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Data laundering is “cleaning up dirty data to make it look legal and trustworthy” (Representative Image/Unsplash)
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Reddit vs Perplexity, and the scourge of ‘data laundering’ in an AI slop world| Business News

Reddit Inc. has sued Perplexity AI Inc. for “industrial-scale data laundering”, as AI firms increasingly scrape websites—often without permission—for original content to train their large…

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India imported 1.7 million barrels per day of Russian crude in the first nine months of 2025—that's 34% of total oil imports. (Reuters)
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India set to curtail Russian oil imports after new US sanctions on Rosneft, Lukoil: Report| Business News

India is set to curtail its Russian oil imports to comply with new US sanctions on two top Moscow-backed producers, Reuters reported on Thursday citing…

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Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas. (Reuters)
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How Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas secured funding using his own product| Business News

Aravind Srinivas has never made a “traditional” pitch deck to raise funding for Perplexity AI. Why bother, when he has his own product to do…

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HUL expects H2 FY26 to be better than H1 FY26. (Reuters)
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Revenue grows in single digits as GST rate cuts disrupt supply chains| Business News

Hindustan Unilever Ltd. has reported financials for the fiscal second quarter that show the initial impact of GST 2.0 on its supply chains. HUL expects…

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Gold is behaving like an elastic band that’s been pulled too far and is now snapping back hard. (Unsplash)
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Gold prices in India: MCX gold, silver rates cool for third straight day – Check city-wise rates

Gold prices in India have corrected for the third straight day, amid concerns that the bullion market was overheating after a blistering rally to record…

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk. (AFP)
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Elon Musk hijacks Tesla earnings call to pitch for $1 trillion pay package| Business News

Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, spent the end of Tesla Inc.’s earnings call pleading with investors to ratify his upcoming $1 trillion pay package…

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The National Stock Exchange building in Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai. (Livemint)
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Gift Nifty cues for Nifty 50, India-US trade deal in focus| Business News

The Nifty 50 is set to open higher today, as optimism over an India-US trade deal brings back foreign investors to the world’s third largest…

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (AFP)
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Meta Platforms plans layoffs to cut 600 AI jobs in Superintelligence Labs unit| Business News

Meta Platforms Inc. has decided to cut 600 AI jobs at Meta Superintelligence Labs, as the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company looks to make its AI unit…

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A transformer in Uttar Pradesh. The demand for electricity in India's most populous state has more than doubled in the past decade to a peak of more than 30,000 MW. (Parveen Kumar/HT)
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Why a raging power crisis in Uttar Pradesh is Yogi Adityanath’s sternest test yet| Business News

The Uttar Pradesh power crisis has reached an inflection point. The state is faced with acute power shortage — from the ghats of Varanasi to…

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The JBL Tour ONE M3 with the Smart Tx exhibiting its functional versatility (Vishal Mathur / HT Photo)
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Long-haul headphones don’t get much better than this| Business News

There is something about flagship headphones that JBL wants to do differently. The basics of the course don’t change, including a sound signature that is…

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