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OpenAI deepens India push with Pine Labs fintech partnership

OpenAI deepens India push with Pine Labs fintech partnership

Published by skeptic

As India pitches itself as a global hub for applied artificial intelligence, OpenAI has partnered with Pine Labs to integrate AI-driven reasoning into the fintech firm’s payments stack, automating settlement and invoicing workflows in a move the companies say could help accelerate AI-led commerce in India. The partnership will see Pine Labs embed OpenAI’s application programming interfaces — software tools that let companies plug AI into their existing systems — within its payments and commerce infrastructure, the companies said on Thursday, all with the aim of enabling AI-assisted settlement, reconciliation, and invoicing workflows. The deal underscores OpenAI’s broader push to expand its footprint in India, one of its fastest-growing markets, as it looks to move beyond being known primarily as the maker of ChatGPT and embed its technology into education, enterprise, and infrastructure. Earlier this week, OpenAI partnered with leading Indian engineering, medical, and design institutions to bring AI tools into higher education, betting that India’s large developer base and more than a billion internet users will play a central role in the next phase …

Tom Hiddleston on Teddy’s Death, Pine in Season 3

Tom Hiddleston on Teddy’s Death, Pine in Season 3

Published by Daniella Wilson

[This story contains MAJOR spoilers from the season two finale of The Night Manager.] Tom Hiddleston knows that Night Manager viewers — much like his Jonathan Pine — will be left reeling after the season two finale of the Emmy-winning BBC and Prime Video series. Nearly a decade after The Night Manager earned the actor a Golden Globe and two Emmy nominations, Hiddleston has reteamed with writer David Farr for two more seasons of the spy thriller series. In the same vein as the first season, this second season and the forthcoming third installment both focus on the high-stakes, international game of cat and mouse between Hiddleston’s MI6 agent and Hugh Laurie’s morally corrupt arms dealer Richard Roper. Written by Farr and directed by Georgi Banks-Davies, the six-episode second season followed Pine as he journeyed to Colombia to secretly investigate a new arms operation headed by young businessman Teddy Dos Santos (Diego Calva). Upon his arrival, Pine, under the alias Matthew Ellis, crossed paths again with Roxana Bolaños (Camila Morrone), a Miami-based shipping broker connected to …

Chris Pine and Jenny Slate in Tender Romantic Drama

Chris Pine and Jenny Slate in Tender Romantic Drama

Published by Daniella Wilson

Whether playing sexy comedy or hostility, raw emotional agita or hollowness, Chris Pine and Jenny Slate are so damn fine in Carousel that you keep wondering why we seldom get to see these gifted actors bite into characters of such substance and complexity. Rachel Lambert’s latest is a strange and beguilingly lovely relationship drama. Eventually. But first, the writer-director needs to get out of her own way, peeling away the fussiness and frustration of her oblique approach and finally cutting back on her overbearing use of a cascading score to give us unfettered access to characters about whom it’s clear she cares deeply. Not to pile onto composer Dabney Morris, who presumably is doing what was asked of him, but the wall-to-wall music of the opening scenes is almost a deal-breaker. Even before the title card appears, we get that the plinky-plonky melodies are meant to suggest the merry-go-round of life, with the rise and fall of the horses mirroring the ups and downs of our relationships. It’s a trite metaphor, and a movie as …