June 15, 2025 8:25 am
Alphabet’s Google, the largest customer of Scale AI, plans to cut ties with Scale after news broke that rival Meta is taking a 49% stake in the AI data-labeling startup, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. MORE..
Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur - in the collection of a Mongolian museum - that they say “rewrites” the evolutionary history of tyrannosaurs. MORE..
The probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon has increased, according to astronomers making observations from the James Webb Space Telescope. MORE..
The row between US President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk over a major spending bill has exacerbated uncertainty over the future of Nasa’s budget, which was already facing deep cuts. MORE..
SpaceX launched its first customer mission of the month shortly after midnight on Saturday morning with a Falcon 9 flight heading to a geosynchronous transfer orbit. MORE..
Artificial intelligence ’s use in movie making is exploding. And a young film festival, now in its junior year, is showcasing what this technology can do on screen today.
Elon Musk’s Starlink has received a licence to provide satellite communication services in India, as confirmed by sources. This makes Starlink the third company to obtain such a licence from the Department of Telecom (DoT). MORE..
Gaming fans queued up for the launch of Nintendo’s Switch 2 on Thursday, which is widely expected to be in short supply globally amid pent-up demand for the more powerful next-generation gaming device. MORE..
Beta Technologies’ Alia CX300 on Tuesday become the first all-electric aircraft to land at a New York City airport. MORE..
Fashion brand The North Face and luxury jeweller Cartier have become the latest retailers to report having customer data stolen in cyber attacks. MORE..
Elon Musk-owned electric vehicle (EV) giant Tesla is “not interested in manufacturing in India”, the country’s heavy industries minister has said. MORE..
Clairity, Inc., a digital health innovator advancing AI-driven healthcare solutions, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) De Novo authorization for Clairity Breast, a novel, image-based prognostic platform designed to predict five-year breast cancer risk from a routine screening mammogram. MORE..
Alphabet’s Google on Saturday said it will appeal an antitrust decision under which a federal judge proposed less aggressive ways to restore online search competition than the 10-year regime suggested by antitrust enforcers. MORE..
Apple Inc. is planning the most sweeping change yet to its operating system names, part of a software overhaul that extends to all its devices. MORE..
BYD, a Chinese new energy vehicle (NEV) maker, is expanding its footprint in Sri Lanka with plans to introduce DENZA, its premium luxury brand, through local distributor John Keells CG Auto. MORE..
SpaceX’s Starship rocket roared into space from Texas on Tuesday but spun out of control about halfway through its flight without achieving some of its most important testing goals, bringing fresh engineering hurdles to CEO Elon Musk’s increasingly turbulent Mars rocket program. MORE..
US first lady Melania Trump released an audiobook version in her voice of her memoir on Thursday — but she won’t actually be the one narrating it. MORE..
X (formerly Twitter) experienced a major outage Saturday that affected thousands of users worldwide. MORE..
OpenAI unveiled plans on Thursday to build a massive computing complex in the United Arab Emirates, The New York Times reported. MORE..
Legendary British designer Sir Jony Ive, who helped create the Apple iPhone, is joining forces with OpenAI, as the artificial intelligence (AI) firm sets its sights on developing hardware. MORE..
Jobs traditionally done by women are more vulnerable to the impact of artificial intelligence than those done by men, especially in high-income countries, a report by the United Nations’ International Labour Organization showed on Tuesday. MORE..
Nvidia said on Monday it plans to sell a technology to others that will tie chips together in order to speed up the chip-to-chip communication needed to build and deploy artificial intelligence tools. MORE..
Microsoft acknowledged Thursday that it sold advanced artificial intelligence and cloud computing services to the Israeli military during the war in Gaza and aided in efforts to locate and rescue Israeli hostages. MORE..
Apple has blocked access to the online game Fortnite on iPhone devices in the United States and the European Union, according to the video game maker. MORE..
The United States and United Arab Emirates will partner to build a massive data center complex in Abu Dhabi to advance artificial intelligence capabilities with 5-gigawatts of capacity — enough to power a major city. MORE..