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Salman Khan, a prominent Bollywood actor, recently commended Kiran Rao's latest film, 'Laapataa Ladies,' on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), expressing his admiration for her work as a director. However, in his enthusiasm, Khan made a slight error by referring to the film as Rao's directorial debut. The actor wrote, «Just saw Kiran Rao’s Laapataa Ladies. Wah wah Kiran. I really enjoyed it n so did my father. Congrats on your debut as a director, superb job. Kab kaam karogi mere saath?»

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Microsoft will widen the availability of its artificial intelligence-powered tool for cybersecurity professionals from April 1 and adopt a 'pay-as-you-go' strategy for the assistant, the company said on Wednesday. Soft-launched last year, 'Security Copilot' lets analysts run queries through a simple prompt box to help with tasks like summarizing incidents, analyzing vulnerabilities and sharing information with co-workers on a pinboard.

artificial intelligence rules on Wednesday as EU lawmakers endorsed a provisional agreement for a technology whose use is rapidly growing across a wide swathe of industries and in everyday life. Three years in the making, the AI Act comes as generative AI systems such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Google's chatbot Gemini become more popular, fuelling concerns about misinformation and fake news.

All schools were shut in March 2020 as covid engulfed the world. In India, schools did not return to normalcy till January 2022. Four years after the pandemic hit, it is useful to take stock of where we are and what we have learnt.

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ChatGPT users will get access to French and Spanish news content from Le Monde and Prisa Media, Microsoft-backed OpenAI said on Wednesday, disclosing its partnership with the media publications. The content will also be used to train generative artificial intelligence models, it said amid growing popularity of the technology and its influence across various sectors.

In 2024, Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA)'s relentless march continues to propel the US equity market to new peaks. Jeremy James Siegel, a finance professor at the Wharton School, suggested that Nvidia stock has the potential to double or even triple from current levels should it mirror Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO)'s trajectory during the dot-com era.

semiconductor hub and will also raise the country’s profile in the global semiconductor value chain,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said. Modi on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for India’s first pure-play commercial semiconductor chip manufacturing foundry by the Tata Group at Dholera in Gujarat.

Amitabh Bachchan has finally met his doppelganger! The ‘living legend’ was seen greeting his Siamese twin in a video that has since gone viral. In the clip, the ‘Kabhie Khushi Kabhie Gham’ star is seen offering blessings to the men, who is shown to be touching his feet. The lookalike, who is named Shashikant Pedwal shared the clip on his Instagram handle and wrote, “With the blessings of Gurudev and all of you, I have reached 2 million followers today (sic).” The video quickly gained traction on the image and video sharing website, gaining more than 300K likes. On the work front, Bachchan Sr. was last seen in Tiger Shroff-starrer ‘Ganpath’. He will next be seen in the Nag Ashwin directorial 'Kalki 2898 AD'. This will also star Telugu superstar Prabhas and Deepika Padukone in lead roles.

RapidCanvas, an auto artificial intelligence (AI) platform built for businesses, has raised $7.5 million in a funding round led by Accel, with participation from Valley Capital Partners. The funds will be used for customer acquisition through marketing and sales expansion, as well as for customer retention through investment in research and development.

US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill on Wednesday that would force TikTok to divest from its Chinese owner or get banned from the United States. The lawmakers voted 352 in favor of the proposed law and 65 against, in a rare moment of bipartisan unity in politically divided Washington.

Lohum has raised Rs 450 crore ($54 million) in a primary funding round. Mumbai-based Singularity Growth Fund, which counts CaratLane founder Mithun Sacheti among its backers, led the round in which investors like Baring Private Equity, Cactus Venture Partners and Venture East also participated.

Maharashtra cabinet on Wednesday approved a new Marathi language policy, which aims to establish it as a language of knowledge acquisition and employment in the next 25 years. It also aims to devise steps for the conservation and promotion of various dialects of Marathi using modern technology like ChatGPT.

They are among the most recognizable of a generation of Silicon Valley investors who are getting out of venture capital at the end of a lucrative 15-year upswing for the industry.

Hero Vired, an educational tech startup of the Hero Group, has announced the appointment of Arjun Assi as head of product. Prior to this, Assi was assistant vice-president, product, at Scaler Academy, another edtech firm.

Paytm is racing against time to migrate its banking services from Paytm Payments Bank to other lenders. The National Payments Corporation of India, which runs the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) railroad, is working to certify Paytm’s application to become a third-party payment app, said two senior bankers in the know. Four banks – Yes Bank, Axis Bank, HDFC Bank and State Bank of India – will support Paytm’s consumer-facing UPI payments, one of the bankers said.

Nazara Technologies is setting aside about Rs 830 crore ($100 million) to finance mergers and acquisitions in India, Europe and North America. The firm’s total cash position stands at Rs 1,500 crore, including funds from its various subsidiaries, from which it is earmarking this amount for buyouts, managing director and chief executive Nitish Mittersain told ET in an interaction.

Elon Musk has in a post on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), expressed worry that the United States will go "bankrupt". "Overspending must stop or America will go bankrupt," he wrote early on March 13. Musk was responding to a post by X user @WallStreetSilv who warned that over time 100 percent of US taxpayer monies would be used to pay interest on national debt.