The mountain section whose collapse triggered deadly floods in Nepal and China on August 26 experienced exceptionally high temperatures in the days before the disaster, according to meteorological data reconstructed and analysed
A severe worldwide shortage of memory chips is forcing artificial intelligence developers, cloud providers and consumer-electronics manufacturers into fierce competition for rapidly shrinking supplies, according to a detailed investigation by Reuters. The
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Major artificial intelligence developers, including Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI and Meta, are failing to meet emerging global standards for AI safety, according to a new assessment published by the Future of Life Institute
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The chief inspector of Ofsted, Sir Martyn Oliver, has expressed support for an Australian-style ban on social media for children under 16 in the United Kingdom, citing its impact on behaviour and
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Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services, has accelerated the release of its newest artificial intelligence chip, Trainium3, renewing the company’s push to compete more directly with hardware from Nvidia Corp. and
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OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman has ordered an urgent company-wide shift to accelerate improvements to ChatGPT, putting a temporary halt on several other high-profile initiatives as competition in the artificial intelligence
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A senior University of Oxford academic has stepped down after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, bullying, and unwanted advances toward female students and junior colleagues. The revelations, first examined in a Bloomberg
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Nvidia has poured $2 billion into Synopsys, taking a major equity stake in one of the world’s most influential chip-design software makers as part of an expanded engineering and design partnership. The
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China’s DeepSeek has unveiled two new versions of its fast-evolving artificial-intelligence model, escalating the global contest over advanced reasoning systems. Just weeks after releasing an experimental build dubbed DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, the Hangzhou-based company
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Airbus fleets began returning to normal operations on Monday after the European planemaker accelerated a global software update affecting roughly half of its A320-family jets. The recall, prompted by a vulnerability to
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A Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence company is seeking a $300 million loan to purchase advanced Nvidia Corp. chips for use in Japan by a Chinese client, highlighting the complex regulatory and financial
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