Songscription launches an AI-powered ‘Shazam for sheet music’

This kind of product could be useful for a musician who records a song, then uploads it to get the sheet music -- that way, they can skip the step of having to manually transcribe their work.

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From $5 to financial empowerment: Why Stash co-founder Brandon Krieg is a must-see at TechCrunch All Stage 2025

Startup life is tough — funding rounds, team building, and managing finances can feel like trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube blindfolded. That’s exactly why TechCrunch All Stage 2025 exists: to give founders like you the tools, tactics, and real talk from those who’ve been through it and built something lasting. If there’s one session […]

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Operation Sindoor Authorised Under UNSC Statement Demanding Action Against Pahalgam Terrorists: Jaishankar

Operation Sindoor took out the terrorist site and leaders hosted by Pakistan who were behind terrorist attacks, before Islamabad decided to escalate it. EAM Jaishankar made the case that the Operation was authorised under the UNSC statement.  

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India Fears No One, Replies Trump’s Betrayal With Prepping Major S-400, R-37M, Su-30MKI Jet Deal With Russia

At the SCO meet in Qingdao, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh sat down with his Russian counterpart, Andrei Belousov. It was not a symbolic meeting. It was a strategic signal.  

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OpenAI reportedly ‘recalibrating’ compensation in response to Meta hires

With Meta successfully poaching a number of its senior researchers, an OpenAI executive reportedly reassured team members Saturday that company leadership has not “been standing idly by.”

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No Uddhav-Raj Joint Morcha On July 5 As Govt Withdraws Resolutions, Says Sanjay Raut

Raut’s announcement came after CM Fadnavis on Sunday announced the formation of a committee headed by the former planning commission member, Narendra Jadhav, to prepare a report on the trilingual formula, keeping the interest of Marathi students at the centre. 

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Lion Numbers Surge In Gujarat – But Is India Running Out Of Space For The Big Cat?

Gujarat remains the only state with wild lions. Once found across Asia is now limited to a single pocket. Once limited to the Gir forests is now found in cities, farms, coasts and thorny shrub lands.

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Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI

An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on book publishers to pledge to limit their use of AI tools, for example by committing to only hire human audiobook narrators.

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India’s K-6 Hypersonic Missile Could Strike Fear In Enemies’ Hearts, Tensions For Pakistan And China To Rise

The Indian Navy is preparing to conduct sea trials of the K-6 hypersonic missile. These tests will reportedly be carried out using the Navy's S-5 class submarines, and if successful, trials will also be conducted from aircraft carriers in future phases.

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Meta reportedly hires four more researchers from OpenAI

Looks like Meta isn’t done poaching talent from OpenAI.

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Kolkata Gangrape Victim`s Medical Exam Reveals Marks On Neck And Chest: Report

Months after the horrific RG Kar rape-murder in West Bengal, an alleged gang-rape of a Kolkata law student has been reported. The medical report of the victim has revealed that there was an abrasion mark around her neck. 

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Congress might block state AI laws for a decade. Here’s what it means.

A federal proposal that would ban states and local governments from regulating AI for 10 years could soon be signed into law, as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and other lawmakers work to secure its inclusion into a GOP megabill ahead of a key July 4 deadline. Here's what's at stake.

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What comes after Twitter and Meta? The founders of 01A share their playbook at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is coming to Moscone West in San Francisco, October 27–29, and we’re bringing the heavy hitters to the Builders Stage. On October 28, three names that helped shape the modern internet are sitting down for an exclusive fireside chat on what it takes to build, scale, and fund startups in today’s ever-shifting […]

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Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared

Facebook is asking users for access to their phone’s camera roll to automatically suggest AI-edited versions of their photos — including ones that haven’t been uploaded to Facebook yet. The feature is being suggested to Facebook users when they’re creating a new Story on the social networking app. Here, a screen pops up and asks […]

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`Water Won`t Go Anywhere,` Jal Shakti Minister CR Patil Reiterates India`s Stance on Indus Waters Treaty

Responding to Pakistan People's Party Chief Bilawal Bhutto's remarks on the Indus Water Treaty, he sais India will not be threatened by false or aggressive statements.

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Windows killed the Blue Screen of Death

Why change the blue screen to black now? Did the viral images of Times Square rendered useless by the BSOD cause that much reputational harm?

