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Rapido has secured a five-year cab aggregator licence from the Karnataka State Transport Authority, allowing the mobility platform to operate four-wheeler cab services in the state until August 2031. The approval gives the company greater regulatory certainty as it expands its cab business beyond its traditional bike-taxi operations. The licence has been issued under the Karnataka On-Demand Transportation Technology Aggregators Rules, 2016. It allows Rapido to run its cab services within a formal regulatory framework and provides greater continuity for both drivers and commuters. Karnataka is one of Rapido’s most important markets and its home state. The company currently operates across 21 cities, with more than 3.14 lakh captains and 2.04 crore registered customers in the state. More than 69 lakh customers have used Rapido’s cab services in Karnataka, according to the company. The approval is particularly important as Rapido continues to expand its four-wheeler business and compete with established players such as Ola and Uber. A longer-term licence gives the company more clarity to invest in its cab operations, onboard drivers and expand its customer base. Rapido has also been included in Karnataka’s Urban Mobility Mission, under which it will work with the state on areas including commuter access, technology integration, safety and service reliability. The company said predictable regulation can benefit commuters, drivers, platforms and the government. For Rapido, the licence could also help reduce some of the regulatory uncertainty that has surrounded its mobility operations in Karnataka, particularly its bike-taxi business. However, the new approval specifically provides a formal framework for its cab services. The development strengthens Rapido’s position in Karnataka’s competitive ride-hailing market. With regulatory approval secured until 2031 and a large existing customer and driver base, the company now has greater scope to scale its cab operations and build a broader mobility platform in the state. Tired of guessing stocks to trade in daily?Tradz by EquityPandit empowers you with powerful tools like daily stock scans for Intraday, Swing & Investing, Market Predictions and much more. Download the Tradz by EquityPandit app today and take control of your investments! The post Rapido Gets Karnataka Cab Aggregator Licence Till 2031 appeared first on Equitypandit.

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Evergy officials encouraged the Kansas Corporation Commission to make sure that artificial intelligence tools don't put the company's confidential information in jeopardy. Many companies nationwide are limiting the use of AI tools or investing in closed systems that make sure their private data isn't exposed. (Photo by Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)TOPEKA — Evergy filed a request with utility regulators to ensure its confidential data wasn’t uploaded to artificial intelligence platforms, highlighting a concern that the rapid growth and use of AI may release private information. In a July 30 filing, Evergy asked the Kansas Corporation Commission to amend its standard protective order filed in regulatory cases to include protections from improper use of AI with regard to private information. Confidential information is regularly given to regulators to help stakeholders in the decision-making process, said Matt Lucht, Evergy spokesman. But the company must also protect business, customer and infrastructure-related information from being disclosed, he said. “Evergy has asked the Kansas Corporation Commission for additional protections that prohibit the use of confidential case information in open AI tools while still allowing the use of secure, closed AI systems with appropriate safeguards,” Lucht said. “We want to ensure that we can continue to openly share information with our regulators and case intervenors while maintaining appropriate confidentiality.” Evergy’s concerns aren’t unusual as AI platforms are proliferating. Artificial intelligence tools transcribe meeting notes, summarize emails or write better letters for the general public. But in business, the tools are developing strategic plans, helping attorneys write better court documents and assessing competition. A Stanford University assessment found that “responsible AI is not keeping pace with AI capability, with safety benchmarks lagging and incidents rising sharply.” Justin Grady, KCC director of utilities, said “the sky’s the limit” regarding how people could use confidential information with generative AI tools. Generative AI refers to AI that creates new content, drawing from large datasets of information and learning as it goes. For instance, an individual with access to confidential regulatory documents could “dump all of their files into some new large language model and say what were the weaknesses or the deficiencies that were in this filing,” Grady said. The situation isn’t unique to energy regulation. Courts nationwide are defining how AI can be used, which Evergy noted in its filing. “Prompting these AI tools with confidential or business proprietary information creates a risk that the generative AI will ‘learn’ from the prompt, which may result in the corporate owner of that AI tool retaining access to the confidential information,” Evergy’s filing said. The American Bar Association adopted guidelines for the use of AI tools and cautioned against the use of AI tools unless an attorney ensures the client’s confidential information will be secure, Evergy said. Murtaza Nasir, assistant professor at Wichita State University’s business school, said there have been cases where OpenAI says it doesn’t share information, but then someone’s chats became public. “People share their chats with other people, and then they don’t realize that their links they created are public or they are being indexed by the search engines,” he said. “That data may be used by the company itself for some type of training, or just to understand the businesses themselves.” In fact, Nasir said, some AI companies “pose a threat” in industries where they eventually become a