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Demis Hassabis has warned that the most important challenge in artificial intelligence is not the race to build better chatbots but the safe development of artificial general intelligence. His remarks come amid renewed attention driven by a recent biography and a series of public appearances that have placed him at the center of debates over......
Global oil prices declined sharply on Friday, falling by around 5 percent as markets reacted to growing expectations of easing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. Benchmark crude prices dropped below the symbolic $100 per barrel level, reflecting a shift in investor sentiment. Brent crude and U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) both......
Tesla has launched a targeted hiring push in Taiwan for semiconductor engineers as its Terafab project gathers momentum, signaling a deeper move into advanced chip manufacturing. The recruitment drive focuses on experienced engineers with backgrounds in cutting edge fabrication processes, placing the company in direct competition for talent......
European natural gas prices moved higher on Thursday as markets weighed uncertainty around ongoing diplomatic efforts between the United States and Iran, with a fragile ceasefire set to expire within days. The benchmark Dutch TTF contract climbed about 2 percent on April 16 to roughly 42.24 euros per megawatt hour, reflecting renewed concern......
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron held a phone call on Thursday to address the escalating crisis in West Asia, focusing on the urgent need to restore freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. The strategic waterway, critical for global energy supplies, has been largely closed to international shipping......
The James Webb Space Telescope has recorded the first mid infrared spectroscopic observations of an interstellar comet, identifying methane in 3I/ATLAS as it leaves the solar system. The detection provides a direct view of volatile compounds formed outside our planetary system and preserved over cosmic timescales. Scientists used the telescope’s......
A group of senior policymakers and economists has renewed concerns about the long-term strength of the US dollar as the world’s primary reserve currency, pointing to shifting capital flows, policy risks, and weakening global confidence. Janet Yellen, speaking at an investment summit hosted by HSBC in Hong Kong, warned that political......
Mozilla Foundation, through its subsidiary MZLA Technologies Corporation, has introduced Thunderbolt, an open source AI client designed for organizations that want to run artificial intelligence workloads on their own infrastructure rather than relying on external cloud providers. Thunderbolt acts as a front-end interface that allows employees......
Perplexity AI has begun rolling out Personal Computer, an artificial intelligence assistant designed to integrate directly with macOS and manage local files, native applications, and web activity in real time. The feature is now available to subscribers of its premium Max plan and users previously registered on a waitlist. The product was......
NASA scientists have reported a surprising discovery from the Parker Solar Probe, which observed unusual particle behavior during a solar explosion, offering new insight into how solar storms form. During a close flyby of the Sun in 2022, the probe passed through a magnetic reconnection event, a process in which twisted magnetic field lines......
U.S. automaker Ford Motor Company has announced a large-scale recall affecting nearly 1.4 million vehicles across the United States due to a software-related issue, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The recall is linked to a malfunction in the powertrain control module (PCM), a critical system responsible......
OpenAI has introduced GPT-Rosalind, a reasoning model designed for life sciences research, marking the company’s first major move into scientific AI tools focused on genomics, drug discovery, and protein engineering. The release came alongside a broad update to its Codex coding agent, which gained more than 90 new plugins announced the......
Venezuelan authorities have released dozens of political detainees in recent days, as international pressure—particularly from the United States—continues to influence developments in the country’s political landscape. The latest releases reportedly include more than forty individuals linked to cases involving the state......
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