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China seeks to block US tech giant Meta from AI acquisition
Bejing tightens scrutiny of AI industry amid intensifying geopolitical rivalry with the US over the technology.
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Tech 24 - AI is already getting boring
It could end white-collar work. It could end poverty. It could end humanity. From AI's boosters and doomsters alike, bumptious predictions abound. But in workplaces, the technology, like so many before…
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Cloning actors using AI, a red line crossed in China?
Chinese streaming giant iQiYi has launched a database of AI-generated avatars of real actors for possible upcoming films. In a country where AI is already very integrated into industry…
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Palantir's manifesto for an armed Silicon Valley
The American data processing giant Palantir has just published a manifesto. On the menu: questioning of pluralism, compulsory military service, arms race boosted by intelligence...
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Will artificial intelligences make scientific discoveries for us?
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents who publish and debate scientific questions among themselves – without any human intervention: this is the challenge of Agent4Science, an American platform born…
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China’s DeepSeek unveils latest models a year after upending global tech
Chinese startup says DeepSeek-V4-Pro beats all rival open models for maths and coding.
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Chinese company DeepSeek announces new artificial intelligence model
A year after shaking up the world of artificial intelligence (AI) by unveiling a conversational agent that is much more economical than its American competitors, Chinese company DeepSeek launched a…
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US-China AI race intensifies as DeepSeek releases 'reduced' cost model
China's DeepSeek on Friday released a new AI model with "drastically reduced" costs that it said was capable of processing extra-long texts to help it complete tasks. The company caused shockwaves last…
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Meta to cut workforce by 10% as artificial intelligence spending surges
Meta outlined plans to cut about 8,000 jobs on Thursday as it invests heavily in artificial intelligence. The move comes as part of a broader tech-sector shift towards cost control, with Microsoft also…
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To finance AI, Meta will lay off 8,000 people, Microsoft launches a voluntary departure plan
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced Thursday the layoff of around 10% of its workforce, or 8,000 employees, in order to compensate for its massive investments in intelligence...
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NASA presents its Roman telescope with a view to creating an “Atlas of the Universe”
NASA unveiled its new Roman space telescope on Tuesday. This latest addition to space technology was designed to scan large portions of the universe in order to look for exoplanets or even…
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Technofacism? Why Palantir’s pro-West ‘manifesto’ has critics alarmed
Palantir's 'manifesto' has been described as an 'AI-driven threat to humanity’s existence' and 'technofascism'.
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