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Delhi University To Drop Courses On Islam, Pakistan, And China From Curriculum | DNA Analysis

The debate began after the Standing Committee on Academic Affairs at Delhi University decided to remove four papers from the syllabus of the Political Science postgraduate programme. 

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Kalshi closes $185M round as rival Polymarket reportedly seeks $200M

Investors are pouring big bucks into these two rival prediction markets.

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New Kind Of Attack? Syringe Terror Shocks France | DNA Analysis

The incident occurred during a music festival in Paris, the capital of France. Similar reports came from three other cities in France, where women at public events complained about being pricked with something like syringes. 

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Air quality tests around xAI’s Memphis data center raise questions

A legal group is questioning why a key pollutant was omitted from air quality tests near xAI's data center

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In just 4 months, AI medical scribe Abridge doubles valuation to $5.3B

Abridge nabbed $300 million Series E led by a16z, months after it closed its previous $250M fundraise.

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The All-In Podcast’s $1,200 tequila has already sold out

The VCs, pod bros, and self proclaimed “besties” of the All-In podcast launched their own tequila brand on Saturday night and it promptly sold out.

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ECI To Conduct Special Intensive Revision Of Electoral Rolls In Bihar

In an official statement, ECI said that the objective of an intensified revision is to ensure that the names of all eligible citizens are included in the Electoral Roll (ER) to enable them to exercise their franchise, no ineligible voter is included in the electoral rolls. 

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French Tourist Raped In Udaipur After Cafe Party, Accused Absconding

SHO Purna Singh Rajpurohit of Badgaon Police Station confirmed the shocking incident and said an FIR has been registered based on the woman's complaint. 

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Tesla’s robotaxis have already caught the attention of federal safety regulators

Federal safety regulators have reached out to Tesla a day after the automaker began providing rides in its branded robotaxis in Austin.

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Databricks, Perplexity co-founder pledges $100M on new fund for AI researchers

Andy Konwinski is pledging $100 million of his own money for a new kind of institute to fund researchers. It's already backed Ion Stoica's new lab.

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Canada says telcos were breached in China-linked espionage hacks

Salt Typhoon previously hacked phone and telco giants across the United States.

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Why Danny Boyle shot ‘28 Years Later’ with iPhones

Director Danny Boyle famously shot his post-apocalyptic classic “28 Days Later” on Canon digital cameras, making it easier for him to capture eerie scenes of an abandoned London, and giving the movie’s fast-moving zombies a terrifying immediacy. To make his decades-later sequel “28 Years Later” (which opened this weekend), Boyle turned to a different piece […]

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The stablecoin evangelist: Katie Haun’s fight for digital dollars

In 2018, when Bitcoin was trading around $4,000 and most Americans, at least, thought cryptocurrency was a fad, Katie Haun found herself on a debate stage in Mexico City opposite Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who had dismissed digital assets as near worthless. As Krugman focused on Bitcoin's wild price swings, Haun steered the conversation toward something else — stablecoins.

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‘No Airspace Used’: India Hits Back At Rumours Linking It To US Strikes On Iran

As tension simmers across West Asia, on June 22, the Government of India stepped in and doused the misinformation. Viral posts on social media claimed that US bombers used Indian airspace to reach Iranian targets.

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European leaders worry they’re too reliant on U.S. tech

European governments may be reconsidering their use of American technology and services, according to a new report in The New York Times.

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Indian Nationals Share Relief, After Evacuation From Iran; 827 Brought Back So Far

The evacuation flight from Mashhad carried 310 Indian nationals, who were safely brought back to the country under Operation Sindhu.

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Asiana Flight To Tokyo Turns Back Due To Suspected Engine Issue

There were no injuries reported among the 263 passengers aboard, it added, reports Yonhap news agency. Smoke reportedly occurred after a spark appeared on one side of the engine.

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Kashmiri Parents Thank Govt For Evacuation Efforts, Urge Faster Action To Ensure Students` Safe Return From Iran

The Government of India is continuing with Operation Sindhu to get back the Indian students. The parents want the government to urgently bring more pace to the operation, seeing the worsening situation in Iran. 

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The new math: why seed investors are selling their winners earlier

Charles Hudson had just closed his fifth fund several months ago – $66 million for Precursor Ventures – when one of his limited partners asked him to run an exercise. What would have happened, the LP wondered, if Hudson had sold all his portfolio companies at Series A? What about Series B? Or Series C? […]

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Gorakhpur To Patliputra In Just 7 Hours As PM Modi Flags Off New Vande Bharat Train

The Vande Bharat Express has a semi-high-speed capability, which significantly reduces travel time. The Gorakhpur to Patliputra journey, which earlier took 10 to 12 hours, can now be completed in just 7 hours.

