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The News Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the former emir who transformed Qatar from a little-known Gulf state with declining resources into one of the world’s richest countries per capita, has died at the age of 74. The Amiri Diwan, the country’s royal court, announced his death on Sunday ...

The News Lindsey Graham, the prominent Republican senator and staunch ally of US President Donald Trump, died on Saturday, aged 71. His office said in a statement that he died following “a brief and sudden illness.” Graham, elected to the Senate in 2002 and running for re-election in November’s midterm ...

Reed’s view Apple leveled major allegations against OpenAI and some of its staffers Friday, alleging the ChatGPT maker systematically directed current and former Apple employees to bring secret information over to OpenAI. Initial allegations in any lawsuit should be taken with a grain of salt. They’re meant to make the ...

Apple on Friday sued OpenAI and its hardware chief, accusing the AI giant of stealing trade secrets. In a legal filing, the iPhone maker alleged that OpenAI’s Tang Tan, who is Apple’s former vice president of product design, gathered information via various methods, including by directing job candidates still working ...

Wearable-makers want a smartphone-adoption moment. Chipmaker Qualcomm is working on up to 40 different kinds of devices with its customers, helping them design things like digital watches, rings, and glasses in a way that delivers consumer data back to the companies creating the products, Ziad Asghar, senior vice president and ...

Reed’s view The AI Futures Project last year issued a gloomy prediction of what will happen if AI progress continues unchecked: Humanity doesn’t make it. This year, the research group headed by former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo is going one step further. In AI 2040: Plan A, the group is ...

Speed is Elon Musk’s superpower, but his abilities clearly have limits. Cursor and SpaceXAI announced Wednesday that they collaboratively released a new model, Grok 4.5, designed to work within Cursor. The announcement came with all the usual comparisons to the big foundation models against benchmarks that provide some vague sense ...

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 ...