Category: Technology

SAN FRANCISCO: Anthropic has introduced its most advanced AI model to date, along with a specialised coding assistant designed to support software developers, as the company continues to compete in the fast-evolving artificial intelligence industry. Along with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, the San Francisco-based company is making available, in a limited research preview, a digital “agent” called Claude Code, tailored to be a tool for software developers. Amazon-backed Anthropic described Claude Code as capable of searching and reading code, editing files, running tests, and more. The release comes as AI companies…

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Apple said on Monday it would spend $500 billion in US investments in the next four years that will include a giant factory in Texas for artificial intelligence servers and add about 20,000 research and development jobs across the country in that time. That $500 billion in expected spending includes everything from purchases from US suppliers to US filming of television shows and movies for its Apple TV+ service. The company declined to say how much of the figure it was already planning to spend with its US supply base,…

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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has started the licencing of Virtual Private Network (VPN) service providers in the country under its “Class Licence” for data services to ensure the legitimate use of private internet gateways. As part of this process, the country’s telecom regulatory body approved the applications of two companies for the grant of class licences to provide VPN services, an official statement said on Monday. “This initiative enables businesses to utilise VPNs for lawful purposes, ensuring data security, privacy, and regulatory compliance while promoting transparency.” The statement reiterated…

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Astronomers may have found the largest-scale structure in the known universe, which is a group of galaxy clusters and clusters of galaxy clusters that spans across roughly 1.3 billion light-years and contains a mind-boggling 200 quadrillion solar masses. After an Incan system of counting and storing numbers using knots on cards, the newly found structure is dubbed Quipu, reported Space.com. Made up of one long filament and multiple side filaments like a Quipu cord, the structure is complex. Potentially making it the largest object in the universe in terms of length,…

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Alibaba said on Monday it plans to invest at least 380 billion yuan ($52.44 billion) in its cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure over the next three years. The Chinese e-commerce giant had said it had plans to invest in the sector while announcing its results on Friday, but did not provide an exact figure at the time. Alibaba plans to “invest at least 380 billion yuan over the next three years to advance its cloud computing and AI infrastructure”, a company statement said. The firm said its strategy…

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WhatsApp, the Meta-owned platform, is currently working on bringing a new widget feature for accessing the Meta AI chatbot in a future update of the app. This widget is in making to provide users with a quick and enhanced way to initiate conversations with Meta AI directly from their Home Screen, reported WABetaInfo. Eliminating the need to search for the chat manually in the app, this action will directly open a conversation with Meta AI. Ensuring a consistent experience across both platforms, it appears that WhatsApp now intends to bring the…

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WASHINGTON: Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest individual, found himself in a fiery exchange on Thursday with a Danish astronaut who confronted him after the tech mogul accused former President Joe Biden of deliberately leaving two American astronauts stranded on the International Space Station. Andreas “Andy” Mogensen had shared on X a Fox News clip featuring Musk and his boss, US President Donald Trump, where Musk claimed NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were left stranded on the orbital outpost for “political reasons” by Biden, and that the new administration was…

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WASHINGTON: As Elon Musk and President Donald Trump play up missions to Mars, Nasa is losing four key senior officials close to its flagship moon programme, according to people familiar with the developments, adding more uncertainty over the agency’s space exploration trajectory. Nasa’s associate administrator Jim Free, who has been a central voice defending the agency’s Artemis moon programme, will retire effective on Saturday, the agency said in a statement on Wednesday. And in Huntsville, Alabama, three key officials at Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Centre – one of the agency’s 10…

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Apple launched its latest low-cost model, dubbed the iPhone 16e, on Wednesday as it looks to grab a bigger share of the mid-range smartphone market and fend off competition from rivals such as Samsung and China’s Huawei. The new phone, which leaves behind the SE naming convention for Apple’s budget series, will take on popular Android smartphones at a time when consumer electronics makers are looking to add artificial intelligence tools to their devices. Priced at $599, the iPhone 16e will have enough computing power to run Apple Intelligence, the…

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Morgan and Morgan, a prominent personal injury law firm in the United States, recently sent an urgent warning to its over 1,000 lawyers regarding the use of artificial intelligence in legal filings. The caution follows a federal judge in Wyoming threatening sanctions against two  attorneys for including fictitious case citations in a lawsuit against Walmart. One of the implicated lawyers admitted to using an AI programme that “hallucinated” these non-existent cases, calling it an inadvertent mistake. AI’s penchant for generating legal fiction in case filings has led courts around the country…

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