In the last month, the music artist with the largest audience across YouTube platforms wasn’t Bad Bunny or Taylor Swift. It was Slxughter, a phonk producer. The term probably doesn’t sound familiar, but anyone who’s spent any time on social media has almost certainly listened to it.Maybe it’s better to say “heard it,” since the…
Anthropic’s terms forbid anyone to harvest data for distillation. Separately, over not sharing its technology with Pentagon, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei (inset) has made clear his ethical concerns about unchecked govt use of AI SAN FRANCISCO: The San Francisco artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has accused three Chinese companies of improperly harvesting large amounts of…
Kristine McDivitt Tompkins (Image source: Wikipedia) Kristine McDivitt Tompkins is an American environmentalist and the former CEO of Patagonia, one of the most important outdoor clothing brands in the world. After working in business for many years, she quit her job as a business leader to focus on protecting the environment on a large scale….
Facing racial attack as an Indian in the US is nothing new but this time an Indian-origin CEO has been asked to ‘go to China’ and not India as Nitish Kannan criticized the ongoing narrative in the US to shut out everyone, including H-1Bs, O-1 visa holders. Kannan said while the US is fighting to…
An Indian-origin restaurateur in London has announced that he will close his establishment after 16 years, citing mounting challenges including rising costs, online harassment, repeated disturbances he attributes to Pakistani groups, and what he described as inadequate support from the Metropolitan Police. Harman Singh Kapoor, owner of Rangrez in Hammersmith, said on X that the…
A Redditor on an H-1B visa claimed that her passport was stamped ‘cancelled and withdrawn’ at Abu Dhabi preclearance as she was traveling back to the US in January, along with her husband. Explaining her case, she said that she traveled to India in November to celebrate her daughter’s first birthday and did not face…
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the weekend deported a woman who was just shy of being nine months pregnant from the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, US Congressman Joaquin Castro confirmed Monday.The woman, Juana, whose last name was withheld due to privacy concerns, was held at Dilley for three months with…
Managers of The Boston Globe called off printing its daily newspaper for the first time in its 153-year-old history after a record-setting snowstorm prevented staff from safely reaching the printing plant.Snow and winds stopped staff from getting to the Globe printing plant to print Tuesday’s paper, the newspaper said in an article on its website….
Valkyrae faced backlash after discussing her brother’s death and their strained relationship during a livestream. While some criticized her tone, many viewers empathized with her experience of complicated grief. She later addressed the reaction, saying the past few days had been frustrating and emotional, and urged grace and understanding for those coping with difficult family…
‘El Mencho’, left, and Pablo Escobar The template was forged in Medellín by Pablo Escobar: immense wealth, absolute violence, and the charisma of a folk hero. But the modern Mexican cartels haven’t just followed that template—they’ve weaponised it. What began as a handful of regional trafficking routes has evolved into a multi-generational saga of betrayal…