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Nvidia targets Qualcomm's AI strategy with RTX Spark launch

Nvidia targets Qualcomm's AI strategy with RTX Spark launch

Nvidia's late-May RTX Spark launch marks the first time the GPU giant has moved aggressively into AI PC silicon territory that Qualcomm's...

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1 in 10 students use AI to cheat, Cornell-led study finds

1 in 10 students use AI to cheat, Cornell-led study finds

Published in the journal Science, the research was led by Rene Kizilcec, associate professor of information science at Cornell University, alongside...

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Sam Altman revives OpenAI robotics team after five years

Sam Altman revives OpenAI robotics team after five years

OpenAI is ramping up its robotics ambitions once again, launching a major hiring drive aimed at building robots that can operate in the physical...

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Best Poki games for June 2026: Check list here

Best Poki games for June 2026: Check list here

Best Poki games for June 2026: Check list here As browser gaming continues to attract millions of players worldwide, Poki games remain among the most...

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AI downtime costs surge as automation creates new risks

AI downtime costs surge as automation creates new risks

Businesses are spending millions on artificial intelligence to prevent outages and operational failures, yet many are discovering that the technology...

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Here's why London is becoming the next battleground for AI giants

Here's why London is becoming the next battleground for AI giants

Runway, the New York-based AI company building so-called world models, has chosen London as its European headquarters and pledged to invest more than...

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MSI announces world’s first Agentic AI gaming monitor at Computex 2026

MSI announces world’s first Agentic AI gaming monitor at Computex 2026

MSI has launched what it claims is the world's first agentic AI gaming monitor at Computex 2026. The MEG X combines a fifth-generation Penta...

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Elon Musk reacts after ChatGPT says Charlie Kirk ‘wasn’t assassinated’

Elon Musk reacts after ChatGPT says Charlie Kirk ‘wasn’t assassinated’

A social media post highlighting an apparent factual error by ChatGPT has reignited debate over how AI systems handle major news events. Tech...

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Can AI cure loneliness? New research says no

Can AI cure loneliness? New research says no

One in five Americans have used an AI specifically designed to simulate a romantic partner, and 72% of teenagers have tried an AI companion at least...

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Xbox delays Fable to 2027, clears path for GTA 6

Xbox delays Fable to 2027, clears path for GTA 6

Xbox has officially delayed Fable to February 2027, a move announced ahead of the Xbox Games Showcase on June 7, 2026. Developer Playground Games,...

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LinkedIn founder predicts next AI boom after chatbots: Here’s what comes next

LinkedIn founder predicts next AI boom after chatbots: Here’s what comes next

The investor who helped build LinkedIn says the AI chatbot window has already closed. Speaking on The Possible Podcast this week, LinkedIn founder...

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Anthropic overtakes OpenAI with record $900 billion valuation

Anthropic overtakes OpenAI with record $900 billion valuation

Anthropic has officially overtaken OpenAI as the world's most valuable artificial intelligence company. The San Francisco-based firm announced a...

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AI will displace millions in 'irreversible' job shift, Putin warns

AI will displace millions in 'irreversible' job shift, Putin warns

President of Russia Vladimir Putin has joined a growing chorus of world leaders warning that artificial intelligence (AI) will fundamentally...

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 release date announced: Check date, leaks here

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 release date announced: Check date, leaks here

Call of Duty is heading to the Korean Peninsula. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 launches October 23, 2026, bringing the franchise into darker and more...

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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8: Check what’s new

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8: Check what’s new

Anthropic has accelerated its upgrade cadence once again. Claude Opus 4.8, released today, arrives just six weeks after version 4.7, signalling that...

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YouTube adds AI podcast recommendations for Premium members

YouTube adds AI podcast recommendations for Premium members

YouTube is aggressively pursuing podcast listeners with a major feature update. Three new premium functions were introduced by YouTube to directly...

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Zuckerberg: Meta could challenge AWS, Azure in cloud computing

Zuckerberg: Meta could challenge AWS, Azure in cloud computing

Mark Zuckerberg has hinted that Meta's massive artificial intelligence investments could reshape the cloud computing landscape. Speaking at...

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Who are the Artemis 3 astronauts? NASA announcement coming June 9

Who are the Artemis 3 astronauts? NASA announcement coming June 9

The next most anticipated crewed mission to the Moon by humans in the future would definitely be one that features human faces, more specifically four...

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Jensen Huang, Sam Altman walk back AI job loss warnings

Jensen Huang, Sam Altman walk back AI job loss warnings

The most prominent Silicon Valley figures associated with artificial intelligence have now stepped back from their own dire warnings. Nvidia...

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FBI report reveals investment scams surged 87% in two years

FBI report reveals investment scams surged 87% in two years

Investment fraud has become the most lucrative crime category for hackers, nearly doubling from $4.6 billion in losses in 2023 to $8.6 billion in...

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Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra isn't what leaks suggested: Here's why

Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra isn't what leaks suggested: Here's why

Samsung's upcoming foldable lineup is getting more confusing, not clearer. A leak from researcher Ice Universe reveals that Samsung plans to...

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Wi-Fi routers can track people with 99.5% accuracy: Here’s how

Wi-Fi routers can track people with 99.5% accuracy: Here’s how

Scientists at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have exposed a critical surveillance vulnerability in modern Wi-Fi routers. Using only...

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Trump Administration to force White House app on all federal employees

Trump Administration to force White House app on all federal employees

The Trump administration plans to automatically install its official White House app on every government-issued phone across the executive branch,...

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Apple fights to limit Epic ruling’s impact on App Store

Apple fights to limit Epic ruling’s impact on App Store

Apple is attempting to narrow the reach of its high-profile antitrust loss. In a recent court filing, the iPhone maker contended that the injunction...

