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IIT Delhi's Abu Dhabi campus will offer two undergraduate courses from the new academic session commencing in September, Director Rangan Banerjee announced on Thursday. The offshore campus, established in 2023, currently offers only postgraduate courses. The two new undergraduate (UG) courses are Computer Science Engineering and Energy Engineering. A total of 60 students will be admitted to the two courses. This will include 20 students who have qualified JEE (Advanced) 2024 and 40 picked through a new entrance test called the Combined Admission Entrance Test (CAET), Banerjee said at a press conference.

Palantir Technologies said on Thursday it will offer its products, including the Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) on Microsoft's cloud platforms, which cater to the U.S. government and federal agencies such as the Department of Defense. The data analytics company will deploy its products, including the «Gotham» software — which assists in locating targets on battlefields — on Microsoft's Azure Government and Azure Government Secret cloud platforms. Palantir will «be the first industry partner to deploy Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service in classified environments,» CTO Shyam Sankar said in a statement.

ride-hailing drivers are facing the threat of job loss from artificial intelligence as robotaxis begin to proliferate. Self-driving technology, still experimental, is being aggressively greenlit in China compared to the US, where approvals are often suspended after accidents. At least 19 Chinese cities are testing robotaxis and robobuses, with seven cities approving tests without human-driver monitors from at least five industry leaders: Apollo Go, Pony.ai, WeRide, AutoX, and SAIC Motor. Apollo Go, a subsidiary of technology giant Baidu, plans to deploy 1,000 robotaxis in Wuhan by year-end and operate in 100 cities by 2030. Pony.ai, backed by Japan's Toyota Motor, operates 300 robotaxis with plans to increase to 1,000 by 2026. WeRide is known for autonomous taxis, vans, buses, and street sweepers, while AutoX, backed by Alibaba Group, operates in cities including Beijing and Shanghai. SAIC Motor has been operating robotaxis since 2021. In the US, Alphabet's Waymo operates uncrewed robotaxis that collect fares, with over 1,000 cars in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. Cruise, backed by General Motors, resumed testing in April after an accident last year.

Nasa is contemplating extending the stay of astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams from one week to eight months aboard the International Space Station (ISS). This consideration arises due to concerns about the safety of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft for returning astronauts to Earth. If deemed unsafe, those on the ISS might have to use SpaceX's Crew Dragon for their return journey in February 2025. Nasa officials are expecting to decide later this month whether to continue with Starliner, which encountered propulsion issues during its June flight to the ISS. With Wilmore and Williams potentially stranded on the ISS, plans are being developed for their safe return to Earth. “However, with the two additional astronauts stranded on the ISS, Nasa has had to develop a plan to bring them back to Earth,” stated an official.

Dipan Mehta, Director,Elixir Equities, says he is in a wait-and-watch mode, sitting on a little with a bit of cash expecting a correction as are so many other professional investors. We do not know whether this particular correction is over and done with or that it can deepen further because so long as the market does not create a fresh new high, the risk always remains that this correction can particularly deepen. Once again, it has proved to be a very short-lived correction in the market after the Monday meltdown. Now we are practically back to where we left off. How have you dealt with the past two days? Dipan Mehta: Nothing, just stay put. We have seen such down days being immediately backed by ferocious buying as we have seen today. But let us see. We are in a wait-and-watch mode, sitting on a little with a bit of cash expecting a correction as are so many other professional investors. We do not know whether this particular correction is over and done with or that it can deepen further because so long as the market does not create a fresh new high, the risk always remains that this correction can particularly deepen.

China's 7 million ride-hailing drivers. A 36-year-old Wuhan resident, he started driving part-time this year when construction work slowed in the face of a nationwide glut of unsold apartments. Now he predicts another crisis as he stands next to his car watching neighbours order driverless taxis. «Everyone will go hungry,» he said of Wuhan drivers competing against robotaxis from Apollo Go, a subsidiary of technology giant Baidu.

stocks ended lower on Wednesday, with the Nasdaq falling 1% as technology shares declined and weak demand in a 10-year Treasury auction stoked investor jitters in choppy trade. Indexes started the day higher with a surge in tech shares, and both began to lose steam in afternoon trading. With investors still nervous after a recent steep selloff in global stocks, equities pared gains further after the Treasury auction.

