Palestinian food blogger cooks food from aid packages, bringing joy to children in Gaza A young Palestinian girl hungrily bites into a meat-filled wrap in a displacement shelter in southern Gaza, her eyes wide with gratitude. In another scene from an Instagram video, posted by Hamada Shaqoura in March, the girl gives a little boy the same sandwich. Their shadows …

Egypt’s foreign minister spoke with Israeli and Iranian officials about maintaining peace in the region Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry held talks with his Israeli and Iranian counterparts to uphold “calm and peace,” as world leaders sought to contain the risk of a wider regional war. Shoukry told CNN’s Becky Anderson that the mutual targeting between Israel and Iran “is …

Nissan says it will make next-generation EV batteries by early 2029 YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) – Nissan expects to mass-produce electric vehicles powered by advanced next-generation batteries by early 2029, the company said Tuesday during a media tour of an unfinished pilot plant. The legacy Japanese automaker has fallen behind new rivals such as America’s Tesla and China’s BYD in the …

Global smartphone shipments rose nearly 8% in the first quarter as Samsung regained the lead Global smartphone shipments rose nearly 8% in the first quarter, according to preliminary data from International Data Corp. It was the third consecutive quarter of shipment growth and marked Samsung’s return to No. 1. There were 289.4 million units shipped during that period, according to …

Tired of AI doomsday tropes, Cohere CEO says the goal is technology that is ‘supplemental to humanity’ Aidan Gomez can take some credit for the ‘T’ at the end of ChatGPT. He was part of a group of Google engineers who first introduced a new artificial intelligence model called transformer. That helped set the foundation for today’s generative AI boom …

NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break law. The city did not destroy it An artificial intelligence-powered chatbot created by New York City to help small business owners is being criticized for giving strange advice that misrepresents local policies and advising companies to break the law. But days after the issue was first reported last week by tech news …

Amazon adds Andrew Ng, a leading voice in artificial intelligence, to its board of directors Amazon is adding artificial intelligence visionary Andrew Ng to its board, a move that comes amid fierce AI competition among startups and big tech companies. The Seattle company said Thursday that Ng, managing director of the Palo Alto, California-based AI Fund, will fill the seat …

North Korea is buying Chinese surveillance cameras in a bid to tighten controls, reports say North Korea is placing surveillance cameras in schools and workplaces and collecting fingerprints, photographs and other biometric information from its citizens in a technology-driven effort to more closely monitor its population, a report said Tuesday. The country’s growing use of digital surveillance tools, which combine …

Microsoft is turning to the Middle East for its latest bet on AI Microsoft will invest $1.5 billion in Abu Dhabi’s G42, an artificial intelligence group that has faced questions about its ties to China. The companies will collaborate on AI and digital infrastructure, in a move that sees Microsoft’s AI empire expand into the Middle East for the first …

Biden will give Taiwan’s TSMC $6.6 billion to boost US chip production The US government plans to give $6.6 billion to the world’s largest semiconductor chip maker to help it build three factories in Arizona as part of President Joe Biden’s push to secure supplies of advanced chips. The White House announced on Monday that it has signed a non-binding …