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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Google on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote the country's digital transformation, with students in the country getting free access to the tech giant's advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tools for a year. The MoU was signed during a reception ...
Posted on 21 August 2026 | 6:56 am
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KARACHI: The Sindh government and CMPak, the parent company of Zong, on Thursday agreed to collaborate on the establishment of an "AI-ready Tier-III" data centre in Karachi under a public-private partnership. The understanding was reached during a meeting at CM House between Chief Minister Syed ...
Posted on 21 August 2026 | 3:30 am
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• 'Digital Pasban' to reach 200,000 households with Urdu safety tools• Tech giant, PTA join forces to protect children from online risks ISLAMABAD: Google announced a $500,000 investment on Thursday to help Pakistani families navigate the internet safely, launching an initiative to equip...
Posted on 21 August 2026 | 2:37 am
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On August 14, SpaceX completed its acquisition of Anysphere, the developer of popular AI coding tool Cursor, in an all-stock $60 billion historic deal said to be the largest startup purchase on record. The integration fast-tracks the newly formed SpaceXAI—which combines xAI and Grok—into a key p...
Posted on 20 August 2026 | 12:24 pm
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Minister of State for Interior Tallal Chaudhry on Wednesday told a delegation from Google that digital platforms would have to take the country's "specific circumstances" into account. According to the interior ministry, Chaudhry met a delegation from the tech giant led by Senior Director Davi...
Posted on 19 August 2026 | 11:34 am
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ChatGPT creator OpenAI said Tuesday that it was tapping the brakes on development of its most advanced AI model and tightening internal controls, a month after revealing that one of its AI tools carried out an autonomous cyberattack. OpenAI is a key player in the rapid global buildout of artificial ...
Posted on 19 August 2026 | 11:04 am
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WASHINGTON: Sophie Adenot became the first French female astronaut to venture outside the International Space Station for a spacewalk on Tuesday, accompanied by American astronaut Anil Menon. The last French person to walk in space was Thomas Pesquet. During the six-and-a-half-ho...
Posted on 19 August 2026 | 5:57 am
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OAKLAND: Opening arguments begin on Tuesday in the federal trial of Meta, the social media titan accused of deliberately making Instagram and Facebook platforms addictive to children, with a coalition of states seeking $200 billion dollars in penalties. In what many experts have called social media�...
Posted on 19 August 2026 | 3:02 am
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Google, the US-based technology giant, on Tuesday inaugurated its local office in Pakistan at a ceremony held at the Prime Minister's House. According to state-run PTV, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met a Google delegation led by the company's Global Affairs Vice President Wilson L. White at the...
Posted on 18 August 2026 | 5:35 pm
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Narwhals have nature's only straight tusk, a single tooth up to three metres long so strange they were sold as magical unicorn horns during the Middle Ages. The tusks have fascinated scientists ever since, but they have proven extremely difficult to study because these odd-looking, blubbery whales...
Posted on 18 August 2026 | 3:25 pm
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Walt Disney and Japanese video game company Square Enix on Saturday previewed the yet-to-be-released "Kingdom Hearts 4" game as they celebrated the high-selling franchise's upcoming 25th anniversary at a Disney fan convention in Anaheim. "Kingdom Hearts" is one of nine video games that hav...
Posted on 16 August 2026 | 6:43 am
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Japanese scientists are readying a mission to Mars' moons to retrieve samples that may unlock the origins of the Solar System and life on Earth, although a rival Chinese mission aims to make it back first. The unmanned Martian Moons eXploration (MMX), set to blast off from Tanegashima Space Centre...
Posted on 16 August 2026 | 6:22 am
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Chinese AI startup Z.ai said on Friday its open-source GLM-5.3 model had neared Anthropic's restricted Mythos 5 in identifying software vulnerabilities, bolstering the credentials of a Chinese AI challenger gaining traction among Western developers. Z.ai said GLM-5.3 scored 84.5 per cent on CyberG...
Posted on 14 August 2026 | 1:28 pm
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TL;DR Pros: Closely listens to what fans ask for and provides it Blends creative new features into a tried-and-true formula Alternative Acts make for a less predictable experience Embraces the love for lore with a full expanded universe New allies (and co-op) make the quest less lonely Both new pla...
