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Share Tweet Share Share Email In the fiercely competitive and fast-evolving world of AI video generation, the recent progress of SORA and Veo2 has been remarkable, drawing significant attention and setting high standards. Meanwhile, KLING AI, which has made waves since its launch a few months ago, is stepping up with its new 1.6 model, poised to redefine the possibilities of video synthesis and provide users with a more seamless and engaging creative experience . With this update, KLING AI have significantly improved the response to prompt, the visual aesthetics, and the physical actions, bringing more consistent and vivid results. In an internal assessment, the latest 1.6 model has seen a remarkable 195%enhancement in its image-to-video generation capabilities compared to the previous 1.5 model. This evaluation mainly focuses on dimensions such as the model’s prompt adherence, dynamics, and image quality. KLING AI 1.6 upgrade focuses on enhancing prompt adherence. It now demonstrates an outstanding understanding of prompts, translating them into more consistent and vivid video outputs. Whether it’s a complex narrative or a specific visual concept, the model can render it with greater precision and details. Moreover, the visual aesthetics have a substantial improvement. The generated videos possess a captivating level of fidelity, with enhanced color palettes, sharper details, and more natural scenes. This not only makes the videos more visually attractive but also boosts the overall quality. Prompt: The mechanical wolf slowly stands up, and its mechanical limbs spread out smoothly. The camera slowly moves up, and its blue eyes narrow slightly. The neon lights flicker in the background, full of a mysterious futuristic feeling. Also, to meet diverse user needs, KLING AI 1.6 offers two modes. The Standard Mode has a user-friendly interface for beginners to easily generate high-quality videos. The Professional Mode provides advanced customization options for experienced users who desire more control over the creative process. This dual-mode approach makes the model accessible to a wide range of users. A screenshot from a video generated under the Professional Mode of the 1.6 model Just less than a month ago, KLING AI released the 1.5 model with revolutionary features. The Motion Brush allows users paint on the video canvas to precisely define object or character movements, unlocking new creative potential. Also, the Camera Movements feature provided diverse angles and motions, enhancing visual storytelling and making videos more engaging and cinematic. As of December 2024, KLING AI has over 6 million users who have created more than 65 million videos and 175 million images. Related Items: A New Leap in Video Generation , KLING AI Releases its Latest 1.6 Model Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments

Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi Barelvi, the National President of All India Muslim Jamaat on Sunday issued a fatwa against New Year celebrations, discouraging Muslims from celebrating it, instead urged them to focus on religious practices that align with their faith. ET Year-end Special Reads What kept India's stock market investors on toes in 2024? India's car race: How far EVs went in 2024 Investing in 2025: Six wealth management trends to watch out for According to Razvi, the fatwa was issued by Chashme Darfta Bareilly urged both young Muslim men and women to refrain from partaking in the New Year festivities. "The young men and women who celebrate New Year have been instructed in this fatwa that celebrating New Year is not a matter of pride and neither should this celebration be celebrated nor should it be congratulated," Razvi said, emphasizing that the New Year marks the beginning of the Christian calendar, or the "English Year." He further stated that such non-religious practices are strictly "prohibited for Muslims." Razvi continued, urging young Muslim people to avoid participating in New Year celebrations, stressing that Muslims should instead focus on religious practices that align with their faith. "New boys and girls have been instructed not to celebrate New Year... Muslims should avoid celebrating New Year," he said. Meanwhile, Bareilvi amid reports of author Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' being available for sale over three decades after it was "banned" in the country, had voiced his opposition and said that the "ban should continue". 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Consumers in the United States scoured the internet for online deals as they looked to take advantage of the post-Thanksgiving shopping marathon with Cyber Monday. Even though e-commerce is now part and parcel of many people's regular routines and the holiday shopping season, Cyber Monday — a term coined in 2005 by the National Retail Federation — has become the biggest online shopping day of the year, thanks to the deals and the hype the industry has created to fuel it. Adobe Analytics, which tracks online shopping, expected consumers to spend $13.2 billion Monday — a record, and 6.1% more than last year. That would make it the biggest shopping day for e-commerce for the season — and the year. Online spending was expected to peak between the hours of 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Monday night, per Adobe — reaching an estimated $15.7 million spent every minute. For several major retailers, a Cyber Monday sale is a dayslong event that