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A federal judge in Manhattan will sentence Trevor Milton, founder and former CEO of the truck company Nikola, after a jury found him guilty last year of one count of securities fraud and two counts of wire fraud. Milton was accused of pumping up the value of Nikola stock by making extravagant claims about the company.

Sam Altman-run OpenAI has come under fire for a glaring lack of diversity and its new board now consists of just three white men, triggering debate over OpenAIs mission to "benefit all of humanity".

Microsoft has released its newest compact "small language model" titled Phi-2 that continues to perform at par or better than certain larger open-source Llama 2 models with less than 13 billion parameters.

According to a report in the Financial Times, despite Musks assurances, seven banks that lent money to Musk - Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays, MUFG, BNP Paribas, Mizuho and Societe Generale - "are facing serious losses on the debt if and when they eventually sell it".

Special efforts would be made to increase software export from Himachal Pradesh from Rs 5 crore to Rs 100 crore, said the minister who visited Hamirpur for the first time after taking oath as a minister of the states Cabinet on December 12.

Canadas print media will receive nearly two-thirds of an annual Can$100 million (US$75 million) payment from Google to the countrys news outlets in exchange for distribution of their content. Most of the payout will go to the print media because it is "really dependent" on online platforms to distribute its content.

"It has been observed that many Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and colleges have entered into collaborative agreements with foreign-based educational institutions or providers not recognised by the commission and have been facilitating the issuance of foreign degrees to the students," UGC Secretary Manish Joshi said.

Tang, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, started the software development firm, which has grown strongly with public and private demand for its facial recognition technology.

Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Saturday said technological talent, not chip-driven compute power, is the key to Indias progress in artificial intelligence (AI).

Elon Musk claimed Saturday that advertisers were returning to X (formerly Twitter) after an exodus, at a Rome meeting where he also warned Italys low birth rate could put off investors. He highlighted Italys low fertility rate -- something Meloni often talks about -- and warned it poses a risk for companies wanting to invest in the country.