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OpenAI unveils Sora that makes instant videos from written texts | WATCH The model could also take an existing still image and generate a video from it, the company said. Sam Altman on X said the company was "offering access to a limited number of creators" in a testing phase. OpenAI hits landmark $2 billion revenue as growth zooms Altman on the X platform invited users to share suggestions for the videos.

Syed Mazahir Ali, as well as his wife in India. Videos on social media that surfaced showed Ali bleeding heavily as he described the horrific incident.

Consumers lost a record $10 billion to fraud in 2023, and imposter scams were the most prevalent swindle, according to the Federal Trade Commission.

₹14,94,296 crore. The 2024-25 interim budget also saw an increase of 28.4% in the allocation for the social justice and empowerment ministry from the 2023-24 revised estimate. At the same time, we see that the total expenditure in subsidies fell in 2023-24 by 28.3% from the revised estimate of 2022-23.

A mob of approximately 300-400 attempted to storm the office of the Superintendent of Police (SP) Churachandpur, Manipur on Thursday night. The incident followed hours after the suspension of a head constable of the district police who was allegedly seen with armed men in a video grab, PTI reported.

(Reuters) -Meta Platforms said on Thursday that businesses purchasing a «boost» for their posts on the iOS versions of its social media apps Facebook (NASDAQ:META) and Instagram would need to pay an extra 30% service charge to app store operator Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL).

Alex Miller is sharing about his commiseration with a deadly car accident's victim where he was the passenger. Alex Miller, who is the Country singer was not driving any of the vehicles which were involved in the accident post the return from a holiday on Tuesday.

Kate Raworth is Senior Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute. Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das, she discusses why reinventing economics is key to the ecological — and development — crises: What is the core of your research? I’m rewriting economics, starting with its foundational concepts. That’s what my book ‘Doughnut Economics’ is about. I drew a picture of the shape of progress. We’re told this shape is ‘growth’ — yet, huge ecological and social damage has been done through the way economies have grown. We need a much better goal for the 21st century. The picture I drew had a hole in the middle, like a doughnut — the aim is to leave nobody in that hole, short of life’s essentials like food, water, health, education, etc. But we need to do this without overshooting the outer ring of Earth’s limits. Returning to the textbooks I was taught, which are still taught today, I found these profoundly misguiding and not giving students the knowledge or orientation to turn things around. My book came out in 2017 and since then, many firms, governments, international institutions, etc., wanted to put these principles into practice. I co-founded the Doughnut Economics Action Lab to work with them.

ILO) said on Thursday. As per the data released by ILO, Save the Children and UNICEF, in low-income countries fewer than 1-in-10 children have access to child benefits, highlighting a significant disparity compared to the coverage enjoyed by children in high-income countries.

Zomato customer, who ordered a bowl of Japanese ramen, has claimed that she found a dead cockroach in the meal delivered by the food aggregator. Sharing pictures of the dead insect lying in the noodles in her miso ramen, Sonai Acharya, an Agartala resident described the incident as a "horrific experience." Acharya had ordered the food from an eatery called Auntie Fug's. Sharing the images of the meal delivered to her, which clearly displays the dead cockroach lying in her food, Acharya slammed the lack of quality control.

Rohit Sharma will be captaining Men in Blue in the ICC T20 World Cup being held in West Indies and USA this year and expressed optimism that Team India will win the coveted T20 cricket prize and end their ICC trophy drought of over a decade. Meanwhile, a photo of Rohit Sharma is going viral on social media as the announcement was made by Jay Shah at an event. Speaking at the event, Jay Shah opened up on India's heartbreaking loss to Australia in the final of ICC Cricket World Cup at home last year after a dominant 10-match winning streak, saying that despite not getting the trophy home, India won hearts with their winning streak.

Supreme Court withdrew their pleas on Thursday, saying they have decided to move appropriate forums. A bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal, which had on Wednesday said it will not allow «proxy litigation» to challenge the vires of the anti-terror law UAPA, allowed as many as eight petitions to be withdrawn, after the petitioners' counsels said they would like to approach the jurisdictional high courts for relief. The bench had asked the counsel for petitioners to seek instruction by Thursday whether they want to approach the high court to quash the FIR in UAPA cases or they want to challenge the vires of the law in the top court. Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for three civil society members, including a journalist, who were booked under the anti-terror law by Tripura Police in 2021 over their social media posts on riots in the state, said he has received instructions from his clients to withdraw the petitions.

Nithin Kamath, CEO of Zerodha, an Indian brokerage firm, raised a red flag about phishing websites designed to deceive users into downloading fake trading apps. “After the Chinese loan apps scam, the latest scam from actors in China and other Asian countries is phishing websites. Fraudsters are creating hundreds of websites and trading apps that look similar to the websites of Indian brokers," Kamath said in a post on social media platform X.

Stock market today: Balaji Telefilms shares are one of the multibagger stocks that the Indian stock market has delivered in recent few years. In the last one year, this entertainment stock backed by Ekta Kapoor has delivered over 150 percent return to its shareholders. However, the entertainment company is news these days for its upcoming flick Love, Sex aur Dhokha 2.

Vernon L. Smith, 97, is a very busy man. The economist at Chapman University just finished writing a book about Adam Smith and works about eight hours a day, seven days a week in his home office in Colorado Springs, Colo.

cancer diagnosis. Meghan and Harry introduced their new website this week. Now, when people visit Archewell, they are redirected to Sussex.com.

Mint explains Sebi's reservation on such arrangements and why there’s a rethink now. Sebi’s primary concern was regarding losses that investors might suffer should a portfolio company default.

High Net Worth Individuals (HNIs) in 2024, the significance of diversification through international real estate, and the increasing focus on Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) compliant investments. One of the key trends we have been observing in the HNI landscape is that while clients' needs have not gone up that much, their balance sheets have expanded, meaning their assets have increased. This, in turn, implies that the surplus wealth also has increased and, as a result, there will be a bias toward growth-oriented portfolios, and here we are referring to more allocation into public markets, private markets, and international markets.

Anthony Albanese on Thursday announced his engagement to partner Jodie Haydon, posting a selfie photo of the couple with the caption "She said yes" on his social media platforms. Albanese and Haydon first met at an event in Melbourne in early 2020 and appeared together during the campaign of the 2022 federal election, which Albanese won.

The American College of Financial Services has unveiled the findings from its 2023 Retirement Income Literacy Study, spotlighting a significant gap in retirement knowledge among older Americans.

Clients might have an overconfidence problem when it comes to retirement planning, claiming Social Security, and overall personal finance.