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Market Watch

• Indian benchmark indices ended the day flat with the Sensex down 33.49 points at 76,456.59, and the Nifty up 5.60 points at 23,264.80.
• Sectorally Nifty Oil & Gas and Nifty Media made the most gains, while Nifty Healthcare shed the most.

Top announcements from Apple’s most important event of the year—and quite possibly ever

Apple's WWDC 2024 keynote, potentially the company's most significant event ever, centred around the introduction of Apple Intelligence , integrated with OpenAI's ChatGPT.

• Apple Intelligence integrates generative models into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, enriching user experience while ensuring privacy.
• Siri can use ChatGPT for expertise, such as meal planning from garden ingredients. Apple’s system-wide writing tools will let users create content, including images, with the help of ChatGPT.
• The integration is user-friendly, requiring no ChatGPT or OpenAI account for basic features, lowering the barrier to entry.
• It enables practical applications like generating images and creating custom emojis (Genmoji).
• Existing OpenAI paid subscribers can link their accounts to access premium ChatGPT features within Apple's apps.

Other highlights: New features in iOS 18 include customizable app icons, a redesigned Control Center, and the ability to lock and schedule messages.

• VisionOS 2 enhances the Apple Vision Pro with spatial photo creation and new hand gestures and expands availability to more countries.
• The new calculator app, and the integration of math functions in the Notes app is quite fun. Besides this, users have also shared videos on changes to the flashlight and the volume changing button.

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The intrigue: Elon Musk has threatened to ban Apple products at his company if the company goes through with integrating ChatGPT at OS level.

• Musk has labelled it an “unacceptable security violation.” He argues that integrating OpenAI's technology at the OS level could compromise user privacy and security.?

Yes, but: According to Apple , the company has created its own intelligence system called Apple Intelligence, and ChatGPT is just an additional feature limited to Siri and Writing Tools and will require permission from the user for every use.

Tweet du jour

Elon Musk summing up data privacy after Apple’s OpenAI partnership announcement.

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Alleged paper leak to controversial scoring process: Here's why NEET UG results are a mess this time

The NEET UG 2024 results have caused widespread controversy, with allegations of paper leaks and irregular scoring processes , raising questions among aspirants and stakeholders.

NEET's marking system: The paper has a total of 180 questions where a correct answer is awarded four marks and for every wrong answer, one mark is deducted.

67 Candidates AIR 1 with a perfect score: 67 candidates secured the All India Rank 1, with many achieving full marks (720), leading to suspicions of a paper leak. And here's why it is controversial ??

Anomalies: What's more is that six candidates who scored AIR 1 are from the same examination centre from Jhajjar in Haryana, with the same sequence numbers.

• The number of students scoring 700 and above has also increased this time.?
• There are reports of at least 20 students receiving the question paper before the exam in Patna.?

Impossible scores: Questions arose about candidates scoring 718 and 719, which are theoretically impossible according to the exam's marking scheme.

• The NTA attributed compensatory marks to some candidates due to exam time loss, but explanations were deemed unsatisfactory by many.

The big picture: Legal challenges and petitions have been filed, with calls for re-examination and further investigation into the alleged malpractices.

• The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the NTA seeking a response to allegations of a NEET-UG 2024 paper leak.
• Despite the paper leak allegations, the Court refused to halt the ongoing counselling process for successful NEET-UG candidates.

ICYMI

• ??? Chandrababu Naidu, a day before his swearing-in as Chief Minister, announced Amaravati as the sole capital of Andhra Pradesh .
• ? Kamran Akmal has apologised for his distasteful comments on Sikhs .
• ?? RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s comments on “misinformation” during the elections and the Centre’s apathy toward Manipur.
• ???? Here’s all you need to know about the Modi 3.0 cabinet .
• ?? The Delhi police have clarified that the mysterious animal spotted during PM Modi’s swearing-in was a house cat and not a leopard .