OpenAI has held back the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing raised concerns about how reliably the model followed instructions and stayed within authorised boundaries. On the same day, NVIDIA announced a new system designed to put external controls around AI agents. The two developments point to …

Lovely Professional University (LPU) in Punjab’s Phagwara has been witnessing protests and violence since September 27 after allegations of sexual assault involving a female student began circulating among students and on social media. What began as a protest over an alleged incident at a girls’ hostel escalated into vandalism on …

Hyderabad residents applying for a US visitor visa could now be waiting almost a year just to get an interview appointment. The latest US Department of State visa wait-time data, updated on September 17, shows that the next available B1/B2 appointment in Hyderabad is 12 months away, the longest wait …

When Meta launched Muse earlier this month, the interesting part was not that the company had built another chatbot. Meta’s pitch was that Muse could actually take work off a user’s hands: it could browse the web, fill forms, send emails, book travel and make purchases, while continuing to work …

For months, the Election Commission of India has faced questions over its Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, with many appealing their removal. But the latest controversy is different: some of the sharpest objections to how the exercise was being conducted did not come from Opposition parties or civil society. …

Visakhapatnam is getting plenty of rain this week. The city recorded heavy rainfall on September 23, and the India Meteorological Department has forecast more heavy rain for September 24 and 25 as a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal crossed the North Andhra coast. But, there is also a water crisis.  …

The death of Sahil Ravindra Wakode, a second-year student at IIT Bombay, has become a major sensation across the country.  It has triggered protests on campus, a criminal investigation, allegations of caste-based harassment and now a separate internal inquiry by the institute, apart from a professor being sent on leave. …

For a young person in Andhra Pradesh or Telangana, the jobs story can often feel pretty straightforward: finish college, start looking, send applications, attend interviews and hope something works out. But the latest government data reveals a more complicated picture of what is happening in the two states’ labour markets. …

From past couple of years, Chandrababu Naidu said something that would have sounded like the opposite of what should have been said in Indian politics: Andhra Pradesh should encourage young couples to have three or four children. Naidu, who had once strongly advocated population control, said the state had followed …

Donald Trump has spent years saying the United States should acquire Greenland. On September 18, he announced what he called a breakthrough agreement with Denmark and Greenland that gives the US “permanent control over security” on the strategically located Arctic island. Trump said Washington would “FOREVER” have the ability to …

What began as a debate over Telangana’s prohibited lands list turned into a political fight over the properties of former Chief Minister KCR and his family. During the Assembly discussion on Section 22-A of the Registration Act on September 16, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy shifted the focus to alleged …

Hyderabad’s Ganesh immersion is once again facing a dispute over Tank Bund. This year, the Telangana government and Hyderabad Police have said that idols cannot be immersed from the Tank Bund road side of Hussain Sagar. They have also said that Plaster of Paris (PoP) idols cannot be immersed directly …