Coinbase is seeking a green light from the US Securities and Exchange Commission to offer “tokenized equities” to its customers, the crypto exchange’s chief legal officer told Reuters. The concept is a “huge priority,” said Paul Grewal, Coinbase’s chief legal officer. Tokenizing equities is a process in which shares of a company are converted into…
Scientists have made a shocking discovery, 1,700 miles (2,700km) beneath the surface of our planet. A team from ETH Zurich has discovered solid rock flowing deep within Earth. The strange rocky current is neither liquid like molten magma nor solid like the brittle rock we might see at the surface. This is the first confirmation…
Artificial intelligence could spark an accidental nuclear war, conflict experts fear. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the world’s leading organisation on nuclear assessments, said technologies like AI are aggravating the risk carried with growing global nuclear stockpiles. SIPRI pointed to China’s rapidly growing stockpile, from 500 to 600 in a single year, as…
The US Department of Defence on Monday awarded OpenAI a $200 million contract to put generative artificial intelligence (AI) to work for the military. San Francisco-based OpenAI will “develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains”, according to the department’s posting of awarded contracts. The programme…
PARIS: Predictions of imminent AI-driven mass unemployment are likely overblown, but employers will seek workers with different skills as the technology matures, a top executive at global recruiter ManpowerGroup said at Paris’s Vivatech trade fair. The world’s third-largest staffing firm by revenue ran a startup contest at Vivatech in which one of the contenders was…
Tech giant aims to bolster AI model development and infrastructure with new capital OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence firm behind ChatGPT, is in advanced discussions with investors from Saudi Arabia and India to raise approximately $40 billion in fresh capital, a report by The Information revealed on Tuesday. The proposed funding round, one of the largest in…
Social media giant doesn’t plan to take board seat in Scale Facebook-owner Meta (META.O), opens new tab has invested in Scale AI in a deal that values the data-labeling startup at $29 billion and brings in its 28-year-old CEO, Alexandr Wang, to play a prominent role in the tech giant’s artificial intelligence strategy. Meta will…
rtificial intelligence isn’t just for fixing your grammar on ChatGPT or turning your pictures into Studio Ghibli-style art. It’s reshaping the world in a more meaningful way, and three Pakistani women graduating from Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi this year are a part of this shift. Funded by the UAE…
The mobile remittance platform has introduced a new feature that allows overseas Pakistanis in USA, UK and Europe to donate. ADVERTISEMENT Published June 7, 2025 Taptap Send has introduced a new feature that allows Pakistani expats in the United States (US), the United Kingdom (UK) and Europe to donate directly to verified charitable organisations in Pakistan —…
Disney and Universal are suing artificial intelligence (AI) firm Midjourney over its image generator, which the Hollywood giants allege is a “bottomless pit of plagiarism”. The two studios claim Midjourney’s tool makes “innumerable” copies of characters including Darth Vader from Star Wars, Frozen’s Elsa, and the Minions from Despicable Me. It is part of the…
