AI pioneer and Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio has warned that hyperintelligent machines could emerge within the next 10 years. Bengio, who is regarded as one of the ‘godfathers of AI,’ says that the risk emanates from AI models developing their own preservation goals, which could lead it to use deception or other means to…
Perplexity has announced that its Comet AI browser will now be available to use for free for all users. The browser was first rolled out to Perplexity’s \$200/\text{month} Max subscribers and became publicly available to all Pro subscribers last month as well. Comet browser brings in a number of agentic AI capabilities in order to…
The staggering investments in artificial intelligence keep coming: Last week, AI chip giant Nvidia announced it would invest $100 billion to help OpenAI, the frontrunner in generative AI, build data centers. How are these enormous sums possible when the returns on investments, at least for now, pale in comparison? AI-related spending is soaring worldwide, expected…
Google has seemingly grown tired of the need to summon AI assistants like Gemini using a hotword or button press and is reportedly working on a new way to summon the chatbot. As per a report by Android Headlines, citing a new patent, Google is working on a technology that will automatically launch the AI…
By Kaylee Kang, Jaimi Dowdell and Helen Coster (Reuters) -DePaul University has told faculty it will immediately reduce spending following a 30% decline in international enrollment this fall. The move is the latest by U.S. colleges to cope with the disruptive education and immigration policies of President Donald Trump. The amount of the reduction is…
Billionaire founder and entrepreneur Elon Musk urged his followers through his social media platform X (formerly Twitter) account to cancel the entertainment major Netflix’s subscriptions for the sake of children’s health. Musk’s warning started a ‘Cancel Netflix’ campaign where people joined in his cue to cancel their Netflix subscriptions while supporting the narrative that the…
At the United Nations General Assembly, Pakistan says recent consultations held by President Trump with Arab and OIC leaders and announcement made by the United States are noteworthy development.Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Asim Iftikhar Ahmad in a statement at General Assembly expressed hope that such initiatives can help deliver what is most…
New Delhi: India’s scheme offering incentives to create an electronics component supply chain has generated strong interest as the Centre received 249 applications, proposing investments totalling $13 billion ( ₹1.15 trillion), according to Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. The total investments proposed by conglomerates and small enterprises is nearly double the $6.7 billion ( ₹59,350…
Pakistan has strongly condemned the interception of Global Sumud Flotilla by Israel.In a statement today, the Foreign Office said that the unlawful detention of international activists onboard the flotilla constitutes yet another flagrant violation of international law and international humanitarian law by Israel, and endangers the lives of innocent civilians. The Global Sumud Flotilla is…
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