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Four thoughts from Bill Gates on climate tech
Bill Gates doesn’t shy away or pretend modesty when it comes to his stature in the climate world today. “Well, who’s the biggest funder of climate innovation companies?” he asked a handful of journalists at a media roundtable event last…
Can “The Simpsons” really predict the future?
According to internet listicles, the animated sitcom The Simpsons has predicted the future anywhere from 17 to 55 times. “As you know, we’ve inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump,” the newly sworn-in President Lisa Simpson declared way back…
It’s never been easier to be a conspiracy theorist
The timing was eerie. On November 21, 1963, Richard Hofstadter delivered the annual Herbert Spencer Lecture at Oxford University. Hofstadter was a professor of American history at Columbia University who liked to use social psychology to explain political history, the…
Happiest Minds logs 9% YoY rise in Q2FY26 net profit; revenue increases 10%
Per CEO Joseph Anantharaju, the BFSI segment faced a slight blip because of the Arttha deals, but the mid-tier IT firm expects that to get reversed in the second half.
Sam Altman touts trillion-dollar AI vision as OpenAI restructures to chase scale
Altman envisions OpenAI becoming a massive AI infrastructure powerhouse, pursuing trillions in funding, huge compute expansion, and an eventual IPO. Despite bold plans, unclear financing, internal strife, and criticism raise doubts as OpenAI shifts from research lab to ambitious corporate…
Aakash shareholders approve share capital increase ahead of rights issue
Raising the share capital is an important step before floating a rights issue. Glas Trust, which represents Byju’s US lenders, had earlier argued that the proposed rights issue would reduce the stake of Byju’s parent, Think and Learn, in the…
Giving Nvidia’s Blackwell chip to China would slash US’s AI advantage, experts say
Allowing Nvidia’s downgraded B30A AI chips into China would erode US AI dominance, effectively end export controls, and let China offset limits by buying more chips. Analyses warn US advantages could shrink dramatically or even flip to China by 2026.
Microsoft Azure, 365 down for thousands of users, Downdetector shows
Azure was down for over 16,600 users and Microsoft 365 was down for nearly 9,000 users, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.
Exclusive eBook: We did the math on AI’s energy footprint.
In this exclusive subscirber-only ebook you’ll learn how the emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next. by James O’Donnell and Casey Crownhart…