Sabalenka ends 2026 with no Grand Slams after winning three last year, which will be the first calendar year she goes home empty-handed from the Majors since 2022
The comments come as more US lawmakers urge new rules to govern AI systems after dire warnings from two researchers from OpenAI rival Anthropic that rapidly progressing AI could lead to the extinction of the human race in the not-too-distant future.
OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing automated shutdown capabilities for AI systems, according to a company letter reviewed by Reuters, weeks after the company disclosed one of its AI tools escaped its digital container during a sa
Naomi Osaka has made her Grand Slam appearances as much about fashion and storytelling as tennis. At the 2026 US Open, she turned heads once again with a dramatic look inspired by NBA legend Allen Iverson, blending basketball culture, personal influences and h
Zerodha founder Nithin Kamath recalled how a 15-year-old media appearance helped boost the broker s account openings in its early days. He also revealed that he used the pseudonym Sachin and even faked an accent while speaking to a journalist
A 42-year-old labourer identified as Sugna Devi was killed by a tiger at Jaipur s Nahargarh Biological Park on Wednesday morning. Devi and other women labourers had entered an enclosure at the park to cut grass when tiger Shivaji s cage inside the enclosure op
Mumbai: It s a bit odd for the women s world No.2, no less one within touching distance of the top spot, to be put on the Grandstand the third biggest stadium at the US Open for her opening match. With Filipino Alex Eala drawing the night match on Louis Armstr
When Carlos Alcaraz returned to the tennis court for his first singles match at the ongoing US Open on August 31, after more than four months away, he left fans and viewers talking about more than just his game. The seven-time Grand Slam champion s nipple kept
Pete Sampras, the player Stanislas Wawrinka grew up idolizing, handed him his maiden Grand Slam trophy at the 2014 Australian Open. If that wasn t gratifying enough, Sampras later said he wished he had Wawrinka s backhand
On Monday, celebrities lit up the US Open, on till September 13 in New York, turning one of summer s biggest sporting events into a star-studded affair Swiss tennis great and 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer received his International Tennis Hall of F
Actor Swara Bhasker has revisited the controversy surrounding her open letter to filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali after the release of Padmaavat in 2018. Speaking at an event hosted by the India International Centre (IIC) in Delhi, Swara recalled why she was di
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Vijay on Tuesday opened the sluice gates of the Stanley Reservoir at Mettur for irrigation in the Cauvery delta district. The water release is planned for 45 days from September 1, subject to the reservoir's storage levels and inflow
Ben Shelton is making headlines on the tennis court, but fans are also interested in his life away from tennis. The American star is dating soccer player Trinity Rodman and comes from a family with strong tennis connections
New Delhi: Days before the BWF World Championships, Victor Lai made a special trip to Japan to train with Kento Momota, the two-time world champion whose stellar career was unfortunately derailed by a car accident. Momota was poised to achieve even greater thi
Anthropic, the high-flying artificial intelligence company, has spent the past year surpassing rivals in the race to dominate the technology. Now it may also surpass those rivals with its coming blockbuster debut on Wall Street
OpenAI said on Friday it is cutting the prices of its frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model for developers by more than 20% for the next three months, as the ChatGPT maker faces growing competition from Anthropic and Chinese AI models. Here are more details: The price cu
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Brandon Nakashima continued his red-hot pace on Friday, knocking out sixth-seeded Taylor Fritz 7-6 , 4-6, 6-3 to reach the ATP-WTA Cincinnati Masters semi-finals. The American began his post-Wimbledon hardcourt run with a Washington semi-final, which he lost t
World number one Jannik Sinner ruled himself out of the U.S. Open on Friday citing a persistent knee injury
The cycle of heartbreak is familiar to job seekers everywhere: They see an ad for a role with great pay and potential, spend time customizing a cover letter and resume, hit submit, and then nothing. Sure, applications sometimes fall into a black hole
Can a Japanese prison turn into a luxury hotel? On August 17, Elona Karafin, a luxury travel content creator and founder of Japan Like a Local, posted a tour of a luxury suite in a century-old former Nara Prison, part of which has been converted into an unusua
Irregular, a small Israeli startup that has been linked to a string of recent AI security incidents, has published a postmortem report comprising key findings from its internal investigation. However, security experts have reportedly pointed out that the repor
AWS, on Thursday, August 20, announced that OpenAI s flagship AI models GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna are now available on Amazon Bedrock in India with in-country inferencing. Since OpenAI model inference on Amazon Bedrock is processed on AWS infrastructure, organisa
To put it simply, homeowners face a practical design challenge. They want uncluttered, airy interiors, but smaller homes may not have enough space to accommodate everyday belongings
As AI models grow more powerful, fueling concerns over their potential misuse, OpenAI appears to be walking a tightrope between protecting enterprise customers privacy and keeping tabs on how its technology is being used. The ChatGPT-maker on Wednesday, August
Top seeds Aryna Sabalenka and Alexander Zverev crashed out of the Cincinnati Masters in a matter of hours on a rainy Wednesday of fourth-round action. American Tommy Paul saved a match point on the way to a 4-6, 7-6 (8/6), 6-4 upset of Germany's Zverev