competitor. “These AI companies have a unique look into how all of these different industries work, what they’re doing, and they may come up with competing services or that sort of thing,” he said. Security options KCC created rules around AI use, with the primary goal to make sure no one puts confidential information into any AI platform, Grady said. But he recognizes the usefulness of the tools and expects to see KCC develop or purchase a closed AI system. An AI system housed within the KCC would mean that it doesn’t feed any information outside of the contained system, such as into a cloud-based language learning model that’s pulling everything in to expand its datasets, Grady said. “I wouldn’t say that there’s immediate plans for it, but I’d be shocked if in five years we’re not using something like that,” he said. Grady is a fan of using AI to simplify time-consuming tasks, but he also said it isn’t quite up to par yet for helping in regulatory work. Webinars have shown examples of AI assessing regulatory filings, but the tools weren’t outstanding, he said. Instead, the insights were the same as he currently receives from experienced staff members. However, AI can make repetitive work easier or search through a 5,000-page regulation to find specific information fast, Grady said. Nasir said there is a push right now to develop private AI tools that stay within a business or organization to maintain privacy but offer employees the opportunity to use AI in a way that is becoming important in most work. “You can run the AI locally, or some companies have special tiers, like for example, Claude or OpenAI, of their services for the government or for defense companies, where they guarantee that none of the data will ever be used for training or any other purposes like that,” Nasir said. “How much do you trust them with that? Yeah, that is up to you.So that’s why open source models are a very important topic right now,” he added. “These are models that you can even run on your laptop or on your computer at home for simple tasks.” It is important, Nasir said, to understand that AI models don’t use all conversations or input for training purposes, but most do save conversations, sometimes only for certain customers, such as those who have free accounts. “All of these companies have different ways of creating their datasets for training, and they don’t share how they create those datasets because that’s what gives them their competitive advantage,” he said.

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Key Highlights Micron unveils the Paradigm Fund, a $250 million venture capital initiative marking its third and most substantial investment fund Investment focus spans AI infrastructure: computational systems, model development, enterprise applications, and robotics/physical AI Micron Ventures’ cumulative capital allocation reaches $550 million spanning three separate funds MU shares gained 4.23% following the announcement Analysts maintain a Strong Buy rating on MU with average price targets around $1,569.07, suggesting approximately 65% potential upside On August 13, 2026, Micron Technology announced the creation of the Micron Ventures Paradigm Fund, committing $250 million to support emerging companies developing advanced AI infrastructure solutions. The announcement drove MU shares up 4.23%. Micron Technology, Inc., MU Representing Micron Ventures’ third investment initiative, the Paradigm Fund exceeds all previous commitments in scale. Following Fund I’s 2019 debut and Fund II’s 2022 launch, this latest vehicle elevates Micron Ventures’ aggregate capital deployment to $550 million. Investment priorities encompass four strategic domains: architectural frameworks for AI models, computational infrastructure development, enterprise-focused AI solutions, and physical AI applications including robotics technology. Rene Hartner, Micron’s VP of corporate development, characterized the current technological landscape as transformative. He emphasized a consistent requirement underpinning these advances: advanced memory and storage capabilities. Micron’s approach extends beyond capital allocation. The investment vehicle serves as an intelligence-gathering mechanism, providing early insights into AI system evolution that inform the company’s product development roadmap for memory and storage technologies. Strategic Importance for Micron’s Core Operations With AI systems advancing from basic generative capabilities toward reasoning and physical interaction, memory requirements are evolving rapidly. Micron aims to anticipate these transformations rather than respond retroactively. Through early-stage investments in AI ventures, Micron cultivates enduring partnerships. Portfolio companies receiving Micron Ventures backing frequently integrate Micron’s technology as they expand operations. The fund’s computational infrastructure focus addresses AI workload processing and data movement, encompassing in-memory computing architectures, advanced networking solutions, and data center optimization. Enterprise AI investments target transformative applications in complex sectors, with semiconductor design and manufacturing highlighted as priority areas. Physical AI represents the fund’s fourth pillar, encompassing robotics and innovative hardware platforms where artificial intelligence engages directly with physical environments. Analyst Sentiment on MU Micron shares command a Strong Buy consensus among Wall Street analysts. Recent three-month data shows 29 Buy ratings versus a single Hold recommendation. Analysts’ consensus price target stands at $1,569.07, representing potential gains exceeding 65% from present trading levels. Fund II, established in 2022, continues active deployment in parallel with the newly announced Paradigm Fund. The three-fund structure provides Micron Ventures with diversified exposure across multiple startup development stages and investment periods. Micron characterized artificial intelligence as being in nascent phases, with significant infrastructure evolution anticipated ahead. The post Micron (MU) Stock Jumps 4% Following $250M AI-Focused Venture Fund Announcement appeared first on Blockonomi.

