Mumbai, Feb 24 (IANS) US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly summoned AI firm Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon for “a high‑stakes”, “tense” meeting over the military’s use of the company’s Claude AI model, according to reports, as Elon Musk slammed the AI company over allegedly stealing training data.The report from Axios said, citing an anonymous senior defence official, that the meeting was “not a friendly” one as Anthropic did not remove restrictions on their tec…
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New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) Elon Musk-run X Corp suffered a global outage, including in India, as well as several other countries like the US and the UK, on Monday evening, with users unable to access their accounts properly, and posts unable to load on the platform.According to the outage detecting portal Down Detector, the number of outage reports surged to over 25,000.While 53 per cent of X app users were unable to log into their accounts, 16 per cent of website users reported issues, as per Dow…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Monday said he is aiming to build a self-growing city on Moon in less than 10 years, followed by human presence on Mars in about 20 years.According to the world’s richest man, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, “as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years”.In a post on his X social media platform, Musk said the mission of SpaceX remains the sa…
Dharamsala, Feb 8 (IANS) The office of the Dalai Lama on Sunday firmly denied media reports suggesting any association between the Tibetan spiritual leader and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The clarification comes after several media outlets, citing documents from the United States Department of Justice (DoJ), reported that the Dalai Lama’s name appeared 169 times in the widely discussed Epstein files.According to some reports, the Buddhist leader’s name allegedly appeared in multip…
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) Two US Democratic senators, Elizabeth Warren (from Massachusetts) and Andy Kim (from New Jersey), have reportedly urged the Department of Defense (DOD) to conduct a review of billionaire Elon Musk-led SpaceX.The senators alleged that Chinese investors have secretly acquired stakes in the aerospace maker, The Hill Reported. In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the legislators raised concerns about SpaceX, a major contractor for the DOD. They also cited recently u…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha proceedings witnessed a sharp exchange on Wednesday when CPI(M) MP John Brittas moved a notice under Rule 267 to suspend the day’s scheduled business and immediately take up discussion on the recently announced India-US trade deal. Chairman C.P. Radhakrishnan declined the request, stating that Rule 267, which permits suspension of the House’s agenda, would not be allowed without a demonstrated emergency.The development came amid ongoing opposition criticis…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) US entrepreneur Elon Musk’s net worth surged past the $800 billion mark after SpaceX acquired his artificial‑intelligence firm xAI, making him the richest person in history by a wide margin.Musk’s net worth reached roughly $852 billion, almost $578 billion higher than the world’s second-wealthiest person, Google co-founder Larry Page, whose net worth is estimated at $281 billion.The merger took the combined value of the company to $1.25 trillion and added about $84 …
Paris, Feb 3 (IANS) The Paris prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday that the French offices of social media platform X were being searched as part of an investigation. The prosecutor’s cybercrime unit is conducting the searches with the support of Europol and the cyber unit of the National Gendarmerie, it said in a post on X, adding that the action is related to an investigation opened in January 2025.The investigation was launched after a French lawmaker contacted prosecutors over concerns about …
Mumbai, Feb 3 (IANS) US-based entrepreneur Elon Musk said that his aerospace firm SpaceX has acquired his AI startup, xAI, and shared plans to scale AI compute in space by launching large constellations of satellites that act as orbital data centres.”Launching a million tonnes per year of satellites generating kilowatts (kW) of compute power per tonne would add 100 gigawatts of AI compute capacity annually, with no ongoing operational or maintenance needs. Ultimately, there is a path to launchin…
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said India has emerged as one of the biggest drivers of global economic growth, highlighting an International Monetary Fund (IMF) chart shared by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk that shows India and China together contributing 43 per cent of worldwide GDP growth.Speaking to university students in Parliament after presenting the Union Budget 2026–27, Sitharaman referred to a social media post reposted by Musk, which was ba…