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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Other than his native Tanzania, 32-year-old businessman Justice George Kaundama is interested in only one country. “China-Africa is the future,” he says, sitting on the veranda of Shamwaa, the Tanzanian restaurant he opened last year…
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The number of child sexual abuse cases in Hong Kong has nearly doubled over the past decade, reaching more than 500 last year, with over one in five of the perpetrators aged 16 and below, authorities have said amid a rise in harmful incidents targeting youngsters. Lawmakers on Wednesday called for the government to urgently…
By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday planned to introduce a bill in both houses of Congress that would bar U.S. executive agencies from using artificial intelligence models developed in China, including those from DeepSeek. The introduction of … Source link
During the meeting, the president was accompanied by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin, Communications Director Fahrettin Altun, Akif Cagatay Kilic, chief presidential adviser on foreign policy and security, and Justice and Development (AK) Party Deputy Chair Halit Yerebakan. Source link
The US is poised to win the artificial intelligence race against China, but will also need to overcome security and safety challenges associated with the technology, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark will tell lawmakers on Wednesday. “There’s a whole pile of other work that America is going to need to do,” he told Semafor in an…
A couple was caught on camera allegedly stealing thousands of dollars worth of copper wire from a northwest Houston office building. While one suspect has been arrested, the other is still on the run. Investigators allege the pair stripped roughly $300,000 worth of copper from the 12,000-square-foot building and took two elevator control panels worth…
Aggressive Construction Company Ltd lost its license to build in Hong Kong in 2023 after five workers died (©GCR, illustration by Denis Carrier) A Hong Kong contractor fighting to keep its licence to build in the special administrative region after a spate of site deaths has been kicked off its four remaining projects. The company,…
That would represent as much as a 48 per cent overall growth this year for China’s AI capex from 2024, BofA Securities’ co-head of China equity research Matty Zhao, who also heads Asia-Pacific basic materials, oil and gas research at BofA Global Research, said in an interview on Monday. Government investment is expected to account…
By Amina Niasse and Julie Steenhuysen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Health insurers are considering new expert sources to help determine which vaccines to pay for as anti-vaccine activist and now U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. begins to revise government recommendations for inoculations, according to multiple insurance industry insiders and experts. Last month, Kennedy dropped…