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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has expressed concerns that the United States may be underestimating China's advancements in next-generation artificial intelligence. In a recent media briefing, he highlighted the complexity of the US-China AI race, suggesting it's not just about who's ahead but involves multiple layers like inference capacity, research, and product development.  "I'm worried about China," he said. "There's inference capacity, where China probably can build faster. There's research, there's product; a lot of layers to the whole thing. I don't think it'll be as simple as: Is the U.S. or China ahead?", he added as reported by CNBC.   Mr Altman also admitted that China's progress, particularly with open-source models like DeepSeek and Kimi K2, influenced OpenAI's decision to release its open-weight models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. "It was clear that if we didn't do it, the world was gonna head to b...

A video of a court proceeding of Gauhati High Court that was live streamed, has gone viral on social media where the court is heard raising concern over the allotment of nearly 3,000 bighas of land in Assam's Dima Hasao district to a cement company for mining of limestone. In the video, Justice Sanjay Kumar Medhi expressed astonishment at the scale of the land grant. "3,000 bighas! The entire district? What is going on? 3,000 bighas allotted to a private company? We know how barren the land is... 3,000 bighas? What kind of decision is this? Is this some kind of joke or what? Your need is not the issue, public interest is the issue," he is heard saying. The court's observations came in response to submissions regarding the company's operations in the hill district.  Counsel representing the cement firm argued that the land allotted was barren and required for the functioning of the plant. A Congress delegation, led by Assam Pradesh Congress Committee chief Bhu...

Days after he met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, US President Donald Trump welcomed his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House to discuss a path for the resolution of the conflict between the two countries.  The last meeting between Mr Trump and Mr Zelensky at the same venue in February was an explosive one, with the US president and Vice President JD Vance cornering the Ukrainian leader about what they termed a "lack of gratitude" and telling him that he "did not have the cards" in the conflict. Mr Zelensky had left the White House shortly after, without signing the mineral rights deal which was one of the main reasons for his visit.  Five months on, all eyes were on how the two leaders would react to meeting at the site of the last confrontation, and initial signs were encouraging. After receiving Mr Zelensky outside the White House, Mr Trump greeted him with a warm handshake and also put his arm around his shoulder. Dressed in...

Ukraine's "Pryvyd" (Ghost) sniper unit has claimed to have set the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill, shooting down two Russian soldiers from a distance of around 4 kilometres. The shot, fired from a Ukrainian-made 14.5mm "Alligator" rifle, was guided to its target with the help of artificial intelligence and drones, according to a report by Defense Express. A video of the military action is being widely circulated on social media, showing the moment a Ukrainian soldier fired the "historic" shot near the city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine during fighting on August 14. Ukraine's former deputy minister at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Anton Gerashchenko, shared the video on X and wrote, "A Ukrainian sniper from the Pryvyd (Ghost) group made the first successful shot in the history of wars using artificial intelligence, eliminating two Russian occupiers in the Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad direction." A histori...

Pakistan chief selector Aaqib Javed fired a warning at India ahead of Asia Cup 2025 as he said that their side was ready to beat any opponent. Pakistan named their 17-member squad with Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan both missing out. The Asia Cup will begin on September 9 and the final will be played on September 28. Pakistan are placed in Group A along with India, Oman and United Arab Emirates. Javed said that the team has the ability to beat India and even acknowledged that the clash between the two teams is still the biggest in world cricket. He also hinted at the political tensions between India and Pakistan before adding that it should not put any extra pressure on the cricketers. “This team has the ability to beat India in the Asia Cup. Whether you like it or not, the match between India and Pakistan is the biggest in world cricket. Every player knows this,” Javed told reporters. “Our squad can beat any team. Everyone is ready. Everyone knows the situation surrounding the two...

Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Sunday said instances of a person holding multiple voter identity cards arise due to migration or administrative lapses and the poll authority is working to rectify such mistakes. Addressing a press conference here, Kumar also said the 'House number zero' issue flagged by political parties also arises as several voters do not have a home or their homes have not been given numbers by the panchayat or their respective municipality. Kumar said the Commission had also addressed the issue of the same voter identity card number allotted to different persons in different states and corrected 3,00,000 such instances. "Even if a person has votes in two places, he goes to vote at only one place. Voting at two places is a crime and if any person makes a claim of double voting, then proof is required. Proof was asked but was not given," the CEC said. Kumar said knowingly or unknowingly, some people have ended up having multiple vot...

In a few short hours in Alaska, Vladimir Putin managed to convince Donald Trump that a Ukraine ceasefire was not the way to go, stave off US sanctions, and spectacularly shatter years of Western attempts to isolate the Russian president. Outside Russia, Putin was widely hailed as the victor of the Alaska summit while at home, Russian state media cast the US president as a prudent statesman, even as critics in the West accused him of being out of his depth. Russian state media made much of the fact that Putin was afforded a military fly-over, that Trump waited for him on the red carpet, and then let the Russian president ride with him in the back of the "Big Beast", the US presidential limousine. "Western media are in a state that could be described as derangement verging on complete insanity," said Maria Zakharova, Russia's foreign minister spokeswoman. "For three years, they talked about Russia's isolation, and today they saw the red carpet rolled ...