By William James LONDON, Oct 12 (Reuters) – Britain’s AI Security Institute has been given access to the latest advanced AI models and is working with the US government and major developers, including Google, to assess their safety, AI Minister Kanishka Narayan said on Monday. Britain, which is not
Oct 12 (Reuters) – Global smartphone shipments fell 20% on-year to their lowest third-quarter level since 2012, as soaring memory chip costs and supply shortages pressured manufacturers and pushed up prices, preliminary estimates from Counterpoint Research showed on Monday. Rising prices for memory
BENGALURU, Oct 12 (Reuters) – India’s HCLTech on Monday signed a partnership Anthropic to accelerate enterprise adoption of Agentic AI with a focus on safety, cybersecurity and governance. • HCLTech will establish a dedicated business unit with a centre of excellence to build Agentic AI solutions. •
Oct 12 (Reuters) – Norway’s data protection authority has fined Microsoft’s adtech unit Xandr 92 million crowns ($9.61 million) for unlawfully relaying Grindr users’ sensitive data to thousands of advertisers, it said on Monday. Xandr relayed data revealing the sexual orientation of users of Grindr,
BERLIN, Oct 12 (Reuters) – German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt warned on Monday that a “shadow war” facing Germany is more far reaching than the Cold War was, arguing that the threat underscores the need to strengthen the country’s BfV domestic intelligence agency. “The shadow war we are wit
By Rae Wee BANGKOK, Oct 12 (Reuters) – Artificial intelligence could help offset Asia’s shrinking workforce as some countries’ populations age, provided its adoption is scaled evenly across the region instead of deepening existing disparities, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday. Speaking
SINGAPORE, Oct 12 (Reuters) – Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said on Monday that the token costs of Chinese frontier AI models have been lower and adoption has been “very fast”. • At a panel organised by lender DBS on Monday, Tan said the performances of Chinese models, such as DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM, are “go
SINGAPORE, Oct 12 (Reuters) – Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said on Monday that capital will be the biggest constraint facing the company as AI development continues. • At a panel in Singapore on Monday, Tan said that the company is overcoming wafer shortages and memory shortages, but capital will be the bi
BANGKOK, Oct 12 (Reuters) – Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam said governments across the world should address the pressing issue of how the emergence of artificial intelligence is dampening jobs demand for fresh graduates. “There is a particular problem that we have to address very soon… a
By Courtney Rozen WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) – American AI developers can give the British government early access to AI models for safety testing without running afoul of US President Donald Trump’s administration, the Telegraph newspaper said on Sunday. The Trump administration has reversed a de
Pakistani Gold Medalist’s Death Sparks Fraud Investigation Over Fake US Scholarship (EXCLUSIVE) Physics graduate Laiba Ejaz lost millions of rupees to suspects who forged US government docs, promising admission to Harvard University, prompting federal investigation and calls for tighter regulation o
Oct 11 (Reuters) – Ethiopian Hawi Feysa retained her Chicago Marathon crown in a heavyweight clash with Kenya’s Sharon Lokedi on Sunday, breaking the tape in two hours, 13 minutes and 33 seconds, while Kenya’s Amos Kipruto dominated the men’s race in 2:01:09. The back-to-back Boston winner Lokedi (2
WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday in response to critical comments from US President Donald Trump that he will organize elections in Ukraine if Russian President Vladimir Putin agrees to a 60-day ceasefire. “Please tell Putin, give us two months, 6
BERLIN, Oct 11 (Reuters) – The head of Germany’s largest bank warned that foreign investors may be driven away following victories in state elections last month by parties on the political extremes. The AfD, which wants to restrict immigration and send asylum seekers home, scored some of its biggest
By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Pope Leo said on Sunday that doctors had detected a small growth on his lung during a recent health check and he would be undergoing surgery this week to remove it, in the first health scare of the 71-year-old pontiff’s tenure. Leo told pilgrims in
NAIROBI, Oct 11 (Reuters) – At least 139 migrants, including at least 15 children, have died and around 84 are missing after a boat carrying more than 300 people capsized while sailing from Djibouti to Yemen, the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration said on Sunday. The boat, carr
By Jana Choukeir, Maha El Dahan and Timour Azhari DUBAI/RIYADH, Oct 11 (Reuters) – The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said an “unidentified projectile” had targeted Riyadh’s international airport on Sunday, causing a fire, hours after the Iran-backed Houthis warned airlines and travellers to stay away
JAKARTA, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Indonesian authorities and conservation workers successfully moved eight orangutans to a safe location after the endangered primates’ homes were destroyed by wildfires in the forests of Borneo, they said on Sunday. The Southeast Asian nation is battling its most intense w
MOSCOW, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Russian technology and AI company Yandex said on Sunday that its infrastructure had been damaged in a drone attack, resulting in the complete shutdown of its data centre in the Vladimir region. No one was injured in the attack, but some of Yandex’s services are currently u
By Munsif Vengattil BENGALURU, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Elon Musk said he would price Starlink’s satellite internet service affordably in India to take on Mukesh Ambani’s low-cost Reliance Jio, escalating his attacks on the rival billionaire days before Jio’s parent launches India’s largest-ever IPO. Jio
By Field Level Media Oct 11 (Field Level Media) – Mitch Marner scored a 4-on-3 power-play goal at 2:40 of overtime to give the Vegas Golden Knights a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday night in Las Vegas. With Scott Laughton in the penalty box for tripping Shea Theodore six seconds e
NEW DELHI, Oct 11 (Reuters) – India’s “cockroach” protest movement leader Abhijeet Dipke was released from detention with two other senior leaders on Sunday, a lawyer for Dipke said in a post on X. (Reporting by Shilpa Jamkhandikar; Editing by William Mallard) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com
By Andrea Shalal BANGKOK, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Finance officials from around the world will gather in Thailand this week under the shadow of a widening war in the Middle East, the biggest energy supply shock ever and rising interest rates that together pose daunting risks to already-sluggish global ec
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Nepali authorities urged villagers on Sunday to move to safer places after a flood in a river in the central part of the country swept away several houses and infrastructure, but there were no reports of any casualties. Two women and three men were out o
SHANGHAI, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Chinese Apple supplier Luxshare Precision Industry said it expected little negative impact from a newly launched US patent infringement investigation, and the company was actively working to respond and protect shareholder interests. Below are the details based on Luxsha
By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (Reuters) – A Canadian ransomware negotiator was arrested Thursday and faces unspecified extortion charges, according to court documents, prison records and a person familiar with the matter, as the FBI cracks down on a hacking group that stole info
(Undated) — Flood watches and high wind advisories are in effect for much of the Southeastern U.S. as post-tropical cyclone Isaias [[ ee-sy-EE-us ]] moves inland. More than a million people are without power after the storm made landfall in Florida last night as a Category 2 hurricane. At least thre
Oct 10 (Reuters) – The United Nations Human Rights office has condemned online racist abuse faced by Coco Gauff after a replayed point sparked a backlash against the American tennis player this week. Gauff was targeted after stopping play during a crucial point in her win over Sun Xinran at the Chin
By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT, Oct 9 (Reuters) – King Mohammed VI said on Friday that Morocco’s efforts to curb irregular migration had produced “concrete results,” but that the current cooperation model with Spain had reached its limits amid recurring crises. At least 70,000 people crossed from Morocco
MADRID, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Lawyer Miriam Gonzalez Durantez launched a new Spanish political party on Saturday to run in an early general election on November 29, promising to rise above a growing ideological divide, recover democratic values and depoliticise institutions. Gonzalez Durantez, who is m
