Bill Gates cancels keynote speech at India AI summit
Bill Gates will not appear at the India AI Impact Summit on Thursday to deliver his keynote address, dealing another blow to an event already…
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YouTube restores service after brief outage
YouTube has said that it has resolved an issue that briefly affected access to the video-sharing platform, after outage-tracking website Downdetector reported widespread global disruptions….
India’s stricter AI social media rules spark censorship fears
The Punjab government has decided to expedite the expansion of fibre optic network in Lahore and all other cities of the province. According to details,…
First solar eclipse of 2026 will happen today
The year’s first solar eclipse will occur today (Tuesday), but will not be visible in Pakistan. According to the PMD, the eclipse will begin at…
Astronomers puzzled about Strange ‘inside-out’ planetary system
Surprised astronomers said Thursday they have discovered a star with planets in a bizarre order that defies scientific expectations — and suggests these faraway worlds…
AI agents generates surprise dating accounts for humans
Computer science student Jack Luo is “the kind of person who’ll build you a custom AI tool just because you mentioned a problem, then take…
Brazil directs X to ‘immediately’ block Grok sexualized deepfakes
Brazil on Wednesday told Elon Musk’s social network X to stop its chatbot from creating sexually explicit images, the latest country to pressure the billionaire…
India imposes grip on social media with new three-hour takedown rule
India’s government said social media companies would have to take down unlawful content within three hours of being notified, tightening on Tuesday an earlier 36-hour…
AI tools more likely to provide ‘incorrect’ medical advice
Artificial intelligence tools are more likely to provide incorrect medical advice when the misinformation comes from what the software considers to be an authoritative source,…
Latam-GPT: Latin American AI to combat US-centric bias
Move over ChatGPT — on Tuesday, Chile will launch Latam-GPT, an open-source artificial intelligence model designed to combat biases built by the primarily US-centric industry….