Posted on 14 August 2026 | 5:30 am
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Livestream gaming giant Twitch has raised hackles among its millions of users after declaring it will share their data with its parent company, Amazon, to better train the online retailer's AI models. In a post on X, Twitch said people would have the option to opt out of the data-sharing, but othe...
Posted on 13 August 2026 | 3:33 pm
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Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) on Thursday announced "Jinnah-1" as the official name of the country's first lunar rover. The rover is scheduled to be sent to the Moon in 2029 as part of China's Chang'e-8 mission, where it will conduct scientific research ...
Posted on 13 August 2026 | 12:05 pm
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The American AI company Anthropic announced it will add an invisible watermark to text produced by its Claude chatbot so as to comply with European Union regulations. But the company noted that this mark only means the text was processed by Claude, not that the chatbot actually generated it. The new...
Posted on 12 August 2026 | 10:48 am
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Posted on 12 August 2026 | 10:01 am
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The Higher Education Commission has taken two big steps on artificial intelligence. It has notified a compulsory three-credit-hour AI course for every undergraduate and postgraduate degree in the country, starting from Fall 2026. It has also circulated a draft policy on the use of generative AI in o...
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 6:59 am
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Menlo Park (California): Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for lower US barriers for open-source AI to better compete with Chinese rivals as the social media giant released a new open-weight model on Monday and said more would follow soon. The new model, Muse Glimmer, is smaller than leading...
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 3:52 am
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PM Shehbaz Sharif chairs a meeting of the federal cabinet.—Online ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Monday approved the National Housing Policy 2026 along with an action plan for its implementation, directing that housing projects comply fully with zoning laws and that vertical construction b...
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 1:47 am
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The humanoid robot sector exploded with 116,000 new company registrations. —Courtesy China Daily China has seen an orderly exit of companies in the new energy vehicle, photovoltaic and lithium battery sectors in the first half of this year, while emerging technology sectors continue to attrac...
Posted on 10 August 2026 | 4:03 am
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OpenAI said on Friday it cannot rule out that its upcoming AI model, Astra, has "critical" cybersecurity capabilities, prompting the startup to pause some internal development and trigger safety protocols. Under OpenAI's safety guidelines, a model reaches the "critical" threshold if it can...
Posted on 8 August 2026 | 2:42 pm
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From the killer shark of Jaws to the tornado-tossed predators of the Sharknado movies, films have long portrayed sharks as objects of summer fear. But when a shark cuts through the waters off the US East Coast, it now may be doing more than hunting. It may also be gathering data that helps scientist...
Posted on 8 August 2026 | 1:00 pm
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A US judge on Thursday ordered Meta to pay more than half a billion dollars over the New Mexico state's claims that the social media giant created a "public nuisance" and harmed children. Meta was previously ordered to pay $375 million in damages to New Mexico in March when a jury found the co...
Posted on 7 August 2026 | 8:07 am
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SAN FRANCISCO: Meta entered the race for automated coding tools on Wednesday when it announced a new app for developers of artificial intelligence products, as it competes with other major AI labs for customers and revenue. Dubbed Muse Code, Meta said in a blog post that the new product is an agent...
Posted on 7 August 2026 | 2:07 am
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Meta said on Wednesday that one of its AI models hacked another company during cybersecurity testing, fanning concerns about how developers can contain increasingly capable AI systems after similar incidents at rivals Anthropic and OpenAI. The incidents at Meta and Anthropic stemmed from confi...
Posted on 6 August 2026 | 6:28 am
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A SpaceX rocket piece floating in space since last year was expected to have smashed into the moon at high speed early on Wednesday morning, though the impact was unlikely to be confirmed for at least several hours. The school-bus-size object is the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that had ...
Posted on 5 August 2026 | 10:05 am
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An AI agent was caught creating fake online identities to gain unauthorised access to secure systems during tests of models from OpenAI and Anthropic, which revealed a series of new breaches, Britain's AI Security Institute disclosed on Tuesday. The institute said agents powered by Anthropic's M...
Posted on 5 August 2026 | 6:05 am
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WASHINGTON: New observations of some of Neptune's moons and rings are providing evidence of a catastrophe that occurred billions of years ago around the solar system's outermost planet in which a Pluto-sized interloper caused a celestial demolition derby. Researchers used Nasa's James Webb Sp...
Posted on 4 August 2026 | 2:36 am