The UK government has announced that an artificial intelligence system has successfully recovered nearly £500 million in lost public funds, marking a major milestone in its campaign against fraud. Much of the money clawed back relates to scams linked to the pandemic, but the technology has also exposed fraudulent housing claims, council tax irregularities, and…
Artificial intelligence has quickly become the centerpiece of the global economy’s latest growth narrative. From chipmakers to cloud giants, companies are investing hundreds of billions of dollars into AI infrastructure, data centers, and research. Stock valuations have soared, and investors are betting that the technology will transform productivity in ways not seen since the rise…
For decades, Zimbabwe’s identity in global agriculture has been tied to tobacco. The crop, once hailed as “green gold,” dominates exports and fuels livelihoods across the nation. Tobacco alone generated a record $1.3 billion in revenue last year, with much of it heading to China, the world’s largest market for cigarettes. Yet, as global health…
South Korea, once celebrated as a model of rapid industrialization and modernization, is now confronting a demographic crisis that threatens to undermine the very foundations of its success. The nation’s birth rate has plummeted to levels unprecedented in modern history, creating a looming economic and social challenge that could undo decades of growth achieved since…
The European Commission has formally opened an antitrust case against SAP, the German enterprise software giant, over concerns that its practices in maintenance and support services for its on-premises ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software may be restricting competition. The probe underscores growing regulatory scrutiny of “after-market” practices in the tech industry, particularly around software vendors’…
CoreWeave has increased its contract with OpenAI by up to $6.5 billion, deepening a partnership that now totals about $22.4 billion. This surge in cloud infrastructure commitment is an indicator of increasingly intense demand for computing power in the AI era. Experts say CoreWeave’s move is motivated by capacity constraints, competitive positioning, investment backing, and…
Nvidia’s recent announcement of a $100 billion investment in OpenAI has captured the attention of the tech world, highlighting the unprecedented scale of private-sector involvement in artificial intelligence infrastructure. The partnership, which includes Nvidia supplying tens of gigawatts of AI data center capacity, signals a bold step forward for AI development, but it has also…
The long-running clash between Washington regulators and Google over its dominance of the online advertising market has reached a decisive stage. In a federal courtroom in Virginia, the Justice Department (DOJ) and several states are pressing for remedies that could force Google to sell off parts of its advertising technology empire, marking one of the…
The Biden administration’s tightening stance on TikTok has put the future of the video-sharing platform in the United States at a decisive crossroads. Long criticized by Washington as a national security threat, TikTok now faces the strongest pressure yet to sever ties with its Chinese parent, ByteDance. The move has reignited debates over the intersection…
OpenAI has been central to one of the most dramatic surges in private-tech valuations in recent memory. In less than two years its ascent — from being a headline AI researcher to the centerpiece of a liquidity revolution — has helped pull up valuations across a group of top startups. Seven tech firms now stand…
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