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Subscribers create up to five personalized profiles, including kid-friendly accounts with parental controls Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming platform HBO Max has officially launched in 15 new countries, including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Macau, Sri Lanka, and Ukraine, expanding its footprint across Asia and Europe. The service, long-awaited by local fans of HBO’s globally acclaimed shows, is … Read more
India’s Information Technology Minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, thanked Google for the investment. PHOTO: PIXABAY Google said Tuesday it will invest $15 billion in India over the next five years, as it announced a giant data centre and artificial intelligence base in the country. “It is the largest AI hub that we are investing in anywhere outside … Read more
Meta adds teen safeguards to AI, blocking flirty chats and self-harm talks, building on prior privacy updates The move comes as Meta, ByteDance’s TikTok and YouTube face hundreds of lawsuits filed on behalf of children and school districts about the addictive nature of social media. PHOTO: PEXELS Instagram will limit what users under 18 can … Read more
The restrictions also apply to conversations between teenage users and artificial intelligence chatbots.
AI slop is a dime-a-dozen these days, and it’s almost impossible to distance yourself from it. With video generation software like Veo 3 or Sora 2 and image generation like Gemini’s Nano Banana, anyone with a subscription can make production-grade content in a matter of minutes. Fortunately, Pinterest has released a feature allowing users to … Read more
With federal subsidies ending or becoming hard to claim, companies are racing ahead with solar, wind and battery projects.
Samsung Electronics is expected to post its highest third-quarter profit since 2022, driven by higher memory chip prices supported by server demand as customers rebuild inventories, analysts’ estimates showed. The world’s biggest maker of memory chips is projected to report an operating profit of 10.1 trillion won ($7.11 billion) for the July-September period, according to LSEG SmartEstimate from 31 analysts, which is weighted toward those who are more consistently accurate. … Read more
Internet users across Pakistan may experience slower speeds and intermittent connectivity as maintenance work will be carried out on one of the country’s main submarine cables, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited said. According to statement issued on Monday, a scheduled repair operation will begin around 11 am Pakistan Standard Time on Tuesday to fix a faulty … Read more
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced Monday it is teaming up with chip giant Broadcom to design and build its own specialized computer processors for artificial intelligence. The partnership was the latest in a series of recent announcements by OpenAI as it seeks to strengthen its position as the preeminent company of the generative AI … Read more
After signing multibillion-dollar agreements to use chips from Nvidia and AMD, OpenAI plans to deploy its own designs next year.