India’s anti-money laundering agency to issue notice to Byju’s
India’s Enforcement Directorate, its crime-fighting agency, plans to issue a show-cause notice to Byju’s, alleging that it violated the nation’s foreign exchange rules, a person familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The allegations, which ED plans to make public as early as Tuesday, will say that the Bengaluru-headquartered startup has
Read MoreGoogle admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal
A Google executive said during a testimony in the Epic vs Google trial that a deal with Spotify allows the audio company to bypass Play Store fees, as reported by The Verge. Don Harrison, Google’s head of partnership, said that Spotify pays no fees when it processes its own payments
Read MoreIndy raises $44 million to simplify taxes and paperwork for freelancers
French startup Indy has recently closed a new funding round of $44 million (€40 million) with BlackFin Capital Partners leading the round. Indy started as an automated accounting platform for freelancers and other self-employed people. But the company has been slowly iterating on its product to become an all-in-one platform
Read MoreThe ultimate guide to hiring qualified AI engineers
Introduction The field of artificial intelligence (AI) engineering is a rapidly emerging and evolving domain—and it represents the cutting edge of technological innovation today. As businesses and industries increasingly integrate AI into their operations, the demand for skilled AI engineers is surging. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics expects demand
Read MoreElon Musk’s ‘thermonuclear’ lawsuit over hate-adjacent ads on X… actually confirms them
Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, has filed a lawsuit alleging defamation by a news organization over claims that major companies had ads appear next to antisemitic content. But the suit appears to confirm the very thing it claims is defamatory. Media Matters last Thursday published an article with screenshots showing
Read MoreNumber of groups of squarefree order
This post is a sort of footnote to the previous post, Estimating the number of groups of a given order. The following is taken from an answer to a question on Stack Exchange. In general there is no formula f(n) for the number of groups of order up to isomorphism. However,
Read MoreEstimating number of groups of a given order
John Conway et al [1] give the name gnu(n) to the number of groups of order n, where “gnu” stands for group number. This function has been studied since the 19th century, but I don’t know whether there has ever been a standard notation for it. Mathematica calls it FiniteGroupCount.
Read MoreInvestors are souring on OpenAI’s nonprofit governance model
OpenAI was never quite like other generative AI startups — or other startups period, for that matter. Its governance structure is unique and what ultimately led to the abrupt ousting of CEO Sam Altman on Friday. Even after it transitioned from a nonprofit to a “capped-profit” company in 2019, OpenAI
Read MoreAnalyst reaction to OpenAI turmoil: Shrewd move by Microsoft
The trick now for Microsoft Corp. will be navigating its continuing business relationship with OpenAI while at the same time harboring its exiled leadership members, says Brian Jackson, principal research director at Info-Tech Research Group, following the stunning news that OpenAI’s former CEO Sam Altman and company co-founder Greg Brockman
Read MoreCanada has strengths but shows no improvement in network readiness: Report
Canada ranked 11th in the annual 2023 Network Readiness Index (NRI), the same position as last year, outdistanced by the U.S., Singapore, Finland, Netherlands, Sweden and other high-income countries. The NRI aims to assess the impact of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) on society and the development of nations. It evaluates
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