NEW YORK: Meta offered $100 million bonuses to OpenAI employees in an unsuccessful bid to poach the ChatGPT maker’s talent and strengthen its own generative AI teams, the startup’s CEO, Sam Altman, has said. Facebook’s parent company — a competitor of OpenAI — also offered “giant” annual salaries exceeding $100 million to OpenAI staffers, Altman…
STRASBOURG: The EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Wednesday that Russia does not “stand a chance” against NATO, but the alliance needs to “stick together” in the face of a belligerent Moscow. Speaking ahead of a NATO summit in the Netherlands with alliance members under US pressure to massively ramp up military budgets, Kallas warned…
DC Studios has found the lead star for its Clayface movie Surprisingly, the Batman villain won’t be played by Alan Tudyk Tudyk voiced Clayface in season 1 of Creature Commandos DC Studios has revealed which actor will star in its forthcoming Clayface movie – and, surprisingly, it won’t be Alan Tudyk. First reported by Deadline…
Even multinational corporations used to run effectively and efficiently without a screen or a mouse or a keyboard in sight – other than a typewriter keyboard, of course. No data storage issues, no input errors, no backup problems, no memory losses or system failures, let alone cyberattacks. Today – barely forty years since computers started…
The category of the best Bluetooth speakers has never been more congested or hotly contested, but that only makes it all the more intriguing. And thus far, 2025 has been a grrrreat year for people who like their Bluetooth speakers bold, colorful, cute or…strappy. As you’ll soon see in this missive, three of our long-term…
Hays study finds 78% of organizations are struggling with skills shortages Four in five professionals would work for a foreign company Physical relocation is no longer a necessity of working abroad The global tech job market is in flux, and new research from recruitment platform Hays claims three in five tech professionals are eyeing up…
MOSCOW: The families of Russian diplomats have left Israel, Russia’s ambassador to Tel Aviv Anatoly Viktorov said on Wednesday, as Israel and Iran traded fire for a sixth day. “Almost all the wives and children of embassy employees” left on Tuesday via Egypt “to return to their homeland,“ Viktorov said, interviewed by pro-Kremlin presenter Vladimir…
BOGOTÁ: Colombia’s Senate has approved contested labor reforms, after leftist President Gustavo Petro decreed a referendum to get public approval for the bill. Senators voted 57-31 to approve the reform bill on Tuesday, which will end the working day at 6:00 pm instead of 9:00 pm, extend social security to some informal workers and create…
BEIJING: Almost 800 Chinese citizens have been evacuated from Iran since Israel launched military strikes against the country last week, Beijing said Wednesday. “Currently… 791 Chinese nationals have been relocated from Iran to safe areas,“ foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said at a regular news conference. “More than 1,000 other people are in the process…
PHNOM PENH: Tens of thousands of Cambodians took to the streets of Phnom Penh on Wednesday for an official rally to support the government’s actions in its recent border dispute with Thailand. A massive crowd led by Deputy Prime Minister Hun Many — Prime Minister Hun Manet’s youngest brother — joined a “Solidarity March” to…
