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SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son said on Friday that the group's mission was to help in humanity's progress by realising artificial super intelligence, which he said would exceed human capabilities by a factor of 10,000. «SoftBank Group has done many things until now that have all been a warm up for my great dream to realise artificial intelligence,» Son told shareholders at the group's annual general meeting.

«Coming to private sector banks in particular, the growth is going to be strong in FY24, particularly second half, in terms of the loan book growth,» says Rajesh Kothari, CIO, AlfAccurate Advisors. Let us start off with banks, exactly what our experts were talking about because seems like that is where valuation comfort is. The FIIs clearly making a comeback and their first port of call is private banks. Do you believe this is going to be a sustainable move? Rajesh Kothari: Well, I think entire banking and finance if we divid it into multiple sub-segments, so we have private sector banks, then we have PSU bank, then we have NBFCs, and then there is something called others, which includes insurance, asset management companies, wealth management companies and exchanges.

Brazil's top court decided on Thursday to close an investigation into Alphabet's Google and Telegram for allegedly coordinating their opposition to a bill aimed at cracking down on fake news. The bill, which is still pending, would require that internet companies' search engines and social messaging services find and report illegal material, and would charge hefty fines for failures to do so.

Nvidia's shares declined nearly 3.4% on Thursday, handing the title of the world's most valuable company back to Microsoft. Nvidia, whose market capitalization surpassed that of Microsoft on Tuesday, was set to lose around $91 billion to its last closing market value of $3.34 trillion, at the current level of $131.88.

New York's governor has signed a bill that would allow parents to block their children from getting social media posts suggested by a platform’s algorithm, a move to limit feeds critics argue are addictive

UGC-NET exams this year. Until now, allegations of fraud and paper leaks were linked to only some state exams. An estimated 2.4 million science stream students just out of school have been trapped by allegations of exam paper leak to row over awarding grace marks related to NEET. If this was not misery enough for the student community and parents, the overnight cancellation of UGCNET for doctorate aspirants has added to their woes. Though both exams are very different in terms of career options, they are conducted by the National Testing Agency and are currently pen-paper tests. The health ministry resisted an online format for NEET, while UGC-NET successfully run as a computer-based test (CBT) since 2018 was suddenly moved to a paper-based optical mark reader (OMR) test this year, baffling many as tests do not move back from online to pen-paper mode normally.

Refuting the allegations, RJD leader Manoj Jha said the entire story has been created to defame a government employee to save the big faces involved in NEET paper leak. At a press meet in Patna on Thursday, Sinha claimed that Yadav's personal secretary Pritam Kumar was in constant touch with Sikander Prasad Yadvendu, the prime accused in the case.

Infosys has been invited to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Friday — June 21, 2024. The honour commemorates Infosys’ 25 years of being listed in the US, the company said in a statement. Salil Parekh, CEO, Infosys along with Jayesh Sanghrajka, CFO, and other key leaders from Infosys, will ring The Opening Bell at the NYSE.

IndiGo on Thursday said it has partnered with Garuda Aviation Academy to train fresh pilots as future junior first officers, under the airline's Cadet Pilot Program. The 21-month course includes a three-month ground schooling at Garuda Aviation Academy training centre in Gurugram, followed by 12 months of training at 43 Air School in South Africa, which has a track record of training over 6,000 ab-initio pilots over the years, IndiGo said. Over the last 13 years, the airline said, it has formed eight such partnerships and inducted over 1,000 pilots through these full training programmes, including commercial pilot licence and A320 type rating, the airline said. These courses start right from cadet selection to induction into the airline as a pilot, according to the airline.

Anuj Rathi has joined as the chief business and growth officer of Flipkart’s travel booking unit Cleartrip, Rathi announced in a LinkedIn post on Thursday. A former Flipkart executive, Rathi was most recently the chief product and marketing officer at fintech firm Jupiter, and is replacing Flipkart veteran Ayyappan R, who left the firm earlier this year, as the leader of the unit. ET had reported on Rathi’s appointment on May 20.

work from home popular again with corporates preferring to come to the office only 2-3 times a week. According to a survey by coworking company The Office Pass (TOP), working from home more often was preferred by 26%, while 24% chose to operate from a café or coworking space near their home. Only 16% preferred to work from the office exclusively.

Wifi penetration in India continues to lag behind despite several efforts by the government and telecom operators, a top official of the Department of Science and Technology said on Thursday. While speaking at a Broadband India Forum (BIF) event on World Wifi day, the Department of Science and Technology (DST) Secretary Abhay Karandikar said the absence of an ubiquitous backend telecom infrastructure is restricting the growth of wifi penetration in India despite advancement in the technology and availability of spectrum. «Wifi is a key to providing affordable connectivity and in India we still continue to lag behind in public wifi penetration in a significant manner despite several efforts made by the government and the operators,» he said.

SoftBank Group will ramp up its power generation business primarily in the United States to supply power to generative artificial intelligence projects worldwide, founder Masayoshi Son said on Thursday. SoftBank Group-backed SB Energy develops and operates renewable electricity businesses across the United States.

audio platform Pocket FM on Thursday announced a partnership with US-based AI voice software unicorn ElevenLabs to leverage their capabilities to enable writers convert their narratives into compelling audio series, the companies said in a statement. Pocket FM also launched an AI Audio Series. The company said the partnership will make audio series creation more accessible and inclusive as writers can do so at the click of a button.

MarketsMojo, which provides equity market analysis and advisory services, has appointed Amit Golia as its group chief executive. In his most recent role, Golia led investments and neo-banking initiatives at Tata Digital. Prior to that, he served as chief business officer at SBI Cap Securities, where he played a role in the company's digital transformation, MarketsMojo said.

Navneet Munot, MD & CEO, HDFC AMC, says liquidity flow particularly from domestic investors have been very robust. A lot of this positive news on the macro front, on the corporate front and because of the positive sentiments from the investors is also built into the price. So, valuations in parts of the market may be running ahead of the fundamentals. The way it will get corrected is by earnings growth over a long period of time. What can we look forward to in the next 15 years?

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FIU) has imposed a fine of 188.2 million rupees ($2.25 million) on the world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, for operating in the country in violation of local anti-money laundering regulations. India requires virtual digital asset service providers like crypto exchanges to be registered with the FIU as a reporting entity and comply with its anti-money laundering rules.

Specialty chemicals platform Distil has raised $3.1 million in a seed funding round led by Jungle Ventures and India Quotient, with participation from other investors and operators. This marks Jungle Venture’s first seed investment in India since the launch of its First Cheque@Jungle, a programme which aims to invest at least $2 million in early-stage startups from idea to seed stage, according to a statement on Thursday.

OpenAI's co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever said on Wednesday that he was starting a new artificial intelligence company. The company is focused on creating a safe AI environment at a time when some of the biggest tech companies are looking to dominate the generative AI boom.

McCourt, a US real estate billionaire, aims to buy TikTok to rescue the internet from the clutches of major platforms that he firmly believes are destroying society and endangering children. In the United States, McCourt is best known as the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, while in Europe he is the current proprietor of storied football club Olympique de Marseille that counts French President Emmanuel Macron among its fans.