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 …

Facebook and Instagram’s response to fake porn is being reviewed by a watchdog The Meta Monitoring Board is set to assess companies’ handling of fake pornography amid growing concerns that artificial intelligence is fueling an increase in the creation of fake and explicit imagery as a form of harassment. The watchdog said on Tuesday that it would review Meta’s handling …

Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least 33,843 Palestinians, health officials say At least 46 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza over the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health there reported on Tuesday, bringing the death toll to 33,843. The ministry said that 76,575 Palestinians had been injured. CNN could not independently verify these numbers. …

More than 10,000 women have been killed in Gaza since the war began, the UN said More than 10,000 women have been killed in Gaza since Israel’s war with Hamas began in October, UN Women estimated in a report published Tuesday. “Six months after the war, 10,000 Palestinian women in Gaza have been killed, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers, …

Germany’s foreign minister flew to Israel in an effort to ease tensions German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is traveling to Israel Tuesday in an effort to defuse the Israeli-Iranian conflict, following Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel Sunday. “It is very important for us as the German government in these critical times that we all work together to contribute to de-escalation …

The US expects a “limited scope” Israeli response to Iran, sources said The United States expects that the Israeli military response to the Iranian attack will be limited in scope, a senior administration official and a source familiar with the intelligence told CNN. There is US intelligence to suggest Israel is considering a narrow and limited strike inside Iran because …

Israel’s army chief thanked the UK for “joint defense efforts” against Iranian attacks A senior Israeli military official expressed gratitude to his British counterpart for their “joint defense efforts” in repelling an Iranian drone fired into Israel on Sunday. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi conveyed his “deep appreciation to the British forces for their …