The European Union rolled out a new team on Friday to rein in AI companies across the world, in one of the most aggressive regulations the hi-tech sector has so far faced as fears rise over the risks the rapidly advancing technology poses to people, politics and prosperity.
Brussels aims to track the use of AI models for violations of its new regulations, like the publishing of sexually explicit material, fake photos and videos, and cyber threats to public infrastructure.
When the bloc’s AI Act comes into force on
Children aged 14 and below made up 21.2 per cent of the population in 2026, down from 21.6 per cent a year earlier, according to official figures
A senior Hong Kong police officer has been sentenced to jail for nearly six months for molesting a subordinate on three occasions at the force’s headquarters two years ago.
West Kowloon Court on Friday sentenced Senior Superintendent Ian Chow Ngai-kong for flouting the law with his “brazen” and “disrespectful” assaults on the government clerk on June 19 and November 1, 2024.
The 51-year-old defendant was not required to serve his sentence of five months and three weeks immediately, as
H3 was currently the world’s most powerful AI model in video editing, according to benchmark platform Artificial Analysis. However, it trailed Google’s Gemini Omni Flash in text-to-video tasks, and ranked behind both ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 and Gemini Omni
Back-to-back military drills and new logistics arrangements point to shift in US and allied air power, with northern Australia as a key hub
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The multinational exercise, held
A young survivor of a catastrophic train collision 15 years ago has grown up to become a volunteer who gives hope to many inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients like her.
Mengjun, 28, was diagnosed with IBD when she was graduating from senior secondary school. She said she was the “one unlucky person in 30,000” in China.
She also has a more breathtaking identity: a survivor of the devastating 2011 Wenzhou train collision.
On July 23, 20
