Beat: Telecom Regulation, Digital Infrastructure, AI & Cybersecurity
Reports from Lahore on Pakistan Telecommunication Authority licensing, IT export performance, fintech regulation, cloud infrastructure, and global AI and cybersecurity policy.
South Korean police said Sunday they had launched an investigation after the top scorer in a national tax accountant exam admitted to using artificial intelligence to cheat.
A US company is offering up to $120,000, or around Rs 33 million, to someone who will play Grand Theft Auto VI from launch night and study its virtual economy.
Employment of young software developers in the US has fallen by 20% since ChatGPT launched in November 2022, while jobs for middle-aged developers have grown by the same margin, according to data shared by The Kobeissi Letter.
Elon Musk's SpaceX on Saturday pulled off the first-ever "catch" of a spaceship, a technical feat showing the feasibility of fully reusable rockets that would bring affordable spaceflight one step closer to reality.
The chain of events that ended Jensen Huang’s 33-year run as Nvidia CEO was set in motion by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Huawei has unveiled the Sense G1, its first continuous glucose monitor (CGM), in China.
China's indigenously developed 10-tonne all-electric passenger aircraft, dubbed CE-25A, successfully completed its maiden crewed flight on Saturday, November 14, in the eastern province of Shandong.
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Wallet, a payment feature that enables its “dots” AI agents to complete online purchases on users’ behalf, without ever seeing actual card details.
SpaceX will decide later whether to try to catch the top part of its huge Starship rocket as it returns to Earth.
Seven months after Artemis II's successful splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen has revealed what those nail-biting moments felt like from inside the Orion spacecraft.
Huawei is reportedly preparing a wider Nova Flip for 2027, with a 6.3-inch screen that would give the compact foldable a shorter, broader shape when opened.
Amazon is exploring a plan to collect information on virtually every product for sale worldwide, including items it doesn’t stock, eported Friday, citing an internal document and people familiar with the matter.
Italian regulators have fined social media giant Meta €805m (£670; $887m) for accessing Android users' photos without their specific consent.
Employees and tech leaders rally for Huang's reinstatement as the board initiates a formal search for a permanent successor.
A sweeping 2027 policy tying Google Search access to integrated AI tools has sparked widespread condemnation from educators, parents, and lawmakers.
Nvidia has reportedly canceled the January 2027 launch of its 24 GB GeForce RTX 5080 in China because the memory chips were too expensive.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday blamed the Commerce Department for failing to blacklist Megaspeed, the Singapore company at the centre of a scandal that prompted Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang to resign.
Microsoft 365 users around the world are struggling to access Outlook, Teams, and other services as Microsoft deals with a major outage.
Pakistani startups using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve people’s finances can now apply for grants of up to £250,000 under a new GSMA Innovation Fund for AI-Enabled Financial Health.
The European Space Agency has released its first big collection of data from the orbiting Euclid telescope’s mission to map the universe’s large-scale structure, including observations of more than 900 million galaxies, as scientists investigate the puzzling cosmic components dark matter and dark energy.
Families dealing with inheritance can now get the exact process and list of documents for their case from an automated chatbot, introduced on the revamped succession website of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra).
Built in Rust and licensed under MIT, the open-source desktop utility pairs local binary and web target analysis with user-controlled LLM keys instead of routing code through a vendor cloud.
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