After a brief countdown by conservationists, a young Indo-Pacific leopard shark glided into the blue waters off Maiton Island in southern Thailand, released in the country's first efforts to "rewild" the endangered species. Once a familiar sight for snorkellers and divers, the spotted sharks have
Meta is halting teens' access to artificial intelligence characters, at least temporarily, the company said in a blog post on Friday. Meta Platforms Inc., which owns Instagram and WhatsApp, said that starting in the “coming weeks,” teens will no longer be able to access AI characters &
Greece will cooperate with Israel on anti-drone systems and cybersecurity, Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias said on Tuesday after meeting his Israeli counterpart in Athens. With strong economic and diplomatic ties, Greece and Israel operate an air training center on Greek territory and have he
Uganda restored internet services on Sunday after a five-day nationwide shutdown imposed during the general elections, a move authorities said was intended to curb the misuse of online platforms. Ibrahim Bbosa, a spokesperson for the Uganda Communications Commission, confirmed the restoration. &ld
OpenAI says it will soon start showing advertisements to ChatGPT users who aren’t paying for a premium version of the chatbot. The artificial intelligence company said Friday it hasn’t yet rolled out ads but will start testing them in the coming weeks. It’s the latest effort by
Social media companies have revoked access to about 4.7 million accounts identified as belonging to children in Australia since the country banned use of the platforms by those under 16, officials said. “We stared down everybody who said it couldn’t be done, some of the most powerful a
Since the day generative AI models like OpenAI's ChatGPT burst into the mainstream, it has become hard to deny that we are living in an arguably eccentric and fast-forwarded age. An age, reshaped by software and machines that think and are accessible to the masses, and apparently making those once
Alphabet hit a $4 trillion market valuation on Monday, as the Google parent's sharpened artificial intelligence focus allayed doubts about its strategy and thrust it back to the forefront of the high-stakes race. The tech giant on Wednesday surpassed Apple in market capitalisation for the first ti
Qatar and the United Arab Emirates will soon join a US-led initiative to secure AI and semiconductor supply chains, Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg told Reuters in an interview. The addition of those two countries is notable given the Middle East’s history of polit
In a rare move, NASA is cutting a mission aboard the International Space Station short after an astronaut had a medical issue. The space agency said Thursday the US-Japanese-Russian crew of four will return to Earth in the coming days, earlier than planned. NASA cancelled its first spacewalk of t
