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Amid a talent war between Meta and OpenAI, Calvin French-Owen, an engineer who worked at the ChatGPT-maker and left the startup three weeks ago, described what it’s like to work there.The MIT graduate, who joined OpenAI in May 2024 and left in June, published a detailed blog post reflecting on his journey at OpenAI, one of the most advanced AI labs in the world. He said he didn’t leave because of any “drama,” but rather because he wants to return to being a startup founder. French-Owen previously co-founded the customer data startup Segment, which was acquired by Twilio in 2020…

US House Speaker Mike Johnson has urged the Department of Justice to release documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, marking a rare divergence from President Donald Trump and pointing to the growing dissatisfaction among conservatives over the case’s opacity. The comments come amid backlash from Trump’s rightwing base following the Justice Department’s conclusion last week that Epstein died by suicide and that no list of clients would be made public. Trump, who previously campaigned on exposing Epstein’s network, has since downplayed the issue. “It’s a very delicate subject, but we should put everything out there and let the people decide it,”…

Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd.(HAL). | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar Ajay Kumar Shrivastava assumed charge as Director (Engineering and R&D) of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) on July 15, the company said.Before this appointment, he held the position of Executive Director (Aircraft Research & Design Centre) at HAL, said an official release on Wednesday (July 16, 2025).Mr. Shrivastava began his career at HAL in 1988 as a Management Trainee (Technical). Throughout his 37-year tenure, he has held several key leadership positions, including Head of the ARDC and Head of the Transport Aircraft Research and Design Centre (TARDC), it added.He has made significant…

Love is in the air, and actors Vicky Kaushal and Katrina Kaif are comfortably floating through it. To wish his wife a happy birthday, the Chhaava actor took to Instagram and posted some of their pictures together with a short and sweet caption to go along with it. Katrina turned 42 this year, and Vicky’s post congratulating her on the special day was met with a lot of love and appreciation from the fans. Vicky posted just 4 pictures with the caption, “Hello, birthday girl, I love you.” While the caption and pictures themselves were simple and sweet, the comment…

On July 3, The New York Times published a report scrutinising a 2009 college application submitted to Columbia University by Zohran Mamdani, the winner of the Democratic party primary for mayor of New York City. The document was leaked by a hacker and showed that in a question about race and ethnicity, the applicant identified as Asian and African American. The source of the information was later revealed to be the eugenicist Jordan Lasker. Although the journalistic ethics of the article were widely questioned, it was immediately picked up by opponents in an attempt to discredit Mamdani. Did Mamdani really…

Higher Education Minister R. Bindu has said that the government intends to implement the revised normalisation process for the KEAM State engineering entrance examination from the next academic year. The proposed pattern had to be put on hold after the Kerala High Court annulled the original rank list published by the Commissioner for Entrance Examination, and instructed the government to revert to the previous normalisation method. While some students of the State Board challenged the High Court judgment in the Supreme Court, the State government decided against going in appeal, considering time constraints to complete the admission process. In a…

Players during a training session at Besant Nagar beach The sun is beating down on Besant Nagar beach on Saturday morning, and while people are carefully choosing to sit or stand under the scattering of trees nearby, a group of women is hard at work — deftly passing a frisbee, and sprinting across the sand. This all-women team, the Team India Masters Women, has players from different cities including Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Kochi and Chennai, who have come together for their monthly camp in Chennai in the run-up to the World Beach Ultimate Championships (WBUC) in Portimão, Portugal, from…

Late on Monday night, July 14, 2025, the ninth richest man in the world broke some momentous news: The US government would allow him, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, to sell H20 processors to Chinese customers again.To people following the Trump administration and its seemingly unending announcements and reversals of trade restrictions, this might not sound like much of a blockbuster. So President Donald Trump wanted to ban some trade and a CEO got him to change his mind (perhaps with some help from Chinese government promises on rare earth metals). What could be more classically Trump?But there’s more going on…

Representational image | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A 22-year-old Indian student was, on Wednesday (July 16, 2025), sentenced to 35 months in prison for causing the death of a fellow Indian national by pushing him into the river while intoxicated.Legha Pawan pleaded guilty to voluntarily causing grievous hurt to Jasbir Singh, a 33-year-old construction worker, on the night of June 30 last year.The original charge of causing death by a rash act was reduced, and another charge was taken into consideration, according to a Channel News Asia report.Singh, who was married with two young children in India, had been the…

The week of July 14, dubbed ‘Crypto Week’ by US President Donald Trump and key Republicans in the House of Representatives, hit a rough patch on Tuesday when hardline conservatives opposed the GENIUS Act bill during a procedural vote. This prompted House Speaker Mike Johnson to cancel the remaining votes.In a statement from the House Majority Whip’s office, members were advised that votes are expected in the House on Wednesday. Trump moved to control the potential damage by meeting “with 11 of the 12 Congressmen/ women necessary to pass the GENIUS Act,” he said in a post on Truth Social.…