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We are seeking experienced Indian domestic tax specialists to review AI-generated tax research involving Indian domestic taxation . Experts will assess tax accuracy, statutory references, supporting authorities, and grading rubrics. This role focuses exclusively on Indian domestic tax law . Responsibilities Review Indian tax research questions and model answers. Validate statutory interpretation and supporting authorities. Improve technical accuracy of tax analyses. Update answers based on recent legislative developments. Refine grading rubrics where necessary. Required Qualifications 5+ years of Indian tax experience. Chartered Accountant (CA), Advocate, Cost Accountant, or equivalent tax qualification. Deep expertise in Indian domestic taxation. Experience interpreting the Income-tax Act, GST legislation, CBDT circulars, and judicial precedents. Experience preparing tax opinions, litigation support, or advisory memoranda. Strong written communication skills. Preferred Qualifications...

Artificial intelligence is already changing how work is done. Yet a basic question remains remarkably difficult to answer: what is A.I. actually doing to the economy right now? Some data suggest A.I. is costing people their jobs. Other data show that companies adopting A.I. are hiring faster than their peers. Economists, policymakers and workers are all trying to make sense of these conflicting signals—and the stakes are high. Rising Anxiety, Limited Clarity In public discussion about A.I., one emotion emerges repeatedly: fear. Workers describe “mixed feelings” and “love–hate relationships” with new tools. A writer reports that A.I. improves her output even as she believes it is taking her job away. Others say A.I. has already displaced them and forced a reconsideration of their careers. Polling captures the same unease. Around 70 percent of Americans believe A.I. will lead to fewer jobs. Economists increasingly suspect that A.I. could become the defining economic story of this decade,...

  SURAT / BAMAKO — Dhiru Ramani, a 75-year-old Indian-origin diamond merchant abducted in West Africa nearly three months ago, has been released following a privately negotiated ransom payment of €4 million (approximately ₹44 crore) by his US-based family. His a cook and an electrician who were abducted alongside him were also set free. The Abduction & Months of Silence Ramani, originally from Dhar village in Gujarat’s Amreli district, built a career in Surat’s diamond industry starting around 1980 before relocating to the United States. In recent years, he expanded into the mining sector, acquiring a gold mine in Mali and living in the West African nation to oversee operations. In late April, Ramani and two members of his operational staff were kidnapped by an armed group. For nearly two months following the abduction, the captors made no contact, leaving the family without news. Malian authorities noted that militant and criminal networks in the region frequently delay claim...

For the past two years, one of the most lucrative remote side hustles in the tech ecosystem didn't require writing complex machine learning algorithms or holding a PhD in computer science. It required strong English writing skills, sharp analytical thinking, and the patience to review "AI slop." Platforms like Mercor and Outlier AI are  built to feed high-quality human evaluation data to frontier model developers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta. These platforms offered contractors in the US, Canada and other English speaking countries eye-popping hourly rates ranging from $80 to $100+ per hour . However, a fundamental shift is underway across the AI data workforce. As these platforms scale toward multi-billion-dollar valuations, the industry is eyeing classic offshore arbitrage. The Rise of the $100/hr Generalist When frontier LLMs (Large Language Models) began struggling with logical reasoning, presentation aesthetics, and structured communication, AI labs needed human...

Mercor got sued, hacked, and infiltrated by North Korean operatives—and investors are queuing up to write checks at a $20 billion valuation. That is double what the company was worth just nine months ago. Nothing has slowed it down. In 2023, three high school debate teammates from Bellarmine College Prep in San Jose—Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, and Surya Midha—launched Mercor . By 22, all three were billionaires, reaching ten-figure fortunes at an age younger than Mark Zuckerberg was when he joined the club. Mercor doesn’t build AI models; it feeds them. Every frontier model relies on human feedback and rigorous evaluation. Lawyers verify legal reasoning, physicians check medical answers, and software engineers validate complex code. Mercor built the global talent marketplace supplying these domain experts—a network scaling past 5 million contractors. Today, the leading names in artificial intelligence—including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta—depend on Mercor's platform to power th...