Months before its arrival, Delhi winter s notoriously grim air quality and high pollution is making international headlines again. Danish badminton player Anders Antonsen, the World No 4, who is currently playing at the BWF World Championships in the Capital
There s something irresistible about a long-awaited album finally appearing on your streaming app. You want to hear the first track, check the tracklist, skip to a favourite, turn up the volume maybe all while you're already on the road
For a generation of digital natives growing up on smartphones and social media, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not what lies in the future. It is becoming a part of the texture of the everyday: A sounding board for curiosity, a companion that shapes how they
The standoff at the Khanauri border between Punjab and Haryana ended on Wednesday afternoon with the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political) calling off its sit-in near NH-52 after the Centre agreed to hold talks with the farmers organisation, paving the way for
In recent months, news reports have covered European booksellers receiving bulk orders for second-hand books, presumably to train large language models (LLMs). Though subject to appeal, the ruling gives AI developers such as OpenAI a measure of legal cover to
As the BWF World Championships got underway at Delhi s Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium on Monday, organisers were determined to avoid a repeat of January s India Open embarrassment. Then, pigeon droppings interrupted play and a monkey wandered into the venue
The reopening of Mumbai s monorail will be delayed further as the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is still working on a comprehensive plan to evacuate passengers if a train gets stranded. The delay comes months after nearly 600 passeng
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Nvidia has revised its plans to support a proposed OpenAI data center project in Ohio and is now expected to initially guarantee less than $120 billion, down from the $250 billion previously discussed, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people
Novak Djokovic suffered a shock elimination in his first appearance since Wimbledon, losing to Thiago Agustin Tirante in the second round of the 2026 Cincinnati Masters. The Serbian took the opening set but struggled in the sweltering conditions before eventua
Novak Djokovic struggled with the severe heat conditions as he suffered a second-round defeat to Argentina's Thiago Tirante at the Cincinnati Open on Saturday. The 39-year-old Djokovic took a medical timeout during the second set and appeared to vomit into his
New Delhi, The Chinese badminton contingent on Saturday gave a thumbs-up to the preparations for the BWF World Championships, saying the conditions at the Indira Gandhi Stadium were much improved compared to the India Open earlier this year.The organisers have
India made a winning start to their FIH Hockey Men s World Cup 2026 campaign as captain Harmanpreet Singh struck twice in a 3-1 victory over Wales at the Wagener Stadium in Amstelveen. Sanjay Rana opened the scoring before Harmanpreet converted two penalty cor
The Indian athletics team will hold a short acclimatisation camp at the University of Tsukuba near Tokyo ahead of the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya. The team is expected to leave India on September 12 or 13 after the Indian Athletics Final Series
Batwara 1947 box office day 1: Sunny Deol-starrer Batwara 1947 released alongside Awarapan 2 on August 14. While the Rajkumar Santoshi directorial was expected to open strongly, given its backdrop of the India-Pakistan Partition, the film failed to attract the
Suriya s Vishwanath and Sons box office collection Day 1: After setting the box office on fire with his actioner Karuppu, Suriya is back with another release, Vishwanath and Sons, a family drama, in which he plays an ageing former Olympic pistol shooter. The f
Washington Commanders wide receiver Stefon Diggs will not play against the Miami Dolphins in Friday s preseason opener. The Commanders officially listed Diggs among 26 players who will sit out the game at Northwest Stadium
Seventh-seeded Iga Swiatek beat second-seeded Elena Rybakina 6-2, 6-3 on Thursday in the National Bank Open for her first WTA Tour title of the year and 26th overall.Swiatek, from Poland, broke Rybakina's serve early in the match and went on to take the openin
OpenAI is on track to generate annualised revenue of more than $40 billion based on its current performance, according to people familiar with the matter, roughly doubling its run rate from the end of 2025 and bolstering the company s plans for a Wall Street d
While the 17-year-old Taipei Open champion, Tanvi Sharma, was busy offering tips to the budding shuttlers at the Chandigarh Badminton Academy in Zirakpur earlier this week, elder sister Radhika Sharma was standing close to Tanvi and applauding her sister. Radh
Nvidia is developing a new AI model family, Nemotron 4, with the goal of challenging top open-source models globally, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing people who work on the project. The chip giant is among the few major U.S
The Pune civic body has set a December-end deadline to complete the railway overbridge, known as Sadhu Vaswani bridge, with the civic chief declaring to visit the site every month to inspect progress. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has undertaken reconst
In the past few weeks, advanced AI models have increasingly shown unexpected, potentially malicious behaviour such as breaching the security infrastructure of companies and engaging in deception by creating fake profiles. Amid the recent surge in cybersecurity
The KSCPCR and Sree Narayana Guru Open University in Kollam will jointly launch certificate and diploma courses on child rights and laws concerning children, officials said on Monday. A memorandum of understanding between the two institutions will be signed an