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OpenAI offered a tool that allowed people to create digital images simply by describing what they wanted to see. Then, it built similar technology that generated full-motion video like something from a Hollywood movie. Now, it has unveiled technology that can re-create someone's voice.

Top Events of the Day: Several important events including Congress' nationwide protest against IT department notices, PM Modi's Lok Sabha campaign in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar Class 10 board exam results, IPL 2024 match, and Bharat Ratna award ceremony will take place today, March 30. - Prime Minister Narendra Modi will kick off the BJP's campaign for the upcoming Lok Sabha election 2024 which is scheduled to take place in seven phases, in Uttar Pradesh from Meerut with a mega rally this weekend. - Banks, LIC, and other insurers will keep their offices open today, March 30.

Georgia Hunte, who is the author of the story once got a high school assignment that led her to look into her family's harrowing past. After a lot of research, she discovered the survival stories during the Holocaust, and among them was her granduncle Adam. His extraordinary resilience and resourcefulness served as the inspiration for the fictional Kurc family depicted in the Hulu series "We Were the Lucky Ones."

Roku has given the green light to a feature-length film based on the popular series "The Real Bros of Simi Valley." Titled "The Real Bros of Simi Valley: High School Reunion," this spinoff promises to bring back the same humor and charm that fans have come to love, a Deadline report said.

funding value of about $622.5 million in March 2024, down 37% from the same month a year ago. Startups across stages, mostly early and late, raised the funds across 63 rounds. In March last year, they had raised a total of $990 million across 133 rounds, as per Tracxn data. The funding winter was in full force by then, having begun from September 2022.

TCS has kickstarted its fresher hiring process for IT as well as business outsourcing roles through its national tests for the engineers as well as other graduates for the batch of 2024. This comes at a time when the $250 billion IT industry, which is witnessing a slowdown in business over the about-to-end ongoing fiscal year, is expecting growth to return by the second half of FY25 starting April. Launching its annual TCS national qualifier test (NQT) exclusively for students graduating in 2024, the Tata group’s IT major has called engineers and computer graduates to apply for Ninja and Digital fresher hiring, TCS’ aptitude and coding tests. The last date for application is April 10 and tests will be conducted on April 26.

Byju Raveendran, founder and CEO of Byju’s has offered its estranged investors a chance to invest in the rights issue so their shareholding is not diluted, according to a letter by him to shareholders this morning. He also informed investors the company has secured more than 50% votes to increase the authorised share capital to account for the $200 million rights issue. “In good faith the board is considering making an offer of renounced shares to existing shareholders to ensure that there is no more dilution to their shareholding. We will share more details with you shortly,” Raveendran said in the note. ET has seen the letter to shareholders.

Nirav Sheth, CEO-Institutional Equities, Emkay Global Financial Services, says: “We are in a very fortunate situation in terms of the earnings trajectory. My earnings have almost doubled in the last three years and I am talking about the largecap sector. The macros are solid in terms of the outlook on the current account deficit, rupee, interest rates, earnings. And when you have got all the cylinders firing, you generally do not expect valuations to come cheap. You will have to take some level of risk. So sitting where I am today in terms of what we can see, I would go out and say that India could end up in bubble territory in the next three, four, five years in the emerging market universe. At the start of March, there was talk in the market that seasonally March turns out to be volatile because of a lot of adjustment happening in advance tax numbers, then a lot of leverage guys do reshuffling and usually it is a bit volatile. But the big factor that came out is that in net-net, people made a lot of gains this fiscal. This is the eighth year in a row that we are seeing positive returns from the market. Do you see the construct of the market being easy in the new fiscal year or should investors’ return expectations be moderated this year? Nirav Sheth: To answer your first question, I am very constructive on the economy; maybe constructive is not the right word. I am terribly bullish on the trajectory of the economy for the next several years, as we can see today.

United States is drawing up a list of advanced Chinese chipmaking factories barred from receiving key tools, three people familiar with matter said on Thursday, to make it easier for companies to stem technology flows into China. The list could be released in the next couple of months, one of the people said.

The decision by the government of Ontario will hit hardest at colleges that have been relying entirely on foreign enrollments to drive recent growth. Colleges Ontario, an industry group, said revenue losses will be in the hundreds of millions of dollars this fall. That will mean “immediate program suspensions” and a pause on capital spending, Marketa Evans, the group’s CEO, said in a statement. “No organization can absorb such losses without significant cuts to operations.”

Harvard College dropped 5% from a year ago, a symbolic blow to the school after a period of turmoil that included the resignation of its president and a defeat at the Supreme Court. The school said 54,008 students sought admission for next fall’s freshman class. That marked the second consecutive year that Harvard’s undergraduate applications declined. They’re down from 61,220 two years ago, when numbers soared during the pandemic after colleges scrapped requirements for standardized testing. By contrast, rival Yale University reported 57,465 applicants, the largest in the college’s history and 10% more from than the previous year.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI said on Thursday it will launch an enhanced version of its chatbot Grok. The new version, called Grok-1.5, will be made available to early testers and existing Grok users on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in the coming days, xAI said in a statement.

Tredence is investing 10% of its annual revenues in developing GenAI and advanced AI capabilities across engineering, customer experience, machine learning operations, supply chain and other functions in the data analytics domain. By enabling enhanced productivity and new business streams, the San Jose-based startup is looking to grow its revenues by 40-50% in 2024, CEO Shub Bhowmick told ET.

revenue generation is weighing on digital payments startups, offsetting surging business volume due to the widespread adoption of digital payments in the country. Payment processing charges, which fintech firms need to pass on to technology providers, banking partners or payment networks like the National Payments Corporation of India, Visa or Mastercard, have skyrocketed in recent times for most of the fast-growing players.

fintech sector, have received income tax notices in recent weeks with respect to venture capital raised by them, according to people in the know. The notices — served under Section 68 of the Income Tax Act — have clubbed the investments received by these startups with the income earned by them, and tax and penalties have been levied on the combined amount, the sources said. So much so that one startup, registered with the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) — has been asked to pay Rs 37 crore in tax and penalty on funding of Rs 40 crore by venture capital investors, they added.

Four of the largest school boards in the Canadian province of Ontario have launched lawsuits against TikTok, Meta and SnapChat alleging the social media platforms are disrupting student learning

Urban Company said in a report. As per the firm’s H2 2023 Earnings Index, service partners who provide over 30 services per month earned a monthly net income of Rs 33,469.

Bloomberg reported. According to Rajan, India is making a big mistake in believing the 'hype' around its strong economic growth, adding that it will take several years of hard work to make it real. The economist was of the view that for a country like India, it is vital to first improve its structural problems to meet its true potential.

Good Glamm Group, a leading direct-to-consumer (DTC) beauty and personal care company, has appointed Kamal Lath as its group chief financial officer. A Harvard Business School alumnus, Lath has over 23 years of experience across diverse industries and global exposure with expertise in finance, strategy, and leadership to his new role, the company said in a press release on Thursday. As group CFO, Lath will play “a pivotal role in shaping the company's next phase of growth”, it said.

WuXi AppTec had transferred US intellectual property to Beijing without consent, according to two sources. The US government is concerned that certain Chinese biotech companies are contributing technology or research and development for use by China's military, and the proposed legislation would restrict US government funds going to those Chinese companies.

unemployment in India over the last couple of decades. The remarks by the former Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) to the Government of India are about the India Employment Report 2024, published by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Institute of Human Development (IHD). Describing it as a “new worry for educated youth in India", Basu wrote on X (formerly Twitter), “Share of those with secondary & more education in total unemployed youth has jumped from 35.2% (2000) to 65.7% (2022).