What does it actually take to get a genuinely big guitar tone? A Les Paul with beefy humbuckers, a 100-watt tube amp, a 4×12 cab (or two), and plenty of gain? Sounds logical enough. And honestly, sitting alone in front of my amp, that recipe works pretty well. The second bass, drums, and a second guitar show up, though, the whole picture shifts. That supposedly huge tone turns mushy, disappears into the mix, or just ends up sounding smaller than before. So how do you actually get a big guitar tone? Big Guitar Tone at a Glance More gain doesn’t automatically mean a bigger tone; too much distortion kills attack and dynamics Your picking hand shapes tone more than most gear ever will Humbuckers aren’t always the answer; leaner pickups can leave more room in a mix Guitars sit mainly in the midrange; too much bass and low-end fights the bass and kick Speakers and cabinets shape a huge part of the final sound, not just amp and pedals Double tracking creates real width through tiny human differences between takes, not copy-paste A killer solo guitar tone often disappears in a mix; judge tone in context, not alone The bass fills in what the guitar deliberately leaves out, and that’s where size really comes from Big Guitar Tone: What Actually Makes a Guitar Sound MassiveMyth Number One: More Gain Doesn’t Make a Tone BiggerYour Picking Hand: A Big Guitar Tone Starts Before You Even Plug InGuitar and Pickups: Bigger Isn’t Always Better to Get a Big Guitar ToneThe Amp: Mids Over BassThe Speaker: Where Electricity Actually Becomes Sound and a Big Guitar ToneThe Real Trick: Two Small Guitars Make One Big OneThe Most Important Bandmate: The BassThe Big Guitar Tone: Why Your Tone Is Allowed to Sound Worse on Its OwnConclusion: Big Guitar Tone Happens Between the Instruments Pull apart some of the biggest guitar tones in rock history and the individual pieces are often shockingly unremarkable. Less gain than you’d guess. Not much bass. And some guitar tracks sound almost thin when you solo them. It’s only once other instruments and tracks show up that all of it fuses into what we hear as a massive wall of guitar, a big guitar tone, in other words. That’s really what this piece is about. Not one specific amp, not the perfect pickup, not some secret pedal. Just the question of why a guitar sounds big in the first place. A big guitar tone turns out to be a lot more than one impressively built, standalone guitar sound. Myth Number One: More Gain Doesn’t Make a Tone Bigger I know the instinct well. You want a bigger tone, so the first move is cranking the gain knob. Eventually every note starts singing almost on its own, chords hit like a wall, and even a half-hearted power chord sounds like the end of the world. At least while you’re playing alone. Here’s the catch, though. As distortion piles up, the signal gets more compressed. Quiet and loud picking start blurring together, extra overtones pile in, and sustain goes up. That reads as denser at first, which really does create the illusion of size. But dynamics, attack, and definition quietly disappear in the process. This becomes a real problem fast with rhythm guitars specifically. A tightly picked riff lives and dies on the beginning of every note staying clear and defined. Wash that attack out with too much distortion, and individual picks start bleeding into each other. AC/DC is a great counterexample here. The guitars on Back in Black sound massive, but soloed, they’re actually a lot less distorted than you’d think. A huge chunk of the punch comes from picking attack, volume, midrange, and how the instruments sit together. Sometimes a guitar tone actually gets more powerful once you back the gain knob off a bit (yes, keep going, just a touch more). Your Picking Hand: A Big Guitar Tone Starts Before You Even Plug In A Young (!) James Hetfield — the Perfect (Thrash) Tone · Source: Robert Hoetink / Alamy Stock Foto Before we get into pickups, amps, and speakers, we need to talk about the one part of the signal chain you can’t buy or swap out: how you actually play. How hard a string gets hit, exactly where the pick lands, how cleanly your picking hand mutes strings you don’t want ringing, all of that shapes the resulting tone way more than people expect. For distorted rhythm guitar specifically, attack decides whether a riff lands tight and defined or just sounds thick and mushy. Change your picking attack on purpose sometime and you’ll hear exactly what I mean. Same amp, same guitar, same settings, and yet the second, harder attack almost always reads as bigger, simply because the attack itself comes through more clearly. Something similar happens with palm muting. Choke it too hard and a riff sounds short and lifeless, don’t control it enough and it loses rhythmic precision. That massive metal chug everyone chases is honestly at least as much about your picking hand as it is about