DeepSeek is committed to open-source artificial intelligence to accelerate the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI), even if it heightens safety risks, a company engineer says, defying growing safety concerns from the US and scrutiny in China over whether the strategy poses national security risks. Speaking on Tuesday on an AI panel at the World Internet Conference (WIC) in Wuzhen, DeepSeek engineer Gao Xi said open-source development promoted shared innovations and technical...
Read full articleAround 87 per cent of organisations experienced at least one threat-related incident in the 24 months preceding a survey, but many remain inadequately prepared to deal with risks beyond conventional cybersecurity, according to a report by McKinsey & Company.
The nearly $350,000 hunt will take place in the Pointe-aux-Prairies Nature Park over a few nights next week. The current deer population density in the area is 10 times higher than provincial guidelines call for. Experts say the forest can’t sustain that.
Shanghai-listed Wingtech Technology has rejected a restructuring proposal under which it would lose control of Dutch chipmaker Nexperia’s assets outside China, condemning the plan as an “expropriation” driven by discrimination. The stand-off deepens a year-long dispute between Wingtech and Dutch authorities, as the company faces an impending delisting deadline at home, while Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten prepares for an official visit to Beijing in the spring. In a statement on Tuesday,...
Sony's PlayStation Black Friday Sale 2026 began on November 4, offering up to 75% off thousands of PS5, PS4 and PS VR2 games, with discounts running until November 30. The sale preview includes 16 titles, while deals on PS5 consoles, controllers and other accessories are yet to be announced.
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Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings has rolled out its latest flagship artificial intelligence model, Hy4, seeking to challenge top open-weight rivals with enhanced agentic capabilities built to power its enterprise software ecosystem. Released on Wednesday, the large language model (LLM) introduced visual understanding for the first time. Hy4 could process images, analyse complex charts and conduct visual mathematical reasoning, according to the Shenzhen-based company. Tencent said the release...
Naturewatch, hosted by Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin and Kyle Thomas, is being made in Bristol.
The prince says 2026 was the first summer he felt "worried about the scale of the wildfires".
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