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A social media user has claimed that data from EPFO and PMO were leaked on the global software and code repository GitHub. Senior officials told ET that the government is aware of the claims but "need to verify them first".

Raveendran reiterated in his note that a few vested interests are acting against the company at a time when it is facing a severe cash crunch. “ I refuse to let the self-serving actions of a few individuals cloud my judgment and pollute our relationship,” he said.

Googles Gemini - a family of large, natively multimodal generative AI models - is capable of taking in about 700,000 words or 30,000 lines of code. Gemini 1.5 is more efficient to train and serve, having a new mixture of experts (MoE) neural network architecture, rather than one large neural network like traditional models.

Elder-care startup Samarth Life raises Rs 12 crore in a funding round led by Aroa Venture Partners. The funds will drive growth, enhance infrastructure, and cater to the needs of the elderly community. Samarth Life aims to achieve a revenue target of Rs 12 crore this year.

Zhang Yuzhuo, party chief of the state-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, told a conference on Feb. 19 that central government-owned enterprises should also actively embrace reforms brought by artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence experts, led by Yoshua Bengio, call for deepfake regulation to mitigate risks to society. Over 400 signatories, including Steven Pinker and Joy Buolamwini, support criminalizing deepfake child pornography and penalizing creators/facilitators of harmful deepfakes.

On February 13, LetsVenture notified investors of the changes in the PPM arrangement and asked for their consent through a Google form. The platform also added that in case of no response, it will be deemed consent, which has further invited the ire of LPs.

The Indus Appstore looks to take on tech giants Google and Apple by not charging developers any platform fee or commission for in-app payments. Developers will also be allowed to integrate any payment gateway of their choice inside their apps.

Apple upgrades iMessage with PQ3 to defend against quantum computing. It replaces the existing protocol and supports conversations. US and China invest in post-quantum cryptography. Cybersecurity agencies advise early planning. Quantum tech firms are confident in the threat.

Byjus parent Think & Learn has taken investors, who sought to oust founder Byju Raveendran and his family from board, to court. Sources said that the Karnataka high court has passed an interim order that any resolution on Friday EGM to be invalid till Think & Learn petition against the investor is heard.