stabilize a relationship with the United States that has been spiraling downward, it provided a rare opportunity to see the Chinese leader up close and, at times, less filtered than usual. There were a few moments when Xi turned animated — or the closest he gets to it — like when a group of Iowans he had met in the 1980s came through the receiving line at a gala dinner in San Francisco on Wednesday night.

ChatGPT-maker Open AI said Friday it has pushed out its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman after a review found he was “not consistently candid in his communications" with the board of directors. . “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI," the artificial intelligence company said in a statement.

OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman said he’s departing from the maker of generative artificial intelligence tools just hours after the board pushed out Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman. “I’m super proud of what we’ve all built together since starting in my apartment 8 years ago," Brockman wrote in a post on the social media site X.