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Punjab Times April 2026 Vaisakhi Special edition
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GM thinks EVs can help offset AI’s energy suck with vehicle-to-grid tech
At an event in San Francisco today, General Motors made a series of announcements around EV batteries, energy storage, and grid resiliency in the face of growing electricity demand from AI data centers. The automaker announced that it would be activating new vehicle-to-grid capabilities for its current EV and home energy customers. It’s releasing a new commercial energy storage system strategy, anchored by newly developed sodium-ion batteries for industrial-scale grid applications. And it’s launching a new feature for EV owners that it says will help simplify public charging.
Right now, millions of EVs are sitting idly in driveways across …
Microsoft AI head calls out Anthropic for acting like Claude is conscious
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says it’s “really, really dangerous” for Anthropic to speculate about Claude’s consciousness inside its “constitution,” or the instructions that tell the model how to behave. During an episode of Decoder, Suleyman argues that this kind of speculation may have set up the chatbot to act as though it’s conscious:
I think that it’s almost as though some of the folks at Anthropic have anthropomorphized the design of Claude so much that it has then gone and wireheaded them and kind of tricked them into believing that it has these glimmers of consciousness that they put into it in the first place.
Congress’ Meenakshi Natarajan slams BJP after RS nomination rejected: ‘Trampling upon Constitution and democracy’
Addressing a press conference, she accused the saffron party of having “subverted elections in Madhya Pradesh” earlier. She said that the BJP fielded a third candidate despite lacking the requisite numerical strength. …read more
Modi govt 12 years: From startups to digital governance, PM’s ease-of-doing-business push
It has been 12 years since BJP led NDA came to power at the Centre in 2014. In his last two terms and his first decade as PM, Modi government introduced various reform measures and particularly made strides in ease of doing business. …read more
Nintendo is playing things too safe
Tuesday’s Nintendo Direct showcase felt like an important moment for the company. With the Switch 2 heading into its second holiday season, one in which the hardware will be even more expensive thanks to a price hike, it was a chance for Nintendo to really sell new audiences on its latest console – but that’s not exactly what happened. While there were some impressive-looking titles, there wasn’t much that felt truly new. Instead, the two major Switch 2 exclusives that will round out the 2026 calendar are both remakes from the Nintendo 64 era.
If you missed it, the final reveal of the Direct was a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of T …
Who Is Meenakshi Natarajan? Congress Rajya Sabha candidate’s nomination papers rejected as party blames BJP
Congress slammed the BJP on Tuesday after nomination papers of Meenakshi Natarajan, the party’s candidate for Rajya Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh, were rejected, with a Congress delegation also going to meet the Election Commission over the issue. …read more
How China is helping Pakistan strengthen its space-based monitoring of India
Pakistan has recently launched six Earth-observation satellites in a short time span, taking its space-based surveillance to higher levels. In a little over a year Pakistan with the technological support of China has created a constellation that can regularly monitor Indian territory. …read more