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Ahmedabad Crash: They Were Meant To Board That Flight – How A Mother’s Tears, A Wrong Turn And A Gut Feeling Saved 7 Lives

Something – a pause, a tug or a moment of doubt – kept them grounded.

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Kerala: 73.25 Per Cent Voter Turnout In Nilambur By-Election

Counting of votes will be taken up at 8 a.m and in around two hours, the clear trends will emerge, an official said.

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Amarnath Yatra: Facial Recognition System Flags First Suspect, Alleged OGW Detained Langanbal

The suspect was promptly taken into custody and a detailed investigation is currently underway to ascertain his links and any potential threats.

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6-month-old, solo-owned vibe coder Base44 sells to Wix for $80M cash

In Base44's six months as a stand-alone company, it reportedly grew to 250,000 users and nearly $200,000 in monthly profits.

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Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1

Midjourney, one of the most popular AI image generation startups, announced on Wednesday the launch of its much-anticipated AI video generation model, V1. V1 is an image-to-video model, in which users can upload an image — or take an image generated by one of Midjourney’s other models — and V1 will produce a set of […]

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Air India Slashes Flights As Grief, Safety Demands Collide After Ahmedabad Crash

Affected passengers will be contacted in advance and given options to rebook at no additional charge or to receive a full refund.

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66 Air India Boeing 787 Flights Cancelled Between June 12 To 17: DGCA

The regulatory body also reviewed the impact of recent airspace closures, particularly over Iranian airspace.

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Unlock purpose-driven growth at TechCrunch All Stage, and get $210 off for 6 more days

T-minus 6 days until TechCrunch All Stage ticket prices rise. From now until June 22 at 11:59 p.m. PT, founders save $210 and investors save $200 on passes. Are you ready to push your startup to the next level? Or are you an investor looking to back the next big breakthrough? Join TC All Stage […]

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Chhattisgarh: Three Villagers Murdered, 12 Abducted As Maoists Hit Again

According to reports, the attackers arrived in significant numbers between 4 and 5 p.m. and quickly surrounded the village.

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Instagram users complain of mass bans, pointing finger at AI

Instagram users report that their accounts were banned even though they had not violated the company's terms of service or other policies.

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Security Agencies Question Ground Handling Ataff At Ahmedabad Airport

A senior official stated that all staff related to ground handling of the aircraft have been questioned, and their statements have been recorded.

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Kerala Government Declares Holiday Tomorrow For Schools, Colleges? State Braces For Rains

As Kerala is experiencing heavy rainfall, IMD issued an red alert over the region and also holiday decleared for educational institutions.

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Taiwan places export controls on Huawei and SMIC

Chinese companies Huawei and SMIC may have a difficult time accessing resources needed to build AI chips, due to Taiwanese export controls.

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Congress Leader Sonia Gandhi Hospitalized in Delhi

Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi was admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi Sunday due to a stomach-related problem.

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Delhi Receives Shower Of Relief From Heatwave, IMD Issues Severe Thunderstorm And Strong Wind Alert

The rainfall, including gusty winds and thunderstorms, has significantly lowered the temperature in Delhi, offering relief from the intense heatwave conditions. 

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Google reportedly plans to cut ties with Scale AI

Meta’s massive investment in Scale AI may be giving some of the startup’s biggest customers pause. Reuters reports that Google had planned to pay Scale AI $200 million this year but is now planning to cut ties with the startup and is having conversations with its competitors.

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Ahmedabad Air India Crash: Teen Who Unknowingly Filmed Tragedy Recounts Horror

Air India flight AI171 crashed into a medical college campus in Ahmedabad on Thursday, just a minute after taking off from the airport.  

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New details emerge on Meta’s $14.3B deal for Scale

Meta’s deal to sort-of but not really acquire AI startup Scale, giving it 49% ownership, is certainly unusual.

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TechCrunch Mobility: The cost of Waymo

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

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Bihar Election 2025: Prashant Kishor Says 60% Seek Jan Suraaj For Education, Jobs

Jan Suraaj Party Chief Prashant Kishor came to address a public rally in Wazirganj, Gaya, as part of his campaign for the upcoming Bihar Legislative Assembly elections.

