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New US data centre projects in Texas and New York will receive $50 billion in new funding, part of a plan to grow US computing capacity for advanced AI work. The facilities, built with Fluidstack, are designed for Anthropic’s systems and will focus on power and efficiency needs that come with training and running large models across these data centre sites.Fluidstack provides large GPU clusters to companies such as Meta, Midjourney, and Mistral. The partnership reflects a wider push across the tech industry this year, as many firms increase spending on US infrastructure while the Trump administration urges companies to…

The US State Department has labelled four groups, from Germany, Greece and Italy, as ‘specially designated global terrorists’.The administration of United States President Donald Trump has designated four European groups as “specially designated global terrorists” for their links to the loose-knit, left-wing movement known as “antifa”.Thursday’s announcement was yet another step in Trump’s campaign to dismantle antifa, short for “anti-fascist”.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe four sanctioned groups include Antifa Ost in Germany; the Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front (FAI/FRI) in Italy; Armed Proletarian Justice in Greece; and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense, also in Greece.As part of Thursday’s statement,…

According to IBM, the primary barrier holding back enterprise AI isn’t the technology itself but the persistent issue of data silos.Ed Lovely, VP and Chief Data Officer at IBM, describes data silos as the “Achilles’ heel” of modern data strategy. Lovely made the comments following the release of a new study from the IBM Institute for Business Value that found AI is ready to scale, but enterprise data is not.The report, which surveyed 1,700 senior data leaders, found that functional data remains stubbornly isolated. Finance, HR, marketing, and supply chain data all operate in isolation, with no common taxonomy or…

Conditions at Syrian al-Hol and al-Roj camps are “inhuman, dangerous, and degrading”, independent report says, urging UK to comply with international obligations.The United Kingdom government should voluntarily facilitate the return of former repentant ISIL (ISIS) member Shamima Begum and others living in Syrian camps and deprived of British nationality, a new report has urged.The Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice said the current stance of the government towards nationals and former nationals detained in Syrian camps was “increasingly untenable” as they were living under “inhuman” conditions.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“The government should facilitate voluntary…

Baidu’s latest ERNIE model, a super-efficient multimodal AI, is beating GPT and Gemini on key benchmarks and targets enterprise data often ignored by text-focused models.For many businesses, valuable insights are locked in engineering schematics, factory-floor video feeds, medical scans, and logistics dashboards. Baidu’s new model, ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking, is designed to fill this gap.What’s interesting to enterprise architects is not just its multimodal capability, but its architecture. It’s described as a “lightweight” model, activating only three billion parameters during operation. This approach targets the high inference costs that often stall AI-scaling projects. Baidu is betting on efficiency as a path to adoption,…

United States President Donald Trump is committed to providing Americans with $2,000 cheques using money that has come into government coffers from Trump’s tariffs.On Wednesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Trump’s staff is exploring how to go about making the plan a reality.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe president proposed the idea on his Truth Social media platform on Sunday, five days after his Republican Party lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey and elsewhere largely because of voter discontent with his economic stewardship — specifically, the high cost of living.A new AP-NORC poll finds…

Google has rolled out Private AI Compute, a new cloud-based processing system designed to bring the privacy of on-device AI to the cloud. The platform aims to give users faster, more capable AI experiences without compromising data security. It combines Google’s most advanced Gemini models with strict privacy safeguards, reflecting the company’s ongoing effort to make AI both powerful and responsible.The feature closely resembles Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, signalling how major tech firms are rethinking privacy in the age of large-scale AI. Both companies are trying to balance two competing needs — the huge computing power required to run advanced…

Hit hard by aid cuts and sanctions, Afghanistan is struggling to absorb 4.5 million returnees since 2023.Published On 12 Nov 202512 Nov 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareNine in 10 families in Afghanistan are going hungry or falling into debt as millions of new returnees stretch resources in poverty-stricken areas in the east and north, according to the United Nations.Taliban-controlled Afghanistan – battered by aid cuts, sanctions and repeated natural disasters, including a deadly quake in August – is struggling to absorb 4.5 million people who have returned since 2023. About 1.5 million were forced back this year from…

According to Wiz, the race among AI companies is causing many to overlook basic security hygiene practices.65 percent of the 50 leading AI firms the cybersecurity firm analysed had leaked verified secrets on GitHub. The exposures include API keys, tokens, and sensitive credentials, often buried in code repositories that standard security tools do not check.Glyn Morgan, Country Manager for UK&I at Salt Security, described this trend as a preventable and basic error. “When AI firms accidentally expose their API keys they lay bare a glaring avoidable security failure,” he said.“It’s the textbook example of governance paired with a security configuration,…

Turkiye and Azerbaijan have indicated that there are fatalities after a C-130 cargo aircraft crashed on Tuesday.Published On 11 Nov 202511 Nov 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareA Turkish military plane with at least 20 people on board has crashed in Georgia close to the border with Azerbaijan, Turkiye’s Defence Ministry has said.There were no immediate reports on the number of casualties or the cause of the accident involving a C-130 cargo plane, which had taken off from the Azerbaijani city of Ganja on Tuesday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listHowever, both Turkiye and Azerbaijan, which are close…