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Rockstar Games, the studio behind the highly anticipated video game Grand Theft Auto VI (GTAVI), will appear in court in Glasgow from Thursday over the sacking of 31 workers. Since the 1997 original, the Grand Theft Auto series has sold over 470 million copies worldwide. The trial comes before the N...
Posted on 7 September 2026 | 5:56 pm
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When rescue dog Chloe is not tumbling across the grass on a farm outside India's tech capital Bengaluru, she is learning to sniff human breath for cancer with a little help from AI. Fitted with a 3D-printed helmet and harness packed with sensors, Chloe is part of experimental efforts to use dogs�...
Posted on 7 September 2026 | 2:40 pm
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The United Nations rights chief warned on Monday that artificial intelligence could pose an "existential threat to humanity", demanding immediate action to reduce the risks. Speaking before the UN Human Rights Council, Volker Turk warned that humans currently faced "unfamiliar, even unpreceden...
Posted on 7 September 2026 | 9:16 am
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Huawei launched a new version of its flagship foldable smartphone on Monday as it seeks to defend its lead in the Chinese market for premium handsets against Apple and Xiaomi, both of which are also unveiling new products. The new Mate XT2 folds out twice to open into a tablet-sized screen and featu...
Posted on 7 September 2026 | 8:33 am
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Posted on 7 September 2026 | 2:24 am
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The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Friday, alleging in federal court that the tech companies copied the newspapers' journalism without permission to train their AI systems. The suit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York alleges that OpenAI and...
Posted on 5 September 2026 | 8:11 am
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Posted on 5 September 2026 | 7:02 am
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A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research published Friday and two people familiar with the matter. OpenAI officials learned of the incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as executi...
Posted on 4 September 2026 | 11:45 am
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Posted on 4 September 2026 | 7:27 am
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TL;DR Pros: Stunning visuals that showcase a higher budget Multiple brilliant highlights in the soundtrack Staves off boredom by throwing in fun platforming elements Rewards curiosity and perseverance with really worthwhile hidden content Introduces some of its best characters, and dives deeper int...
Posted on 4 September 2026 | 5:30 am
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KARACHI: A local law firm has launched Conclavity, an AI-powered legal intelligence platform built specifically around Pakistani law. The platform was unveiled before members of the judiciary, legal professionals and business leaders at a local hotel in Karachi. According to a statement by the Akh...
Posted on 4 September 2026 | 4:10 am
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SAN FRANCISCO: ChatGPT maker OpenAI said on Thursday it would begin rolling out its newest and most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) model to select customers, saying it had built in safeguards to mitigate security risks. "At this level of capability, safety has to become our top priority,�...
Posted on 4 September 2026 | 2:03 am
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About 20 million internet-using children across 21 countries were subjected to sexual exploitation or abuse on digital platforms in a single year, with most cases occurring on social media platforms, a new report by the UN children's charity said on Thursday. More than one in five children aged 12...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 8:55 am
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Posted on 3 September 2026 | 6:32 am
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The much-awaited Grand Theft Auto VI was finally revealed early on Friday morning in an extended first look on Netflix, giving gamers their first legitimate look at the gameplay systems in Rockstar's upcoming blockbuster. After watching the demonstration several times, I have some thoughts about t...
Posted on 2 September 2026 | 3:40 pm
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Thirty years after bursting onto the video game scene, Lara Croft returns in a new Tomb Raider that plays up the pistol-wielding architect's "complicated" character. Taking on the most famous heroine in video game history is a "tremendous responsibility", Raul Siqueira, director of Tomb Ra...
Posted on 2 September 2026 | 3:03 pm
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John Ternus took over as Apple's chief executive on Tuesday, inheriting a company that towers over the smartphone market but trails its rivals in artificial intelligence. One of his biggest challenges will be balancing the company's dependence on China while parrying acute political pressure fro...
Posted on 2 September 2026 | 8:51 am
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CHAPEL HILL: Elon Musk on Tuesday urged the G20 to tread softly on regulating tech and AI, saying European-style rules inhibit innovation. Musk also made a defence of building data centres to meet the needs of the AI revolution, amid a growing backlash against their construction in the United States...
Posted on 2 September 2026 | 3:20 am
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IT Minister Shaza Fatima Khawaja meets Abdullah bin Sharaf Alghamdi, president of the Saudi Data and AI Authority.—APP • Shaza Fatima Khawaja stresses innovation, strong institutions and private-sector leadership as key drivers of digital growth• Calls for execution of measurable KPIs for...
Posted on 2 September 2026 | 3:10 am
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BRUSSELS: ChatGPT will have to comply with tougher safety rules after the EU added it on Monday to a list of digital services subject to greater legal scrutiny in Europe, a first for an AI chatbot. Brussels also designated the Reddit forum and the popular gaming network Roblox as "very large" on...
Posted on 1 September 2026 | 3:40 am
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KARACHI: A video clip went viral on social media after a remote-controlled car crashed into a police van in Islamabad, reportedly due to a "technical fault" caused by an internet disruption. On Sunday, journalist Muhammad Aalijah uploaded a video on his official social media account showing him ...
Posted on 1 September 2026 | 2:32 am
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ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday sought responses from relevant ministries and authorities on a petition seeking a framework to regulate social media use by children under 16 years of age. The plea, filed by petitioner Waqas Nasir through advocates Muhammad Jalal Haider and Yahya ...
Posted on 31 August 2026 | 9:00 am
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John Ternus takes over as Apple's chief executive on Tuesday, inheriting a company that towers over the smartphone market but trails its rivals in artificial intelligence (AI). One of his biggest challenges will be balancing the company's dependence on China while parrying acute political pressu...
Posted on 31 August 2026 | 5:45 am
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Posted on 31 August 2026 | 3:40 am
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SPACEX launches Roman on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Nasa's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.—X/SpaceX • Roman designed to shed light on 'unsolved mysteries' including dark matter and dark energy• Also aims to discover thousands of exoplanets and supernovae• With its infrared vision...
Posted on 31 August 2026 | 2:47 am
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OpenAI said on Friday that it plans to stop providing AI models to Cursor, the coding-tool company now owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX, marking a further escalation in the bitter rivalry between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Musk. Musk and Altman have been at odds for years...
Posted on 29 August 2026 | 7:21 am
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SAN FRANCISCO: A US federal judge ruled on Thursday that sanctions imposed by the Trump administration against AI giant Anthropic were illegal, finding that the government punished the company in a row over military use of its technology. Anthropic infuriated Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth in February ...
Posted on 29 August 2026 | 3:02 am
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Posted on 28 August 2026 | 5:31 am
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GENEVA/BRUSSELS: The United Nations called on Thursday for child-safe design across the social media industry after tech giant Meta agreed to sweeping limits on teen use of Facebook and Instagram in some US states. Meta agreed to pay a coalition of US states as much as $16.7 billion and to impose th...
Posted on 28 August 2026 | 3:39 am
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More than 100 organisations around the world, including ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and rival Anthropic, have signed an open letter calling for a global effort to "strengthen cyber defences" against AI-powered cybersecurity threats. "We have a limited window to strengthen cyber defences," the lette...
Posted on 27 August 2026 | 6:01 pm