Corporate India, Mahindra & Mahindra has been served a notice from the office of the goods and services tax (GST) for the use of the 'Mahindra' brand name by various group companies. The show cause notice has questioned why M&M should not pay GST for the service given by the parent to the group companies by letting them use the flagship brand and logo. The notice relates to 2017-23. A Mahindra spokesperson declined to comment to ET on the communication from the indirect tax department.

CVS Health has chopped its 2024 forecast for a third time as the health care giant continues to struggle with high utilization in its health insurance business

NASA officials said on Wednesday that the two astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who are on a trip to the International Space Station (ISS) by Boeing's Starliner, could return on SpaceX's Crew Dragon in February 2025 instead if Starliner is still deemed unsafe to return to Earth. t was meant to be a weeklong trip to the ISS for the first NASA astronauts to fly with Boeing could extend to eight months The U.S. space agency has been discussing potential plans with SpaceX to leave two seats empty on an upcoming Crew Dragon launch for NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who became the first crew to fly Boeing's Starliner capsule to the ISS in June. A final decision on whether to persist with Boeing's Starliner — which experienced concerning propulsion system problems as it flew up to the orbital platform in June — is expected later this month, officials said Wednesday in a call with reporters.

₹2,500 a day ferrying students in Kota, a city in Rajasthan that has earned fame as the nerve centre of India’s entrance exam-preparation industry. And, if he managed to get a student placed in a hostel, the owner paid him a commission of ₹500. But today all that has changed and his daily take has plunged.

NASA is delaying its next astronaut launch to buy more time at the International Space Station for Boeing's troubled new crew capsule

military drills near a territory in the South China Sea near Philippines. The Southern Theatre Command of China's Peoples Army said on Wednesday that it had carried out air and sea combat patrols near Scarborough Shoal to test «strike capabilities», Al Jazeera reported. The exercises came on the same day that the United States, Australia, Canada and the Philippines conducted military manoeuvres within Manila's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), which includes the West Philippine Sea.

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Japanese automaker Nissan says it has developed a «cool paint” that can keep people inside cars cooler

Some Olympic triathletes who swam in the River Seine have fallen sick and were forced to pull out of competition this week amid concerns about the river’s water quality – a simmering issue plaguing Paris 2024 organizers.

The dramatic selloff Monday in cryptocurrencies, which fell in tandem with stocks amid concerns about a slowing U.S. economy, not only made investors nervous, but also tested the case of bitcoin as a safe-haven investment.

Olympic controversy has somehow hit the news, this time around Ethan Katzberg, a hammer-thrower from Canada, who recently grabbed a gold medal for the nation, beating formidable athletes from Germany and Australia. With this win, Canada's most awaited gold medal came after waiting for more than half a century, with the last one coming back in 1956.

The US stock market faced a severe test yesterday, with key benchmarks plunging as investors digested a perfect storm of bearish economic and market headlines.

Vinod Kambli was reportedly seen in a disoriented state, requiring assistance from passersby to maintain his balance. A video circulating on social media shows Kambli struggling to walk, with bystanders helping him reach his destination. However, ET could not verify the video's authenticity, time and place of the video.

AI startups in the United States received $27 billion in funding in the April-June quarter, accounting for nearly half of all startup funding in the country during that period. Funding for AI startups in India on the contrary stood at $8.2 million in the April-June quarter, declining about 91% sequentially and by 82% year on year. Even as year-to-date in 2024, Indian AI startupshave raised nearly $96 million, which is a 61% increase over the same period in 2023, there is a reset of sorts happening in the Indian AI space. The initial euphoria is settling down and investors are looking beyond large language models (LLMs) and are now trying to zero in on companies which could build applications and services on top of LLMs. The greatest value for Indian startups could perhaps accrue from building cost-effective applications and services since LLMs and GPU chips are highly capital-intensive, investors and executives told ET.