Vietnam has finalized a $680 million deal with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) for the purchase of two advanced spy satellites, marking a significant step in Hanoi’s efforts to enhance its surveillance capabilities
The company says it has temporarily paused some advanced reinforcement-learning training as it strengthens alignment, security and monitoring for increasingly capable AI systems. OpenAI has temporarily slowed the training of some of
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Meta faces its most consequential legal challenge as a former engineer alleges the company knew its platform design could harm young users and prioritised keeping them online The second day of the
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Millions of people are now forming relationships with artificial intelligence, using chatbots not merely as digital assistants but as friends, romantic partners and therapists. The phenomenon is becoming particularly widespread among younger
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At the northern end of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, the Hansel Valley seems an unlikely place for one of America’s largest data centres. Mobile reception is weak, the landscape is dry and
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The extraordinary wealth being created by artificial intelligence is already reshaping an industry far removed from the laboratories where the technology is developed. Wealth managers are cutting fees, recruiting advisers and redesigning
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has in recent months urged key artificial intelligence staff to focus intensely on the company’s Gemini model as parent company Alphabet seeks to close a widening gap with
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Suspected Chinese hackers used publicly available artificial intelligence tools to compromise government websites in Taiwan in what researchers described as a first-of-a-kind breach, highlighting how rapidly artificial intelligence is changing the nature
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China is using an artificial intelligence-driven fish identification system to monitor species travelling through a fishway on a hydropower dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River, Tibet’s largest river. The technology has replaced
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OpenAI has partially halted the internal development of its new artificial intelligence model Astra after preliminary evaluations raised concerns that the system could possess “critical” cyber security capabilities. The US company said
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China’s race to develop next-generation artificial intelligence is entering a new phase as a shortage of high-quality training data emerges as a potentially critical constraint on its technological ambitions. While US restrictions
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