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Finnish phone-maker HMD bundles Indian AI chatbot onto new smartphone in push to reach local market
Finnish phone maker HMD today launched its first smartphone, called the Vibe 2 5G, which comes preloaded with Indian AI company Sarvam’s chatbot Indus. Both companies had first announced the partnership during the India AI summit held in New Delhi in February. The Indus app is powered by Sarvam’s locally trained 105-billion-parameter model — a measure of the AI’s scale and sophistication — and launched at the AI summit. The app supports 22 Indic languages and mid-sentence code-switching (the ability to fluidly mix languages mid-conversation, like switching between Hindi and English), which helps the assistant better understand the context of a…
Portugal and Al Nassr forward Cristiano Ronaldo has extended his extraordinary trophy collection across England, Spain, Italy, Saudi Arabia, and international football with Portugal, reaching a total of 36 major team honours Ronaldo recently captured his first Saudi Pro League title with Al Nassr FC after leading the club to the 2025–26 championship. He scored twice in a decisive 4–1 final-day victory over Damac, helping Al Nassr secure their first league crown in several years. With the title, Ronaldo once again extended his legendary legacy, adding another major trophy to an already extraordinary collection and reaffirming his place among the…
Form and fitness concerns are hanging over some of football’s biggest names just three weeks before the World Cup kicks off. AFP sports looks at five of the stars who must shoulder the burden of their nations’ expectation in the first-ever 48-team finals spread across the United States, Mexico and Canada: Kylian Mbappe (France) Mbappe could become the all-time top goalscorer in World Cup history over the next few weeks, but will cross the Atlantic after a troubled time at Real Madrid. The 27-year-old is yet to win a major trophy in two seasons at the Spanish giants despite his…
President Bola Tinubu has congratulated the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over the bust of a Nigerian-Mexican drug syndicate and dismantling of a multi-million-dollar drug network. This is contained in a statement issued by presidential spokesperson Mr Bayo Onanuga on Thursday in Abuja. NDLEA Chairman, retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa, on Wednesday announced the major breakthrough following weeks of intelligence gathering and coordinated operations involving NDLEA operatives and international security partners. The operation led to the arrest of some foreign nationals, local kingpins, and several collaborators, alongside the seizure of chemicals and illicit drugs valued at more than 360 million…
News » Premier League news » Manchester City newsMay 21, 2026 20:05 GMT (UK), by Sri Aswin View Man City summer 2026 transfer targets Cucurella to Man City? Manchester City could make a summer raid for Chelsea defender Marc Cucurella under the recommendation of incoming manager Enzo Maresca. The Cityzens are expected to confirm Pep Guardiola’s departure this summer. The legendary Spaniard has decided to call time on his managerial career at the Mancunian giants.Maresca is poised to replace him, and the Italian is set to demand a new left-back despite the emergence of Nico O’Reilly. Cucurella is on his radar, and Man City…
Actress and fashion influencer, Temi Otedola, and her husband, Mr Eazi, are expecting their first child together. The couple announced the development in a joint Instagram post on Thursday. Sharing photos from a white-themed maternity shoot, Temi quoted a Bible verse while expressing excitement over the pregnancy. “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, before you were born I set you apart,” she wrote. The announcement comes barely a month after Temi shared photos from their court wedding anniversary celebration, noting that it had been one year as “Mrs A.” Recall that in August 2025, Mr Eazi…
At a sprawling urban expo in Baku, visitors paused before giant digital screens flickering with flood simulations, subway control systems and virtual replicas of entire neighbourhoods. Across the space, cities offered a vision of urban life reshaped by artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure and real-time data – a glimpse of what many governments now call the “city of the future.”A smart city in practiceFew cities illustrate the scale of smart-city ambition quite like Shanghai. At the China Pavilion at the thirteenth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF13) in Baku, officials showcased how the city is using big data and artificial…
When you talk about safety and security in today’s Nigeria, the country is a stench. The country is trying to crawl out of the gory gutters of the crippling conundrum of insecurity. Nobody and nowhere is safe. Morality is evanescing. Patriotism is in peremptory interment. And in the hands of brutal bandits, the sacredness of life is gone with the wildest weird wind. Almost everywhere are renditions of lullaby of pain and suffering in the hands of killers who confidently stroll into any home, command the occupants to file like hypnotised zombies and then led into some ugly snake-infested bushes…
SpaceX has scrubbed the first launch of its third-generation Starship rocket system from its headquarters in Starbase, Texas. The company is expected to make another attempt on Friday. It’s a crucial launch for the company — and not just because it’s the first real test of the upgraded Starship V3 hardware; it also comes at a pivotal moment for SpaceX financially. The company recently filed for an IPO and is expected to go public within weeks, putting added pressure on SpaceX to demonstrate that its next-generation rocket program is making meaningful progress. This launch — Starship’s 12th — will mark…
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