OpenAI has halted the planned release of a new artificial intelligence model after internal testing raised concerns about its behaviour and transparency, according to the source. The model, known as GPT-6.1 Astra,
by Xinhua writers Wang Zongnan, Zhao Zhiqin “Debt-trap” is a term to describe an international financial relationship where a creditor country or institution extends debt to a borrowing nation with the intention
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Three years after the U.S.-led troops withdrew from Afghanistan, the country remains deeply scarred by 20 years of war and struggles to rebuild amid an economic collapse exacerbated by international sanctions. In
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by Rania Aboelkheir The situation currently unfolding in the Middle East, following the events of Oct. 7, 2023, and the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, is neither unprecedented nor likely to
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Moscow will not be intimidated by U.S. efforts to brandish its “nuclear sledgehammer,” local media on Thursday cited Sergei Naryshkin, director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia. “The subcritical experiment conducted
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Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the encrypted messaging service Telegram, was released on Wednesday after paying a 5-million-euro (US$5.6 million) bail, but he is required to report to the police
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Students returning to school in a growing number of U.S. states and districts are facing tight restrictions and outright bans on cellphone use as evidence mounts of the damaging impact persistent connection
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (UK) Keir Starmer on Tuesday vowed to “fix the foundations” of the country after “a decade of division and decline.” In a major speech delivered ahead
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by Ren Yaoting Inspired by Marco Polo, who traveled to China along the ancient Silk Road more than 700 years ago, Italian traveler Vienna Cammarota set off from the legendary explorer’s hometown
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U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will begin his inaugural visit to China in his current position on Tuesday for a new round of strategic communication between China and the United States.
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by Misbah Saba Malik At least 53 people including security personnel were killed and scores of others injured in a series of attacks in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province on Monday, officials said.
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The Israeli Defense Ministry said on Monday that since the beginning of its military operations in Gaza, the country has received more than 50,000 tons of military equipment and ammunition. “The equipment
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Some 25 million people were internally displaced in the Horn of Africa by the end of June, with the data including 20 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in six countries and 5
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Israeli and Hezbollah forces engaged in intense exchanges of fire early Sunday along the Israel-Lebanon border, marking a dramatic escalation in their protracted conflict. Hezbollah revealed that it had unleashed hundreds of
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Cambodia’s APSARA National Authority (ANA) archaeologists had successfully completed the restoration of the southern central stairs and Naga balustrades on the ground floor of the famed Angkor Wat, said an ANA’s news
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Several major airlines in European countries announced the suspension of flights to and from Israel and Lebanon Sunday following escalating hostilities between the two Mideast countries. According to French news channel BFMTV,
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