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Pakistani journalists protest after Senate passes bill allowing control over social media content

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s upper house of parliament on Tuesday passed a controversial bill that critics argue is designed to suppress freedom of speech.

Jan 28, 2025 6:23 PM Read more >

Nvidia faces a reckoning as Chinese upstart raises questions about Wall Street's darling

NEW YORK (AP) — The superstar run for Nvidia’s stock the last few years has been astonishing. So was its tumble Monday, which caused $595 billion in wealth to vanish.

Jan 28, 2025 5:02 PM Read more >

DeepSeek says it built its chatbot cheap. What does that mean for AI's energy needs and the climate?

Chinese artificial intelligence startup company DeepSeek stunned markets and AI experts with its claim that it built its immensely popular chatbot at a fraction of the cost of those made by American tech titans.

Jan 28, 2025 4:33 PM Read more >

Study says climate change made conditions that fed California wildfires more likely, more intense

WASHINGTON (AP) — Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires, a scientific study found.

Jan 28, 2025 4:08 PM Read more >

Study says climate change made conditions that fed California wildfires more likely, more intense

WASHINGTON (AP) — Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires, a scientific study found.

Jan 28, 2025 3:03 PM Read more >

Nvidia faces a reckoning as an upstart rival raises questions about Wall Street's darling

NEW YORK (AP) — The superstar run for Nvidia’s stock the last few years has been astonishing. So was its tumble Monday, which caused $595 billion in wealth to vanish.

Jan 28, 2025 2:41 PM Read more >

DeepSeek buzz shows the game is not over for AI firms: Canadian tech leaders

TORONTO — Canada’s artificial intelligence leaders so far seem to have an optimistic take on DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup whose chatbot launch sent tech stocks plunging Monday and threatened to disrupt larger industry players.

Jan 28, 2025 1:18 PM Read more >

France rejects bid to move two killer whales to proposed refuge in Nova Scotia

HALIFAX — The group behind a plan to build a coastal refuge in Nova Scotia for captive whales says its bid to provide sanctuary for two orcas from a marine park in France has been rejected by the French government. Lori Marino, president of the U.S.

Jan 28, 2025 1:10 PM Read more >

Elon Musk's X partners with Visa on payment service in an effort to become an 'everything app,'

NEW YORK (AP) — X is teaming up with Visa to soon offer a system for real-time payments on the social media platform — signaling some progress in a yearslong vision from billionaire owner Elon Musk to create an “everything app.

Jan 28, 2025 12:16 PM Read more >

Data from hundreds of thousands of N.L. students breached in PowerSchool cyberattack

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Data belonging to hundreds of thousands of Newfoundland and Labrador students was breached in a cyberattack targeting an information system used by schools across the country.

Jan 28, 2025 11:37 AM Read more >