Major Asian economies are profiting from growing global demand for AI as their manufacturing sectors build the high-end equipment needed for a worldwide data center boom, economists said. Surging exports are set to drive GDP growth in Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam, while Seoul’s and Taipei’s burgeoning tax receipts ...
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Novo to partner with Anthropic on drug discovery effortsNovo to partner with Anthropic on drug discovery efforts
Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk will partner with Anthropic in an effort to speed up drug development, as the one-time GLP-1 leader bets AI will help it reclaim lost market share. Novo rivals Lilly, Merck, and Roche have all invested in AI, though it has largely been used to improve workplace ...
Trump backs Fed’s Warsh following rate hikeTrump backs Fed’s Warsh following rate hike
Stocks rallied Thursday as markets digested the US Federal Reserve’s decision to hike interest rates — an expected move, but one that was seen as a critical test of the central bank’s independence. “Stocks can move on, as uncertainty has faded,” an analyst told Bloomberg. US President Donald Trump criticized ...
US, China ramp up summit preparationsUS, China ramp up summit preparations
US President Donald Trump will reportedly greet China’s leader Xi Jinping as he steps off the plane in Washington, DC next week — the first leader accorded that deference in Trump’s second term — as preparations ramp up for their summit. The countries’ top diplomats spoke Thursday, possibly to finalize ...
US court sentences ex-Syrian official who ran notorious ‘punishment wing’ to 60 yearsUS court sentences ex-Syrian official who ran notorious ‘punishment wing’ to 60 years
Samir Ousman al-Sheikh, part of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, was in charge of Adra prison where prisoners were tortured This article contains descriptions of torture. A US federal court in Los Angeles sentenced a former Syrian government official who ran one of the country’s most infamous prisons to 60 years in ...
YouTube star Ms Rachel to match Macklemore’s $1m Palestine aid donationYouTube star Ms Rachel to match Macklemore’s $1m Palestine aid donation
Educator talks of ‘moral obligation’ and urges ‘every wealthy white celebrity’ to make similar donation YouTube star Ms Rachel has said she is matching rapper Macklemore’s $1m donation to organizations supporting Palestinians, calling on other public figures to follow suit. Macklemore, who was fired as the opening act on Ed ...
Scientists are fighting a longer mosquito season with … more mosquitoesScientists are fighting a longer mosquito season with … more mosquitoes
Nearly half a million more of the insects are being released in California – they’re all male and carry a bacterium The box arrived in the San Gabriel Valley, just east of Los Angeles, filled with more than two dozen paper tubes about the size of toilet paper rolls. “All ...
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” ...
‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People
Flock created a fake police department called “Flock City PD” that it used to search a series of live automated license plate readers in several U.S. cities during demonstrations of its surveillance system’s capabilities, public records show. The records show that Flock City PD searched real cameras for people holding ...