Mark Zuckerberg explains Meta’s AI spending spree

[ad_1] Meta Platforms founder, Chairman, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg never does anything halfway, and the artificial-intelligence race is no different. This year, Meta will spend about $70 billion on AI data centers, almost double last year’s total. There have also been numerous reports that Zuckerberg has been personally recruiting the top AI talent in the … Read more

How India relaxed its telecom source code demand

[ad_1] India has dropped its demand that telecom equipment suppliers hand over proprietary source code, in a relief for local telcos and multinationals such as Ericsson, Nokia and Cisco, but poses a setback for local gear-makers. After the latest change, manufacturers need to provide just a summary of internal security test results and confirm following … Read more

China’s Quant Funds Boost US Recruiting After Trump’s Visa Curbs

[ad_1] Chinese quantitative hedge funds are stepping up efforts to hire science and engineering students in the US affected by President Donald Trump’s university funding cuts and tighter visa policies. Shanghai-based Mingshi Investment Management launched a special program last month to offer full-time jobs to students unable to finish their PhDs due to the recent … Read more

Sacrifices, trade-offs behind big win, says Glenmark’s Saldanha

[ad_1] “We were always resilient in how we approached innovation. I think that’s what finally rewarded us,” Saldanha, chief executive officer and managing director of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd, told Mint in an exclusive interview. He was referring to one of the largest deals for an Indian biopharma firm after Glenmark’s US-based unit Ichnos Glenmark Innovation … Read more

Sun Pharma launches alopecia drug Leqselvi in US after settling patent dispute

[ad_1] Sun Pharma on Monday announced it has settled a patent row with American biopharma company Incyte Corporation over its hair-loss drug, paving the way for its launch in the US. The Mumbai-based drugmaker, embroiled in the lawsuit since last year, launched the specialty drug in the world’s largest pharmaceutical market on Monday. Leqselvi (oral … Read more

Elon Musk rules out merger but confirms Tesla investor vote on xAI investment

[ad_1] Tesla Inc. plans to poll shareholders on whether to invest in xAI, Elon Musk said after the Wall Street Journal reported SpaceX was prepared to funnel $2 billion into the Grok chatbot developer. The billionaire entrepreneur, responding to a post on X, said any decision to back the startup ultimately wasn’t his to make. … Read more

AI plane crash: Fuel switches cut off due to human error, claims aviation expert

[ad_1] New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) It was human error that led to the fuel switches being cut off before Air India’s Boeing 787-8 plane crashed in Ahmedabad last month, and there also should have been more transparency in the AAIB’s preliminary report on the accident, aviation expert Captain Mohan Ranganathan said on Monday. His … Read more

No issues with AI-171 aircraft or engine; probe far from over: Air India CEO

[ad_1] A couple of days after India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau released its preliminary report on last month’s Air India flight crash, the airline’s chief executive told employees to avoid drawing premature conclusions as the investigation was far from over. In an internal note accessed by Mint, CEO Campbell Wilson highlighted that AAIB’s report had … Read more

India Pension Funds Said to Request Easier Bond Investment Rules

[ad_1] (Bloomberg) — Indian pension managers have asked the industry regulator to ease rules that mandate the tenor of company bonds they can buy, according to people familiar with the matter. The retirement funds recently asked the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority to relax a cap on purchases of corporate bonds that mature in … Read more

Startups prep for exits as Chinese backers find little love

[ad_1] Udaan and Pocket FM count Tencent among their investors, while Vedantu’s Chinese backers include Legend Capital and the TAL Education Group. There has been a recent spike in discussions around Chinese investors looking to pull out, several Indian investorsMintspoke with confirmed separately. “We can expect more block deals within listed startup entities as well, … Read more