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Before Google, Meta wanted to buy DeepMind: CEO shares what went wrong

Mark Zuckerberg's bid for AI lab DeepMind in 2014 failed not due to finances, but a dinner with co-founder Demis Hassabis. Hassabis sought a partner prioritizing Artificial General Intelligence, not just another tech trend. Zuckerberg's broad enthusiasm for multiple emerging technologies, including...

Update your phones for alerts in Kuwait

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior, represented by the General Directorate of Civil Defense, said that activating the national emergency alert service on iPhone devices requires updating to the latest version of the iOS 26.4 operating system. This came in remarks by Head of Alarm Syste...

ByteDance bolsters Seedance 2.0 with watermarking, IP safeguards ahead of global roll-out

ByteDance has bolstered its controversial video-generation model Seedance 2.0 with “advanced” watermarking and intellectual property (IP) protection guardrails ahead of its global roll-out, the TikTok owner has said. The much-anticipated international release comes amid intense scrutiny from Hollywo...

‘We should be thinking about…’: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan responds to addiction lawsuit

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan responded to a lawsuit alleging platform addiction, stating the focus should be on making the digital world safer for children, not excluding them. He likened guiding young users online to teaching a child to ride a bike, emphasizing gradual navigation. Mohan rejected outright...

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey is clear on when he would sell weapons to North Korea

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey stated his company's arms sales will strictly follow U.S. government policy, even if it means selling to adversaries. He emphasized that Anduril won't act independently of Washington, highlighting concerns about falling behind China in defense manufacturing. The compa...

Americans, Salesforce Bots will now answer your calls to the labour department

The US Department of Labor is now using Salesforce's AI agents to manage worker queries and applications, aiming to boost service delivery. These AI tools will triage millions of annual requests at the national call centre, ensuring critical needs are prioritised. This move supports programs like un...

نت‌بلاکس: قطع اینترنت در ایران به حدود ۷۰۰ ساعت رسید

وب‌سایت «نت‌بلاکس» که اختلال‌های اینترنتی در جهان را رصد می‌کند، صبح یک‌شنبه ۹ فروردین اعلام کرد قطع سراسری اینترنت در ایران وارد روز سی‌ام شده و این خاموشی دیجیتال، پس از ۶۹۶ ساعت، اکنون به پنجمین هفته خود رسیده است.

How to assess China’s real chance of winning AI race against US

In January, a top Chinese AI researcher told an industry summit in Beijing there was less than a 20 per cent chance of any Chinese company surpassing a leading US artificial intelligence firm in the next three to five years. The remark by Lin Junyang, until recently a technical leader working on Qwe...

Video: Flames rain down as massive blaze erupts in China high-rise; 3 killed

Video Flames rain down as massive blaze erupts in China highrise killed

Entrepreneurs from UAE, UK and Spain forge new deals on the Golf Course

Entrepreneurs from UAE, UK and Spain forge new deals on the Golf course

Amid layoffs, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is asking engineers to use AI for…

Meta has set minimum AI coding targets for engineers across divisions, with some teams expected to write over 75% of their code using AI tools like Metamate and Google Gemini. The company has also restructured parts of Reality Labs into small AI "pods" with new job titles. The AI push comes alongsid...

As Iran’s drones swarm Gulf, Ukraine’s wartime tech lands billion-dollar deals

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that his country had “undoubtedly changed the geopolitical situation” in the Middle East with a series of decade-long defence agreements with Gulf states being hit with Iranian drones and missiles. Has he? And how important are the agreements f...

Google ex-CEO Eric Schmidt says coding is no longer a key skill

0Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the best programmers no longer write code—they write specs, set evaluation criteria, and let AI work overnight. Schmidt described a startup programmer whose AI finishes by 4 AM what would have taken him six months and 10 engineers at Google. He argued top program...

UAE weather shift ahead: Strong winds, rain expected soon

IAF starts work on ‘Vayu Baan’, India’s first helicopter-dropped drone project

Vayu Baan is an indigenous air-launched effects (ALE) programme designed to integrate unmanned aerial systems directly with manned rotary-wing platforms. It is a small, autonomous drone designed to be dropped from a moving helicopter mid-flight. Once released, the drone unfolds its wings, activates...

IAF starts work on ‘Vayu Baan’, India’s first helicopter-dropped drone project

Vayu Baan is an indigenous air-launched effects (ALE) programme designed to integrate unmanned aerial systems directly with manned rotary-wing platforms. It is a small, autonomous drone designed to be dropped from a moving helicopter mid-flight. Once released, the drone unfolds its wings, activates...

U.S. sailors, Marines deployed amid Iran war reach Centcom region

U.S. sailors and Marines aboard the USS Tripoli arrived at the U.S. Central Command (Centcom) area in the Middle East on Friday. Centcom stated Saturday that the flagship delivered about 3,500 sailors and Marines from the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, along wi...

8th rape case against Ashok Kharat: Two more FIRs against bogus astrologer

Nashik police have registered two new cases against astrologer Ashok Kharat, bringing the total to ten. Allegations include repeated sexual assaults on a woman and cheating a trader out of Rs 2.6 lakh. The woman claims Kharat exploited her marital issues, while the trader was defrauded with fake gem...

Derailing: PR takes preventive steps

Bans attachment of dummy coaches with faulty brakes to trains

Hong Kong airport caps power banks to 2 per passenger in line with global rule

All passengers departing from Hong Kong International Airport are now prohibited from carrying more than two power banks, effective immediately, the Airport Authority announced on Saturday night. Citing new rules from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the Airport Authority said t...