As new smartphone prices climb sharply, more middle-class Indians are turning to certified refurbished iPhones, with India's second-hand smartphone market projected to grow 12% in 2026 even as new-handset sales decline.
The iPhone 16, normally Rs 69,900, is listed at Rs 61,999, while the iPhone 15 falls from Rs 59,900 to Rs 52,999, with an effective price of Rs 55,900 once additional offers kick in.
The decision comes as Meta is ready to go on trial next week in a federal court in Oakland, California, over allegations made by 29 states that it misled users about their safety and created Facebook and Instagram to addict youngsters.
Across Asia, AI-related hiring totaled 130,758 jobs during the study period, with more than 90% of those positions in technology. By comparison, 60,654 jobs were lost, about 60% of them in financial services.
The notice is a part of the NHRC's ongoing proceedings into the allegations that paid advertisements on Instagram promoted or facilitated access to CSEAM.
Fund managers see AI adoption across factories adding another layer to India's capex and China+1 investment story, with power, infrastructure and manufacturing emerging as key themes.
The update cuts biology-related fallbacks by about 85%, allowing the AI model to handle more health, education and laboratory-related queries.
Naomi Bashkansky left OpenAI's safety team to build "telepathy" AI at startup Conduit, training models to read thoughts through a headset, no surgery involved. Inside her three-stage roadmap for brain-computer interfaces, running through 2035.
OpenAI is looking to break new ground with the product, which is slated for release in 2027.
Dean, who started at the company more than two decades ago, said Wednesday that he is leaving Google alongside colleagues Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals to build a startup called Discovery Loop.
