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Social media platform X said on Monday it plans to appeal an Indian court order that would allow over two million police officers nationwide to issue arbitrary takedown requests via a secretive online portal called the Sahyog. “We will appeal this order to defend free expression,” X said in a post on the platform, in its first statement since the High Court of Karnataka ruled last week … Read more
OpenAI has introduced a new feature, ChatGPT Pulse, designed to provide users with a proactive daily feed of personalized updates. Launched in preview for Pro subscribers on mobile, Pulse compiles information overnight using context from users’ chats and optional app connections, such as Gmail and Google Calendar. Each morning, subscribers are presented with a digest … Read more
BYD’s luxury sub-brand Yangwang revealed that its U9 Xtreme hypercar had hit a blistering 496.22 km/h (308.4 mph) at Germany’s ATP Papenburg test track. Driven by Marc Basseng, the one-way run edged past Bugatti’s Chiron Super Sport 300+, which topped out at 490.48 km/h (304.77 mph). For more than two decades, Bugatti has defined the … Read more
Pakistan’s V-SenseDrive takes on road safety with AI Created using Gemini Road accidents are a daily threat in Pakistan’s chaotic traffic mix, but a new local project aims to change that. Researchers have unveiled V-SenseDrive, the country’s first privacy-preserving driver behavior dataset, built entirely from Pakistani roads. Instead of invasive face recordings, the dataset combines … Read more
Mr. Kushner’s private equity firm, Affinity Partners, is said to be in talks with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and Silver Lake to buy out the video game giant.
A growing share of Americans are turning to TikTok for news, with one in five adults now saying they regularly use the platform to stay informed – up sharply from just 3% in 2020, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis. Among TikTok users specifically, news consumption has risen steeply. PHOTO PEW RESEARCH TikTok, … Read more
Meta announced Friday that Facebook and Instagram users in the UK will be able to buy ad-free subscriptions, extending a model already in place in Europe, to comply with regulation. Starting in the coming weeks, UK-based users can opt out of personalised ads by paying a monthly fee of £2.99 ($4) on the web, or … Read more
ITCN Asia 2025: a potential glimpse into Pakistan’s future Photo Credits: Syed Alihasan Agha Karachi just hosted ITCN Asia 2025, and instead of the usual dry tech fair vibes, it felt like stepping into a mash-up of Silicon Valley ambition and local startup hustle. Picture AI that overlays onto NASA maps, VR headsets dropping you … Read more
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will on Friday announce plans to mandate digital ID cards for all adult citizens as part of his plans to address illegal immigration, according to multiple media reports on Thursday. The government has previously said it was considering such measures, which could be used to make it harder to employ … Read more
“You now have the leaders of the biggest technology companies in the world saying, effectively in unison, that they do not care how much it costs to build all the way to A.G.I.”