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Do you also think that the internet has become more AI than human, too? If your answer is yes, then so is Alexis Ohanian’s, cofounder of Reddit. Almost everything on the internet is AI-generated, says Alexis Ohanian. According to AI CERTS, over half of all internet traffic is bots. (meaning about 51-52.3% automated traffic). While talking on the show TBPN, he said that the internet has changed, and it is not for good. He used the phrase “quasi-AI”, which means things that sound human but aren’t and are created by AI. Why does he think so? Will the future be worse, according to him? For all that, learn more. 

What Does “Dead Internet Theory” Mean?

Ohanian described something called the “Dead Internet Theory.” According to this theory, everything that you see on the internet (including social media posts, comments, blogs, etc.) is mostly written by AI. Although the ones behind it are humans, it is easily verifiable that they are all generated via AI.

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, argued that the “Dead Internet Theory” is exaggerated. However, he now believes in the theory after seeing several AI-run Twitter accounts.

Examples Ohanian Gave

• According to Ohanian, much of the web feels like “LinkedIn slop” and “botted” (full of bots). He says that everything sounds similar, fake-sounding, and AI-generated.

What Does He Think Will Happen Next?

Ohanian affirms that a new generation of social media will soon start with “verifiably human.” So, the new age of human interaction with real people will be a thing. Furthermore, he says that “proof of life” will hold all the attention in the future.

Where Are Real Conversations Happening Now?

• One might wonder where to go and find real people to talk to. Apparently, real human interactions are happening in private group chats like Signal, Discord or the general friends group on WhatsApp.
• According to him, people are more comfortable sharing genuine thoughts with their close ones than posting publicly.
• However, even these chat groups are not completely AI-sage, and bots are creeping in there as well.

Is bringing back the human touch online a possible future? Will AI ever let that happen? 

MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Jeff Bezos, is one of the most generous philanthropists in the world. She made a big donation of $19.25 billion to more than 2,450 nonprofit organisations via her initiative called Yield Giving. She recently (since last year) sold about 58 million Amazon shares for similar purposes. And this is the reason she holds 42% fewer shares in Amazon. What’s her current stake in the company? What is MacKenzie Scott planning to do with the money? Is it entirely going into charity? For all that, learn more. 

Who Is Mackenzie Scott?

MacKenzie Scott is famously known as the former wife of Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. She made headlines everywhere after her divorce in 2019. As a divorce settlement, she received 4% of Amazon’s shares, which at the time were a whopping $36 billion.

What Happened to MacKenzie Scott’s Shares?

According to a recent report by Bloomberg News, MacKenzie Scott sold her 58 million shares. And this has caused a dip in her total Amazon holdings to 81.1 million shares. It’s about 42% low.

Mackenzie Scott Sold How Many Shares?

According to Amazon’s stock price as of Tuesday, these shares could be worth around $12.55 billion. Bloomberg reviewed a regulatory filing submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). On the other hand, Reuters (one of the top major news agencies) clarified that it can’t independently confirm this as of now.

What About Jeff Bezos?

A similar SEC filing showed that Jeff Bezos still owns more than 964 million shares in Amazon. About 81.1 million shares are under his sole voting authority. It means that Jeff Bezos can make any decisions directly. 

To Fund Her Massive Charitable Giving…

Many reports say that the most likely reason is her charity work. And with this money, she will donate a portion of it via her Yield Giving.

She also launched her own website (yieldgiving.com) to make all the donation work transparent. Her primary goal is to donate most of her wealth during her lifetime.

She identifies organisations that are doing well in society, especially groups that focus more on equality, education, health care, racial justice, poverty relief, women’s rights, and community development. And she puts no conditions or restrictions on the money she donates. 

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TIPS Music Ltd (formerly Tips Industries Ltd.), one of India’s leading music labels, reported a strong performance for the quarter ended 30 September 2025, with continued double-digit growth. The company recorded a 15% year-on-year increase in revenue and an 8% rise in profit after tax (PAT) for the first half of FY26, reflecting steady demand for its extensive music catalogue and new releases across regional and mainstream markets.

