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When Romy Gai, FIFA’s chief business officer, described the operational challenge of running a 48-team World Cup across Canada, Mexico and the United States, he was not talking about technology. He was talking about complexity.Previous World Cups relied on local organising committees to absorb much of the logistical load. For 2026, FIFA is running operations directly. Six billion people are expected to watch. There are 104 matches, up from 64 in Qatar. There are 48 teams instead of 32, 180-plus broadcasters, and no single national infrastructure to lean on. The scale is genuinely new.The AI strategy FIFA unveiled at Lenovo Tech World in Hong Kong this week is best understood against that…

Bahrain tells residents to stay inside after an attack on fuel tanks while Saudi Arabia reports shooting down drones headed towards an oilfield.Listen to this article | 3 minsinfoPublished On 12 Mar 202612 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoIran has launched a new wave of drone and missile attacks on Gulf countries on the 13th day of the United States-Israel war on Tehran, with Bahrain reporting strikes on fuel tanks amid surging oil prices.Bahrain told residents on Thursday morning to stay inside and close windows after the attack in Muharraq Governorate. The country hosts the US…

Virtual simulation data is driving the development of physical AI across corporate environments, led by initiatives like Ai2’s MolmoBot.Instructing hardware to interact with the real world has historically relied on highly expensive and manually-collected demonstrations. Technology providers building generalist manipulation agents typically frame extensive real-world training as the basis for these systems.For some context, projects like DROID include 76,000 teleoperated trajectories gathered across 13 institutions, representing roughly 350 hours of human effort. Google DeepMind’s RT-1 required 130,000 episodes collected over 17 months by human operators. This reliance on proprietary, manual data collection inflates research budgets and concentrates capabilities within a…

Irish rapper Liam O’Hanna welcomes ruling in case he says was ‘never about any threat to the public, never about terrorism’.Listen to this article | 2 minsinfoPublished On 11 Mar 202611 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoBritish prosecutors have lost an appeal seeking to reinstate a “terrorism” charge against a member of Irish rap group Kneecap accused of waving a Hezbollah flag during a gig in London.London’s High Court on Wednesday rejected prosecutors’ attempts to challenge a lower court’s decision to throw out the case against Liam O’Hanna in September due to a technical error.Recommended Stories…

ADLINK Technology has signed a strategic alliance and joint development agreement with Under Control Robotics, the company behind the robotics startup Noble Machines. The two firms will combine ADLINK’s edge AI platforms with Noble Machines’ autonomy software to create a new generation of general-purpose robots for modern manufactories and engineering plants. The work focuses on bi-pedal, bi-manual machines – read, human-like robots – designed to operate in demanding industrial settings. The partnership will integrate ADLINK’s DLAP edge AI platform with Noble Machines’ autonomy and whole-body control software. The system is intended to provide reasoning, sensing, and motion control for robots…

Star NBA players like LeBron James take to social media to praise the Miami player’s incredible scoring achievement.Listen to this article | 2 minsinfoPublished On 11 Mar 202611 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoMiami Heat centre Bam Adebayo’s 83-point performance against the Washington Wizards on Tuesday – the second-highest scoring game in NBA history – was a historic statistical line no one saw coming.The Heat star shot 20-43 from the floor and was 7-22 from beyond the three-point line. Thirty-six of his 83 points came from the free-throw line (36 of 43).Recommended Stories list of 4…

A new ABB and NVIDIA partnership shows physical AI simulation is driving real ROI in factory automation and solving production hurdles.Manufacturers have often found it difficult to make intelligent robotics work reliably outside testing environments. The core issue is the gap between digital training models and actual factory floors, where lighting, material physics, and part variations refuse to behave as they do on a screen.Historically, this friction has previously forced engineering teams to fall back on physical prototypes, delaying product launches and driving up costs.Overcoming the digital to physical AI simulation divideThe partnership between ABB Robotics and NVIDIA attempts to…

Listen to this article | 4 minsinfoUkrainian and Russian officials have claimed battlefield successes in the more than four-year war, as Russian air attacks on Ukraine continue.At least four people were killed in Russian attacks on the Ukrainian town of Sloviansk, regional authorities said on Tuesday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe governor of Sloviansk, Vadym Filashkin, confirmed the death toll on Tuesday and said 16 others were wounded, including a 14-year-old girl. He said Russian forces dropped three guided bombs on the city.There was no immediate comment from Moscow on the attack.Overnight drone strikes on three other Ukrainian cities wounded…

In finance, achieving operational automation by integrating agentic AI requires a data-centric foundation to drive real value.Financial infrastructure provider SEI has engaged IBM to modernise its internal operations via AI and automation. The joint initiative focuses on process redesign and targeted system updates to deliver consistent client experiences, building a modern and data-enabled foundation in the process.Deploying intelligent agents involves more than simply selecting a foundation model. The actual return on investment relies on auditing existing workflows and finding exact points where human effort is wasted on repetitive administrative tasks.Financial institutions are increasingly finding that when automation handles standard queries…

Listen to this article | 4 minsinfoOne person has been killed in an Iranian attack in Bahrain, as regional countries including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates intercept drones and missiles from Iran.A 29-year-old woman was killed and eight people injured when a residential building in Bahrain’s capital Manama was hit, the country’s Ministry of Interior said on Tuesday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe attack came after Bahrain’s Ministry of Health reported on Monday that two people, including several children, were wounded in an Iranian drone attack on the island of Sitra, south of Manama. Bahrain said late…