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Parag Agrawal explains why a ‘lame-duck’ CEO will keep changing Twitter

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 Breaking his silence, a defiant Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has explained why a “lame-duck” CEO has made key changes at the micro-blogging platform amid the $44 billion takeover by the Tesla CEO.

Stressing that “no one at Twitter is working just to keep the lights on,” he said that a lot has happened over the past several weeks.

“I’ve been focused on the company and haven’t said much publicly during this time, but I will now,” he said in a tweet thread.

Agrawal has fired consumer product leader Kayvon Beykpour and head of revenue product Bruce Falck to “take the team in a different direction”.

“Changes impacting people are always hard. And some have been asking why a “lame-duck” CEO would make these changes if we’re getting acquired anyway. The short answer is very simple: We take pride in our work,” he added.

“Regardless of the company’s future ownership, we’re here improving Twitter as a product and business for customers, partners, shareholders, and all of you,” Agrawal added.

On the $44 billion Musk deal, he said: “While I expect the deal to close, we need to be prepared for all scenarios and always do what’s right for Twitter. I’m accountable for leading and operating Twitter, and our job is to build a stronger Twitter every day.”

On hiring freeze and other cost-cutting measures he announced, Agrawal said: “Our industry is in a very challenging macro environment – right now. I won’t use the deal as an excuse to avoid making important decisions for the health of the company, nor will any leader at Twitter.”

Agrawal has said that effective this week, Twitter is pausing most hiring and backfills, except for business critical roles.

“What can you expect from me going forward? I’m still focused on doing the job, and that includes making hard decisions as needed. I will continue to embrace the deep complexities of our service and our business. And you can expect more change for the better,” the Indian-origin CEO explained.

Musk has put the $44 billion Twitter deal temporarily on hold, as he wants to know how many Twitter accounts are spam or fake before he invests a huge sum of money.

The micro-blogging platform revealed in a filing earlier this week that false or spam accounts represented fewer than 5 per cent of its monetisable daily active users (mDAUs) during the first quarter (Q1).

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Meta launches ‘Muse Voice Transcribe’ with native support for five Indian languages

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New Delhi, Sep 2: US-based technology giant Meta has introduced its first real‑time audio‑perception model — Muse Voice Transcribe — which offers native support for five major Indian languages and advanced streaming features.

Muse Voice Transcribe — developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs — delivers streaming transcription, speaker separation across over 20 voices in hour‑plus recordings, native code‑switching and diarisation from a single model with no post‑processing step, the company said in a statement.

Muse Voice Transcribe is trained across over 70 languages spoken in multiple countries with 25 validated at launch.

“It ranks first on the Artificial Analysis streaming speech-to-text leaderboard as of September 1, 2026,” the statement added.

Available via the Meta Model API and already running dictation in Meta AI for Mac and Muse Code, Muse Voice Transcribe delivers real‑time automatic speech recognition, diarisation with over 20 speakers and endpointing.

It is multilingual with seamless code-switching and improves accuracy with language, keyword, and context biasing.

“The longer the model waits to predict, the more accurate the transcript, but the higher the latency. Muse Voice Transcribe has “adaptive delay,” dynamically changing delay for each word based on difficulty,” the statement noted.

This is enabled with reinforcement learning (RL), where word error rate (WER) reward and a delay reward are combined multiplicatively.

“Muse Voice Transcribe is an autoregressive multimodal model from the Muse Spark family,” Meta said.

It explained that the audio is processed in 80 ms chunks (12.5 Hz), each of which is transformed into a single soft token. At each audio chunk, the model decides to either continue listening to the next audio chunk or emit a text token.

With adaptive delay, Muse Voice Transcribe achieves the Pareto front on speed-accuracy trade-off measured by time to final transcription, the company said.

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Annu Projects shares list at 27 pc discount against IPO price

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New Delhi, Sep 2: Annu Projects shares made a weak debut on the stock exchanges on Wednesday and have listed at a discount of up to 27 per cent to the issue price.

