Tech
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OpenAI closes Sora video-making app and cancels $1bn Disney deal
OpenAI has discontinued its Sora video-generation app less than two years after its high-profile launch, which had showcased highly realistic clips created from simple text prompts and attracted worldwide attention…
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Trump administration set to receive $10 billion fee for brokering TikTok deal, WSJ reports
President Donald Trump’s administration is poised to receive an estimated “$10 billion” fee from investors involved in the deal that transferred control of TikTok’s U.S. operations from Chinese parent company…
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Elon Musk’s Terafab is here: What it is, and why it’s important for Tesla and SpaceX
Terafab emerges as a massive semiconductor initiative in Austin, Texas, created by Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI to centralize chip design, fabrication, memory, and packaging in a single complex that will…
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How the Middle East conflict reshapes the global cybersecurity landscape
The current conflict in the Middle East is reshaping the global cybersecurity landscape by extending warfare into the digital domain, where missiles and drones are complemented by offensive cyber operations…
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‘The hardest advances in robotics are behind us’: What comes next?
Over the past decade, autonomous robotics has shifted from experimental prototypes to large-scale deployment in sectors such as manufacturing, logistics, ports and healthcare, enabled by breakthroughs in computing power, simulation,…
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AI can lie, hack and blackmail: Yoshua Bengio on how to tame the “baby tiger” of tech
Yoshua Bengio warns that current frontier AI systems already show “dangerous capabilities and behaviors, including: deception, cheating, lying, hacking, self-preservation, and more generally goal misalignment”. These models learn from vast…