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Apple is planning to use a custom version of Google’s Gemini model to support a major upgrade to Siri, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The company may pay Google about $1 billion each year for access to technology that can create summaries and handle planning tasks.Bloomberg says Apple will run the custom model on its Private Cloud Compute servers, while still relying on its own systems for some parts of Siri. Gurman reports that the Gemini model uses 1.2 trillion parameters, far more than the 150 billion parameters behind the current cloud-based version of Apple Intelligence.Apple is preparing to spend…

A UPS cargo plane crashed just seconds after taking off from Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday, erupting into a fireball that swept across an industrial area near the airport.The aircraft was bound for Hawaii when it went down. Officials confirmed that at least 12 people died, while Kentucky’s governor warned that the death toll is expected to rise.The MD-11 freighter was bound for Honolulu, Hawaii, with three crew members on board.Here is what we know:What happened at Louisville?UPS Flight 2976 crashed shortly after taking off from Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport at about 5:20 pm (22:20 GMT) on Tuesday.It climbed to…

Enterprise leaders grappling with the steep costs of deploying AI models could find a reprieve thanks to a new architecture design.While the capabilities of generative AI are attractive, their immense computational demands for both training and inference result in prohibitive expenses and mounting environmental concerns. At the centre of this inefficiency is the models’ “fundamental bottleneck” of an autoregressive process that generates text sequentially, token-by-token.For enterprises processing vast data streams, from IoT networks to financial markets, this limitation makes generating long-form analysis both slow and economically challenging. However, a new research paper from Tencent AI and Tsinghua University proposes an…

When Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) stormed the besieged city of el-Fasher on October 26, Mabrooka’s husband and brother ran for their lives.The plan was for them to head to Tawila – about 60 kilometres (37 miles) away – where Mabrooka would be waiting for them with her three small children. By sundown, they had still not arrived.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listNews spread that the RSF, which has been fighting a bitter war against the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) since April 2023, was carrying out summary executions against the population of el-Fasher, which it accused of…

Align Technology, a medical device company that designs, manufactures, and sells the Invisalign system of clear aligners, exocad CAD/CAM software, and iTero intra-oral scanners, has unveiled ClinCheck Live Plan, a new feature in its Invisalign digital dental treatment planning.ClinCheck Live Plan is designed to automate the creation of an initial Invisalign treatment plan that’s ready for a practitioner to review and approve, cutting treatment planning cycles from days down to just 15 minutes. The goal is to help patients get the treatment they need faster.The latest plan follows Align’s range of new treatment planning tools and automation features launched in…

Legal experts says US attacks amount to extrajudicial killings even if those targeted are suspected of drug trafficking.Published On 5 Nov 20255 Nov 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareThe United States has killed two people in another strike on a vessel in the Pacific, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said, bringing to at least 67 the number of people killed in US attacks on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific since early September.In a post on social media late on Tuesday, Hegseth alleged that the latest vessel attacked was involved in “illicit narcotics smuggling”, though legal experts have…

A new academic review suggests AI benchmarks are flawed, potentially leading an enterprise to make high-stakes decisions on “misleading” data.Enterprise leaders are committing budgets of eight or nine figures to generative AI programmes. These procurement and development decisions often rely on public leaderboards and benchmarks to compare model capabilities.A large-scale study, ‘Measuring what Matters: Construct Validity in Large Language Model Benchmarks,’ analysed 445 separate LLM benchmarks from leading AI conferences. A team of 29 expert reviewers found that “almost all articles have weaknesses in at least one area,” undermining the claims they make about model performance.For CTOs and Chief Data…

Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar says Nigeria’s constitution protects against religious persecution after claim by US President Donald Trump.The Nigerian government has dismissed claims made by US President Donald Trump about the persecution of Christians in the West African nation, insisting that religious freedom is fully protected under the country’s constitution.Responding to a reporter’s question at a news conference in Berlin on Tuesday, Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar held up a document whose cover read “Nigeria’s Constitutional Commitment to Religious Freedom and Rule of Law”.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“All the answers are in there. This is what guides…

Among the explosion of AI systems, AI web browsers such as Fellou and Comet from Perplexity have begun to make appearances on the corporate desktop. Such applications are described as the next evolution of the humble browser, and come with AI features built in; they can read and summarise web pages – and, at their most advanced – act on web content autonomously.In theory, at least, the promise of an AI browser is that it will speed up digital workflows, undertake online research, and retrieve information from internal sources and the wider internet.However, security research teams are concluding that AI…

New York City – For Zohran Mamdani, it starts and ends in Astoria, the Queens neighbourhood he has represented as a state assemblyman for five years, and where he made his first public address following a shock victory in the June Democratic primary for mayor.On Monday, the 34-year-old made his final appearance before Tuesday’s election day, standing at a playground at dusk, with children laughing in the background.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listHis message to his army of volunteers, which the campaign has said is made up of more than 100,000: “Leave everything out there on the field”.“These…