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(MENAFN - AsiaNet News) According to the International Energy Agency, global data center electricity consumption is expected to grow by 15% per year between 2024 and 2030. This is more than four ...

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X is making a splashy push to get more journalists posting to the app.

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(MENAFN - IANS) Varanasi, Jan 18 (IANS) Eight FIRs have been registered in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi after alleged AI-generated images and misleading claims related to the redevelopment work at ...

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When the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump called Friday for an emergency power auction in an ambitious bid to speed the construction of big power plants and tame skyrocketing power bills, top officials made clear the vision encompassed specific kinds of energy: coal, gas and...

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(MENAFN - AsiaNet News) Strong Sales Growth Projected for 2026 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) projects its sales to grow by nearly 30 per cent in 2026, driven by robust demand for ...

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Apple and Google partnership on Gemini AI model signals major shift in Siri's personalization and privacy approach digitimesApple sits out AI arms race to play kingmaker between Google and OpenAI Financial TimesApple picks Google's Gemini to run AI-powered Siri coming this year CNBCThis Week in AI: Apple May Have Dated OpenAI, But It's Marrying Google PCMagApple’s Siri Gets A Gemini Boost — And That Could Be Big News For Travel Travel and Leisure Asia

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Sitting on multiple job offers may be a thing of the past for most technology professionals, but not so for artificial intelligence talent. AI professionals are getting not just multiple offers but also counter-offers from existing employers and big incentives. New job offers and counteroffers currently come with 25-70% pay hikes for AI professionals, executives [...]

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Meta Green Cooling (MGC) is making a comprehensive push into the AI liquid cooling sector, leveraging its unique full-spectrum capabilities. MGC chairman James Chen noted that, unlike competitors, MGC integrates mechanical design, electromechanical systems, thermal management, monitoring, data center design, and maintenance services under one roof. The company posted a remarkable 215% revenue growth in 2025 and expects similar expansion in 2026 as it capitalizes on rising liquid cooling demand.

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Jeremy Jurgens Ask most people to name AI’s defining moment and they will likely point to ChatGPT’s public launch in November 2022. Yet, a different development involving the technology could

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South Korea’s top chip manufacturer SK Hynix has announced plans to invest $12.9 billion (roughly 19 trillion Korean won) in a new advanced chip packaging facility. This comes as part of a strategic plan to address a global memory chip shortage resulting from the rising demand for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The statement, released on [...]

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(MENAFN - The Conversation) For as long as humans have buried their dead, they've dreamed of keeping them close. The ancient Fayum portraits – those stunningly lifelike images wrapped in Egyptian ...

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BofA Securities recently downgraded Arm Holdings to Neutral ahead of its fiscal third-quarter 2026 results, citing near-term smartphone-related headwinds that could weigh on Arm’s client royalty revenue. At the same time, SoftBank Group is drawing fresh attention as it steps up high-profile AI and energy commitments tied to OpenAI and SB Energy, which are reshaping how investors view its role as an AI and infrastructure holding company. We’ll now examine how SoftBank’s heightened AI and...

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(MENAFN - AsiaNet News) Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Thursday inaugurated the 'Madhya Pradesh Regional AI Impact Conference-2026' in Bhopal and also launched 'Madhya Pradesh SpaceTech Policy-2026' ...

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The eSafety Commissioner is sounding the alarm over the use of the generative artificial intelligence system known as Grok on [...]

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OpenAI has confirmed that it is testing ads for ChatGPT in the US while also bringing the company’s Go tier subscription to the country. The company will start testing ads for its free and Go tier subscribers. The San Francisco-based AI startup also stated that ads inside ChatGPT will be “clearly labelled and shown separately [...]

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College students shared their experiences with ABC11 on the rapidly evolving technology.

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Taiwan aims to become a close strategic artificial intelligence partner with the United States thanks to a deal to reduce tariffs and boost Taiwanese investment in the country, Taiwan Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun said on Friday.

