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Mayor Brett Smiley of Providence, Rhode Island, has confirmed that two people have been killed and eight more are critically injured after an active shooter was reported on the campus of Brown University.Exams were underway on Saturday when the shooting began on the Ivy League campus.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe suspect remains at large, according to Rhode Island officials. They described the suspect as man dressed in black who left the scene on foot.At a news conference afterwards, Smiley said that university leaders became aware of the shooting around 4:05pm local time (21:05 GMT), when a 911…

F. Scott Fitzgerald observed that “in a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning.” Microsoft’s latest Copilot usage analysis suggests this nocturnal tendency toward existential contemplation persists in the AI age – with religion and philosophy conversations rising through the rankings during early morning hours.The Microsoft AI (MAI) research team analysed 37.5 million anonymised conversations to uncover when and how users turn to Copilot for different needs. The findings, published December 10, reveal distinct AI use patterns that follow surprisingly human rhythms – from late-night philosophical queries to Valentine’s Day relationship anxiety, and…

A cautious calm has settled over the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) city of Uvira in South Kivu province, as residents begin emerging from their homes following its capture by M23 rebels.The capture earlier this week threatens to derail a United States-brokered peace agreement, signed with much fanfare and overseen by President Donald Trump a week ago, between Congolese and Rwandan leaders, with Washington accusing Rwanda on Friday of igniting the offensive.Recommended Stories list of 2 itemsend of listRegional authorities say at least 400 civilians, including women and children, have been killed in the violence between the cities…

BBVA is embedding AI into core banking workflows using ChatGPT Enterprise to overhaul risk and service in the sector.For the banking industry, the challenge of generative AI is rarely about adoption; it is about value extraction. BBVA has addressed this by integrating OpenAI’s platform directly into its operational backbone, a decision that will see the tool deployed across every unit of the bank. This tenfold expansion marks one of the largest enterprise deployments in the financial sector to date.The bank’s approach prioritises data over hype. BBVA began working with OpenAI in May 2024, rolling out 3,300 accounts to test the…

Incident in November latest reported instance of Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive maritime tactics.Published On 12 Dec 202512 Dec 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareUnited States forces raided a cargo ship travelling from China to Iran last month, according to the Wall Street Journal, in the latest reported instance of increasingly aggressive maritime tactics by the administration of US President Donald Trump.Unnamed officials told the newspaper that US military personnel boarded the ship several hundred miles from Sri Lanka, according to the report on Friday. It was the first time in several years US forces had intercepted cargo travelling from…

Generative AI’s experimental phase is concluding, making way for truly autonomous systems in 2026 that act rather than merely summarise.2026 will lose the focus on model parameters and be about agency, energy efficiency, and the ability to navigate complex industrial environments. The next twelve months represent a departure from chatbots toward autonomous systems executing workflows with minimal oversight; forcing organisations to rethink infrastructure, governance, and talent management.Autonomous AI systems take the wheelHanen Garcia, Chief Architect for Telecommunications at Red Hat, argues that while 2025 was defined by experimentation, the coming year marks a “decisive pivot towards agentic AI, autonomous software…

Strikes hit hills and valleys as Israeli military keeps up pressure, it says, to force Hezbollah to disarm.Israeli warplanes have carried out at least a dozen attacks across southern Lebanon, targeting what the military claims are Hezbollah training facilities in the latest flagrant near-daily violations that have further undermined a year-old ceasefire.The raids hit hills and valleys in the Jezzine and Zahrani areas, including locations near al-Aaichiyeh, between al-Zrariyeh and Ansar, and around Jabal al-Rafie and the outskirts of several towns, according to Lebanon’s state news agency.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listIsrael’s military said it struck a compound…

For the past year, we’ve been told that artificial intelligence is revolutionising productivity—helping us write emails, generate code, and summarise documents. But what if the reality of how people actually use AI is completely different from what we’ve been led to believe?A data-driven study by OpenRouter has just pulled back the curtain on real-world AI usage by analysing over 100 trillion tokens—essentially billions upon billions of conversations and interactions with large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, and dozens of others. The findings challenge many assumptions about the AI revolution.​​OpenRouter is a multi-model AI inference platform that routes requests across more than 300 models from over 60…

Twenty states had challenged the end of the programme, meant to make localities more resilient to natural disasters.Published On 11 Dec 202511 Dec 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareA federal judge has said the administration of United States President Donald Trump acted unlawfully in ending a programme aimed at helping communities become more resilient to natural disasters.The Trump administration had targeted the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) programme as part of a wider effort to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listBut on Thursday, US District Judge Richard Stearns ruled that…

Microsoft believes it has a fix for AI prompts being given, the response missing the mark, and the cycle repeating.This inefficiency is a drain on resources. The “trial-and-error loop can feel unpredictable and discouraging,” turning what should be a productivity booster into a time sink. Knowledge workers often spend more time managing the interaction itself than understanding the material they hoped to learn.Microsoft has released Promptions (prompt + options), a UI framework designed to address this friction by replacing vague natural language requests with precise, dynamic interface controls. The open-source tool offers a method to standardise how workforces interact with…