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Meta’s Yann LeCun warned there could be an exodus of US-based scientists due to funding cuts.The Trump administration wants to slash NIH funding, causing concern in the scientific community.LeCun said Europe should be recruiting them by offering more favorable research conditions.The United States could soon see an exodus of tech…
Ukraine’s spy chief said Russia helped North Korea fix a severe accuracy flaw in its KN-23 missiles.Often compared to the Iskandar-M, it’s a ballistic missile with a range of over 400 miles.Budanov cited the KN-23 as an example of how Pyongyang is gaining from its fight against Ukraine.North Korean KN-23…
Meta’s policy chief said the company would loop in Trump when it feels targeted by regulators abroad.The company believes Trump would defend US companies he views as being treated unfairly.Meta has previously faced billions of dollars in fines from European Union regulators.The European Union has been a huge pain for…
Amazon invests billions in warehouse robotics, deploying more than 750,000 robots globally.Tye Brady, Amazon Robotics’s chief technologist, believes robots help people work more efficiently.AI significantly boosts the potential of robotics in warehouses, he told BI in a recent interview.Amazon has long been a leader in warehouse robotics, investing billions of…
DeepSeek, an open-source Chinese AI company, has riled Silicon Valley with its rapid rise.Meta’s chief AI scientist said DeepSeek has benefited from the open-source community.Meta’s AI program has remained open-source, while OpenAI has shifted to closed-source.Silicon Valley was on edge this week after DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, released its…
North Korea is set to send another tranche of artillery systems to Russia, Kyrylo Budanov said.The Ukrainian intel chief said Pyongyang already has about 240 artillery systems in Russia.These are chiefly homegrown self-propelled howitzers and multiple-launch rocket systems.North Korea looks like it’s ready to double down on Russia’s war, per…
Google’s investment chief said there’s a “tremendous” opportunity in working with Donald Trump.Ruth Porat, formerly Google’s CFO, was speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.Her remarks come a day after Google CEO Sundar Pichai was seated onstage at Trump’s inauguration.President Donald Trump is back, and Google’s chief investment…
The global exports of Champagne fell 9.2% in 2024, with 271.4 million bottles shipped out from France.Consumers are just not in the mood for celebration, the chief of the French Champagne producers association said.It said that global political and economic crises have dulled the festivities.People around the world aren’t in…
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Wednesday called on U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai to stop “secret negotiations” with Mexico, Canada and Colombia that would weaken investor protections in some U.S. free trade deals during the Biden administration’s final days. The letter, led…
Meta’s chief marketing officer Alex Schultz is concerned that “too much censorship” is harmful. Schultz’s comments come after Meta updated several policies, including content moderation.The new guidelines change what is permissible to be said about LGBTQ+ people. Meta’s chief marketing officer warned that greater censorship on its platforms could “harm…