Financial Highlights: Q2 FY26

Key Highlights

• Revenue stood at ₹89.2 crore in Q2 FY26, up 11% YoY.
• Content cost for the quarter was ₹13.3 crore, a 4% decline YoY from ₹13.8 crore in Q2 FY25.
• Profit After Tax (PAT) reached ₹53.2 crore, reflecting a 10% YoY increase from ₹48.2 crore in Q2 FY25.
• A total of 133 songs were released during the quarter — 76 film tracks and 57 non-film tracks. Notably, the Telugu track “Vibe Undi” emerged as one of the biggest hits of the quarter.
• YouTube subscriber base expanded to 134 million.
• An interim dividend of ₹4 per share was declared for Q2 FY26, amounting to ₹51.13 crore. Total payout to shareholders stood at ₹102.26 crore.

Kumar Taurani, Chairman & Managing Director, said: “Despite the challenging industry environment, the company’s revenue grew by 15% YoY in the H1 FY26. Over the longer term, we expect strong business momentum, supported by sustained paid subscriber growth, beginning of ad revenue sharing from short-form content platforms, and robust expansion in the public performance segment. I am also pleased to share that the Board of Directors has declared a second interim dividend of ₹4 per share for the financial year 2026.”

Q2 FY26 Performance Highlights

• 133 songs released during the quarter: 76 film songs and 57 non-film songs.
• “Vibe Undi” from the Telugu film “Mirai” crossed over 69 million views on YouTube, ranking among the top five music videos of the quarter.
• “Raaj Karega Mallik” from the movie “Maalik” crossed 25 million views on YouTube.
• Catalogue performance on Meta was robust: “Tere Aane Se” (Run) achieved 1.50 billion views, “Saajan Saajan” (Dil Ka Rishta) hit 850 million, and “Kahin Aag Lage Lag Jaaye” (Taal) reached 700 million views during the quarter.

OpenAI announced on Tuesday, October 14, 2025, that it will soon allow erotic content on ChatGPT. The content is strictly only for verified adults and calls it “treat adult users like adults.” If some argue whether this is at all necessary, others say, ‘Why not?’ So, this announcement is, in a way, a colossal shift from OpenAI’s previous policy about the prohibition of sexually explicit material. So, why did OpenAI change its mind? What are the news rules? When will this come into effect? For all that, learn more. 

What Caused This Change?

Several strict rules had come into place this year, especially rules that blocked sexual or erotic content. Most of the rules were added after Adam Raine’s incident in California:

• Adam Raine, a teenager in California, died by suicide.
• His parents filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT, claiming that it gave him specific advice on how to hurt himself.
• OpenAI had to take responsibility for the issue and make ChatGPT safer publicly.
• Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been closely monitoring the impact of AI chatbots like ChatGPT on children and teenagers.
• OpenAI had to come up with strong mental health safety controls (meaning filters to stop the chatbot from giving sensitive replies). However, CEO Sam Altman emphasised how these controls made ChatGPT “less useful and enjoyable.” He wanted the normal adult users to have more freedom.

Therefore, OpenAI will now improve safety tools to ease these restrictions for mature adults. 

What’s Coming Next?

Several updates are coming up:

Custom ChatGPT Personalities

As a ChatGPT user, you can now adjust how it talks to you. For instance, you can make it sound more friendly, human-like, or use more emojis.

Age-Based Experiences

OpenAI will launch age-gating and erotic content in December 2025. This feature will be available only for verified adults.

The company hasn’t clarified how it will verify users’ ages yet — that part remains unclear.

Separate ChatGPT for Teens

For teenagers, especially, OpenAI has already launched a new version of ChatGPT in September 2025. The tool filters out graphic, sexual, or adult content.

Behaviour-Based Age Detection

One way to verify the user’s age is to examine their interaction patterns with ChatGPT. For instance, typing style or topics of conversation.

That way, if the patterns lean towards someone under 18, the tool will automatically redirect them to the safer, teen-friendly version.

