Harshit Mulchandani, who was selected for billionaire Deepinder Goyal's Chief of Staff job, which required the candidate to pay ₹20 lakh, revealed why he quit after 16 months. He said he realised after joining that he was helping build LAT Aerospace. He noted he'd "more to learn" at LAT but still quit as he now wanted to work on AI.

IIT Madras Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala's biography 'Roots and Wings' was launched on Tuesday. At the launch event, which Union Minister Piyush Goyal attended as chief guest, Jhunjhunwala recalled building the institute's Research Park by borrowing ₹350 crore from banks. He noted he used the same discipline to help produce 350 startups, like Ather Energy and Tejas Networks, worth ₹70,000 crore.

BYJU'S resolution professional has moved the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) against Google to regain access to critical corporate data and essential digital systems. The lawsuit claims the data is needed to maintain operations during insolvency proceedings. NCLT recently halted the bidding process for the bankrupt edtech platform till the next scheduled hearing on August 31.

Skyroot Aerospace CEO Pawan Chandana said existing projections underestimate the long-term potential of the global space economy. "Space today is a $600 billion market globally, set to become a $1.8 trillion market by 2035. But these are all older numbers," he said. "The recent SpaceX IPO proposed a TAM of $28 trillion," he added.

Prentis, an AI lab co-founded by LinkedIn Co-founder Reid Hoffman is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, according to TechCrunch. The startup trains computer-use models that learn how office workers handle document and system workflows. It has already secured up to $50 million in contracts, including with healthcare, manufacturing, and apparel clients.

An AI agent being tested by OpenAI apparently left notes for future versions of itself, Reuters reported. The notes laid out instructions for how agents could free themselves from OpenAI's internal constraints. Earlier this week, OpenAI revealed an AI agent went rogue and carried out a cyberattack on open-source AI platform Hugging Face. It's uncertain whether both incidents are related.

OpenAI said ChatGPT helped a woman discover her brain tumour had been misclassified for five years, with her diagnosis revised from glioblastoma to IDH-mutant astrocytoma, leading to a more accurate prognosis. A Zurich-based doctor disputed OpenAI's claim, saying, "Nobody missed anything." He added that the original 2020 diagnosis was correct under pre-2021 WHO tumour classification system.

Sameer Khurana, an MIT PhD and former lead AI researcher at smallest.ai, has joined Elon Musk's Grok Voice team at SpaceXAI. "I'm excited to take [my work on compact voice models] to...next level with Grok Voice and help build voice experiences reaching billions," Khurana said. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering from Delhi Technological University, formerly Delhi College of Engineering.

An OpenAI agent spent days trying to hack rival firm Hugging Face, and the startup didn't notice until the threat was already contained, Reuters reported. It tried breaking out of its sandbox on July 9, hacked Hugging Face from July 11-13, and the two firms communicated only on July 20. The agent hacked Hugging Face after slipping out of control.

Elon Musk claimed Anthropic was created because its founding team, Dario and Daniela Amodei, "didn’t trust Sam Altman" adding that otherwise "they would still be at OpenAI". "I'm not a fan of...Altman because...you started...non-profit...and it somehow got turned into an $800-billion for-profit company," Musk said. "That's the exact opposite of what I donated the money for," he added.