Friedrich Merz is facing renewed pressure within Germany’s governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) after a series of poor regional election results, with senior figures in the party calling for changes to its
A new large-scale SMS phishing scheme, dubbed “Magic Mouse,” has emerged to replace the now-defunct “Magic Cat” scam, security researchers told TechCrunch. The operation is already stealing hundreds of thousands of credit
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Artificial intelligence may be fueling record gains for companies like Nvidia Corp., but it’s also sparking a sell-off in firms seen as vulnerable to disruption, Bloomberg News reported. From website builder Wix.com
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Australia will formally recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations summit in September, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Monday, marking a break with close ally the United States as tensions escalate
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and former U.S. President Donald Trump are set to meet in Alaska this Friday, a location rich with symbolic significance given its history as Russian territory sold peacefully
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A relatively unknown South Korean artificial intelligence start-up, Upstage, is making waves in the global AI race by developing a large language model (LLM) that rivals advanced systems from the United States
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India’s IT services behemoths are urgently reinventing themselves to keep pace with the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, rolling out innovative AI tools for clients across sectors from banking to sports, even
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Niels Troost, the only European sanctioned for trading Russian oil, has launched a libel and slander lawsuit against New York-based corporate intelligence firm Arkin Group, accusing it of spreading disinformation on behalf
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Indigenous scholars from settler-colonial countries including Aotearoa (New Zealand), Canada, Australia, and the United States have called for a fundamental shift in how scientific institutions engage with Indigenous peoples and knowledge. Writing
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Astronomers have captured a tantalizing glimpse of a planet orbiting within the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A — the nearest star system to Earth — potentially setting a new record for
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A high-profile investment deal involving the AI start-up Manus and US venture capital firm Benchmark has ignited controversy on both sides of the Pacific, underscoring the growing geopolitical friction surrounding artificial intelligence
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Nvidia and AMD have agreed to hand over 15 per cent of their revenues from chip sales in China to the US government, marking an unusual financial arrangement tied to export licences
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Sean Davison, a 63-year-old New Zealander living in Dorset, has broken his silence after being arrested on suspicion of assisting suicides at the Pegasos clinic in Switzerland — a case that could
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As Iran steadily rebuilds its ballistic missile arsenal and Israel advances its missile defense technologies, both nations are engaged in a high-stakes strategic arms race that may shape the nature—and the cost—of
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The US Commerce Department has begun issuing licences to Nvidia allowing the export of its H20 chips to China, following a personal lobbying effort by the company’s chief executive Jensen Huang during
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India’s ongoing trade conflict with the United States has drawn fresh attention to the windfall profits enjoyed by Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man, through his Reliance Industries group’s extensive imports of discounted
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