On Thursday, the Laude Institute announced its first batch of Slingshots grants, aimed at “advancing the science and practice of artificial intelligence.” Designed as an accelerator for researchers, the Slingshots program is meant to provide resources that would be unavailable in most academic settings, whether it’s funding, compute power, or product and engineering support. In exchange, the recipients pledge to …

Last year, Meta projected that 10% of its overall annual revenue — $16 billion — would come from fraudulent advertisements on its apps, according to a report from Reuters. The documents accessed by Reuters also show that for three years, Meta failed to protect its users from ads promoting illegal gambling, investment schemes, and banned medical products. These fraudulent ads …

Rarely has a month gone by in 2025 without OpenAI signing another multibillion-dollar data center deal. In a lengthy post on X on Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly clarified the totals. “We expect to end this year above $20 billion in annualized revenue run rate and grow to hundreds of billion by 2030. We are looking at commitments of …

Google announced Thursday it is buying 200,000 metric tons of carbon removal from Mombak, a forest restoration company based in Brazil. The project will buy farmland in the Amazon and reforest it. The deal was made through the Symbiosis Coalition, an advance market commitment intended to develop a market for nature-based carbon removal schemes that is backed by Google, McKinsey, …

Amazon announced on Thursday the launch of Kindle Translate, an AI-powered translation service designed for authors using Kindle Direct Publishing to broaden their reach. The service initially translates text between English and Spanish and from German to English, as it’s still operating in beta. More languages will be supported over time. The retail giant noted less than 5% of titles …

OpenAI execs have been fielding plenty of questions about how they expect to pay for the $1.4 trillion worth of data center build-outs and usage commitments they’ve accrued this year, given that their revenue — while rising rapidly — is a $20 billion annual run rate, CEO Sam Altman said Thursday in a post on X. Altman’s comments came in …

Executives at Ford are considering killing its flagship electric pickup truck, the F-150 Lightning, according to The Wall Street Journal. The discussions are happening in the wake of Ford’s late October decision to idle F-150 Lightning production while it prioritizes hybrid and gas-engine versions of the popular pickup. The company’s been dealing with production troubles after a fire broke out …

Sora’s Android launch is off to an auspicious start. On its first day on the Google Play Store, the AI video app from ChatGPT maker OpenAI saw an estimated 470,000 downloads across the markets where it was available, according to new estimates from app intelligence provider Appfigures. That makes the Android launch more than 4x the size of the iOS …

پاکستان پیپلزپارٹی کی سینٹرل ایگزیکٹو کمیٹی کے اجلاس میں 27 ویں آئینی ترمیم کے معاملے پر اتفاق رائے نہ ہوسکا، اراکین کی اکثریت نے واضح کردیا کہ کسی بھی صورت میں اٹھارہویں ترمیم کو رول بیک نہیں ہونا چاہیے۔ پیپلز پارٹی نے صوبائی خود مختاری اور این ایف سی پر لچک دکھانے سے انکار کردیا۔ مجوزہ 27 ویں آئینی ترمیم …

ایک اعلیٰ امریکی اہلکار کے مطابق ایک اور ملک جمعرات کی شب ابراہم معاہدوں میں شامل ہونے کا اعلان کرے گا، جس کے تحت اسرائیل اور مسلم اکثریتی ممالک کے درمیان تعلقات کو معمول پر لایا جا رہا ہے۔ برطانوی خبر رساں ادارے (رائٹرز) کے مطابق امریکی نمائندہ برائے مشرق وسطیٰ اسٹیو وٹکوف نے فلوریڈا میں ایک بزنس فورم سے …

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SpaceX is buying another $2.6 billion worth of wireless spectrum licenses from EchoStar, an expansion of a $17 billion deal announced in September, as its satellite internet business Starlink continues to win new customers around the world. The spectrum sale comes just a day after SpaceX revealed it has passed 8 million global customers. On Thursday, the company added more …

پاکستان نے ہندو برادری کے افراد کو اپنی سرزمین میں داخلے سے روکنے کے الزامات کو بے بنیاد اور گمراہ کن قرار دیتے ہوئے مسترد کردیا ہے۔ ترجمان دفتر خارجہ کے مطابق الزامات بے بنیاد اور گمراہ کن ہیں، یہ معاملہ مکمل طور پر انتظامی نوعیت کا تھا۔ ترجمان دفتر خارجہ نے کہا کہ یہ الزامات حقائق کو مسخ کرنے …

Meta announced on Thursday that Vibes, its short-form video feed of AI-generated videos, is launching in Europe in the Meta AI app. Think TikTok or Instagram Reels, but every single video you come across is AI-generated. The rollout comes six weeks after Meta introduced the feed in the U.S. A few days after Meta’s launch, OpenAI released Sora, a social …