The stock listed at Rs 75 on the BSE, a discount of 24.24 per cent to the issue price of Rs 99.

Meanwhile, on the National Stock Exchange, the stock debuted at Rs 72, down 27.27 per cent from the offer price. In addition, the stock declined as much as 28 per cent in early trading hours, hitting an intraday low of Rs 71.25.

The company’s initial public offering received bids for 5.18 crore shares against 1.76 crore shares on offer, resulting in an overall subscription of 2.93 times.

The IPO comprised an entirely fresh issue of up to 1.7683 crore equity shares with a face value of Rs 10 each, with no offer-for-sale component.

Moreover, the company showed several key risks in its IPO offer document like business concentration in telecom and sewerage segments, which together contributed 94 per cent of FY26 revenue, higher revenue dependence on government clients of up to 65 per cent in FY26, customer concentration in which top 10 customer contribution 98 per cent each in FY25 & FY26.

Annu Projects plans to use Rs 15.408 crore of the net proceeds to fund capital expenditure for the purchase of machinery and equipment, while Rs 115 crore will be used to meet working capital requirements. The remaining proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes.

The price band for the issue was fixed at Rs 94-99 per share with investors allowed to bid in lots of 151 shares.

The issue had reserved 10 per cent of the issue for qualified institutional buyers, 40 per cent for non-institutional investors and 50 per cent for retail investors.

Established in 2003, Annu Projects is engaged in the design, development, implementation, operations and maintenance of overhead and underground utilities infrastructure across telecom, sewerage, gas pipeline and railway signalling segments.

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7.8 pc GDP growth reflects country’s progress: Maha CM Fadnavis, Dy CM Shinde

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Mumbai/Thane, Sep 1: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday hailed India as it registered a real GDP growth rate of 7.8 per cent in the first quarter of the 2026–27 financial year (Q1 FY27, April–June 2026) under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi reflecting the country’s progress.

Chief Minister Fadnavis in his post on social media platform X said, “Yehi hai right choice, Bharat! Let’s keep going the same way, same direction. 7.8 per cent growth in such times prove our potential and possibilities as a Nation with PM @narendramodi’s leadership! Congratulations Bharat!”

On the other hand, Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said that India’s economy continues to demonstrate strong growth with a 7.8 per cent GDP expansion at a time when several nations globally are grappling with conflict and economic fallout.

“This reflects economic progress and stability, this marks another key step toward achieving the vision of ‘Viksit Bharat 2047’,” The Deputy Chief Minister added.

Speaking to reporters on the country’s economic outlook, Deputy CM Shinde expressed confidence that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India is moving steadily toward becoming an economic superpower and achieving its target of a $5 trillion economy.

He assured that the Maharashtra government will contribute significantly to this journey.

Highlighting the adverse global backdrop, the Deputy Chief Minister noted that ongoing wars and geopolitical conflicts have impacted multiple world economies.

“In contrast, India’s 7.8 per cent growth rate presents a highly promising picture and signals the nation’s rising economic strength.”

Deputy CM Shinde emphasised that every citizen should take pride in the nation’s strengthening economy.

However, he criticised the opposition parties for taking a negative stance on national progress due to political bias against PM Modi.

He remarked that appeals made by the Prime Minister are always aimed at national interest, upliftment, and growth, but are often viewed through a narrow political lens by his critics.

“Instead of questioning progress, everyone should contribute toward accelerating development,” Deputy Chief Minister Shinde added.

Reaffirming the state’s commitment, the Deputy CM said that Maharashtra will fully cooperate with the Central government to reach the $5 trillion target and realise the ‘Viksit Bharat 2047’ roadmap.

He asserted that India’s economic strides are a matter of pride for all 140 crore citizens, adding that the public will appropriately respond to those opposing the country’s growth.

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