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On a high: Goa players celebrate after a well-deserved win over NEU FC in the Super Cup on October 29, 2025. | Photo Credit: X@IndianFootball Borja Herrera netted a brace and Dejan Drazic scored another as defending AIFF Super Cup champion FC Goa qualified for this edition’s semifinals, thrashing Inter Kashi 3-0 here on Wednesday.Goa took just over three minutes to break the deadlock at the PJN Stadium when Drazic struck home from a Muhammed Nemil pass after Kashi’s defender David Humanes slipped in his box.The Gaurs doubled the lead after the half-hour mark: Drazic set up Herrera on his…

Big news for the pursuit of artificial general intelligence — or AI that’s of human-level intelligence across the board. OpenAI, which describes its mission as “ensuring that AGI benefits all of humanity,” finalized its long-in-the-works corporate restructuring plan yesterday. It might entirely change how we approach risks from AI, especially biological ones.A quick refresher first: OpenAI was originally founded as a nonprofit in 2015, but gained a for-profit arm four years later. The nonprofit will now be named the OpenAI Foundation, and the for-profit subsidiary is now a public benefit corporation, called the OpenAI Group. (PBCs have legal requirements to…

Kolkata: The Calcutta high court on Wednesday admitted separate contempt petitions against the Union home secretary filed by the fathers of the two Bengal homemakers who are lodged in a Bangladesh jail with their husbands and minor children despite the high court and a Bangladesh court directing the Indian government to bring them back, lawyers aware of the development said.Both petitions will be heard on November 6 according to copies of the case status documents seen by HT.The petitions will be heard by the division bench of justices Tapabrata Chakraborty and Ritabrata Kumar Mitra that directed the Centre on September…

new video loaded: 48 Hours Without A.I.A.J. Jacobs went 48 hours without interacting with artificial intelligence. The experiment revealed just how embedded artificial intelligence already is in our daily lives.By A.J. Jacobs, Edward Vega and Melanie BencosmeOctober 29, 2025

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues are expected to cut their benchmark interest rate by a quarter point Wednesday in an effort to prop up the sagging job market. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images North America The Federal Reserve is expected to cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point Wednesday, as policymakers work to shore up the softening job market. That would be the Fed’s second rate cut in six weeks, after holding rates steady for much of the year in an effort to curb stubborn inflation. Prices…

Mohammed Zakaria had not slept in two days when the news came that el-Fasher, his hometown, had fallen to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.The Sudanese video journalist and human rights activist had been monitoring the deteriorating situation from Kampala, Uganda, watching as the paramilitary seized the North Darfur governor’s office in the city on Friday, edging closer to taking control of all of it.He feared the worst.For Zakaria, the “nightmare” scenario is intensely personal. Searching through social media after the city’s fall, he discovered footage posted on Facebook by RSF soldiers celebrating, standing over dead bodies. He recognised three of…

Brazilian star Vinicius Junior blamed his “passion” and “competitive nature” for his outburst directed at Real Madrid coach Xabi Alonso after being replaced in the El Clasico against Barcelona over the weekend. Vinicius also apologised for the incident. But what was interesting is that while he named the fans, the club president and teammates in his apology, he left out coach Alonso. “I want to apologize to all Madrid fans for my reaction after being substituted. Just as I already apologized in person during today’s training session, I also want to apologize again to my teammates, the club and the…

Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal. Photo: @PiyushGoyal/X via PTI The negotiations between India and the European Union on a free trade agreement have crossed the halfway mark, with 10 out of 20 chapters of the agreement having been finalised, and several other chapters nearing completion, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday (October 29, 2025). The Minister has returned from a three-nation tour over the last week or so, having visited Geneva for the 16th session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Berlin for the Berlin Global Dialogues, and Brussels to “further our negotiations…

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Shohei Ohtani (17) watches Toronto Blue Jays’ Vladimir Guerrero Jr’s two run home take flight during the third inning in Game 4 of baseball’s World Series, on Tuesday in Los Angeles. David J. Phillip/AP hide caption toggle caption David J. Phillip/AP LOS ANGELES — Dodger Stadium was still shaking with joy when Monday turned to Tuesday as the Toronto Blue Jays trudged into their clubhouse. Their 18-inning loss in Game 3 felt like a monumental setback that might have already decided the World Series. That’s when Vladimir Guerrero Jr. stepped up and told his team exactly…

OnePlus 15 with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 to launch on November 13 | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus on Wednesday (October 29, 2025) confirmed the global launch date of its next premium flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 15. It will succeed that the OnePlus 13 while skipping the 14 in the series.OnePlus 15 will run on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset with LPDDR5X Ultra+ RAM in the 16GB variant. It will operate on OxygenOS 16 based on Android 16. It will also have the Plus Mind.It is expected to use a 6.8 inch flat AMOLED…