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For decades, the geography of the tech industry has felt largely fixed, with Silicon Valley dominating the global startup economy. While cities like London, Beijing, and Tel Aviv have competed for secondary influence, one of the most important conversations in artificial intelligence is happening somewhere else entirely: Paris. France has aggressively invested in artificial intelligence research and infrastructure, with startups like Mistral AI helping Europe become a legitimate force in the global AI race. At the same time, Europe’s startup ecosystem has matured significantly; its founders are increasingly willing to scale companies domestically instead of immediately looking to relocate to…

Karur Vysya Bank, with a loan asset portfolio of Rs 99,000 crore, and market capitalisation of around Rs 28,000 crore, has drawn up strategies for faster balance sheet expansion. After a decade of downsizing the wholesale business, the bank now plans to reverse it by raising the corporate loan share to 20% in the next two years from 14% at present, managing director B Ramesh Babu tells Atmadip Ray. It also plans to enter into the credit card business, and loans against mutual funds are on the cards, too, as is a renewed focus on microloans. Edited excerpts:Would you like…

Global oil prices turned lower on Thursday after news of progress toward a deal that would extend the U.S.-Iran cease-fire. Source link

EU commissioners will meet on Friday for crunch talks aimed at imposing new restrictions on imports from China amid growing concern that Beijing is fuelling conditions for US-style rust belt towns in Europe.The surge in imports of everything from electric cars to key components in machines, medical devices and foodstuffs has been dubbed China Shock 2.0, potentially mirroring the experience in the US 25 years ago when Beijing joined the World Trade Organization.Commissioners representing each member state have been asked to bring examples of Chinese activities in all 27 portfolios, spanning trade to agriculture, defence, health and digital initiatives to…

NEW DELHI: Outgoing Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah seems to have left a ticking bomb as a parting gift for his successor DK Shivakumar and Rahul Gandhi before deciding to step down from his position on Thursday.A day before resigning as chief minister, Siddaramaiah on Wednesday accepted the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes’ long-delayed educational survey report, popularly known as the caste census.Also Read | Siddaramaiah quits, Shivakumar set for top job: Will Congress’s ‘nataka’ in Karnataka end or continue like before?The report on Karnataka’s first caste survey has been ready since 2017, during Siddaramaiah’s previous term as chief minister.…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Minnesota’s Democratic governor on Wednesday pardoned an illegal alien previously convicted of armed robbery before he could be deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).Jai Vang, an illegal alien from Laos, was convicted of aiding and abetting and armed robbery in Hennepin County in 1994, according to FOX 9. The incident occurred when he was 18 years old.He served his prison term, and was released back into the United States. Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., (L) leads a clemency hearing for Laotian national Jai Vang with Minnesota Chief Supreme Court Justice Natalie Hudson…

5 min readNew DelhiMay 28, 2026 09:56 PM IST Several junior colleges in the interiors of Maharashtra have missed out on the first round of admissions for which merit list will be declared on Friday. The reason – they were missing from the centralised online system’s registry of colleges for First Year Junior College (FYJC) admissions. It required for a few of them to move court, following which the Director of School (Secondary) Education has now issued an order to regional deputy directors to ensure that they are added to the system. A special access to the system will now…

I was standing beside a bay in the middle of a city, leaning on a railing with a pair of binoculars, checking my watch for the third time. Moonrise had come and gone — at least on paper — but the eastern horizon was a mess of low cloud and distant rooftops. Nothing.It’s a familiar frustration for moon-gazers. You’ve done the planning, arrived early and picked your spot, but there’s always a moment of doubt about whether you forgot some small detail. I kept scanning, sweeping slowly along the skyline, trying to second-guess where it might break through. Did I…

Cynthia Erivo opened up about how she felt following the internet’s reaction after she defended Ariana Grande from a fan during the Singapore premiere of Wicked: For Good. For the unversed, in November last year, a man rushed toward Ariana Grande during the Singapore stop of the Wicked press tour. At the time, Cynthia Erivo, who was walking alongside Grande, quickly stepped in and pushed the man away. In the aftermath, the internet was flooded with memes calling Erivo a “bodyguard.” The Tony winner responded to the trolling during her latest interview with Variety, published on May 27. Cynthia Erivo…

BYD’s new in-house 4nm smart driving chip, China’s first, unlocks “the highest level of vehicle intelligence” with L3 and L4 autonomous driving capabilities. BYD unveils China’s first 4nm in-house smart driving chip During its Intelligent Strategy Launch on Thursday, BYD unveiled its latest breakthrough technology, “Xuanji A3,” China’s first self-developed 4nm assisted-driving chip. CEO Wang Chuanfu said during the event that the new chip supports Level 3 and Level 4 autonomous driving, claiming it “represents the highest level of intelligent driving chips in China.” Combined with its in-house algorithms used in its God’s Eye ADAS system and Xuanji architecture, BYD…