OpenAI allows employees to sell $1.5 billion stock to SoftBank: Report

Washington DC, 27/2: ChatGPT-owner OpenAI is allowing its employees to sell roughly $1.5 billion worth of shares in a new tender offer to Japan’s SoftBank Group, CNBC reported on Wednesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. The report comes after Microsoft-backed OpenAI completed a $6.6 billion funding round from investors, including SoftBank in October…

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Trump picks Stanford physician Jay Bhattacharya who opposed lockdowns to head NIH

Washington DC, 27/11: President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday evening that he had selected Dr Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford physician and economist whose authorship of an anti-lockdown treatise during the coronavirus pandemic made him a central figure in a bitter public health debate, to be the director of the National Institutes of Health.

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Pak army gets shoot-at-sight orders for Imran Khan’s supporters after 6 personnel killed in protests

Islamabad, 26/11: Four paramilitary personnel and two policemen have been killed and over 100 security personnel injured as the protest by supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan turned violent prompting the federal government to deploy the aarmy in the national capital along with shoot at sight orders on Tuesday, state-run media said.

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Modi government approves Rs 1,115 crore for disaster relief for Karnataka and other states

New Delhi, 26/11:The Ministry of Home Affairs on Tuesday approved Rs 1115.67 crore for disaster mitigation and capacity building projects for various states across India. This decision was made in a high-level meeting under the leadership of Amit Shah, where the MHA took several initiatives to ensure effective management of disasters in the country  …

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Gambhir flies back home for personal emergency, to rejoin in Adelaide

Perth, 26/11: India head coach Gautam Gambhir has flown back home with his family due to a “personal emergency” and is unlikely to rejoin the squad before the second Test against Australia beginning December 6 in Adelaide. The Delhi-based Gambhir will skip India’s two-day pink ball warm-up game against Prime Minister’s XI in Canberra starting…

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