whatever high-gain amp you’re running. Where you pick matters too. Closer to the bridge, the tone gets harsher and brighter. Move toward the neck, and it softens and fills out. Then there’s pick thickness, attack angle, and timing on top of all that. The amp, at the end of the day, can only work with whatever signal you feed it. And if you weren’t blessed with James Hetfield’s picking hand, like me, don’t worry, technique alone isn’t the whole story here either. Guitar and Pickups: Bigger Isn’t Always Better to Get a Big Guitar Tone Now we finally get to talk gear. Chasing a big guitar tone, the obvious move is grabbing the fattest-sounding guitar you own. So: humbuckers, high output, plenty of low end. Right? That can absolutely work, but it’s not a universal rule (thankfully, or this whole topic would be pretty boring). A punchy, active humbucker like the EMG 81* typically delivers more output and pronounced mids, while a classic single coil tends to sound more open, brighter, and often thinner. Played solo, the humbucker usually wins for a big rock tone right away. In a full arrangement, though, the picture can flip. A slightly leaner guitar tone leaves more room for bass, kick, and additional guitar tracks. At the same time, strong mids and highs keep the guitar audible without needing to be loud. You can hear this within a single guitar too. The neck pickup often sounds fuller than the bridge. And yet distorted rhythm parts land on the bridge pickup almost automatically. Its tighter low end and sharper attack keep individual picks cleanly separated. Hot pickups behave similarly. More output can push an amp into saturation earlier, while a moderate pickup like a classic PAF, something like the wonderful Bare Knuckle The Mule*, preserves more dynamics and transparency. The pattern gets clearer: the biggest individual tone isn’t automatically the biggest overall sound. Though to be fair to humbuckers, for pretty much anything we’d actually call a big guitar tone, they’re still a solid bet. Affiliate Links EMG 81 Black Customer rating: (693) $81.00 / £72.00 / 85.00€ at Bare Knuckle The Mule Set Cov N Customer rating: (10) $419.00 / £379.00 / 439.00€ at Affiliate Links EMG 81 Active Ceramic Humbucker Guitar Pickup – Black $109 at The Amp: Mids Over Bass Big Guitar Tone: The Amp Has to Hold Up Its End – Marshall JCM800 Modified · Source: Marshall This is where I have to keep questioning (and changing) my own guitar tone on a regular basis. Playing alone, my trusty Laney with plenty of bass, scooped mids, and thick gain genuinely sounds impressive at first. The room fills up, low power chords hit hard, a proper big guitar tone, right there. That’s exactly where the trap is hiding, though. In a band context, a guitar shouldn’t be trying to do the bass’s job, and it definitely shouldn’t be fighting the kick drum for the lowest frequencies. Its real territory sits higher up, mostly in the midrange. Scoop that out and try compensating for the missing punch with more bass and gain, and you’ll get an impressive tone alone that disappears fast once the mix fills in. Which is exactly why a genuinely great guitar tone can sound surprisingly thin and unpleasantly midrangey in isolation, go check out our list of the worst guitar tones of all time. Some of those sound rough on their own. But the second bass and drums kick in, they lock into exactly the spot they’re supposed to occupy. This matters even more once you’re stacking multiple guitar tracks. Every extra bit of bass competes with other instruments, and every extra bit of gain strips definition from the attack. Instead of piling more frequencies into the tone, it usually pays off to pull specific ones out. The Speaker: Where Electricity Actually Becomes Sound and a Big Guitar Tone Guitars and amps are the stuff we could all argue about for hours, happily, and with growing enthusiasm. The speaker, though, gets treated shockingly often like it’s just the end of the signal chain, an afterthought. Which is strange, because that’s exactly where the important part happens: electrical signal turns into actual moving air. Speakers are anything but neutral. A Celestion Greenback* behaves nothing like a Vintage 30*, and a classic Jensen* sounds different from both of those again. Frequency response, efficiency, and how a speaker behaves at higher volumes all shape a huge chunk of what actually reaches your ears in the room. Then there’s the cabinet itself. An open-back 1×12 disperses sound completely differently than a sealed 4×12. The bigger cab moves more air a

