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Meta this week rolled out two new AI models as it tries to catch up to competitors and assert itself as a top player in the AI race. Muse Image, true to its name, is an AI image-generation feature for advertisers, creators, and influencers with a feature that’s already causing ...

GENEVA — Call it a self-flying camera. Call it a flying car. Just don’t call it a drone. Executives from three Chinese companies that make autonomous aviation tech told Semafor they don’t want to be associated with the term “drone,” which has become more linked to death and security risks ...

The News Xenophobic unrest in South Africa has become a painful cost of doing business, executives warned, signalling that companies are bracing for prolonged instability in a country eager to draw fresh investment. Just over a week after mass protests froze parts of Johannesburg, Durban and Pretoria — shuttering retail ...

what’s at stake Artificial intelligence is already making its mark on the US economy as workers put new tools to use and planned initial public offerings power the stock market. One of the central questions vexing lawmakers, meanwhile, is what the technology’s eventual impact on the US jobs market will ...

The News Reid Rasner, an openly gay Republican running for Wyoming’s sole House seat, is spending the final stretch of the campaign on a project he didn’t expect: suing members of his own party for defamation. On Friday morning, Rasner will settle one case against an Iowa man who called ...

The US has left more than 40 African nations without a Senate-confirmed ambassador, hampering Washington’s efforts to engage in security and diplomatic missions across the continent. Some 41 African countries currently lack a confirmed envoy, including Nigeria, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya, and Sudan. While there are vacancies ...

The top Democrats on five Senate committees are rebuking President Donald Trump for making $1.3 billion off of cryptocurrency as lawmakers prepare to take up a long-awaited digital assets bill. “The disclosures heighten concerns about the president pushing Congress to pass crypto legislation in favor of the very industry he’s ...

The end of a Democrat’s disastrous bid for a must-win US Senate seat has blunted the party’s efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s agenda. Graham Platner’s populist campaign ignited the Democratic grassroots but many soured on the scandal-plagued candidate, underscoring the deepening rift between the party’s moderates and the left ...

Russia and China are seeking the capability to disable and eventually destroy Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite network, an investigation found, as the allies deepen their clandestine military cooperation. The report by The Insider, Der Spiegel, and Le Monde highlights documents revealing a partnership “to build weapons neither country could develop ...

China is considering restricting global access to its top AI models, Reuters reported, echoing US efforts to limit access to frontier AI technologies, as both countries look to erect a “silicon curtain” around their most advanced tech. Chinese officials discussed curbing foreign access to homegrown open-source models too, which could ...