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Was this comment diplomatic? Obviously not. Was it a sweeping exaggeration? Certainly. Does it reflect Netanyahu’s view of Britain? Probably far more accurately than the usual diplomatic niceties do.
Iran and Oman work on temporary Hormuz shipping route as Trump threatens to claim the strait Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday that Tehran and Muscat were working to establish a temporary maritime route through the Strait of...
Pope calls for end to Israeli violence against Palestinians in occupied West Bank Pope Leo XIV renewed his call for an end “to the repeated acts of violence against the Palestinian population of the West Bank," Vatican News reported. The...
TEHRAN- Iranian Army Commander-in-Chief Major General Amir Hatami has announced a $30,000 reward for any Iranian who captures or kills a US military personnel member, saying the initiative has been prepared in response to widespread public requests to support the...
TEHRAN- The General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces has vowed to continue confronting the United States and Israel until the “complete defeat” of its adversaries and the fulfillment of the Iranian people’s legitimate demands.
One Palestinian was killed and several others were injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, marking further violations of a ceasefire agreement in effect since Oct. 10, 2025, medical sources said. A Palestinian was killed and six...
Saudi Arabia’s Civil Defense said Sunday that a warning had been issued in Jazan province in the country’s southwest over a “potential danger,” Anadolu reports. “A warning has been issued in Jazan province to alert of a potential danger,” the...
The Yemeni army said Sunday it launched 181 military operations in the past 24 hours against Houthi positions and targets in several governorates, killing and injuring dozens of the group’s members, Anadolu reports. The attacks destroyed “dozens of military equipment,...
Tehran, IRNA - First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref has warned that the enemy is attempting to compensate for its military failures by exerting economic pressure on Iran, stressing that the Islamic Republic can overcome the “economic war” just as...
Iran called on the U.S. to “accept the reality of defeat” after President Donald Trump said he would declare the Strait of Hormuz a “territory” of the U.S.
Dozens of Israeli settlers have trapped two Palestinian families in their West Bank homes for days, cutting off food, water and electricity. Their actions even drawing the ire of U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. The IDF says settlers were...
Israeli settler violence has surged in 2026, leaving Palestinian communities terrified. Alex Croft reports on the burning of an entire village and how such attacks are becoming frighteningly normal
The force “will employ one-way attack drones consisting of unmanned systems from above, on, and below the sea operated by military support staff from the United States and regional partners,” the command said.
Protesters are marching through Kyiv calling for Mykhailo Fedorov's reinstatement as defence minister and for the authorities to engage in dialogue with the public.
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright this week said that the oil exports from the Middle East have rebounded to 15 million barrels per day (bpd) and even topped the pre-war average of 20 million bpd on Sunday. Vessel-tracking services and...
One person has died as storm Lala continues to batter parts of Hawaii including the Big Island and Oahu, potentially bringing nearly three feet of rain and damaging winds to parts of the state Sunday after narrowly missing landfall.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) on Sunday said he has “heard absolutely nothing back from” Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) after requesting updates on his health following the GOP senator’s weeks-long hospitalization. Beshear, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender, made the...
US Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Sunday that he backs top Washington prosecutor Jeanine Pirro, who was criticised by US President Donald Trump for the way she handled a case of alleged vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool....
A passenger bus travelling on a highway in Hungary early on Sunday went off the road and into a ditch where it overturned, killing 12 and injuring others, police said. The bus, which was carrying a group of Polish tourists,...
CJP convenor Abhijeet Dipke joined a protest by Bombay High Court clerk recruitment candidates, who accused technical issues and server glitches of impacting their online exam. They called for a retest, claiming many were unfairly declared unsuccessful amid computer malfunctions.
A CISF personnel has been suspended and an inquiry ordered after a woman allegedly accused him of photographing her inside a Delhi Metro coach near AIIMS. The confrontation later escalated into a scuffle with passengers.
Jharkhand students protesting alleged recruitment exam irregularities burnt effigies of Hemant Soren, Rahul Gandhi and announced a gherao of the CM’s residence on August 20.
Grassroots calls for a second incursion into Ceuta from Morocco fell flat over the weekend, with security tight and authorities turning back the relative handful who tried to make the move.
Open-weight models from China’s Alibaba have reportedly become the world’s top artificial intelligence offerings. The company’s models have seen more than 3 billion downloads worldwide over the last six months, surpassing those of Meta, Google and Alibaba’s Chinese competitors like...
Cryptocurrency and prediction market executives are reportedly meeting with Trump administration officials this week. President Donald Trump is expected to attend this gathering scheduled for Wednesday (Aug. 19), according to a report by CoinDesk that cited sources briefed on the...
OpenAI has launched Computer History, a ChatGPT feature that records clicks, keystrokes, keyboard shortcuts and app switches on macOS to build a searchable memory. The memory files are stored locally as unencrypted plain text, and the feature is not available...
PayPal is still reportedly negotiating a potential sale to Stripe and private equity firm Advent, as the fintech firm's new CEO attempts to turn the company around.
White House officials may expand voluntary AI safety reviews to powerful open models, raising new questions about security, competition, and compliance. The post White House AI Safety Reviews Could Expand to Open Models appeared first on TechRepublic .
OpenAI and Anthropic are emphasizing lower AI costs as open-weight models gain ground, forcing enterprises to weigh price, performance, and risk. The post OpenAI and Anthropic Cut AI Costs as Open-Weight Models Gain Ground appeared first on TechRepublic .
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See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from August 10–14. The post AI Scale, Security Crises, and Robot Ambitions Define This Week in Tech appeared first on TechRepublic .
OpenRouter Inc., which sells developers a single door into more than 400 artificial intelligence models, has agreed to terms to sell itself to Stripe Inc. for north of $7 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg. The company’s pitch is...
Chinese artificial intelligence developer Z.ai Co. today debuted GLM-5.3, an open-source large language model that set records across several popular benchmarks. The LLM is based on an algorithm called GLM-5.2 that the company released in mid-July. The latter model features...
Artificial intelligence agents are already running inside your enterprise workflows, whether you know it or not. International Data Corp. projects full agentic AI deployment across the enterprise by 2027. Gartner Inc. estimates 40% of enterprise applications will integrate task-specific agents...
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Companies unlock AI’s biggest productivity gains not by adding AI tools to existing workflows, but by redesigning teams, roles and daily work around AI. The broader lesson, argues Bob Morse, co-founder and managing partner of Strattam Capital, is that achieving...
When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were using it to cheat a little, the way Millennials and Gen Xers opened up...
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“GeoPT” helps AI models understand the basics of physics so they can simulate how objects respond to things like wind and water more efficiently and accurately.
Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital.