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As summer heats up, vitriolic debates in the US are peaking. I’m talking about the rift between men who wear shorts to office and those who consider these a workwear abomination. On the West Coast, especially in the tech sector, wearing shorts to work is perhaps unremarkable.

A serious crash involving a school bus full of children and some adults on Highway 97 in B.C.’s Cariboo region Friday afternoon has resulted in dozens of injuries.

Ilya Sutskever, one of the cofounders of AI company OpenAI,has launched a new firm called Safe Superintelligence Inc (SSI), just a month after leaving the ChatGPT maker. Sutskever, along with Jan Leike, who co-led OpenAI’s ‘Superalignment’ team, left the Sam Altman-run company in May last year after a fall-out with the leadership at OpenAI. Leike now heads a team at rival AI company Anthropic, in which tech giants Google and Amazon have made investments. In a post on X social media platform, Sutskever said that “SSI is our mission, our name, and our entire product roadmap, because it is our sole focus.”

summer heat is drawing people out to cafes serving cold beverages like iced coffee and tea as well as summer-specific products, according to multiple industry executives. National chains such as Third Wave Coffee, Chaayos, AbCoffee, and Boba Bhai said they are registering increasing footfall at their cafes — across northern India in particular — offering a stark contrast to reports of dipping sales at restaurant chains in the region that is battling record summer temperatures. While the availability of cold beverages and expansion of the on-premise menu is boosting sales, these cafes are also recording a spike in orders for delivery of summer-specific items. In addition, new-age cafes are popular destinations for remote working and meetings, which is further boosting footfalls.

Bad Boy Records' Instagram has been removed, including the 54-year-old founder's 'May apologies to Cassie Ventura'. After a video surfaced of him assaulting the singer of «Me & U,» he made this apology. His almost 20 million fans are now curious as to what he would do next, as reported by 'Page Six.' His Grammy-nominated record may be accessed using the link in his bio, which still reads «Listen to The Love Album: Off the Grid.» Diddy’s Social Media Silence

research. Besides grades, extra-curricular activities, and self-studying online courses from reputed institutions, doing research while in school is vital for getting admission in top universities abroad, various study abroad experts said. Piyush Kumar, regional director, South Asia and Mauritius, at IDP Education, said Ivy League institutions seek students who go the extra mile by engaging in «super curricular» activities like entrepreneurship ventures, startups, small businesses and writing research papers.

ET Now: The Indian IT pack has seen a lot of changes following Accenture's latest numbers, which showed a slight miss. Despite this, some brokerage notes suggest this could be a positive for Indian IT, although recovery might be gradual. What do you make of these numbers, and what impact could they have on the external-facing IT sector? If you were to play this sector, would you favor large caps over mid caps, or what is your strategy for the Indian IT space?

arrested the driver of a school van after two girls fell off the vehicle and suffered injuries in Gujarat's Vadodara city, an official said on Saturday. The incident, which took place on the afternoon of June 19, was caught on a CCTV camera, and the footage went viral on social media, triggering public outrage. Pranav Kataria, assistant commissioner of police, Vadodara, said the CCTV video was recovered from a residential society in the city's Tarsali Road locality. It showed two girls in uniform being thrown out of the van along with their school bags. «In the video, two girls are seen falling off the school van on a road inside a residential society. The van driver seen in the video, Prateek Padhiyar, has been rounded up,» Kataria said.

RVNL shares, which ended 6% higher on Friday, gave a consolidation breakout on the daily chart, suggesting a rising optimism among investors. «Besides, the stock has moved above a critical moving average. The RSI is in bullish crossover. In the near term, the stock might move towards Rs 440 while a support is placed at Rs 394,» said Rupak De, Senior Technical Analyst at LKP Securities.

