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India announced AI Mission 2.0 with significantly expanded infrastructure goals after exceeding initial targets for GPUs and indigenous models, while securing support from over 70 nations for the New Delhi Declaration establishing global AI governance frameworks centered on human-centric development.
The cast and director of 'Josephine' discuss the film's 12-year journey from personal trauma to Sundance award-winner, exploring how childhood experiences of witnessing sexual assault translate into a visceral examination of hypervigilance, father-daughter bonds, and the justice system.
Howard University graduates Joanne Price and Dr. Lawrence Morris reflect on building Fairview Capital Partners from a reluctant start in 1994 to a $9 billion fund-of-funds firm, emphasizing that trust and performance metrics—not diversity marketing—sustained them through three decades of market cycles.
Sherrese Clarke, founder and CEO of Harborview Equity Partners, details how her $2 billion private equity firm acquires music catalogs and entertainment IP to generate returns for public pension funds and institutional investors while positioning itself as the 'Netflix of the space' through diversified, technology-enabled content distribution.
Live coverage of the first Friday prayers of Ramadan 1447 AH from Mecca's Grand Mosque, featuring a sermon by Sheikh Abdullah Al-Juhany emphasizing fasting as a means to attain piety, along with prayers for Muslim communities worldwide including Palestine.
World leaders at the India AI Impact Summit announced a strengthened US-India technology alliance to secure AI and semiconductor supply chains through the 'Silica Declaration,' while India detailed plans to train one million chip designers across 315 universities and Brazil unveiled its $4.5 billion national AI investment strategy.
Former Goldman Sachs banker Galey Alix leveraged her Wall Street "story selling" expertise to build a DIY empire, attracting 10,000 weekly design requests by documenting surprise home renovations while strategically delaying monetization to maintain authenticity.
NASA declared Boeing Starliner's first crewed flight a Type A mishap, revealing systemic oversight failures where the agency inadequately supervised the fixed-price contract due to excessive trust in Boeing's past performance, while leadership failed to course-correct cultural issues that ignored alternative crew return options until an investigation forced accountability.
A live Reuters broadcast captures Tarawih prayers during Ramadan at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, featuring extended Quranic recitations from Surahs Al-Baqarah and Al-Imran alongside traditional ritual movements and closing supplications.
Yuri Sagalov advises founders to treat early equity decisions as foundational team-building tools, emphasizing generous grants to first hires, near-equal co-founder splits, careful curation of value-add investors, and standard legal structures to avoid long-term misalignment.
UN officials and Sudanese human rights defenders warned the Security Council that after 1,000 days of war, Sudan faces imminent genocide, catastrophic famine, and regional destabilization, demanding immediate action to secure a humanitarian truce, halt arms flows, and hold perpetrators accountable for widespread atrocities.
A UN Fact-Finding Mission concluded that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed genocide against the Zaghawa and Fur ethnic groups during the October takeover of Al-Fashir, Sudan, through systematic mass killings, sexual violence, and deliberate starvation, urging immediate deployment of an international protection force and ICC accountability.