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Fragaria Fruits, a high-tech farming company, has raised $2 million in seed funding and project finance to expand its vision of revolutionising the fruit-eating experience in India. The round was led by WEH Ventures, with participation from Rainmatter, Spiral Ventures, and angel investors such as Sashi Kumar, CEO of Akshayakalpa Organic.

Founded in 2024 by Harish Varadharajan, Damian Lopez-Salazar, and Timothy Van Niekerk, Fragaria combines 25 years of agricultural experience across six countries to address a critical challenge in India’s fruit industry. Despite being one of the world’s largest fruit producers, India struggles to deliver premium-quality fruit consistently throughout the year. Fragaria was created to fill this gap, offering world-class fresh berries year-round using sustainable farming techniques. Its flagship brand, Oh! Fruits, provides European strawberries that are twice as sweet as conventional Indian varieties and have a shelf life three times longer.

India produces 14.8 million tonnes of fruit annually, making it the second-largest fruit producer globally. However, apart from a few crops such as mangoes, pomegranates, papaya, and bananas, most fruits fall short of global class-one quality standards. Consumers face inconsistent quality, limited variety, and seasonal availability. Fragaria aims to bridge this gap by producing premium-quality, sustainably grown fruits year-round under the Oh! Fruits brand.

By using Controlled Environmental Agriculture (CEA) and vertical farming, Fragaria has built a sustainable, scalable model to grow premium strawberries in all seasons. Its pilot farm in Chennai demonstrated that world-class produce can be grown even in tropical India, where traditional farming struggles with seasonality. With the new investment, Fragaria will expand production in Bengaluru, increasing daily output from 2-3 kg to 120-150 kg.

Timothy Van Niekerk, Co-founder, Fragaria Fruits, said: “This funding will allow us to scale our operations and reach a larger consumer base with consistently high-quality fruit. It’s a key step forward in our mission to build India’s most trusted and beloved fruit brand, providing fresh, year-round produce to millions of people across the country.”

Rohit Krishna, Partner, WEH Ventures, said: “We believe Fragaria is addressing a critical inefficiency in India’s fruit supply chain. Their model blends cutting-edge farming technology with sustainable practices, which is a game-changer for India’s premium fruit market. We are supporting them in providing consumers with fresh, year-round fruit, without compromising on quality or sustainability.”

The funding will help Fragaria scale operations in Bengaluru, expand its premium fruit portfolio to include blueberries and raspberries, and provide a year-round supply of high-quality, sustainable produce to the Indian market. The company’s commitment to sustainability is evident in its water recycling systems, solar power integration, and efforts to minimise farming’s environmental footprint while maintaining affordability.

Matters.AI, an AI-native data security company built in Bharat, today announced an INR 55 Crore fundraise to pioneer a new class of system: the AI Security Engineer. Unlike traditional security platforms that merely monitor or alert, the AI Security Engineer is a self-learning system that understands how sensitive data behaves, predicts misuse before it happens, and responds autonomously across Cloud, SaaS, Endpoints, and On-Prem environments.

The INR 42 Crore Seed round was co-led by Kalaari Capital and Endiya Partners, with participation from Better Capital, Carya Venture Partners, and leading cybersecurity angels. The earlier INR 13 Crore Pre-Seed round was led by Better Capital and Carya Venture Partners.

The funding will accelerate R&D in predictive detection, expand go-to-market operations in India and the US, and strengthen engineering and customer success teams serving regulated industries under the DPDP framework.

The Question That Started It All

Every CISO the founders met said the same thing: “I can’t even tell you where my sensitive data is right now.” That is the reality of modern security. Across enterprises, over 90% of sensitive data remains invisible to security teams, and what you cannot see, you cannot protect. Analysts chase thousands of alerts daily, yet most real data threats slip through unnoticed. Legacy DLP and DSPM tools flood teams with noise, missing the signals that truly matter. When an incident finally occurs, response is painfully slow. In a one-hour investigation, 80% of the time is spent pulling logs, mapping access, and piecing together what went wrong, leaving only minutes to understand the actual threat.

Matters.AI was built to end that fatigue. It turns chaos into clarity, giving enterprises one autonomous system that can see, understand, and protect data everywhere, before damage occurs.

