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AI and data centers drive rising LNG demand

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India's healthcare workforce, armed with digital upskilling, is poised for AI dominance, but there are certain creases in the system that need to be ironed out for more efficient integration. Policymakers and the key stakeholders must

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Elon Musk's SpaceX has acquired xAI, aiming to move AI data centers into orbit, reshape global computing, and fund his long-term vision for space expansion.

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SK hynix intends to restructure its NAND-focused US unit, Solidigm, into AI Co.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX has acquired xAI, aiming to move AI data centers into orbit, reshape global computing, and fund his long-term vision for space expansion.

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Major Chinese technology companies have launched a fierce subsidy-driven competition to secure leadership in the artificial intelligence (AI) application market, rolling out incentives worth hundreds of billions of won to attract users during the Lunar New Year period. The move has drawn comparisons

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A Future Health Index 2025 report reveals deep systemic delays and data gaps costing clinicians 23 days a year, but experts say AI could help reclaim time, improve outcomes and make care more equitable

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A practical LTX-2 guide: inputs/outputs, text-to-video and image-to-video, the 19B and 8-step variants, BF16 training, LoRA tips, and how to get cleaner results with proper dimensions.

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OpenAI has been exploring alternatives to some of Nvidia's latest artificial intelligence chips, particularly for AI inference workloads. This exemplifies the intensifying competition in the inference segment of the AI chip market and has raised investor concerns about Nvidia's long-term dominance, even as both companies publicly stress the strength of their partnership.

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Free AI-Powered Music Creation Platform Offers Text-to-Music, Lyrics-to-Song, Vocal Remover, and More – All Royalty-Free for Commercial Use LONDON, Feb. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Nafy AI has officially launched its comprehensive AI music generator platform, providing creators worldwide with professional-grade music production tools powered by cutting-edge artificial intelligence. The platform enables users to create original, royalty-free music in seconds, democratizing music creation for content creators, musicians, and businesses alike. Nafy AI stands out in the crowded AI music space by offering an all-in-one suite of creative tools, including Text-to-Music generation, Lyrics-to-Song conversion, AI Song Cover Generator, AI Music Extension, AI Music Editor, AI Lyrics Generator, and AI Vocal Remover – all accessible through a single intuitive platform. "We built Nafy AI to remove the technical barriers that have traditionally kept music creation out of reach for many creators," said a company spokesperson. "Whether you're a professional musician looking to accelerate your workflow or a content creator who needs original soundtracks, our platform delivers studio-quality results in seconds, not hours." Key Features That Set Nafy AI Apart: The platform's Text-to-Music feature allows users to describe their musical vision in plain language – mood, genre, tempo, and instrumentation – and watch as the AI transforms these descriptions into fully produced tracks. For users who already have lyrics, the Lyrics-to-Song tool generates perfectly synchronized instrumentation that brings written verses to life. Nafy AI's AI Song Cover Generator enables creative reimagining of existing audio across genres, preserving melodic DNA while revolutionizing instrumentation and production aesthetics. The AI Music Extension feature analyzes structural patterns and stylistic signatures to generate organic expansions that extend compositions seamlessly. The platform supports multiple vocal options including male, female, and instrumental-only tracks, with global language support for creating music in English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and more. Advanced features like custom voice training and the ability to save and reuse vocal styles provide unprecedented creative control. Royalty-Free Commercial Licensing All music generated through Nafy AI's paid plans comes with full commercial rights, allowing users to freely use, market, or sell their creations without risk of copyright infringement. The platform offers transparent tiered pricing from Basic ($12.42/month annually) to Pro ($49.92/month annually), with a free tier available for newcomers to experience AI-powered music creation. Built on Advanced AI Technology Nafy AI leverages deep learning architectures trained on millions of tracks, utilizing transformer-based composition and parallel stem generation to deliver studio-grade results. The platform's neural vocal modeling produces expressive, human-like singing, while automated mastering pipelines ensure radio-ready output that matches commercial production standards. The platform is accessible via web browser on any device, with support for WAV and MIDI export formats. Pro users can run up to 8 generation tasks simultaneously and access tracks up to 8 minutes in length through the latest V5 model. For more information and to start creating music for free, visit: https://nafy.ai About Nafy AI Nafy AI is an AI-powered music generation platform designed to make professional music creation accessible to everyone. With a comprehensive suite of tools including text-to-music generation, vocal removal, AI covers, and music editing, Nafy AI serves content creators, musicians, businesses, and hobbyists worldwide. The platform is committed to providing royalty-free, broadcast-ready music that empowers creative expression without technical barriers.

