Author: Ansh Singh

New Delhi: OnGrid, India’s trusted platform for comprehensive background verification and checks, offers a suite of instant KYC/KYB APIs under its ‘Gridlines’ business line. Recently, Gridlines announced the launch of its Startup Toolkit Program. This program offers a comprehensive suite of KYC, KYB, and asset verification APIs designed to streamline onboarding and verification needs, ensure regulatory compliance, and accelerate growth for startups. Our bundled kit offers integrated solutions that seamlessly combine multiple services into one cohesive package. It simplifies billing by consolidating all services into a single source, making financial management easier, and ensures enhanced security with consistent protocols across…

New Delhi: Since Elon Musk acquired the social media platform now known as X, the user base has seen little to no growth. According to a recent report by the Financial Times, X recorded approximately 251 million global daily active users in the second quarter of 2024. This figure represents a mere 1.6 percent increase compared to the same period the previous year. Before Musk’s takeover in October 2022, the platform, then known as Twitter, experienced double-digit growth, consistently adding tens of millions of new users annually. In stark contrast, from Q2 2023 to Q2 2024, X added just over…

New Delhi: During a recent talk at Stanford University, Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, shared a personal story from his early days in business. He co-founded Nvidia in 1993 when he was 30 years old. Huang talked about how he did various tasks, even cleaning toilets, to help the company succeed. He emphasized that no job should be considered too low for anyone. This idea was well-received, including by Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk. Elon Musk, known for leading Tesla and SpaceX, agreed with Huang’s view. He shared his own experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, joking about the toilet paper shortages and…

Bengaluru: Quest Global, a leading global product engineering services company, today was conferred the prestigious PeopleFirst HR Excellence Award for 2024 in the category of ‘Leading Practices in Talent Acquisition’. This accolade recognizes Quest Global’s unwavering commitment to excellence in HR practices and innovative approaches towards talent acquisition. The HR Excellence Awards, sponsored by PeopleFirst, celebrates outstanding achievements in the field of Human Resources, highlighting organizations that set benchmarks in HR practices worldwide. Receiving this award underscores Quest Global’s dedication to creating a dynamic and effective talent acquisition strategy. “Our success in winning the PeopleFirst HR Excellence Award is a…

New Delhi: Biostate AI has stepped out of stealth mode in Palo Alto, CA and Houston, TX, introducing two new services: Total RNA sequencing and Copilot for RNAseq data analysis. The startup’s goal is to collaborate with academic researchers, hospital biorepositories, and pharmaceutical and biotech companies. They aim to use their advanced technologies to collect large-scale biological data, foster scientific discoveries, and enhance AI learning in biomedicine. “Training any AI well requires large quantities of relevant and high-quality data,” says David Zhang, co-founder and CEO of Biostate AI. “Biostate AI has developed the instrumental technologies to help collect more biological…

New Delhi: RAYS Power Infra, a leading name in the renewable energy sector, is proud to announce the establishment of a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to the manufacturing of solar modules, solar cells, and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) at a gigawatt scale. This strategic move marks a significant step forward in the company’s commitment to advancing clean energy solutions. The new subsidiary will focus on setting up large-scale manufacturing facilities, and the company is currently evaluating land options and incentive policies across various states. Details of the plans and the quantum of investment will be disclosed soon, highlighting RAYS Power…

New Delhi: Apple has removed several VPN apps from its Russian App Store at the request of the country’s communications watchdog, according to the VPN developers. Last week, Russian news agency Interfax reported that Apple removed 25 VPN apps after Roskomnadzor, the government body that controls the internet, demanded it. In Russia, where the internet is heavily censored, people often use VPNs to bypass restrictions and access blocked content. On Monday, two VPN services, Le VPN and Red Shield VPN, told that they received a letter from Apple about the decision to remove their apps. The letter to Red Shield…

New Delhi: The latest argument between Apple and Fortnite maker Epic Games isn’t over yet. Epic has been fighting Apple for years about the company’s revenue-sharing rules in the App Store. While Epic’s lawsuit against Apple was defeated last year, many of its points were repeated in another lawsuit filed against Apple in March by the Department of Justice and 17 state attorneys general. In Europe, the new Digital Markets Act seemed to let Epic launch its own Epic Games Store on iOS and bring Fortnite back to the platform, with lower fees to Apple. However, Apple supposedly rejected the…

New Delhi: Elon Musk has revealed some details about the training of the next version of his AI chatbot, Grok, on X/Twitter. Responding to some posts, Musk talked about the problem of “models training on each other’s data,” comparing it to a “human centipede effect,” and admitted that a lot of work is needed to clean up large language models (LLMs) because most of the training data comes from the internet. The governor is correct that this is a Dojo Supercomputer, but $500M, while obviously a large sum of money, is only equivalent to a 10k H100 system from Nvidia.Tesla…

New Delhi: YouTube has rolled out a new and improved tool that lets creators remove copyrighted music from their videos without affecting other sounds like dialogues or sound effects. On July 4, YouTube’s chief, Neal Mohan, announced this on X, saying, “Good news, creators: our updated Erase Song tool helps you easily remove copyright-claimed music from your video (while leaving the rest of your audio intact).” The tool, which has been in testing for some time, now uses an AI-powered algorithm to accurately detect and remove only the copyrighted music. However, YouTube warns on its support page that the tool…