Indian crypto exchange WazirX, which suffered a ₹1,965-crore hack in July, moved ₹619 crore ($73.63 million) in user cryptocurrency assets after the breach, rival CoinSwitch Co-founder Ashish Singhal alleged. WazirX transferred $72.13-million crypto to Bybit and $1.5-million to KuCoin. "Think of this...as just one piece of a complex puzzle that we are also trying to figure out," added Singhal.

Elon Musk, the world's richest person with $242 billion wealth, posted on X, "College is overrated." He was responding to a video of him saying, "The value of a college education is somewhat overweighted...People spend four years, accumulate a ton of debt and often don't have useful skills." Notably, Musk has college degrees in physics and economics.

Google appointed its Senior VP Prabhakar Raghavan, who spent 12 years leading teams across the company, as its Chief Technologist. An IIT Madras graduate who also holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, Raghavan has over 20 years of research spanning algorithms, web search and databases, published over 100 papers, and holds 20 issued patents. He founded and led Yahoo! Labs.

A woman alleged that a food delivery platform's employee used the platform's app to stalk his ex-girlfriend after their breakup. "The guy...apparently flagged her account...which meant he had real-time access to her delivery locations...He used it to keep tabs on her," the woman said. "Post seems fictional," a LinkedIn user said. "This is possible via different CRM tools," said another.

Jellysmack, a SoftBank-backed creator-economy startup reportedly will lay off its staff amid reorganisation of its business. The Jellysmack layoffs would affect 22 employees and the tech company would also scale back its content creator program. The layoffs would affect employees from United States and France.

ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, dismissed an intern for disrupting its AI model training, specifically targeting the Doubao chatbot. While ByteDance downplayed the impact, refuting claims of significant damage, the company terminated the intern in August and reported it to intern's university. The incident highlights tech firms' challenges in safeguarding AI projects from internal threats.

A watchdog warns of a surge in AI-generated child abuse imagery on the open web, raising concerns of a tipping point. The easy accessibility and potential rise in criminal activity highlights the need for stricter regulations to combat the issue. Experts call for swift action to prevent further exploitation of vulnerable minors.

X (formerly Twitter) has updated its privacy policy, allowing third parties to train artificial intelligence on user-generated posts. The change raises concerns about data privacy and how personal information is utilised by AI systems. Users are urged to review their settings and be aware of the platform's new terms and conditions.

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has fired an intern for "maliciously interfering" with the training of one of its AI models. ByteDance denied rumours which surfaced on Chinese social media, claiming that the intern caused over $10 million worth of damage by disrupting thousands of GPUs. Reports about the extent of damage caused are exaggerated and inaccurate, it added.

Billionaire Elon Musk alleged US government regulators forced SpaceX to "kidnap seals twice" for a compliance experiment. Musk shared an X post alleging SpaceX was made to conduct an experiment to see how sonic booms from Starship launches might affect seals. SpaceX put earphones on seals and played sonic boom sounds to see if they "seemed upset", Musk said.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company is perfectly fine with not being the first to launch a product or a feature. He explained that it takes a lot of time and iteration to make something really great. "We'd rather come out with that kind of product and...contribution to people versus running to get something out first," he told WSJ.

Nobel Laureate in Economics Paul Romer praised India and said that the country successfully used the digital technology to benefit its people. "The opportunities that we were given in the United States with digital technology, we have wasted, squandered a really phenomenal opportunity. And the way to see what we've lost is to compare the success in India," he stated,

Stephanie Ramos, an ex-Amazon employee who rejoined the company, said, "Poor experiences led me to resign after 11 weeks." Sharing lessons from her experience, she posted on LinkedIn, "Listen to yourself...If it doesn't feel right, it might not be right." She added, "Make decisions based on the life you want...Have a way out and don't be afraid to use it."

Elon Musk-owned xAI is hiring AI Tutors who can speak in different languages, including Hindi, Chinese, Arabic and French, and is offering to pay between ₹3,000 and ₹5,400 per hour. The tutors will be responsible for delivering "top-tier curated data with an emphasis on nuances of English and additional language". This data will be used to improve generative AI models.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to Instagram and shared pictures from a party that he recently hosted for his wife Priscilla Chan. "Disco queen wanted a party," he captioned the post. The pictures showed them dressed in shimmery clothes and Priscilla breaking into a dance. Earlier, Zuckerberg designed a Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT Minivan for her.

OpenAI's partnership with Microsoft is increasingly showing signs of strain, New York Times reported. The partnership, which OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once called "the best bromance in tech", began to show cracks after Altman's brief ouster by OpenAI's board, the report added. Microsoft has been increasingly hesitant in supplying OpenAI with the cash and computing power, the report further said.

A new device named 'electronic tongue' which can detect potential issues with food freshness and safety has been developed by a team of scientists in US. The 'electronic tongue' collects information about the ions in the food, and translates it into an electrical signal that a computer can process. The study about the machine was published in the journal 'Nature'.

Nobel Laureate Paul Michael Romer praised India's digital revolution. "India's story is unique because it is providing benefits to all," he told IANS. "Other countries, particularly in the South, should believe 'If India can do it, we can also do it'. They can draw inspiration and confidence from India and harbour an ambition to create a success story," he added.

World's richest man Elon Musk said he had felt it was necessary to acquire the micro-blogging platform Twitter. "The whole point of acquiring Twitter was to restore the voice of people...They suspended a sitting US President (Donald Trump), which is insane," he said at an event in Pennsylvania. Musk had acquired Twitter in 2022 and later rebranded it to X.

Meta has started testing a new feature for WhatsApp which will allow Meta AI to remember parts of users' chats to deliver a tailored experience in the most natural way possible, WABetaInfo reported. The feature seems to be an extension of the voice chat for Meta AI. The AI will remember information like food, music, colour preferences, birthdays, etc.

Researchers at Seoul National University of Science and Technology have developed a drone that can serve as a "flying shopping cart". The 'Palletrone' drone, which requires human assistance to move forward, flies on multiple flexible rotors that self-correct to stay level in flight. The technology can also be used by the air taxi industry, researchers stated.

'Blade Runner 2049' producer Alcon Entertainment sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk for copyright infringement, accusing him of illegally using AI-generated imagery from the film to promote 'Cybercab'. Alcon said it declined to grant permission to use images, adding, "He did it anyway." "You know, I love 'Blade Runner', but I don't know if we want that future," Musk had remarked.

Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun said a four-year-old has probably seen more data than a large language model (LLM), Moneycontrol reported. "Robot intelligence doesn't come anywhere close to what cats and dogs do. Domestic robots still can't accomplish what a ten-year-old can do," he stated. "The world model needs to be trained from sensory inputs," he added.

Bharti Enterprises Chairman Sunil Mittal said routine, mundane and repetitive jobs will be under straight threat from artificial intelligence (AI). "We are already seeing in our company...We are making huge efficiencies through the adoption of AI and reduction of people," he said at NDTV World Summit. Mittal added that there will be big changes to call centre jobs and more.

Bharti Enterprises Chairman Sunil Mittal said a senior Finance official of his company recently received a deepfake call in his voice, asking for a large money transfer. "When I heard the voice recording, I was quite stunned. It was perfectly articulated as I would speak," he said. Mittal added that the official could correctly detect that it was not him.