The company said it "parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information," after the Wall Street Journal reported they shared it with an outside AI-safety group. It follows reports of OpenAI agents escaping containment and probing outside systems.
Read more →Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Dario Amodei and Greg Brockman signed the voluntary accord on September 29. It asks frontier labs to track model capabilities in areas like biology and cyberattacks, staff safety teams checked by outside auditors, and give independent board committees oversight. Nothing in it is binding.
Read more →Four astronauts from the US, Canada and Russia lifted off from Cape Canaveral on October 1, on a flight planned to reach the station in about eight hours, the fastest Dragon trip yet. Commander Jessica Watkins is the first NASA astronaut to fly Dragon twice. The crew stays six months.
Read more →Launched September 29, the site answers questions about passports, Social Security cards and campsites across about 29,000 government websites, using Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia led it; transactions on the site come in 2027. A founder of the US Digital Service called it a demo of "the easiest 5% of the problem."
Read more →Judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland ruled on September 30 that the agencies skipped required rule-making and blocked the fee nationwide. A Boston court paused it in June. Homeland Security is separately moving to a permanent $103,000 fee.
Read more →The senior deputy press secretary, one of the most visible Indian Americans in the administration's press shop, becomes Assistant Director of National Intelligence for Strategic Communications under Director Jay Clayton.
Read more →The court agreed on October 1 to review the policy of holding immigrants without bond, a day after letting third-country deportations continue while it hears that case in December.
Read more →GLAMOS and the Swiss Academy of Sciences said glaciers lost 5.5% of their volume in the year to September 30, after a low-snow winter and repeated summer heat waves, and about 20% since 2021. Some 30 small glaciers vanished. Under these conditions, the Academy said, Alpine glaciers "have no chance of surviving in the long term."
Read more →The USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group is sailing from San Diego with F-35s, and more than 2,000 Marines are going with the Makin Island group. By the end of November the US expects three carriers and two amphibious groups around Iran, on top of about 50,000 troops already in the region.
Read more →Counter-terrorism police arrested a 27-year-old dual UK-Iranian national in central London on October 1 on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts at the US-used air base in Gloucestershire. Five London men held on Sunday are out on bail. Iran denies any role.
Read more →Agreed October 2 under France's G7 presidency, the release runs four months, with large diesel volumes in the first 20 days, after Trump threatened to ban US diesel exports. Partners also pledged not to restrict energy trade among themselves.
Read more →At the Valdai forum in Moscow on October 1, Putin called talk of a mutual halt to long-range strikes "simply ridiculous" and said Ukraine's refinery strikes had cost Russia about 1% of GDP. He warned that an attack on Kaliningrad would put "all weapons at our country's disposal" on the agenda.
Read more →On September 30 the first officer of flight FZ1073 stabbed the captain and tried to crash the plane, which dropped nearly 17,000 feet. Machchhar fought back and opened the cockpit door so passengers could subdue the attacker, and an off-duty crew landed in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. Netanyahu praised his bravery; India's embassy says he is stable.
Read more →On September 28, SpaceX's Flight 14 put Starship into a 180-mile orbit, deployed 26 next-generation Starlink satellites and splashed down north of Hawaii about three hours after launch. Reaching orbit is the step NASA needs before Starship can land astronauts on the moon, now targeted for 2028.
Read more →India's ambassador to the UAE, Deepak Mittal, visited the flydubai pilot on October 1 and said he is "in good health and recovering well" after head and arm injuries from the cockpit attack.
Read more →Tehran offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within a week if the US lifts its naval blockade. The White House called the offer unacceptable, and Brent rose 3% to about $107 a barrel.
Read more →King Mohammed VI appointed Fatima Zahra Mansouri after her party won 97 seats in parliamentary elections.
Read more →Andy Burnham promised to set out options for Britain's future relationship with the EU.
Read more →The Congress leader said the online Form 6 for new voters was changed illegally, citing reports that two election commissioners objected at least 14 times to decisions made without them.
Read more →Imran Khan's party says the march goes ahead on October 4, as the government weighs emergency options in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Read more →Writing for the International Day of Non-Violence, he argues, drawing on Jain thought and Gandhi's satyagraha, that ahimsa covers thought and speech as well as action, and that it must grow from personal practice into a global culture of dialogue. "Non-violence is not weakness; it is disciplined strength," he writes.
Read more →The former CMO's book, published by HarperCollins, draws on Indian philosophy and the lessons immigrant daughters learn from their mothers to make a case for how Indian women lead.
Read more →The Nike Caitlin 1 went on sale October 1 at $140 in two colorways and sold out at Foot Locker, Champs and Hibbett within hours. Resale prices reached $200 to $300.
Read more →OpenAI announced on September 28 that Tendulkar will appear in videos and campaigns showing how he uses ChatGPT, from preparing speeches to finding recipes and reading up on cars and golf. ChatGPT use in India has doubled in a year. "Much of my learning starts with a question," he said.
Read more →The American Advertising Federation will present the award on November 19 at Pier Sixty in New York, at its Advertising Hall of Achievement ceremony. It honors people outside advertising whose work shapes how brands reach audiences; Minhaj fronts Adobe's Acrobat campaign and its comedy series The Marketers.
Read more →The Citadel founder's gift sends $2 billion to a new 35-acre CMU campus in Miami's Wynwood, set to open to students in 2028, and $1 billion to Pittsburgh, half of it for the School of Computer Science, which will carry his name.
Read more →The first Indian chef to earn a Michelin star, for Tamarind in 2001, joins Jashan founder-chef Prasanna Singaraju October 3 to 5: a seven-course tasting ($140), a five-chef Sunday supper for 60 ($160) and a 20-seat "Dil Se" dinner ($225).
Read more →The sarod maestro, with sons Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash, joins the American kirtan singer on a new rendition of the Buddhist mantra for the album Chants for Unity. Khan called it a humble offering toward peace and compassion.
Read more →Meta named him the brands' first India ambassador on October 1 as Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 AI glasses went on sale from Rs 44,300, with 9-hour battery and a 12MP camera.
Read more →The 20-year-old Apollo Tyres heiress is the only Indian among this year's debutantes at Le Bal des Débutantes, the invitation-only Paris ball, and will wear a red Georges Hobeika gown.
Read more →Navratri runs October 11 to 19, with Dussehra on the 20th. The largest US garba nights are in Edison and Iselin, Houston's NRG Center, suburban Chicago, Atlanta and San Jose, and the best ones sell out weeks ahead.
Read more →An upcoming episode of Indiaspora's podcast, hosted by Sanjeev Joshipura, puts the former associate attorney general in conversation with Sonal Shah, former CEO of The Texas Tribune.
Read more →Thanga at Garba brought five minutes of Gujarat's garba to the middle of Times Square, ahead of Navratri on October 11. Their line: no disruption, just culture, fun and good vibes.
Read more →The embassy hosted certified Ayurvedic health counselor Monika Sharda for a talk on this year's theme, Ayurveda for a Healthier Tomorrow.
Read more →The founder of South Asian Trailblazers gave the keynote at the hotel owners' association's HerOwnership Conference in Nashville, September 27 and 28.
Read more →As firefighter Ravi Panikkar on 9-1-1, Pisharody plays a character whose ethnicity is not the storyline, a point TOI's Diaspora Dialogues highlighted this week.
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