The Union environment ministry has issued a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for sea turtle conservation in Lakshadweep. The SOP provides a framework for monitoring and managing Green turtles, Hawksbills, Leatherbacks, and Oliver Ridleys, all of which are legally protected in the Union Territory.
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek reportedly secured $7.4 billion in its maiden fundraise with a unique condition: investors must pledge not to poach its AI talent. The Hangzhou-based company, now valued over $50 billion, faces intense competition for engineers from tech giants like Tencent, ByteDance, and Alibaba.
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut claims MPs are being poached for Rs 50 crore, with Rs 15 crore as an advance, amid speculation of a party split. He challenged defectors to resign and seek a fresh mandate, questioning democracy's health.
With Jharkhand's Rajya Sabha elections on June 18, political parties are housing their MLAs in hotels to prevent defections. The NDA supports an independent candidate, while the INDIA alliance fields its own candidates.
Producer Amit Jani has sent a legal notice to actor Govind Namdev demanding a public apology and ₹50 lakh for expressing concerns over the film 'Kala Hiran' teaser. Namdev stated the teaser misrepresented the film he agreed to work on, which is inspired by the Salman Khan blackbuck poaching case.
A clownfish, nicknamed 'Island Nemo', has disappeared from Magnetic Island, Australia, sparking fears of poaching. The fish's location was shared on the iNaturalist app weeks before its disappearance, leading locals to suspect foul play.
Congress shifts MLAs to Karnataka to prevent cross-voting in Rajya Sabha polls, alleging BJP poaching attempts with 'bags of notes'
Salman Khan's legal team has reportedly issued a notice to the makers of the film 'Kala Hiran,' alleging similarities to the actor's blackbuck poaching case. Producer Amit Jani accused Khan of intimidation, while director Bharat S. Shrinate stated he is prepared for legal challenges.
Salman Khan's legal team has sent a notice to the makers of the film 'Kala Hiran', demanding an immediate halt to its release and removal of all promotional material, citing legal action if demands are not met.
SpaceXAI, after merging with xAI in February, has seen over 50 key researchers and engineers leave, with many joining rivals Meta and Thinking Machine Labs, citing unrealistic deadlines and extreme work culture.
President Karol Nawrocki vows to personally lobby Trump, breaking with Prime Minister Donald Tusk's warning against "poaching" American forces.
It is feared soft-power politics and a $240m war-chest could leave Samoa and Tonga uniquely vulnerableThere’s a new war in the Pacific brewing, with the Super Rugby side Moana Pasifika collapsing and rugby league on a new signing spree in union’s traditional heartlands.The conflict spells trouble for Rugby Australia (RA), whose federal government is funding a $600m NRL franchise in Papua New Guinea, $240m of which will go into poaching talent and creating pathways throughout Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and the Cook Islands. Continue reading...
After an hour’s drive through the jungle of Borneo, you reach more jungle. Your rental van from the Balikpapan city airport shakes precariously, navigating a partial bridge washout. A roadside sign admonishes against poaching the endangered sun bears. By hour three you’ve arrived at Indonesia’s new capital, which is due to start taking over from gridlocked, polluted and seaward-sinking Jakarta in 2028. Welcome to Ibu Kota Nusantara, known locally as just Nusantara or IKN. Eventually, if all goes...
Indonesia is building a new capital city, Nusantara (IKN), in the Borneo jungle with significant Chinese investment. Chinese firms are clearing land and constructing roads, tunnels, and mass transit systems worth a combined 55 trillion rupiah (US$1.57 billion), transforming the ecological area that currently houses endangered sun bears.
AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic are poaching experienced sales and go-to-market executives from major software companies like Salesforce, Snowflake, and Datadog to drive enterprise growth. This trend highlights a shift in the AI talent war beyond researchers, as these companies increasingly focus on monetizing their technology through corporate clients.
Weiyao Wang, an 8-year Meta veteran who helped build multimodal perception systems and contributed to SAM3D, has joined Thinking Machines Lab. TML recently signed a multibillion-dollar cloud deal with Google at Cloud Next, gaining access to Nvidia's GB300 chips and joining Anthropic and Meta in infrastructure tier. The move follows Meta reportedly acquiring Thinking Machines around this time last year and poaching seven of TML's founding members, while TML has been hiring more researchers from Meta than any other employer.
Weiyao Wang, an eight-year Meta veteran who worked on multimodal perception systems and SAM3D, has joined Thinking Machines Lab following his final day at Meta last week. The $12B AI startup recently signed a multibillion-dollar cloud deal with Google for Nvidia's GB300 chips, placing it in the same infrastructure tier as Anthropic and Meta. The move comes as talent flows bidirectionally — Meta has poached seven of TML's founding members, while TML has hired more researchers from Meta than any other employer, including CTO Soumith Chintala (co-founder of PyTorch) and Piotr Dollár (co-author of Segment Anything).
As China’s artificial intelligence sector accelerates, competition for top talent has intensified among major tech companies, with firms increasingly poaching from rivals while also attracting researchers from overseas hubs such as Silicon Valley. A reported high-profile personnel move involving DeepSeek researcher Guo Daya recently drew attention to the sensitivity surrounding AI hiring in China’s tech sector. Guo, a lead researcher on DeepSeek’s R1 model, joined ByteDance’s Seed AI development...
