Licence

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  "Passports, Licences Can Be Cancelled": UP Warning Over Namaz On Roads

  Ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr and last Friday prayers of Ramzan, Meerut Police has issued strict warnings against people offering namaz on roads.

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  Alibaba Qwen 2.5 Vision Language Model Released in a Smaller Size, Packs Agentic Capabilities

  Alibaba’s Qwen team released another artificial intelligence (AI) model to the Qwen 2.5 family on Monday. Dubbed Qwen 2.5-VL-32B, the AI model comes with improved performance and optimisations. It is a vision language model with 32 billion parameters, and it joins the three billion, seven billion, and 72 billion parameter size models in the Qwen ...

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  Nvidia Releases Cosmos-Transfer1 AI Model That Can Be Used for Simulation-Based Training for Robots

  Nvidia released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model last week that can be used to train robots on simulation. Dubbed Cosmos-Transfer 1, the new large language model (LLM) is aimed at AI-powered robotics hardware, also known as physical AI. The company has released the model in open source with a permissive licence, and interested individuals c...

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  "Our Hope Is...": After Trudeau Exit, India Recalls "Licence To Extremists"

  Days after Mark Carney replaced Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada, India, on Friday, recalled "the downturn in India-Canada relations".

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  Amravati Airport Gets Aviation Body's Nod, Flights To Operate By Month-End: D Fadnavis

  The Amravati airport has received aerodrome licence from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and Alliance Air will operate flights from the facility to Mumbai by the end of the month, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said.

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  Ripple Secures DFSA Licence to Offer Crypto Services to UAE Businesses, Financial Institutions

  Ripple has announced that businesses in the UAE can now use its services to explore crypto payment options. The company has secured an approval from the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), allowing it to cater to the crypto needs of UAE-based businesses and financial institutions.

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  US FTC Moves Ahead With Broad Microsoft Antitrust Probe

  The FTC sent Microsoft a so-called civil investigative demand, which is similar to a subpoena, late last year. The document compels the company to turn over reams of data about its AI operations, including the cost to train models and obtain data, going as far back as 2016.

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  Government Launches India's 1st Exploration License Auction For Critical Minerals

  Union Coal and Mines Minister G Kishan Reddy on Thursday launched nation's first-ever auction of Exploration Licences (ELs) for 13 exploration blocks for critical minerals.

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  Austria’s BitPanda Secures FCA Approval in UK, Plans to Offer ‘Set-and-Forget' Savings Strategy

  On Wednesday, February 12, BitPanda announced that the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has approved its registration to offer crypto-related services to British investors. According to FCA records, the exchange has also established an office in London to oversee its UK operations.

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  Coinbase Acquires UK FCA's VASP Licence to Offer 'Better' Suite of Crypto Services

  Coinbase says its new VASP licence will allow it to offer a ‘better’ suite of crypto products and services for the communities of UK’s retail and institutional investors. The exchange will include fiat-to-crypto service offerings as part of its business expansion there.

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  Kraken Obtains MiFID Licence to Launch Crypto Derivatives Trading in the EU

  Kraken announced that it has secured the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) licence in the EU. Kraken managed to secure this MiFID licence after it completed the acquisition of an investment firm named Cypirot. Post this purchase, the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) gave its approval to Kraken to be an MiFID-licenc...

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  Mistral Small 3 Open-Source AI Model Introduced, Outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini

  Mistral, the Paris-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm, released the Mistral Small 3 AI model on Thursday. The company, known for its open-source large language models (LLMs), has also made the latest AI model available on Hugging Face as well as several other platforms. Mistral claimed that the latest model was built with processing speed, eff...

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  Elon Musk's Starlink Reportedly Submits Formal Acceptance of Licence Norms, Could Launch in India Soon

  Starlink has reportedly accepted the security and data storage requirements mandated by the Indian government for satellite broadband providers, aiming to launch services in India. The satellite spectrum will be allocated administratively. Elon Musk-led Starlink will compete with providers like Reliance's JioSpaceFiber, Airtel, and Amazon Kuiper, w...

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  X Money Digital Payments Service Unveiled; Platform Partners Visa to Introduce P2P Payments

  X Money was introduced by Elon Musk's X platform on Wednesday as a new digital wallet and payments service. The new X Money service will allow users to send and receive P2P payments, transferring funds from their bank to a digital wallet and then to another wallet, or directly using their debit card. Partnering with Visa, X Money aims to compete wi...

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  Bitpanda, OKX, Crypto.com Acquire Licences in EU as MiCA Laws Attracts Web3 to Region 

  Crypto exchanges OKX and BitPanda have secured licences in the EU region, making their operations legally compliant in 30 countries that comprises the European Economic Area (EEA). While OKX has received its licence in Malta, Bitpanda bagged its MiCA licence in Germany.