AI startup Black Forest Labs urges optimism from Europe despite safety fearsEurope needs to view artificial intelligence with more optimism -- despite growing warnings about its dangers -- or risk falling further be...
27 Sep, 2026, 04.41 PM IST
Europe's AI firms, playing catch-up, challenge US calls for slowdownAnthropic's CEO Dario Amodei in an online essay urged firms to slow the pace at which they improve AI model capabilities and called for an ...
18 Sep, 2026, 05.57 PM IST
2008, Spain destroyed susceptible pines within 3 km after finding pine wood nematode in one tree; that outbreak was eradicatedA microscopic worm, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, caused a severe pine tree outbreak in Spain. Officials initially eradicated one infestation...
01 Aug, 2026, 04.14 PM IST
French president urges US to share cutting-edge AI and democracies to cooperate on regulationFrench President Macron urged wealthy democracies to unite on AI regulation, a sentiment echoed by OpenAI's CEO. Amidst US restrictions on ...
18 Jun, 2026, 04.47 PM IST
Sarvam AI's Pratyush Kumar joins AI executive huddle with G7 leadersPratyush Kumar of Sarvam AI joined top global AI leaders for a G-7 working lunch. The meeting focused on AI and the Digital Age. Leaders fr...
17 Jun, 2026, 08.02 PM IST
AI executives gather at G7 as Europeans seek checks on American dominanceIn a rare huddle of AI industry figures, leaders of three of the most powerful AI companies -- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO D...
17 Jun, 2026, 04.45 PM IST
Martin Scorsese embraces AI, teams up with company Black Forest LabsThe Oscar-winning director, who has made classics such as "Taxi Driver", "Raging Bull", "Goodfellas", "Cape Fear", "The Aviator", "Shutter ...
03 Jun, 2026, 12.51 PM IST
Meta unveils 'Vibes', an AI-generated short video feedThe announcement came from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who shared a series of examples on Instagram. In one, fuzzy creatures hop between cube...
26 Sep, 2025, 04.54 PM IST
FLUX 1 Kontext & Playground API: The Next Evolution in in‑Context Visual AI.Black Forest Labs has rolled out FLUX 1 Kontext—a suite of generative flow‑matching models—and an accompanying Playground API that hands cr...
21 Jul, 2025, 04.10 PM IST
Microsoft to offer rival AI models from own datacentre; launches AI coding agentAt its Build conference, Microsoft announced it will host AI models from xAI, Mistral, and Black Forest Labs in its own data centres. It al...
19 May, 2025, 10.00 PM IST
Elon Musk's Grok can now analyse imagesThe chatbot by Elon Musk's AI company xAI has released new update that now allows the AI assistant to analyse images. Musk said in a post o...
03 Jan, 2025, 03.49 PM IST
- Scientists unravel mystery behind Odisha's ‘black tigers'14 Sep, 2021, 06.40 PM IST
$1 stove insert may help save thousands of livesAn Indian-origin scientist in US has created a $1 metal insert for traditional cookstoves or 'chulhas' which may help save thousands of liv...
16 Dec, 2015, 06.07 PM IST
Soon, a count of leopards in mid-HimalayasThe first scientific estimation exercise to count the number of leopards in the middle Himalayas, at elevations ranging from 1000 to 3000 m...
30 Oct, 2015, 08.35 PM IST
‘Experimental’ Aravalli Biodiversity Park opens todayTen years after the first plantations began in a mining-ravaged stretch of the Aravali range in Delhi, a forest is in bloom.
22 Apr, 2015, 12.37 PM IST
- Russia allows import of Indian sesame with riders
Each consignment of sesame seeds bound for Russia has to be accompanied with a quality certificate. The certificate is to be issued by Russ...
20 Sep, 2007, 02.44 AM IST
- Seasame traders eye Russian business again
With rice exports to Russia taking off once again, Indian exporters have now geared up to resume exports of sesame seed to that country.
14 Aug, 2007, 04.09 AM IST