IndiaAI Mission at the Global IndiaAI Summit to be held in New Delhi on July 3-4, the electronics and information technology ministry said on Friday. In March, the government had approved Rs 10,372 crore to be spent over the next five years on setting up compute capacity of up to 10,000 graphic processing units (GPUs), developing artificial intelligence (AI) applications in critical sectors and working on addressing problems raised by central and state governments as well as government-run institutions.

deep tech startups in 2023 with 480 new ventures emerging, making it the third largest pool globally, a report said. However, the report by technology industry body nasscom and global consulting firm Zinnov highlighted the worrying trend of a funding winter, posing a major challenge for these startups. 'India's deep tech Dawn: Forging Ahead' report also said funding for scaling, talent attraction and retention, and global expansion are the top 3 challenges faced by startups in deep tech innovation.

«I think in insurance there are a couple of things going on. One, obviously the two main drivers there will be, one was the large overhang for the last I think six-eight months around the surrender values I think that largely is behind us now with the ruling now,» says Sunil Koul, Goldman Sachs. Is the base case assumption a meaningful rural recovery or is it placed purely on valuation comfort, some of those pockets that you talked about? Sunil Koul: Look it is not a strong rural recovery we are baking in our numbers because I think the fact remains as we know that numbers have kind of bottomed out to a large extent. The FMCG volume growth was kind of negative for many quarters.

Nifty and Sensex are consistently moving upwards and the bull run is expected to continue as the Lok Sabha election results were well absorbed by the market participants. Considering the past week, Nifty seems to have taken a support near the 23,400 mark while Sensex seems to be resisting the 77,850 level for the last 3 trading sessions as the BSE benchmark Sensex declined 269 points or 0.35% to settle at 77,209 on Friday while Nifty dropped 66 points or 0.28% to end at 23,501.

Lac La Hache and about an hour north of 100 Mile House, around 1 p.m.“Multiple air ambulances, BCEHS ground crews and several local fire departments responded to the scene,” Highway Patrol Cpl.

N Biren Singh on Friday that Manipur is a top priority for the Modi government and that a solution to the ongoing crisis in the state will likely be achieved within the next 2-3 months. Manipur is battling ethnic strife for more than a year now. Talking to media persons in Imphal on Friday, Singh said that violence continues in some areas due to a lack of security personnel, but the situation is improving as security forces which were taken out of the state for general election duties have come back and have been redeployed in vulnerable areas. «Now, the situation will be better,» he added.

U.S. Department of Justice plans to focus an upcoming lawsuit against TikTok on allegations that the popular social media platform violated the privacy rights of children, rather than claims it misled adult users about its data privacy practices, according to a source familiar with the matter. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission investigated the potential violations by TikTok and its parent company ByteDance and referred the case to the Justice Department on Tuesday.

Jupiter’s non-banking finance company (NBFC) business, housed under a separate entity named Amica Finance Pvt Ltd, has raised Rs 20 crore in its maiden equity funding round from investors, including Peak XV Partners and Matrix Partners. The funding round was led by Peak XV Partners, with an infusion of Rs 5.2 crore, followed by Matrix Partners, with a Rs 4.3 crore investment. Other investors in the round include QED Fund, Greyhound Capital, Tiger Global, Beenext, Mirae Asset Venture Investments, and Global Founders Capital, among others. These investors have also backed Jupiter.

Anthropic, a startup backed by Google and Amazon.com, on Thursday released an updated artificial intelligence model and a new layout to boost user productivity, continuing an industry sprint to push technology's frontier. Three months after rolling out its Claude 3 family of AI models, Anthropic said it was launching Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

investor in Indian startups with investment in 47 entities, according to ASK Private Wealth Hurun India Future Unicorn Index 2024. According to the index report, Peak XV is followed by Accel which has invested in 25 companies that are poised to become the next generation of unicorns. «With an impressive portfolio of 47 investments, Peak XV Partners emerges as the top investor in the ASK Private Wealth Hurun India Future Unicorn Index 2024, the report said, adding that Peak XV Partners registered successes by investing in Turtlemint, CleverTap and Classplus, among others.

global expansion (including acquisitions) are among the objectives cited behind Oyo's latest fund raise and increasing its authorised share capital, as per the regulatory documents seen by ET. ET reported on June 20 that Oyo has received shareholder approval for raising Rs 416.85 crore through preference shares in an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) held on June 18. The shareholders also gave their nod to increasing Oyo's authorized share capital from Rs 901.14 crore to Rs 1,341.14 crore.