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Amarnath Yatra 2025: LG Manoj Sinha Reviews Security, 581 CAPF Companies, 250 Buses Deployed

Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha chaired a high-level meeting on Friday at Raj Bhawan in Srinagar to review preparations for the Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra 2025, which is scheduled to start from July 3 to August 9, coinciding with Raksha Bandhan. 

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Ahmedabad Crash: Manipuri Woman Among Crew Of London-Bound Air India Flight

Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla and former Chief Minister N Biren Singh expressed shock and grief over the plane crash.

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Snapchat adds new features for creators, including an easier way to edit videos

Snapchat is introducing a suite of new tools and features to make it easier for creators to post and share content on its platform.

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Chime almost died in 2016, turned down by 100 VCs. Today it IPO’d at $14.5B.

In 2016 when Chime desperately needed cash, over 100 VCs said no. One seed VC, took a chance and saved the company, co-founder Ryan King recalls.

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Temple Vandalism In West Bengal Sparks Fresh Mamata Banerjee Vs BJP War

DNA Exclusive - The BJP has seized upon the incident to question the Mamata Banerjee government's law and order record. West Bengal BJP President Sukanto Majumdar alleged that the police's inaction was due to the government's "Muslim appeasement policy."

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US government’s vaccine website defaced with AI-generated content

The content of a vaccines information website owned by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was swapped with gay-themed spam.

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Damaged Train For BSF Jawans Row: Ashwini Vaishnaw Announces Suspension Of 4 Officials | Watch Video

The BSF team had specifically requested a train with adequate amenities, including AC coaches and proper facilities, to ensure a comfortable journey for their personnel. However, the train that arrived was in stark contrast to their expectations. 

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CPI-ML Planning To Contest 40 To 45 Seats In The Bihar Assembly Polls

CPI-ML General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya announced plans to contest 40–45 seats, more than double the 19 seats contested in 2020, of which they won 12, in a significant strike rate.

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PM Meets Shashi Tharoor, Manish Tewari & Other Op Sindoor Delegates, Says `Proud Of Their Work`

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Tuesday, met with members of seven multi-party delegations that recently embarked on a diplomatic mission to over 30 countries. The delegations, comprising MPs from various parties, former parliamentarians, and senior diplomats, were tasked with highlighting India's strong stance against terrorism, particularly in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack.

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Apple brings ChatGPT and other AI models to Xcode

At WWDC 2025, Apple released a new version of Xcode, its app development suite, that integrates OpenAI's ChatGPT for coding, doc generation, and more. The company also announced that developers can use API keys to bring AI models from other providers to Xcode for AI-powered programming suggestions.

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Tamil Nadu: Vijay`s TVK Gets Boost As Former Bureaucrats, Legislators Join Ranks Ahead Of 2026 Polls

Among the notable entrants was K.G. Arunraj, a former Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer, who has been appointed as the party’s General Secretary for Propaganda and Policy.

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Meta reportedly in talks to invest billions of dollars in Scale AI

Meta is discussing a multi-billion dollar investment in Scale AI, according to Bloomberg. In fact, the deal value could reportedly exceed $10 billion, making it the largest external AI investment for the Facebook parent company and one of the largest funding events ever for a private company.

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Army Chief Hails Op Sindoor`s Success As `Well-Planned, Precise And Worthy Answer To Terrorism`

The Indian Armed Forces launched Operation Sindoor on May 7 to avenge the Pahalgam terror attack in which Pakistan-sponsored terrorists killed 26 innocent civilians. 

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Bengaluru Stampede: CM Siddaramaiah Orders Probe, Calls BJP-JDS Allegations `Politically Motivated`

CM Siddaramaiah claimed that he became aware of the deaths caused by the stampede outside Chinnaswamy Stadium only at 5.45 pm on June 4.

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Lawyers could face ‘severe’ penalties for fake AI-generated citations, UK court warns

he High Court of England and Wales says lawyers need to take stronger steps to prevent the misuse of artificial intelligence in their work. In a ruling tying together two recent cases, Judge Victoria Sharp wrote that generative AI tools like ChatGPT “are not capable of conducting reliable legal research."

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Trump administration takes aim at Biden and Obama cybersecurity rules

In a White House fact sheet, the administration claims that Biden’s Executive Order 14144 — signed days before the end of his presidency — was an attempt “to sneak problematic and distracting issues into cybersecurity policy.”