began over the Thanksgiving weekend. An Amazon Prime delivery person lifts packages while making a stop Nov. 28, 2023, in Denver. Amazon kicked off its sales event right after midnight Pacific time on Saturday. Target's two days of discount offers on its website and app began overnight Sunday. Walmart rolled out its Cyber Monday offers for Walmart+ members Sunday afternoon and opened it up to all customers three hours later, at 8 p.m. Eastern time. Consumer spending for Cyber Week — the five major shopping days between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday — provides a strong indication of how much shoppers are willing to spend for the holidays. Many U.S. consumers continue to experience sticker shock after the period of post-pandemic inflation, which left prices for many goods and services higher than they were three years ago. But retail sales nonetheless remain strong, and the economy kept growing at a healthy pace. At the same time, credit card debt and delinquencies are rising. More shoppers than ever are also on track to use "buy now, pay later" plans this holiday season, which allows them to delay payments on holiday decor, gifts and other items. Many economists also warned that President-elect Donald Trump's plan to impose tariffs next year on foreign goods coming into the United States would lead to higher prices on everything from food to clothing to automobiles. A FedEx delivery person carries a package from a truck Nov. 17, 2022, in Denver. The National Retail Federation expects holiday shoppers to spend more this year both in stores and online than last year. But the pace of spending growth will slow slightly, the trade group said, growing 2.5% to 3.5% — compared to 3.9% in 2023. A clear sense of consumer spending patterns during the holiday season won't emerge until the government releases sales data for the period, but some preliminary data from other sources shows some encouraging signs for retailers. 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Sensormatic Solutions, which also tracks store traffic, said its preliminary analysis showed retail store traffic on Black Friday was down 8.2% compared to 2023. Grant Gustafson, head of retail consulting and analytics at Sensormatic Solutions, noted that in-store traffic was getting spread across multiple days since many retailers offered generous discounts before and after Black Friday. "Some of the extended Black Friday promotions really ended up leading to a little bit of a softer day-of traffic than expected," Gustafson said. In 2024, staying small on purpose seems to be paying off big for small businesses. They're keeping operations small and targeting niche, highly specialized customers. And some business owners find this strategy results in more time, energy, and money to intentionally capitalize on unique, small cap opportunities. The data tells the story of growth in small businesses for the year. According to NEXT , the Small Business Administration (SBA) reports awarding 38,000 SBA 7(a) loans under $150,000: double the amount they awarded in 2020. Here are the related small-business trends paying off in 2024. Commercial real estate agent Ryan Beckenhauer of Market Real Estate in Boulder, Colorado, has noticed that small businesses are growing smaller, and that their office and warehouse spaces are starting to reflect that as they shop for business space. In commercial real estate, many small business owners gravitate toward industrial condos and other flexible spaces. These are small-scale industrial spaces with a 90:10 or 80:20 split of warehouse to office. "More individuals are leveraging skills acquired at larger organizations to venture out on their own," explains Beckenhauer. And he goes on to say that they don't need a large commercial space as they make that leap to start a business. His clients include engineers, consultants, builders and other tradespeople. Beckenhauer's clients like the flexibility of being out of an office and being close to their inventory and workshop space. "The clients want to see and touch the finishes," he says. Small business owners both rent or buy these spaces. But he's seeing his clients opt to own industrial condos to stabilize costs due to rent increases in Boulder. And because these spaces are smaller, it can be easier for new buyers to qualify for financing. Mariana Alvarez, owner of Controller Works , an online bookkeeping and advisory firm, has noticed that small business owners outsource financial support services because they don't want to increase headcount. "Outsourcing gives them the possibility of having access to the knowledge and the skills of a CFO without having to pay for the salary," she says. "They don't have to manage or deal with the workload, employment taxes , and all that comes with it," says Alvarez. Additionally, many small business owners in fields like construction are family-owned, and this makes it easier for business owners to hand off delicate financial work to a trusted person with financial experience. Every small business has recurring tasks that can benefit from some level of artificial intelligence automation . And Alvarez sees a lot of value in using AI for small business bookkeeping. She explains that you can automate the data entry on Quickbooks. "When you create rules, as long as you create the rules correctly, it pretty much does itself," says Alvarez. From there, you can lean on financial experts to help you analyze the data and make more informed decisions. She uses AI as a background