Technology

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has embarked on a global fundraising initiative spanning East Asia and the Middle East, seeking financing and manufacturing partners to meet the company’s demand for its computing capacity, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing sources familiar with the meetings. Altman has held discussions since late September in Taiwan, South … Read more

The first full moon of 2025, a supermoon, will brighten skies across Pakistan on October 7, according to the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco). The phenomenon occurs as the Moon reaches its closest point to Earth, known as perigee, at a distance of about 361,400 kilometres (224,599 miles). At this point, it … Read more

Amazon (AMZN.O) founder Jeff Bezos predicted on Friday that gigawatt-scale data centres will be built in space within the next 10 to 20 years and that continuously available solar energy meant they would eventually outperform those based on Earth. Speaking at the Italian Tech Week in Turin, Bezos also compared the surge in artificial intelligence … Read more

China’s deep dive for data. Literally. Underwater data centre being developed by Chinese maritime technology company Highlander is seen under construction at a shipyard in Nantong, in China’s eastern Jingsu province. Source: x.com/japantimes China’s really gone off the deep end with this one. They’re building a server pod near Shanghai that will be submerged underwater … Read more

ChatGPT creator OpenAI will soon introduce controls allowing the owners of content rights to dictate how their characters are used in its AI video-generating tool Sora and plans to share revenue with those who permit such use. The artificial intelligence company will give rights holders “more granular control over generation of characters,” Chief Executive Sam Altman posted on his blog on Friday. Altman said options for copyright owners, … Read more

Hundreds of AI-generated Bollywood videos with 16 million views have been deleted from Google’s YouTube after Reuters reported they were similar to those at the centre of a legal challenge filed by a celebrity couple to protect their rights. Bollywood stars Abhishek Bachchan and his wife Aishwarya Rai Bachchan have asked a New Delhi judge … Read more

Indonesia has suspended TikTok’s registration to provide electronic systems after it failed to hand over all data relating to the use of its live stream feature, a government official said on Friday. The suspension could theoretically prevent access to TikTok, which has more than 100 million accounts based in Indonesia. Reuters, however, could access its application as … Read more

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called on Friday for a continent-wide push to develop self-driving cars, saying artificial intelligence could help revive the region’s struggling automotive sector and improve road safety. Speaking at the Italian Tech Week in Turin, Italy’s automotive hub, von der Leyen urged the European Union to adopt an “AI … Read more