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Foxconn holds the hardware keys to Apple's AI strategy digitimesNothing confirms its first India flagship store in Bengaluru: All you need to know MintApple likely to start producing AI chips in 2026, eyes in-house data centres FirstpostTop News Today: Apple AI Chips, Rs. 200 Cr VC Fund, AI Hiring Analytics InsightApple Could Begin Mass Production of In-House AI Server Chips Later This Year: Ming-Chi Kuo Gadgets 360

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Australian officials are looking into the creation of child abuse material on Elon Musk's social media platform amid global outcry over the issue.

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The ET AI Awards are not just a celebration of excellence in artificial intelligence. They are a strategic gathering for leaders who are shaping how AI is built, adopted, and funded. For attendees, the value lies in gaining direct exposure to decision making across the AI value chain, understanding where momentum is building, and identifying where competitive advantage is being created.

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AI copilots are incredibly intelligent and useful — but they can also be naive, gullible, and even dumb at times.A new one-click attack flow discovered by Varonis Threat Labs researchers underscores this fact. ‘Reprompt,’ as they’ve dubbed it, is a three-step attack chain that completely bypasses security controls after an initial LLM prompt, giving attackers invisible, undetectable, unlimited access.“AI assistants have become trusted companions where we share sensitive information, seek guidance, and rely on them without hesitation,” Varonis Threat Labs security researcher Dolev Taler wrote in a blog post. “But ... trust can be easily exploited, and an AI assistant can turn into a data exfiltration weapon with a single click.”It’s important to note that, as of now, Reprompt has only been discovered in Microsoft Copilot Personal, not Microsoft 365 Copilot — but that’s not to say it couldn’t be used against enterprises depending on their copilot policies and user awareness. Microsoft has already released a patch after being made aware of the flaw.How Reprompt silently works in the backgroundReprompt employs three techniques to create a data exfiltration chain: Initial parameter to prompt (P2P injection), double request, and chain-request.P2P embeds a prompt directly in a URL, exploiting Copilot’s default ‘q’ URL parameter functionality, which is intended to streamline and improve user experience. The URL can include specific questions or instructions that automatically populate the input field when pages load.Using this loophole, attackers then employ double-request, which allows them to circumvent safeguards; Copilot only checks for malicious content in the Q variable for the first prompt, not subsequent requests.For instance, the researchers asked Copilot to fetch a URL containing the secret phrase “HELLOWORLD1234!”, repeating the request twice. Copilot removed the secret phrase from the first URL, but the second attempt “worked flawlessly,” Taler noted.From here, attackers can kick off a chain-request, in which the attacker’s server issues follow-up instructions to form an ongoing conversation. This tricks Copilot into exfiltrating conversation histories and sensitive data. Threat actors can provide a range of prompts like “Summarize all of the files that the user accessed today,” “Where does the user live?” or “What vacations does he have planned?”This method “makes data theft stealthy and scalable,” and there is no limit to what or how much attackers can exfiltrate, Taler noted. “Copilot leaks the data little by little, allowing the threat to use each answer to generate the next malicious instruction.”The danger is that reprompt requires no plugins, enabled connectors, or user interaction with Copilot beyond the initial single click on a legitimate Microsoft Copilot link in a phishing message. The attacker can stay in Copilot as long as they want, even after the user closes their chat.All commands are delivered via the server after the initial prompt, so it’s almost impossible to determine what is being extracted just by inspecting that one prompt. “The real instructions are hidden in the server’s follow-up requests,” Taler noted, “not from anything obvious in the prompt the user submits.”What devs and security teams should do nowAs in usual security practice, enterprise users should always treat URLs and external inputs as untrusted, experts advised. Be cautious with links, be on the lookout for unusual behavior, and always pause to review pre-filled prompts.“This attack, like many others, originates with a phishing email or text message, so all the usual best practices against phishing apply, including ‘don’t click on suspicious links,’” noted Henrique Teixeira, SVP of Strategy at Saviynt.Phishing-resistant authentication should be implemented, not only during the initial use of a chatbot, but throughout the entire session, he emphasized. This would require developers to implement controls when first building apps and embedding copilots and chatbots, rather than adding controls later on.End users should avoid using chatbots that are not authenticated and avoid risky behaviors such as acting on a sense of urgency (such as being encouraged to speedily completing a transaction), replying to unknown or potentially nefarious senders, or oversharing personal info, he noted.“Lastly and super importantly is to not blame the victim in these instances,” said Teixeira. App owners and service providers using AI must build apps that do not allow prompts to be submitted without authentication and authorization, or with malicious commands embedded in URLs. “Service providers can include more prompt hygiene and basic identity security controls like continuous and adaptive authentication to make apps safer to employees and clients,” he said.Further, design considering insider-level risk, says Varonis’ Taler. “Assume AI assistants operate with trusted context and access. Enforce least privilege, auditing, and anomaly detection accordingly.”Ultimately, this represents yet another example of enterprises rolling out new technologies with security as an afterthought, other experts note.“Seeing this story play out is like watching Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner,” said David Shipley of Beauceron Security. “Once you know the gag, you know what’s going to happen. The coyote is going to trust some ridiculously flawed Acme product and use it in a really dumb way.”In this case, that ‘product’ is LLM-based technologies that are simply allowed to perform any actions without restriction. The scary thing is there’s no way to secure it because LLMs are what Shipley described as “high speed idiots.”“They can’t distinguish between content and instructions, and will blindly do what they’re told,” he said.LLMs should be limited to chats in a browser, he asserted. Giving them access to anything more than that is a “disaster waiting to happen,” particularly if they’re going to be interacting with content that can be sent via e-mail, message, or through a website.Using techniques such as applying least access privilege and zero trust to try to work around the fundamental insecurity of LLM agents “look brilliant until they backfire,” Shipley said. “All of this would be funny if it didn’t get organizations pwned.”