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Build AI-powered 3D interactive worlds using text prompts and images.The post Google’s Project Genie will let you build and explore AI-powered 3D worlds appeared first on Technobaboy.

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Artificial intelligence has been given a sharper policy push in the Union Budget, with targeted spending across semiconductor manufacturing, data centre infrastructure and AI software development, signalling a more integrated approach to building a domestic AI ecosystem. On the hardware side, the government has continued backing the India Semiconductor Mission, with the focus shifting to accelerating chip fabrication, advanced packaging and electronics manufacturing.

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JAKARTA (AFP): Indonesia will restore access to Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok after the billionaire’s social media platform X promised to comply with the country’s laws, a government official said on Sunday. Grok has faced a global backlash after it emerged that its image creation feature allowed users to sexualize pictures of women and children using [...]

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that artificial intelligence has become powerful enough for one person to do the work that earlier needed an entire team. His comments came during Meta’s recent earnings call and have started discussions about how AI could change jobs in the tech industry. During the latest earnings call Mark said “We’re starting to see projects that used to require big teams now be accomplished by a single very talented person,” For him, the focus is on attracting individuals who can use these tools to their full potential.

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Oracle Corp. has given investors another reason to be nervous after revealing a plan to raise between $45 billion and $50 billion this year, in order to fund the buildout of further data center capacity for artificial intelligence workloads. The cloud infrastructure and database giant said it will raise the money via a combination of [...]The post Oracle unveils $50B fundraising plan to fuel AI data center ambitions appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly large role in corporate layoff announcements. But according to a report Saturday (Jan. 31) from The New York Times, some skeptics argue that companies are engaged in “AI washing,” or disingenuously blaming the technology for job...

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Apple has reportedly lost at least four AI researchers recently to its big tech rivals. These departures include Yinfei Yang, Haoxuan You, Bailin Wang and Zirui Wang, Bloomberg News reported Friday (Jan. 30). The report, citing sources familiar with the matter, said Yang left to found a...

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NASA's Perseverance rover made history with fully AI-driven Mars drives, led by Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Vandi Verma, showcasing advances in autonomous space exploration.

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Supercomputing has shifted into the mainstream, with recent AI advancements and adoption making the use of massive amounts of computational power more commonplace. Read more here.

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Elon Musk has reacted to launch of Moltbook, the social media platform designed especially for AI agents. Musk called it the ‘early stage of singularity’ despite the warning by former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy.

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Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has insisted the US tech giant will make a "huge" investment in OpenAI and dismissed as "nonsense" reports that he is unhappy with the generative AI star. We are going to make a huge investment in OpenAI," Huang told journalists, when asked about reports that he was unhappy with OpenAI. Huang insisted that Nvidia was going ahead with its investment in OpenAI, describing it as "one of the most consequential companies of our time".

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BPL Medical Technologies made a strong impact at IRIA 2026, the 78th Annual Conference of the diagnostics, and women’s health technologies in Hyderabad During the conference, the company unveiled a...

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Political groups tied to the cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industries have raked in tens of millions of dollars, according to new campaign finance reports.

