Bollywood actress Preity Zinta has refuted a viral social media claim attributing a disparaging remark about cricketer Rishabh Pant to her. The rumour suggested Zinta, co-owner of Punjab Kings, criticised Pant after the IPL auction, implying the team preferred Shreyas Iyer. Zinta swiftly dismissed the quote as "fake news" on X.
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Elon Musk has humorously criticized OpenAI's new Ghibli-style image generation feature with a meme, highlighting tech resource priorities. Social media quickly embraced the whimsical photo transformation tool. Musk joined in by posting a humorous Ghibli-style image of himself. Users can create similar images using ChatGPT's Grok or Google Gemini, making this the latest internet sensation.
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