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PhonePe, India’s biggest digital payments platform, has put its IPO plans on hold, citing geopolitical tensions and a volatile stock market. On Monday, the Bengaluru-based company said it had paused its IPO plans, but remains committed to going public once market conditions improve. The move comes less than two months after the fintech filed an…

Just as the Perseid meteor shower approaches its peak, two luminous planets are getting in on the night-sky action. Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets in the sky, will meet in a conjunction very early tomorrow morning (Aug. 12). On this morning, the two planets will be less than a degree apart — approximately…

Shiona McCallumSenior technology reporter Getty Images Disney has agreed to invest $1bn (£740m) in OpenAI as part of a deal which will let people use many of its iconic characters in the chatbot ChatGPT and video-generation tool Sora. It is the first major studio to license parts of its catalogue to the tech giant, in…

TikTok Shop has rolled out a new feature that allows users to purchase digital gift cards, making it easier to help friends and family buy from the millions of products on the app. ​The feature was strategically launched during the holiday season — a high-stakes period for the company’s shopping division as it aims to…

The Canadian government says that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has agreed to take steps to immediately strengthen safety protocols, . This follows a at a high school in which OpenAI and suspended his account, but did not alert authorities. These changes look to primarily involve law enforcement, with commitments to notify police about potentially suspicious…