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All-Party Delegation Calls On US Deputy Secretary Of State; Briefs Him On Pahalgam Attack, Op Sindoor

All-Party Delegation called on US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and briefed him on the heinous terrorist attack in Pahalgam.

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`Like Nobel For Masood Azhar, Hafiz Saeed`: Priyanka Chaturvedi blasts UN Over Pakistan`s Anti-Terror Role

Shiv Sena (UBT) MP  Priyanka Chaturvedi said Pakistan was appointed as the vice chair of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Counter-Terrorism Committee despite 52 designated terrorists residing within its borders.

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Figure AI CEO skips live demo, sidesteps BMW deal questions onstage at tech conference

Figure AI has drawn attention for making claims that its AI-powered robots possess human-like fine motor skills and can manipulate objects with precision but hasn't done a live demonstration of the humanoids.

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Jony Ive’s LoveFrom helped design Rivian’s first electric bike

Lovefrom, the creative firm founded by former Apple chief designer Jony Ive, played a role in the development of Rivian’s first electric bike, according to multiple sources who spoke to TechCrunch. 

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2 Militants Killed In Gunfight With Security Forces In Arunachal Pradesh

The NSCN (K-YA) faction has been active in cross-border operations despite ongoing peace negotiations with various other Naga outfits including dominant faction NSCN (IM).

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Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf: ‘It would be odd for us to sell Claude to OpenAI’

Anthropic Co-founder and Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan said his company cut Windsurf’s direct access to Anthropic’s Claude AI models largely because of rumors and reports that OpenAI, its largest competitor, is acquiring the AI coding assistant. “We really are just trying to enable our customers who are going to sustainably be working with us […]

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All Tourist Destinations In Sikkim, Except Lachen And Lachung, Open: State Tourism Department

Despite the temporary restrictions, the state has not witnessed any decline in tourist footfall.

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Explainer | India’s ‘Desi S-400’ is Coming: Why Project Kusha Could Be A Game-Changer In Missile Defence

With a range of 350 km and cutting-edge tech, India’s indigenous air defence system could outperform Israel’s Iron Dome and even rival the Russian S-400.

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Hugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBook

It’s becoming a little easier to build sophisticated robotics projects at home. AI dev platform Hugging Face released earlier this week an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA. Trained on “compatibly licensed,” community-shared datasets, SmolVLA outperforms much larger models for robotics in both virtual and real-world environments, Hugging Face claims. “SmolVLA aims to democratize […]

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Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training data

Reddit is suing Anthropic for allegedly using the site’s data to train AI models without a proper licensing agreement, according to a complaint filed in a Northern California court on Wednesday. Reddit claims in the complaint that Anthropic’s unauthorized use of the site’s data for commercial purposes was unlawful, and alleges the AI startup violated […]

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Phone chipmaker Qualcomm fixes three zero-days exploited by hackers

Google's Threat Analysis Group, which investigates government-backed hacks, was credited with the discovery of the zero-days.

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India Hits Hard – Heavy Damage To Pakistan Air Force During Operation Sindoor – New Details Reveal…

One of the standout moments of Operation Sindoor was India’s S-400 air defence system shooting down an AWACS-type aircraft flying approximately 300 kilometres inside Pakistani airspace. 

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Exodus Of Kashmiri Pandits In 90s Is Bolt On Kashmir Muslim: Mehbooba Mufti

Mehbooba Mufti meets LG Manoj Sinha, advocates for Kashmiri Pandits' reservation, dignified return and release of Kashmiris from jails.

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The Untold Story Behind Kulbhushan Jadhav’s Kidnapping; What Happened To The Pakistani Officer Who Arrested Him

On May 3, 2016, Pakistan announced the arrest of Kulbhushan - an Indian naval officer.

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Missile Attack From Yemen Triggers Sirens, No Casualties

 Missile attaxk from Yemen towards Israel, triggering sirens in Jerusalem and the Shfela region of central Israel.

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Early AI investor Elad Gil finds his next big bet: AI-powered rollups

Elad Gil started betting on AI before most of the world took notice. By the time investors began grasping the implications of ChatGPT, Gil had already written seed checks to startups like Perplexity, Character.AI, and Harvey. Now, as the early winners of the AI wave become clearer, the renowned “solo” VC is increasingly focused on […]

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