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US Department of War and Anthropic logos are seen in this illustration taken March 1, 2026. Photo: REUTERS Anthropic on Monday filed a lawsuit to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist, escalating the artificial intelligence lab’s high-stakes battle with the US military over usage restrictions on its technology. Anthropic said … Read more
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Though high rates of the disease persist among the nearby Indigenous communities, the Canadian government is weighing rules that may allow energy giants to release treated mining waste into the river system.
Pakistani Grammy winner Arooj Aftab was recently featured on Help (2), War Child Records’ latest charity music album. Alongside major stars like Olivia Rodrigo and the Arctic Monkeys, Arooj collaborated with Beck to release a track aimed at raising awareness for children suffering in war zones, including Sudan, Gaza, and Yemen. The album was released … Read more
Emirates, Qatar Airways, Etihad suspend flights; 100 daily Pakistan flights grounded during peak Umrah, Eid season An Emirates airplane at Dubai International Airport, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 8, 2026. Picture taken by phone PHOTO: REUTERS LAHORE: Air operations across the world, including Pakistan, have been severely disrupted … Read more
[ Market opens for trading and records a high of 158,354.12 points, while the day’s low stands at 155,294.65 points The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a sharp rally at the start of trading on Tuesday, with the benchmark KSE-100 index rising by 10,309.30 points to reach 156,789.44 points during intra-day trading. Trading in the … Read more
Iran’s FM thanks CENTCOM for proving they are using ‘our neighbours territory’ to attack them A US Army High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) deployed to conduct “deep strikes” into Iran. PHOTO: X United States CENTCOM has revealed that the US is using bases in the Gulf States to deploy rocket artillery systems against Iran, … Read more
[The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop for JetBlue flights early Tuesday at the airline’s request. JetBlue later said a “system outage” had been restored and that operations had resumed.
Financing positions tests LeCun’s belief that today’s large language models fall short of human-level reasoning Yann LeCun, Vice President & Chief AI Scientist at Meta attends the 55th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2025. PHOTO: REUTERS Advanced Machine Intelligence, the startup founded by former Meta Platforms chief AI scientist … Read more
At a cemetery in Tehran, there are fresh graves and angry slogans.