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LAHORE: Acting Governor of Punjab Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan has said that the future belongs to artificial intelligence and digital technology; therefore, between 2025 and 2030, AI and digital education must be introduced starting from primary schools.He expressed these views as the chief guest at the Hunarmand Punjab Scholarship ceremony held at Punjab University Al Raazi Hall here on Thursday.On this occasion, Punjab Minister for Education Rana Sikandar Hayat, PU VC Prof Dr Muhammad Ali, faculty members, and a large number of students were present.Addressing the ceremony, Acting Governor Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan said that due to the lack of digital skills, his generation had gone through a period of crisis. He added that there are 60,000 government schools in Punjab, and if anyone can make revolutionary decisions at this level; it is Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz.Comparing the expenditures of public and private educational institutions, he said that private schools incur heavy monthly costs per child, whereas very little is spent annually on a child in government schools; therefore, special attention must be given to children studying in public schools.Punjab Minister for Education Rana Sikandar Hayat said that the Punjab government is taking serious steps for the education and welfare of youth. He stated that the auction of shops at the flower market opposite PU has significantly increased government revenue. He added that, in collaboration with Google, thousands of students have already completed useful digital courses. He further said that in the next two years, digital skills will be provided to 500,000 children, one million digital courses will be conducted, and 4,000 AI labs are being established in high schools across the province.Copyright Business Recorder, 2026

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A team of Mass General Brigham researchers has developed one of the first fully autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of screening for cognitive impairment using routine clinical documentation.

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US export controls on artificial intelligence and high-performance computing are no longer limited by geography. In mid-January 2026, the US House of Representatives passed the Remote Access Security Act by an overwhelming majority, bringing remote access to controlled technologies under regulation. Oversight of AI chips and advanced computing power now extends beyond physical exports and hardware locations to include cross-border cloud access.

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Ashley St Clair, Elon Musk's child's mother, has sued xAI for generating explicit deepfake images of her via Grok AI. She claims emotional distress and loss of privacy, while xAI counters that she breached contract by filing in the wrong court. Several countries are considering banning Grok.

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