resource when guiding her accounting clients. "I believe that we still need the human-to-human interaction that comes with more perspective for financial analysis," she explains. According to the SBA , 77% of consumers feel that human interaction is still required for a positive customer experience. People turn to small businesses every day for a human experience. According to Arvind Rongala, CEO of Edstellar , small business workers can show up for their customers but still use AI for routine tasks like customer queries. "This balance allows companies to scale their operations without losing the personal touch that makes them unique. It's important to remember that AI isn't there to replace the human element—it's there to enhance it," he says. "By really focusing on one very small weakness that Amazon has, I've been able to carve out a successful business by offering something different," says Lou Harvey owner of Tank Retailer , a retailer of commercial water and fuel tanks. "When you read our customer reviews, many of them actually mention me by name because of how much we focus on customer service and go the extra mile." One of Harvey's most successful business strategies this year has been to lean into his small, niche market and offer the kind of customer experience that large retailers like Amazon don't. "Any small weaknesses that Amazon has (however small those weaknesses may be) needs to become a strength of a smaller business focusing on a niche market," says Harvey. Harvey has his company's customer service phone number front and center on the website to help earn customer trust. "I prominently feature our phone number, and a real person always answers the phone (usually it's me)," says Harvey. Lucie Voves, CEO and founder of Church Hill Classics , an online, woman-owned diploma framing company that uses sustainable materials, has noticed an uptick in customers seeking services from a business on a mission. "This year, we've seen a growing inclination for consumers to actively seek out and support small businesses owned by women and minorities," says Voves. 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Amazon has these HotPal palm-sized rechargeable hand warmers on sale for up to 46% offSuella Braverman's husband set to defect to Farage's Reform in new scalp from the Conservative Party - and insiders predict she will follow next year By ANNA MIKHAILOVA Published: 23:37 GMT, 7 December 2024 | Updated: 23:55 GMT, 7 December 2024 e-mail View comments Nigel Farage is poised to announce another scalp from the Conservative Party . Westminster has been awash with speculation that the former home secretary Suella Braverman is poised to defect to Reform UK. But The Mail on Sunday can reveal that it is her husband, Rael, who is about to be unveiled as the party’s latest recruit. It is understood that Mr Braverman, a businessman known in Tory party ranks, will become a senior campaigner for Mr Farage on defending farmers. Insiders said the move comes after secret discussions between Mrs Braverman and the Reform leader Mr Farage, and will only intensify speculation that she will be next to cross the floor and join the ranks of Reform. A senior Tory source said: ‘She will watch and wait for a year or 18 months before deciding to follow suit’, while another said: ‘Suella will definitely be going over at some point.’ Last night Mrs Braverman said: ‘I am not defecting.’ Asked about her husband joining Reform, she told the MoS: ‘This is the 21st century and not the 18th, my husband does not speak for me nor does he control my political affiliations.’ A Reform source said: ‘Nigel thinks he will be a good activist.’ It follows defections last week of former Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns and Boris Johnson ’s former adviser Tim Montgomerie, who founded the Conservative Home website. Suella Braverman's husband, Rael, is about to be unveiled as the Reform party’s latest recruit Insiders said the move comes after secret discussions between Mrs Braverman and the Reform leader Nigel Farage Last week Mr Farage told a gathering of the Westminster establishment at the Spectator’s Parliamentarian of the Year awards: ‘At the next election in 2029 there will be hundreds of newcomers under the Reform UK label' Last week Mr Farage told a gathering of the Westminster establishment at the Spectator’s Parliamentarian of the Year awards: ‘At the next election in 2029 there will be hundreds of newcomers under the Reform UK label. We are about to witness a political revolution the likes of which you’ve not seen since Labour after the First World War.’ His MPs are increasingly ‘bullish’ about their prospects, after Reform overtook Labour in a voting intention poll for the first time last week, pushing Labour into third place. It prompted Reform chairman Zia Yusuf to declare that the party would win the next general election. Read More We'll stand a Reform candidate in EVERY Holyrood constituency in 2026, vows Farage The party’s chief whip Lee Anderson - who defected from the Tories in March - has been meeting Conservatives who lost their seats in the election and urging them to jump ship. ‘He says - it is only going one way from now on,’ one said. Mr Yusuf has said the party now has 105,000 members in 400 branches. The party is gaining support in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd elections, while Ms Jenkyns is seen as having a decent chance of becoming Greater Lincolnshire mayor in May. Mr Braverman works as a finance manager at Mercedes. He was born in South Africa and moved to the UK as a child. He proposed to Mrs Braverman in 2017 while on holiday in Cyprus. After they were introduced by mutual friends, she invited him for a day in Parliament. Mr Braverman said last year: ‘As far as first dates go it was certainly an unusual one, but I’ve always been interested in politics so I went along with it. ‘I thoroughly enjoyed it and we agreed to meet up again. We had our first “proper” date a few weeks later and it all took off from there.’ Mrs Braverman has previously said her husband is her biggest supporter, helping her campaign in general elections and for Brexit. While Home Secretary, the MP for Fareham and Waterlooville frequently made headlines for her tough stance on migration, policing and criticism of pro-Palestinian ‘hate marches’. After the general election, Mrs Braverman said the Tories must woo back Reform voters, and that the party poses an ‘existential threat’ to the Conservatives. The views are privately echoed by Tories who express doubts about Kemi Badenoch’s leadership. Some are calling on her to ‘pick a fight’ with the centrist ‘One Nation’ Conservative MPs. Conservatives Suella Braverman Nigel Farage Share or comment on this article: Suella Braverman's husband set to defect to Farage's Reform in new scalp from the Conservative Party - and insiders predict she will follow next year e-mail Add comment

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s jailed ex-leader Najib Razak began his defence Monday against graft charges tied to more than $500 million in alleged bribes and several counts of money laundering, saying they were “politically motivated”. The former prime minister, already serving a six-year jail term for corruption related to the plunder of sovereign wealth fund 1MDB, faces several other cases linked to the financial scandal that led to his defeat in 2018 elections. Taking the witness stand, Najib told the court: “The charges against me are politically motivated.” The case involves 2.27 billion ringgit ($510 million) in alleged bribes and 21 counts of money laundering. If convicted, Najib faces hefty fines and sentences of up to 20 years for each count of abuse of power. Dressed in a navy blue suit with matching tie, the 71-year-old coughed throughout his opening statement. His wife Rosmah Mansor sat in the public gallery. The case involves Tanore Finance Corp, which US authorities have said was used to siphon money from 1MDB. It was allegedly used to channel money to Najib’s personal bank account. Najib issued an apology in October that the 1MDB scandal happened during his tenure, but maintained he had no knowledge of illegal transfers from the now-defunct state fund. His lead lawyer, Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, has said they were “more determined” than ever to fight the case. During Monday’s proceedings, Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah granted Najib’s request to read aloud his entire witness statement — which runs to 525 pages. Graft probes globally Allegations that billions of dollars were pilfered from investment vehicle 1MDB and used to buy everything from a superyacht to artwork played a major role in prompting voters to oust Najib and the long-ruling United Malays National Organization party in the 2018 elections. The 1MDB scandal sparked investigations in the United States, Switzerland and Singapore, where the funds were allegedly laundered. The US Justice Department has said more than $4.5 billion was stolen from 1MDB between 2009 and 2015 by high-level officials at the fund and their associates. Najib began serving a 12-year jail term in August 2022 for offences linked to the misuse of public money from former 1MDB unit SRC International. The sentence was later halved by Malaysia’s pardons board. Since then, Najib has won some legal victories. On Nov 27, a Malaysian court allowed corruption charges in one of the five cases linked to 1MDB to be dropped against him. Another charge of audit tampering ended with an acquittal in 2023. Separately, the Court of Appeal will on Thursday hear Najib’s challenge against a lower court’s refusal to hear his request for house arrest. — AFP

DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge has reaffirmed her ruling that Tesla must revoke Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar pay package Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick on Monday denied a request by attorneys for Musk and Tesla’s corporate directors to vacate her ruling earlier this year requiring the company to rescind the unprecedented pay package. McCormick also rejected an equally unprecedented and massive fee request by plaintiff attorneys , who argued that they were entitled to legal fees in the form of Tesla stock valued at more than $5 billion. The judge said the attorneys were entitled to a fee award of $345 million. The rulings came in a lawsuit filed by a Tesla stockholder who challenged Musk’s 2018 compensation package. McCormick concluded in January that Musk engineered the landmark pay package in sham negotiations with directors who were not independent. The compensation package initially carried a potential maximum value of about $56 billion, but that sum has fluctuated over the years based on Tesla’s stock price. Following the court ruling, Tesla shareholders met in June and ratified Musk’s 2018 pay package for a second time, again by an overwhelming margin. Defense attorneys then argued that the second vote makes clear that Tesla shareholders, with