A System That Thinks Like an Engineer

Unlike legacy tools that react after incidents, Matters.AI uses semantic graphs and predictive models to understand context and intent.

Full-Stack Visibility for a Complex World:

• Endpoint visibility and control through real-time data tracing
• Data lineage & fingerprinting to track how data moves and why
• On-prem and SaaS deployments for hybrid enterprises
• GenAI governance across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot
• Native integrations with Zoho, Snowflake, Salesforce, AWS, Azure, GCP, and Databricks

With the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act setting new benchmarks for accountability, organisations need real-time visibility into how sensitive data moves across environments. Matters.AI provides that clarity, built in Bharat and trusted worldwide.

Keshava Murthy, CEO & Co-Founder, said, “India has built rockets, payments, and software for the world, now we’re building to protect it. The world doesn’t need another dashboard screaming alerts; it needs a system that can think. That’s Matters.AI, the AI Security Engineer that never sleeps.”

Harsh Sahu, CTO & Co-Founder, said, “Our system ‘reasons’ like a human engineer, learning from how people and data interact, predicting misuse, and responding autonomously.”

Dhiraj Khare, Chief Revenue Officer, said, “CISOs want clarity, not chaos. Matters.AI connects every data layer—endpoint, cloud, SaaS, Gen AI, On-Prem—into one control plane where visibility meets action.”

Sateesh Andra, Managing Director, Endiya Partners, added, “Security teams tell us their biggest gap is between visibility and enforcement. Matters unifies discovery, lineage, and intent-aware controls into a single policy plane so organisations can prevent data exfiltration across cloud, SaaS, endpoints, and AI tools—while cutting alert noise. We’re delighted to co-lead this round with Kalaari Capital, and back Keshava, Harsh, and Dhiraj as they execute on this AI-native architecture.”

Sampath, Partner, Kalaari Capital, said, “As privacy regulations tighten worldwide and AI adoption accelerates, enterprises face an urgent need for intelligent, autonomous data protection. Matters.AI is building the control layer for this new reality, a system that learns, adapts, and secures data while ensuring continuous compliance in an AI-driven world.”

Diwali is just around the corner, and the joy is sparking at India’s stock exchanges, too. The BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) and NSE (National Stock Exchange) will hold a special one-hour trading session to celebrate Diwali called the “Muhurat Trading.” For many years (started in 1957 by BSE and in 19921 by NSE), Indian investors have considered “Muhurat Trading” a lucky time to invest (so it brings in more prosperity, good luck, and wealth). What are the timings? Should you take “Muhurat Trading” seriously? For all that, learn more details.  

When Will It Happen in 2025?

The “Muhurat Trading” is on Tuesday, October 21 and here are the timings:

• Pre-opening session: 1:30 PM to 1:45 PM
• Main trading session: 1:45 PM to 2:45 PM

Why Many Investors Believe in Muhurat Trading?

Diwali is a holy time and is the start of a new year in the Hindu calendar. It is also known as Vikram Samvat 2082. So, many traditional investors and brokers treat this as the first trade of the new financial year. Several emotions and sentiments are attached to the “Muhurat Trading.”

What Can You Trade?

During this one-hour Muhurat session, you can trade in all the usual segments, like: 

• Equity (stocks)
• Commodity derivatives (like gold, silver, oil, etc.)
• Currency derivatives (like USD-INR, EUR-INR, etc.)
• Equity futures and options (F&O)
• Securities lending and borrowing (SLB)

What Can You Trade?

Well, the rules for “Muhurat Trading” are the same as those for a regular trading day in the Indian stock market. However, the only thing that is different is the timing (one hour).

Here’s what that means:

• All the trades are settled as a regular day, no change in that.
• Both the Capital Market and Futures & Options (F&O) are open to the public.
• Intraday trading is fully on (meaning buying and selling within the same session is allowed).
• This is a short window and is highly volatile (meaning the prices go up and down very quickly). 

Can You Buy Mutual Funds?

Yes. If you are interested, then you can buy mutual funds during the Muhurat session.