Chapel Hill (North Carolina), Sep 3 (IANS) US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has urged G20 nations to use artificial intelligence to dismantle unnecessary trade barriers, strengthen global supply chains and make it easier for businesses to compete across borders.
Chapel Hill (North Carolina), Sep 3 (IANS) Palantir chief executive Alex Karp has urged governments to bring their leading technology experts home from the United States to help shape national artificial intelligence policies, warning that countries cannot afford to treat the AI race as a political or theoretical debate.
Asheville (North Carolina), Sep 2 (IANS) India has moved to deepen economic partnerships with the European Union, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and several major economies, with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman using the G20 meeting in Asheville to seek greater investment, stronger supply chains and wider access to advanced technologies.
Chapel Hill (North Carolina), Sep 2 (IANS) Every country must develop domestic artificial intelligence capacity and decide which parts of the rapidly expanding technology chain it wants to build, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has said, warning governments against outsourcing all their intelligence to others.
Dhaka, Sep 2 (IANS) At least five more people died of dengue outbreak in Bangladesh on Wednesday, taking the country’s death toll from the mosquito borne disease to 107 this year, local media reported.
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) India and Canada on Wednesday held the annual Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) which the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said carried forward the sustained momentum in bilateral relationship witnessed since June 2025.
Wellington, Sep 2 (IANS) New Zealand’s Immigration and Protection Tribunal has dismissed all 40 published asylum cases associated with support for Khalistan that it heard in 2025 and 2026, marking a departure from 2024, when two applicants were granted refugee status on similar grounds, a report has stated.
Chapel Hill (North Carolina), Sep 2 (IANS) A conversation with friends more than a decade ago persuaded Anthropic Executive Tom Brown to leave engineering and pursue artificial intelligence (AI), beginning a journey that took him through OpenAI and eventually to the founding of Anthropic.
Bangkok, Sep 2 (IANS) As persecution of religious minorities continues unabated across Pakistan, allegations of abduction, forced conversion and marriage involving a 21-year-old Hindu woman, Rita, have once again put the country’s treatment of minorities under the spotlight after she was recovered by Punjab provincial police, a report has stated.
Lhasa, Sep 2 (IANS) The mega-dam proposed by China on the Yarlung Tsangpo River is a potential ecological and humanitarian disaster and poses ecological, environmental and geopolitical risks to downstream nations, especially India and Bangladesh, a report has detailed.
