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Mistral co-founder Arthur Mensch has a major US technology dependency warning for Europe. The CEO of the French artificial intelligence (AI) startup has warned that Europe has a two-year window to develop its own AI infrastructure or risk becoming dependent on American technology companies for computing power, energy and AI systems.Speaking during a hearing on…

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Family moves court to seek second postmortem, alleges pre-death injuries

The family of Twisha Sharma, a 33-year-old woman from Noida who died under suspicious circumstances in Bhopal last week, has sought a fresh postmortem examination through a local court, according to their lawyer on Tuesday.“We have moved an application for a second postmortem of Twisha before the concerned magistrate in Bhopal,” the family’s lawyer Anurag…

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Android 17 updates, Android XR, Gemini Intelligence and other things to expect

Google I/O 2026 officially kicks off tonight at 10:30 pm IST, broadcasting live from the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. The keynote will feature Google CEO Sundar Pichai, DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis and, most likely, the the executive heads of Google’s Search, Cloud and Android divisions. Google I/O comes about a week after Google…

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Delhi court rejects Umar Khalid’s bail plea to care for ailing mother

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Tuesday rejected student-activist Umar Khalid’s bail plea to care for ailing mother. The court rejected the plea on the grounds that the reasons cited by him for temporary release were not “reasonable”, ANI reported.Additional sessions judge Sameer Bajpai was hearing Khalid’s plea seeking 15 days’ interim bail to attend…

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What’s slowing the pipeline expansion

India’s big piped natural gas (PNG) push seems to be running into a few roadblocks along the way. City gas distribution (CGD) companies are currently managing to add only 8,000-10,000 new connections a day, far short of petroleum and natural gas ministry’s ambitious target of 100,000 daily connections.Executives in the sector said the rollout is…

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BJP MLA’s mobile phone snatched during morning walk in Raipur

RAIPUR: Amid Union home minister Amit Shah’s visit to Chhattisgarh, mobile phone of a senior BJP leader and former Assembly Speaker Dharamlal Kaushik was allegedly snatched by bike-borne miscreants during a morning walk in Raipur on Monday, sparking a fresh political row over law and order in the state capital. However, the police nabbed the…

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JP Morgan will scrap its $4 billion investment plan in London, if PM Keir Starmer …

JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has warned that the UK’s current political scenario is making the bank reconsider plans for a multibillion-dollar office tower in London. He noted that America’s biggest bank may think about its London office plans if political changes in the UK result in a government that is “hostile to the…

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‘We’re now at the stage where…’

Meta is about to lay off roughly 8,000 people on Wednesday, May 20, and the company has now told its North American staff to work from home that day as the cuts roll out. A leaked internal memo from HR chief Janelle Gale, first reported by Reuters, lays out the mechanics: emails will land at…

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Punjabi singer Yashinder Kaur found dead days after being kidnapped at gunpoint in Ludhiana

Kidnapped at gunpoint, Punjabi singer Yashinder Kaur’s body recovered from canal (File Photo) LUDHIANA: Five days after a Punjabi Singer from Ludhiana’s Mundian Kalan area, Yashinder Kaur, 29, popularly known as Inder Kaur, was allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint, the woman’s body was found from Neelon Canal near village Kuba on Tuesday. The woman had left…

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Ebola outbreak worries WHO over ‘scale and speed’: What to know

Photos from Congo and Uganda as WHO declare health emergency over Ebola (Image credit: AP) The Ebola disease, which the World Health Organization calls a severe, often fatal illness affecting humans and other primates, has claimed 130 lives as of May 19, according to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.The WHO chief on Tuesday expressed concern…

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