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  Bitchat Becomes Jamaica’s Go-to App as Hurricane Melissa Cripples Communication

  As Hurricane Melissa devastates parts of the Caribbean, Jamaica has witnessed a sharp rise in downloads of Jack Dorsey’s BitChat app. The decentralised platform enables offline, encrypted communication through Bluetooth mesh networks, providing a vital tool for residents facing power and internet outages. BitChat’s growing popularity underscore...

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  YouTube's New Likeness Detection Tool Explained: How to Sign Up, Data Usage Policy, and More

  YouTube is expanding its likeness detection tool which lets creators identify and flag content that features their likeness generated using artificial intelligence (AI). It is now available to all creators under the YouTube Partner Program. If a creator spots their likeness being used by another party on YouTube, they can submit a removal request f...

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  US President Donald Trump Swings By Ryder Cup, Vows Revenge On More Of His Enemies

  President Donald Trump started on Friday by warning that more of his enemies will face prosecution, shaking the foundations of the American justice system by treating it as a tool of political retribution.

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  Cygnus XL Successfully Docks at International Space Station on First Mission

  Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL, the largest cargo spacecraft ever built by the company, successfully docked at the International Space Station. Launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, it delivered over 11,000 pounds of supplies and research materials.

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  Z.ai Releases GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air Open-Source Agentic AI Models

  Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) lab Z.ai announced the release of two new open-source GLM models on Monday. Dubbed GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air, the AI firm calls them its latest flagship models. Both of them are hybrid reasoning models that offer a thinking mode for complex reasoning and tool use, and a non-thinking mode for instant responses. Add...

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  US Journalist Shuts Bilawal Bhutto Down With Colonel Sofiya Qureshi Reference

  Former Pakistan minister Bilawal Bhutto was stumped by a journalist's question at a UN media interaction after the Pakistani leader alleged that the Pahalgam terror attack "was being used as a political tool to demonise Muslims in India"

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  Job Applicant Rejected For Not Having 5 Years Experience In 2023-Launched Software

  The post went viral, with many professionals chiming in to share their own tales of absurd job requirements or simply expressing their incredulity at the situation.

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  AI Use At Work Might Be Damaging Your Professional Reputation, Study Finds

  Over 4,400 participants were enrolled for the study titled "Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI".

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  Hugging Face Releases a Free AI Agent That Can Complete Computer-Based Tasks

  Hugging Face released a demo of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent on Tuesday that can complete various web-based tasks. Dubbed Open Computer Agent, the tool is available for free, and anyone can go to the website to access the agent. Since it can perform tasks on web browsers, it can access websites such as Google Search, Maps, and even ticket ...

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  'Frightening': US Restaurants, Producers Face Trump Tariff Whiplash

  From European wines to industrial tools, global tariffs launched by US President Donald Trump this week promise to sweep through the world's biggest economy, impacting everyone from restaurant owners to industrial manufacturers.

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  Apple Said to Face French Antitrust Fine for Privacy Control Tool

  Apple is facing a likely antitrust fine in France over its privacy control tool. Digital advertising and mobile gaming companies including Facebook say it has made it more expensive and difficult for brands to advertise on Apple's platforms.

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  ChatGPT Faces Global Outage, Users Flood Social Media With Complaints

  ChatGPT, one of OpenAI's most popular Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools on Thursday faced a global outage as millions of users were unable to access the service.

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  Brazil Suspends Sam Altman’s Iris-Scanning World Project, ANPD Issues Notice to Parent Firm 

  The National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) has suspended the services of World project within the country. A notice about the development was issued over the weekend to Sam Altman’s tech firm Tools for Humanity (TFH), that parents the World project. 

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  iOS 18.3 Beta Disables Apple Intelligence Notification Summaries Feature for Some Apps

  Apple has reportedly rolled back its Apple Intelligence notification summaries feature after facing backlash over error-laden news summary generation. As per the report, the artificial intelligence (AI) tool poorly summarised a Washington Post news notification, garnering flak from users as well as news publications. Notably, this is not the first ...

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  Hugging Face Introduces Smolagents Library to Build AI Agents With Open-Source LLMs

  Hugging Face introduced a new code library last week to enable developers to easily build artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Dubbed smolagents, the tool defines the basic logic for general purpose simple AI agents that can perform actions by executing them in code. Smolagent can be connected with any open-source large language model (LLM) or a se...