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From Facebook and TikTok to Instagram and X, AI-manipulated images and videos depicting Alex Pretti’s final moments have proliferated across the internet since his fatal shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis last weekend.The rapid spread of media altered by artificial intelligence, much of which shows Pretti collapsing in the seconds after he was shot, has clouded key details of the shooting on social networks. Unlike other AI-generated deepfakes that portray entirely unrealistic scenes and are easily identified as fake, many of the AI-altered depictions of Pretti’s shooting appear to have been based on verified images, mirroring reality enough to confuse and mislead many online.And even as awareness of the capabilities of advanced artificial intelligence spreads, some online are extending their skepticism to authentic media, falsely claiming that legitimate photos and videos of Pretti have been altered by AI.One image that appears to have been manipulated with AI, showing the ICU nurse falling forward as a federal officer points a gun at his back, has been viewed over 9 million times on X (even as it received a community note that the image had been enhanced by AI). Among other AI-fabricated details, the still image features an ICE officer without a head. An AI-manipulated image shows a man resembling Alex Pretti falling forward as an ICE officer points a gun at his back. (NBC News via X)Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., displayed the image during a speech on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday, apparently without realizing the image was not authentic.In a statement to NBC News, a spokesperson for Sen. Durbin wrote: “Our office used a photo on the Senate floor that had been widely circulated online. Staff didn’t realize until after the fact that the image had been slightly edited and regret that this mistake occurred.” Immigration17 hours agoJudge allows ICE's Operation Metro Surge to continue in MinnesotaCongress22 hours agoWhat to know about the partial government shutdown and its impactOther posts have featured realistic video, including an AI-generated video on TikTok of Pretti talking with an ICE officer and one on Facebook of a police officer accidentally firing Pretti’s gun. The Facebook post, which has been labeled with a community note as being “AI-enhanced,” has more than 44 million views. It has not been established whether that officer fired a shot with Pretti’s gun.Ben Colman, co-founder and CEO of deepfake-detecting company Reality Defender, said the rampant saturation of posts with AI-involved media of the shooting was worrisome but unsurprising. AI-modified images attempting to unmask the ICE officer who fatally shot Renée Nicole Good, the other U.S. citizen killed in Minneapolis in recent weeks, began circulating the internet earlier this month, leading many online to inaccurately identify other people as the agent. “Over the last couple of months, we’ve seen on social media a sizable uptick of photos that contain AI-generated ‘enhancements’ of grainy, blurry photos,” Colman told NBC News. “The problem with these deepfakes — and they are still deepfakes in the end — is that they are crude approximations at best, complete fabrications at worst and do not accurately enhance or unmask individuals in the end.”“Details like the missing head of an individual in the photo show just how damaging it is for these fake photos to go viral,” said Colman, referring to the photo shared by Durbin in the Senate. “If we take fake photos as real regardless of the context, it distracts and can detract from truth and fact.”The spread of AI media has also led many online to mistakenly claim that genuine videos of Pretti are inauthentic. Experts have worried that this dynamic could allow a phenomenon referred to as the liar’s dividend, in which bad actors use the claim that authentic media is AI-generated in order to create distrust and avoid accountability.Three videos independently verified by NBC News show Pretti getting into an altercation with federal immigration agents in Minneapolis just over a week before his death. But one of the videos, shot by reporters with The News Movement, is being labeled as AI-generated by some social media users.The video showing Pretti kicking the back of a vehicle used by agents before being wrestled to the ground was verified by his family through a representative. A witness who recorded a second verified video showing the same incident told NBC News that he hugged Pretti after the altercation with federal agents and asked if he was OK.There are few, if any, tools available to news consumers that can accurately tell if a piece of content has been created or manipulated by AI. On X, the platform’s AI assistant Grok responded to inquiries into the authenticity of the footage, with several of its replies claiming the genuine video “appears to be AI-generated or altered.” The spate of AI deepfakes has added to swirling misinformation surrounding Pretti’s shooting, as several right-wing influencers misidentified Pretti as another Minneapolis resident.Surges in AI-mediated misinformation and disinformation surrounding breaking news have become more common over the past year, as advancing AI systems are increasingly capable of creating high-quality images and videos that blur the line between reality and fiction. Colin Sheeley and Jean Lee contributed.

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Artificial Intelligence and digital infrastructure are expected to remain key focus areas in the upcoming Union Budget, with the government likely to announce major measures to boost startups and innovation. Strengthening digital capabilities is seen as central to driving long-term economic growth and global competitiveness.Investment promotion is expected to be at the forefront of the government’s agenda, with policies aimed at attracting both domestic and foreign capital. The budget may also include significant announcements to encourage women entrepreneurship, enhance skill development among youth, and provide targeted support packages for the agriculture sector and farmers.Job creation and expansion of employment opportunities are likely to be closely watched areas, as the government is expected to outline steps to generate sustainable livelihoods across sectors. In addition, the MSME sector is expected to receive special attention, with possible incentives and policy support for micro, small and medium enterprises to strengthen their role in the economy.Also Read: Expectations of taxpayers ahead of the Union BudgetFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman may also announce measures to promote small and medium industries, alongside initiatives to further strengthen the pharmaceutical sector and health infrastructure. Rural development is also expected to feature prominently, with multiple budgetary steps aimed at improving infrastructure, livelihoods, and economic opportunities in rural areas.Overall, the budget is expected to reflect a balanced approach, combining technology-driven growth with inclusive development, while focusing on investment, employment, and sectoral strengthening.

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