Current Affairs

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February - 04

• Minister of Tourism G. Kishan Reddy launched the Visit India Year – 2023 initiative and unveiled the logo in New Delhi.

• Google has invested around $300 million in Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup whose technology is said to rival OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.

• Foxconn and Vedanta are close to inducting European chipmaker STMicroelectronics as the technology partner in their proposed semiconductor chip manufacturing unit in India.

• In Mumbai, an industry first for banks and NBFCs, Mobicule, a specialist in debt collection, has announced the release of its mCollect Repossession module.

• Each year on February 4, World Cancer Day is celebrated worldwide. “Close The Care Gap” has been the theme for World Cancer Day for the past three years (2022, 2023, and 2024).

• The Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Alkesh Kumar Sharma inaugurated the G20 Cyber Security Exercise and Drill for more than 400 domestic and international participants under India’s G20 presidency.

• IBM has partnered with NASA to gain new findings on Earth’s climate through the power of AI technology.

• Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is part of a payload contract NASA has awarded for as much as $100 million over a decade. 

• The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) announced that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) won the hosting of the 2027 Asian Nations Cup, for the first time in its history, since its inception in 1956.