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Sep 17, 2026

Semicon India 2026: PM Modi to inaugurate 3-day semiconductor event today - All you need to know

The conference and exhibition brings together global and Indian companies, policymakers, investors, researchers, start-ups, academic institutions and students from across the semiconductor and electronics value chain, an official statement said.

Sep 17, 2026

'Will have disastrous impact on humanity': MicrosoftAI CEO flags Anthropics AI development model, says it will make alignment difficult

Suleyman says he has great respect for Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and his team but warns against walking down this line of AI development.

Sep 17, 2026

OpenAI to regularly disclose AI misbehavior, warns safety challenges remain

AI-SAFETY-OPENAI:OpenAI to regularly disclose AI misbehavior, warns safety challenges remain

Sep 17, 2026

Festive smartphone sales face steepest decline in decade in wake of memory chip crisis

The global memory chip crisis has led to constricted smartphone supplies and higher prices that have forced many buyers to either delay purchases or consider refurbished devices.

Sep 17, 2026

OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior

The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.

Sep 16, 2026

Canada is investing $150M to make AI safer. Will it work?

The federal government is investing $150 million in LawZero, a Montreal-based non-profit working to build a new kind of AI model. Germany is providing an additional 100 million euros. The funding comes amid new, high-profile warnings from AI leaders about existential risks from cutting-edge models.

Sep 16, 2026

Judge Orders Data Sharing and Other Fixes to Solve Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly

The measures, which fall short of a breakup demanded by the government, effectively ensure that the tech titan’s business will continue largely unscathed.

Sep 16, 2026

Snapchat open to putting time limits on teens, boss tells BBC

Evan Spiegel says it would be "an important step forward for the industry" in an interview with the BBC.

Sep 16, 2026

Would you buy branded clothing from your favourite tech firm?

Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic are all now selling their own limited edition fashion lines

Sep 16, 2026

Human-Caused Warming Played ‘Very Strong’ Role in Himalayan Floods, Report Finds

Rising temperatures contributed to the disaster by destabilizing the permafrost and ice around the collapsed rock, scientists concluded.

Sep 16, 2026

Republicans clash on Senate floor over AI kill switch

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday blocked a request by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) to pass legislation that would require tech companies to develop a “kill switch” for superintelligent AI amid fears that it could spin out of control and pose an existential threat to humanity. Paul argued that an “open-ended” government mandate to implement...

Sep 16, 2026

Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection

An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.

Sep 16, 2026

China’s rocket boom has made Hainan a space hub. Can launches fuel wider growth?

As technological developments augur an era of renewed space exploration, China is aiming to become a major player. In the first part of this two-part series, Wency Chen and Mia Nurmamat examine how the southern island province of Hainan is betting on a growing aerospace cluster to rewrite its economic playbook beyond tourism. On Hainan’s northeastern coast, launch towers rise abruptly from a flat landscape of coconut palms and open sky. At Pad 1 of the commercial spaceport in Wenchang, an...

Sep 16, 2026

Fiji Declares a National Emergency as H.I.V. Cases Skyrocket

Surging drug use has contributed to an epidemic in the Pacific island nation, where one in 60 adults is estimated to be living with the virus.

Sep 16, 2026

US Federal Reserve defies Trump with interest rate hike

The US Federal Reserve has raised its key interest rates for the first time in three years, as it seeks to bring down high inflation. The policy decision sets up a potential confrontation between Chairman Kevin Warsh and President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly called on the central bank to cut interest rates. Also in the show - France extends fuel subsidies as fishermens' protests gather momentum, and Hong Kong seeks to fall in line with Beijing's economic vision.

Sep 16, 2026

Warsh says Fed cares 'very much' about AI developments

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said Wednesday the central bank is keeping tabs on rapidly developing artificial intelligence (AI) models. “We care very much about what's happening in artificial intelligence,” Warsh told reporters, after the Federal Open Market Committee raised interest rates by a quarter point. The Fed chair noted he is interested in how...

Sep 16, 2026

Divisions emerge in the tech industry over calls for a coordinated AI slowdown

Sep 16, 2026

More Americans say AI will hurt the environment than help it: Poll

More Americans believe AI will have negative environmental impacts on the upcoming decade than those who think the technology will help the environment, a poll released Wednesday found. In the newly published survey from The Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 47 percent of respondents predicted AI will do “more to hurt” the environment...

Sep 16, 2026

Merriam-Webster Dictionary Is Wordsmaxxing With 1,400 New Definitions

Now you have no excuse for not knowing the meaning of “cuffing season,” “shishito” or “glow-up.”

Sep 16, 2026

UN chief urges global AI cooperation saying world cant afford a race to the bottom on AI safety

UN chief urges global AI cooperation saying world can't afford 'a race to the bottom on AI safety'

Sep 16, 2026

The Liftoff Scenario That Terrifies A.I. Doomsayers

“Recursive self-improvement” is the idea that artificial intelligence could learn to build and train itself, creating exponential new progress — and risk.

Sep 16, 2026

T. rexes were as warm-blooded as elephants, study finds

Scientists have long discussed whether and which dinosaurs were warm-blooded. Now, researchers say they have used chemistry to take the temperature of two T. rexes. Here's what they found.

Sep 16, 2026

Mysterious sightings at 'China's Area 51' spark major warnings to America over top secret weapons

In recent months, various pictures of mysterious new aircrafts have been captured around remote facilities in the desert in China and experts say they are cause for concern.

Sep 16, 2026

Diver injured in great white shark attack off Quebec's Gaspé coast

A diver was transported to hospital after being injured by a great white shark in Percé, Que., in the province’s Gaspé region.

Sep 16, 2026

Area 51 mystery deepens as discovery exposes who is really behind secret flights

A mysterious job listing online has been tied to the infamous Air Force base that whistleblowers claim is home to secret government research on alien technology.

Sep 16, 2026

Do AI companies have to disclose dangerous incidents?

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Sep 16, 2026

Trump adviser Sacks says AI fears driven by fear-mongering playbook

AI-REGULATION/SACKS:Trump adviser Sacks says AI fears driven by 'fear-mongering playbook'

Sep 16, 2026

Greenland and Antarctica face major ice loss: Key details explained

According to new research based on satellite data Greenland and Argentina have lost vast amounts of ice over recent decades dating back to the 1970s with studies documenting major polar ice-sheet ablation.The data from 27 satellite missions between 1979 and 2023 shows that Greenland and...

Sep 16, 2026

Zuckerberg: AI companies incentivized toward safety

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday argued that artificial intelligence (AI) companies are incentivized toward safety when it comes to the timing of crafting their models and that external pressure is not needed to keep to that timeline. “Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models...

Sep 16, 2026

New evidence shows that you are only slightly hotter than a T. rex

These cold-blooded killers were probably as warm-blooded as mammals, according to new research.

Sep 16, 2026

Hackers rip down Flock camera, steal its data, share findings with media

A group of hackers ripped down a Flock camera and stole its data, finding that the cameras’ software can generate dozens of images from a single passing vehicle to develop its signature. The group, called stegan0gram, shared findings with Wired and 404 Media, who ran a joint investigation. The outlets found that in a 21-day...

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