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Image: Pure Storage During this month’s Pure Accelerate 2025 conference in Las Vegas, Par Botes, vice president of AI Infrastructure at Pure Storage, provided an overview of some of the latest breakthroughs in AI, particularly those relevant to enterprise users. Significant improvements in smaller LLMs Botes noted that smaller large language models (LLMs) have recently…
Image: WhataWin/Adobe Stock More than 16 billion leaked credentials have been identified by cyber researchers since the beginning of the year. While they assert the vast majority had previously gone unreported, critics argue there is insufficient evidence to suggest that the data is new. Researchers at Cybernews report that, of the 30 exposed datasets identified,…
Image: By Rawpixel/ Envato AI is generating 51% of all spam emails. This isn’t something to worry about — as long as AI-generated spam remains text-based, according to Columbia University associate professor Asaf Cidon. This finding is in a new Barracuda study, conducted with researchers from Columbia University and the University of Chicago. Attackers are…
TOKYO: Japan’s core inflation hit a more than two-year high in May, exceeding the central bank’s 2% target for well over three years, keeping it under pressure to resume interest rate hikes despite economic pressure from U.S. tariffs. The data underscores the challenge the Bank of Japan faces in juggling pressure from persistent food inflation…
BEIJING: Tesla’s first China grid-scale battery storage station using its megapack batteries will be located in Shanghai, local media Yicai reported on Friday. The deal involving an investment of 4 billion yuan ($556.8 million) was signed between the U.S. automaker, China Kangfu International Leasing Co and the Shanghai local government on Friday, according to the…
BEIJING: China’s military criticised on Friday the sailing of a British warship through the Taiwan Strait as a deliberate attempt to “cause trouble”, while Taiwan’s president ordered monitoring stepped up in response to Chinese military activities. China, which views Taiwan as its own territory, though Taipei rejects that claim, has stepped up drills around the…
THE BBC has threatened legal action against Perplexity, accusing the AI startup of training its “default AI model” using BBC content, the Financial Times reported on Friday, making the British broadcaster the latest news organisation to accuse the AI firm of content scraping. The BBC may seek an injunction unless Perplexity stops scraping its content,…
JAKARTA: Indonesia expects to sign a free trade agreement with the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) this year in a move likely to boost demand for its commodity exports, its senior economic minister said in a statement released on Friday. Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said the agreement would open up new opportunities…
LONDON: A Russian activist who helped collect humanitarian aid for Ukraine and evacuate Ukrainians from the war zone was sentenced on Friday to 22 years in prison by a Moscow military court, the RIA state news agency reported. Nadezhda Rossinskaya, also known as Nadin Geisler, ran a group called “Army of Beauties”, which said it…
LONDON: Britain’s grocery regulator on Friday launched an investigation into Amazon, probing whether the U.S. retail giant breached rules on timely supplier payments over a three-year period. The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) said it suspected Amazon of violating paragraph 5 of the Groceries Supply Code of Practice, which mandates prompt payment to suppliers. “The alleged…
