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Comoros condemned French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu's suggestion that development aid could be tied to cooperation on curbing migration to Mayotte, accusing Paris of neo-col…
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In today’s episode of Trending Middle East, Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has been accused by a prominent ultraconservative figure of going soft over his supp…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and more than 100 other companies warned Thursday that the organizations now only have months to prepare for AI-enabled cyberatta…
Meta removed a network of Facebook and Instagram accounts tied to an Iran-based operation that used AI to target U.S. audiences with posts about American politics, the company fir…
Russian-speaking hackers from Aur0ra, a new ransomware group, used the AI coding assistant built into Cursor — a code editor that Elon Musk’s SpaceX recently bought — to break int…
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The AI race has long been framed as a zero-sum game: Either the US or China will win in the end. But as concerns pile up around the increasing capabilities of AI models—especially…
Now, a new startup is entering the fray. Unlike its software-focused peers, Relay is building a dedicated, portable microphone for high-fidelity voice-to-text anywhere. Based in L…
A few weeks ago, a longtime not boring reader and one of my smartest friends, someone I go to with questions on everything from energy to robotics, told me that he was going to Ch…
I once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman. It returned a dozen couplets of cliches that touched nothing, changed nothing in me.…