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AI cheating surge in schools sparks urgent calls for review

AI cheating surge in schools sparks urgent calls for review

Teachers are sounding some kind of alarm. A report from Learning First says 4 out of 5 students in years 11 and 12 now use artificial intelligence to...

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang lists skilled trades as top AI-proof jobs

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang lists skilled trades as top AI-proof jobs

The labour market is rewarding hands-on work. Electricians, plumbers, ironworkers, and technicians now command salaries rivalling those of...

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Sam Altman challenges Musk's space data centre dream

Sam Altman challenges Musk's space data centre dream

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has publicly challenged Elon Musk's vision for orbital computing, arguing that underwater infrastructure could solve...

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Nvidia AI chief reveals how to get past automated hiring systems

Nvidia AI chief reveals how to get past automated hiring systems

Applicants using resumes generated by the same AI model as their recruiter's screening system are up to 60% more likely to get shortlisted,...

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Fake CAPTCHA scam installs malware in seconds: Here’s how to stay safe

Fake CAPTCHA scam installs malware in seconds: Here’s how to stay safe

Scammers have weaponised one of the internet's most trusted security features. A growing fake CAPTCHA scheme, flagged by the Identity Theft...

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Musk sparks backlash as he calls Neuralink 'Jesus-level miracle'

Musk sparks backlash as he calls Neuralink 'Jesus-level miracle'

Elon Musk ignited a firestorm on X by comparing Neuralink's brain-implant technology to divine intervention. "Neuralink is a much bigger...

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First AI-generated feature film premieres at Cannes

First AI-generated feature film premieres at Cannes

Higgsfield AI premiered "Hell Grind", a 90-minute sci-fi heist film created entirely through generative AI technology, at the Cannes Film...

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GTA 6 Ad spotted before official summer marketing push

GTA 6 Ad spotted before official summer marketing push

An unauthorised Grand Theft Auto 6 advertisement has surfaced at a mall in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a week before Rockstar Games' planned summer...

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How Microsoft is fixing AI bias in blind representation

How Microsoft is fixing AI bias in blind representation

Microsoft purchased over 20 million minutes of video from Be My Eyes, a nonprofit accessibility platform, to retrain its AI models after discovering...

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China to launch Shenzhou 23 crew to Tiangong space station

China to launch Shenzhou 23 crew to Tiangong space station

China is launching three astronauts to the Tiangong space station Sunday in a mission that will relieve a crew stuck in orbit a month longer than...

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Italy shuts down piracy network linked to $348m losses for Netflix

Italy shuts down piracy network linked to $348m losses for Netflix

Italian authorities dismantled an alleged piracy network called CINEMAGOAL that generated around €300 million ($348 million) in losses for Netflix,...

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South Korea warns AI wealth gap could fuel labor unrest

South Korea warns AI wealth gap could fuel labor unrest

South Korea's Deputy Prime Minister Bae Kyung-hoon warned that artificial intelligence poses serious risks of widening inequality and triggering...

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Elon Musk mocks Claude Mythos with a chimp video, here's why

Elon Musk has taken aim at Anthropic's most powerful and most restricted AI model yet, posting a clip of a chimpanzee using tools on X alongside...

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Use AI or lose your job, warns Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has issued his starkest warning yet to workers in every industry: embrace AI or risk being replaced not by a machine but by a...

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Do you know that Pokémon cards are now outsmarting stock market? Here’s why

Pokémon cards have been many things a childhood hobby, a playground currency, a cartoon tie-in. Now, they are an investment vehicle outperforming the...

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Canada orders Netflix, streamers to spend 15% on local content

Canada has ordered Netflix, Amazon, Disney and other global streaming giants to spend 15% of their annual Canadian revenues on local content, tripling...

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Why Airbnb is using Chinese AI despite US warnings? CEO responds

Airbnb has found itself at the centre of a growing geopolitical debate over artificial intelligence, after CEO Brian Chesky pushed back against US...

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Microsoft AI CEO predicts lawyers, accountants among jobs most at risk

As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes workplaces, new warnings now suggest that some of the most common white-collar professions might be among...

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Google Gemini gets CapCut integration for in-app video editing

Anyone who creates content using both Gemini and CapCut knows the friction well. Gemini takes care of the ideas, like the script and the whole...

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Europe is 'dangerously' reliant on Starlink and US AI, French CEO warns

Bouygues Chief Executive Officer Olivier Roussat has a simple message for Brussels, and he delivered it bluntly on CNBC Thursday morning stating that...

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Google I/O 2026: Gemini usage limits now reset every 5 hours

At Google I/O 2026, Google quietly announced a fundamental change to how Gemini usage limits work, and depending on what tasks are being run, some...

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Huang admits Nvidia has lost China AI chip market to Huawei

Nvidia once controlled over 90% of China's AI chip market. That figure now stands at zero. Speaking on the Special Competitive Studies...

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Is AI boom a bubble? Jeff Bezos has its surprising answer

Hyperscalers alone are expected to pour more than $700 billion into AI infrastructure in 2026 and a growing number of voices, including OpenAI CEO Sam...

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Zuckerberg leaked audio shows Meta used employees to train AI

Meta's median employee compensation dropped from $417,400 to $388,200 last year, and while that pay cut was sinking in, the company was also...

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GitHub probes alleged breach of 4,000 internal repositories

GitHub is investigating a security breach after the cybercrime group TeamPCP claimed to have accessed approximately 4,000 private repositories...

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Viral ‘Punch’ monkey stunt: US tourists jump into zoo enclosure, sparking crackdown

A viral stunt inside a Japanese zoo has triggered legal action and a swift crackdown on visitor behaviour after two American tourists allegedly...

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