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Students walk across the University of Louisville campus. Kentucky is one of 17 states the Trump administration sued to block in-state tuition for students in the country without permanent legal immigration status. (Photo by McKenna Horsley/Kentucky Lantern)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice has sued New York, Connecticut and Vermont over laws that allow immigrants in the country without permanent legal status to pay in-state college tuition in the states where they live. The suits, filed Aug. 10, are part of a larger push from the Trump administration to go after states with such policies, as the administration seeks to curb any benefits that could be extended to people without permanent legal status. Since President Donald Trump re-took office, the DOJ has sued 17 states over laws that allow noncitizen students who meet certain requirements access to in-state tuition at public colleges and universities, regardless of their immigration status. In five of those lawsuits the DOJ filed — targeting Texas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Illinois — courts have already struck down the laws. All of those states, except for Illinois, had joined with the federal government rather than defend their laws. Beyond New York, Connecticut and Vermont, lawsuits are also pending in California, Colorado, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Virginia. The lawsuits argue that the policies allow students without permanent legal status to pay drastically lower tuition for public education than U.S. citizens from other states. “This is a simple matter of federal law: colleges cannot provide benefits to illegal aliens that they do not provide to U.S. citizens,” Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate of the DOJ’s Civil Division said in a statement regarding the New York, Connecticut and Vermont lawsuits. “This Department of Justice will not tolerate American students being treated like second-class citizens in their own country,” Shumate said. Landscape of state laws At least 20 states and Washington, D.C., offer in-state tuition to “the states’ undocumented students,” according to the Higher Ed Immigration Portal, a project of the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization. Roughly 525,000 “undocumented students” are enrolled in colleges and universities across the U.S., according to the Portal. An estimated 129,900 “undocumented students” are eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA is intended to help people brought into the country without legal documentation as children. The program, created by the Obama administration in 2012, protects participants from deportation and allows them to receive work permits and obtain driver’s licenses. Five states, Arkansas, Idaho, Maine, Ohio and Texas, limit in-state tuition access to DACA recipients, according to the Portal. Ongoing court battles threaten DACA recipients in Texas with the possibility of losing their ability to obtain a work permit. ‘Unprecedented’ Diego Sánchez, vice president of policy and strategy at the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, said the DOJ’s efforts to pursue states that offer in-state tuition benefits to students without permanent legal status is “unprecedented.” “It’s a coordinated federal effort to dismantle state tuition equity policies that have existed for decades,” Sánchez told States Newsroom. Sánchez added that the policies “do not provide free college or special tuition discounts — they generally allow students who attended and graduated from high school in the state and meet additional state requirements to pay the same in-state tuition rate as the classmates they grew up with.” The students “still have to apply, they still have to be admitted, pay tuition and meet the same academic requirements as everyone else,” he said. “The state has already invested in these students … these are benefits that don’t only apply (to) undocumented students.” DOJ goes after Texas first The DOJ’s lawsuits came after Trump signed an executive order in April 2025 that calls on the U.S. attorney general to stop the enforcement of state laws and policies “favoring aliens over any groups of American citizens that are unlawful, preempted by Federal law, or otherwise unenforceable, including State laws that provide in-State higher education tuition to aliens but not to out-of-State American citizens.” Texas was the first state the DOJ pursued over such policies. The Justice Department challenged in June 2025 the Lone Star State’s 2001 law — the first of its kind in the country — signed by former Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican. Rather than defend the law, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Trump-aligned Republican, sided with the DOJ to try to permanently block the state law and signed an agreement the same day the DOJ filed suit. A federal judge then blocked the Texas law. A federal appeals court in July rejected an attempt from two advocacy groups, a Texas community college and a student to intervene in the case and defend the Texas law. 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