Is AI ushering in an “age of abundance” — or a digital apocalypse? Whether people like it or not, it’s clear there is no stopping the artificial intelligence freight train now barrelling towards some kind of final destination. The data centers are being built, automation is already nibbling away at jobs and governments around the world…
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek on Friday released a preview version of its long-awaited V4 large language model, allowing users to test its new capabilities and features. The release comes more than a year after the Hangzhou-based company introduced its R1 reasoning model, which rocked global tech markets due to its surprising performance and cost…
Over the weekend, Palantir released a 22-point summary of Karp’s 320-page book, “The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West,” that the billionaire tech CEO co-wrote and published in early 2025. “Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief,” the company wrote on X. The ideas reflect…
A BRICS currency to facilitate de-dollarization remains a distant dream, but a digital currency alternative to SWIFT is nearly here As India prepares to host the BRICS summit later this year, the focus will be on a payment system linking national digital currencies. By prioritizing this infrastructure over launching a new currency, the bloc makes…
Australia on Wednesday became the first country to formally bar users under the age of 16 from accessing major social media platforms, a move expected to be closely monitored by global tech companies and policymakers around the world. Canberra’s ban, which came into effect from midnight local time, targets 10 major services, including Alphabet’s YouTube,…
Rival stealth fighters, eVTOLs in the air display and the 40th anniversary of the global airline giant that is Emirates, make this year’s Dubai Airshow the most exciting yet. TIM ROBINSON FRAeS, STEPHEN BRIDGEWATER FRAeS and BELLA RICHARDS provide a preview of the highlights. Taking place between 17-21 November at the mega-hub airport that is…
Oct. 28 (UPI) — NVIDIA is investing $1 billion to enable Nokia to accelerate its development of a world-leading 6G platform to support artificial intelligence mobile networks and networking infrastructure. Nokia announced the $1 billion investment by NVIDIA on Tuesday, which gives NVIDIA shares in Nokia while providing the capital needed to speed up the…
Oct. 20 (UPI) — Scores of the websites and apps, including Facebook, Disney+ and Reddit were hit by a global outage overnight caused by an “operational issue” at U.S. cloud services provider Amazon Web Services. At the peak of the incident, early Monday, AWS reported more than 70 of its own services were impacted before…
AI has moved on from answering questions. It’s now slipping coded messages to its friends about glue-eating and human extinction. A study released July 20 on arXiv by Anthropic and Truthful AI shows that large language models can slip subliminal messages to one another. They don’t need to literally spell things out. A string of…
Generative artificial intelligence assistants like ChatGPT are cutting into traditional online search traffic, depriving news sites of visitors and impacting the advertising revenue they desperately need, in a crushing blow to an industry already fighting for survival. “The next three or four years will be incredibly challenging for publishers everywhere. No one is immune from…