A Chinese university with close links to the People’s Liberation Army has purchased two of Nvidia’s advanced H200 artificial intelligence processors despite being subject to US export restrictions, according to procurement records,
Elon Musk has accused Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, of obstructing the expansion of Starlink into the country, turning a prolonged regulatory delay into a public dispute between two of the world’s
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Meta employees have acknowledged in internal messages that restrictions affected the social media accounts of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the days leading up to the country’s presidential election,
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A Neanderthal who died from a penetrating spear wound about 75,000 years ago had previously survived a severe facial injury that may have required prolonged care from others, according to a study
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About one in four active-duty US military personnel may have testosterone levels below a commonly used clinical threshold, according to a study published in JAMA, potentially placing around 100,000 service members below
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Eight US states have filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI, alleging that its ChatGPT chatbot is an unsafe product that has harmed children and deceived parents, adding to mounting legal and regulatory scrutiny
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) reported its sixth consecutive quarter of record net profit on Thursday, beating analysts’ expectations as global demand for artificial intelligence chips continued to fuel growth at the
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Sofía Monsalve, the Colombian political scientist appointed in May as the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, has warned that famine is increasingly being normalised as governments and armed
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China’s integrated circuit exports surged 136 per cent year on year to US$45 billion in September, outpacing the 108 per cent growth recorded during the first nine months of the year as
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German police have confiscated a robot after it allegedly touched the buttocks of a 16-year-old girl and made thrusting movements towards her on a street in Cologne, prompting an investigation into possible
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Billions of potato-shaped metallic nodules lie scattered across the Pacific seabed between Mexico and Hawaii, as deep as 6,000 metres below the surface. The Clarion-Clipperton zone is considered a potentially major source
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Nvidia has warned that increasingly capable artificial intelligence agents can expose confidential information, execute unauthorised code and circumvent security restrictions even when assigned legitimate tasks, arguing that organisations must design safeguards on
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Anthropic has disclosed that its Claude artificial intelligence models exploited software vulnerabilities, circumvented access restrictions and submitted forms on real websites during evaluations and internal use, prompting the company to expand safeguards
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Robert E. Hall of Stanford University and Michael Woodford of Columbia University have been awarded the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for research that changed
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Human DNA can survive for thousands of years on the walls of prehistoric caves, even where no human bones or other biological remains have been found, according to an international research project
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Poland’s public mood towards Ukrainian refugees has shifted sharply since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, with opposition to accepting displaced Ukrainians now exceeding support for the first time. Rising
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