full knowledge of the flaws in the 2018 process that McCormick pointed out, were adamant that Musk is entitled to the pay package. They asked the judge to vacate her order directing Tesla to rescind the pay package. McCormick, who seemed skeptical of the defense arguments during an August hearing, said in Monday’s ruling that those arguments were fatally flawed. “The large and talented group of defense firms got creative with the ratification argument, but their unprecedented theories go against multiple strains of settled law,” McCormick wrote in a 103-page opinion. The judge noted, among other things, that a stockholder vote standing alone cannot ratify a conflicted-controller transaction. “Even if a stockholder vote could have a ratifying effect, it could not do so here due to multiple, material misstatements in the proxy statement,” she added. Meanwhile, McCormick found that the $5.6 billion fee request by the shareholder’s attorneys, which at one time approached $7 billion based on Tesla’s trading price, went too far. “In a case about excessive compensation, that was a bold ask,” McCormick wrote. Attorneys for the Tesla shareholder argue that their work resulted in the “massive” benefit of returning shares to Tesla that otherwise would have gone to Musk and diluted the stock held by other Tesla investors. They value that benefit at $51.4 billion, using the difference between the stock price at the time of McCormick’s January ruling and the strike price of some 304 million stock options granted to Musk. While finding that the methodology used to calculate the fee request was sound, the judge noted that the Delaware’s Supreme Court has noted that fee award guidelines “must yield to the greater policy concern of preventing windfalls to counsel.” “The fee award here must yield in this way, because $5.6 billion is a windfall no matter the methodology used to justify it,” McCormick wrote. A fee award of $345 million, she said, was “an appropriate sum to reward a total victory.” The fee award amounts to almost exactly half the current record $688 million in legal fees awarded in 2008 in litigation stemming from the collapse of Enron. Randall Chase, The Associated PressBettiol's 22 lead Abilene Christian past Texas Southern 69-65

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( MENAFN - ForPressRelease) New Delhi, 20 December 2024. EY India has partnered with the National Association for the Blind (NAB) to create over 600 audiobooks, aiming to benefit more than 1,00,000 people with visual impairment across India. The initiative is part of EY Ripples program, where EY employees devote their time to SDG-focused projects, bringing together their combined skills, knowledge and experience to positively impact wider sections of the society. Named 'Talking Books', this is the second edition of the initiative by EY Ripples team in collaboration with NAB to enable enhanced availability of learning resources for the personal development of several members of the visually impaired community. As part of the initiative, EY employees will record over 40,000 pages for the audiobooks in a period of one month. There are an estimated 5 million blind people in India (0.36% of the total population), 35 million people visually impaired (2.55%), and 0.24 million blind children in India. People with visual impairment lack access to adequate learning resources and audio books are therefore a crucial learning tool for them. Reflecting on the overwhelming employee response to the program, Arti Dua, National Talent Leader, EY India, said, "Initiatives like Talking Books allow us to empower differently abled, ensuring everyone has access to the resources they need to learn and grow. The overwhelming response from our employees reflects not just a shared purpose but a collective action towards making a meaningful impact where it matters the most. We are committed to expanding our efforts and introducing new initiatives that uphold our shared purpose." Talking about the initiative, Prashant Ranjan Verma, General Secretary of National Association for The Blind said, "It gives us immense joy that such a large number of EY India employees have come forward to help enrich our library. This unique resource-building effort holds the potential to benefit the visually impaired community at large, making a meaningful difference in their lives." In India, the EY Ripples community has grown to over 4,000 volunteers and continues to expand. Over the past four years, these volunteers have positively impacted over 11.5 million lives through various initiatives around education, cleanliness drives, plantation drives etc. About EY Ripples Faced with the urgent and interconnected challenges of climate change and social inequality, we believe businesses must go further, faster, to build a better working world - one that is socially just, economically inclusive and environmentally regenerative by design. Launched in 2018, with the ambition to positively impact one billion lives by 2030, the EY Ripples program embodies our quest to lead EY people and networks in accelerating progress toward the SDGs. About EY EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets. Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow. EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories. Company :-MSL Group User :- Amit Sharma Email :... MENAFN20122024003198003206ID1109018600 Legal Disclaimer: MENAFN provides the information “as is” without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the provider above.