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Image Source : FILE Grok AI chatbot by Elon Musk set to go open source by this week Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX has said that his artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI will open-source the AI chatbot Grok this week. The news officially surfaced on Monday where Musk posted that Sam Altman-run OpenAI is a lie while responding to a comment in the X (formerly…

In a week filled with exciting technological advancements and intriguing controversies, the…

Image Source : FILE Representational Image X Down in Pakistan: For nearly a week, the widely used social media platform, owned by tech billionaire, Elon Musk,  'X' has been off-limits to the Pakistani population, leaving users unable to share information. Despite the prolonged disruption, the caretaker government has remained silent about the cause behind the outage.…

In a perplexing turn of events, the widely used social media platform 'X' remains off-limits to the Pakistani populace for almost a week, with the caretaker…

Pakistan has temporarily suspended mobile phone network and internet services across the country to combat any “possible threats,” a top ministry said, as the South Asian nation commences its national election. In a statement, Pakistan’s interior ministry said the move was prompted by recent incidents of terrorism in the country. The internet was accessible through wired broadband connections, local journalists posted on X earlier Thursday. But NetBlocks, an independent service that tracks…

The title of Reba Som’s latest book might lead a reader to believe she is just an appendage of her diplomat husband. They couldn’t be further from the truth. This narrative about living out of suitcases as she journeys across the world and establishes herself as an accomplished author and academic, and scholar in Hindustani Classical music and Rabindra Sangeet shows she can definitely hold her own. Indeed, she has also authored such volumes as Margot:Sister Nivedita of Vivekananda (2017), Differences within Consensus:…

How did the idea for the book originate, especially considering its connection to Jashn-e-Talat, the concert you organized? An early picture of singer Talat Mahmood The idea for the book originated from a personal experience. Growing up, I knew Talat Mahmood as my grand uncle and had interactions with him as a family member. It wasn’t until much later in my journalism career, around 15 years in, that the concept took shape. Despite having friends in Bollywood reporting, and legends like Lata didi, I never…

Ali Akbar Natiq, the Urdu poet, has been the toast of the town among the Urdu literati in recent years. Accordingly, I came to his first novel Naulakhi Kothi with a great deal of excitement, not least because it also depicted a pre-Partition Punjab. Alas, I was much disappointed. View of Wah village in Rawalpindi district, Punjab, 1934. (Bristol Archives/Universal Image) 480pp, Rs599; Penguin While the translation by Naima Rashid was quite eloquent, the novel, as with much contemporary Urdu prose writing,…

Security Council resolutions adopted on 4 and 6 September 1965 asked both countries to withdraw all military personnel to pre-5 August positions. On 9 September, UN Secretary General U Thant paid a visit to Pakistan and India. Pakistani diplomats were particularly displeased that, despite numerous attempts, he made no mention of the earlier UN resolutions of 1949–50. Former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri (2 October 1904 - 11 January 1966) (HT Photo by HC Tiwari) 560pp, ₹999; Aleph The US, still beset by…

This story is part of CBC Health's Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven't subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here.In Bangladesh, roughly 300,000 people have been infected with dengue this year during the country's worst-ever outbreak of the mosquito-transmitted disease. By mid-November, the death toll hit close to 1,500, as hospitals in the densely populated South Asian country struggled to cope with the surge in…