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One of the repeated assertions coming out of the AI for Good Summit in Geneva last week was the admission that much of the current AI industry has been built on stolen data and content. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone - least of all diginomica readers
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Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and a Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes. The European Union is weighing sweeping new restrictions on children’s and teenagers’ access to social media, including age limits, an outright
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Solar boss reckons challenges are regulatory, not technological It is just over a year since a pilot project to install photovoltaics on a railway line kicked off. According to the CEO of Sun-Ways, the company behind the scheme, the challenge was not so much technical as regulatory. The project, a
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Samsung Electronics is moving to begin operations at the first chip plant in its Yongin cluster in 2029, one to two years earlier than planned, industry sources told Yonhap. The pull-forward lands inside a national build-out that already carries an $880bn commitment to chips, data centres and robots, and it
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TSMC will build additional advanced packaging fabs in the second phase of the Chiayi Science Park in southern Taiwan, National Science and Technology Council minister Wu Cheng-wen said at a groundbreaking ceremony on Sunday. Packaging is where the AI supply chain currently pinches, and it is the same constraint that
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Tata Consultancy Services plans to build a team of up to 8,900 forward-deployed AI engineers and is looking for acquisition targets in AI and cybersecurity, chief executive K Krithivasan said. The move is India’s largest IT firm answering the question that has hung over the sector since the
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South Korea will draw up record budget spending of more than 800 trillion won ($530.97bn) for fiscal 2027, supported by stronger tax revenues from the booming AI chip industry, the government said on Monday. It is the clearest sign yet that Seoul intends to spend the semiconductor windfall rather
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* Watch Evolution for free on BBC iPlayer (UK) / PBS (US) * Use NordVPN to watch your free streams when abroad * All five episodes arrive in the UK on July 13, 2026 at 9pm BST Evolution is BBC’s new natural history and science documentary series presented by English naturalist and television
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Threat actors have been exploiting critical vulnerabilities in the Balbooa Forms and iCagenda Joomla extensions that allow unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution (RCE). The Balbooa flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-56291 (CVSS score of 10), is described as an unauthenticated arbitrary file upload issue affecting the extension’s frontend attachment
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Like Google Maps, Waze is going all-in on Gemini. Waze, Google's other navigation app, is getting a collection of new AI-powered features that make it easier to navigate on a motorcycle and less annoying to receive directions. The app's new Motorcycle mode uses AI to consider
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Dubai has rapidly evolved into one of the world’s most dynamic hubs for technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. From sprawling tech parks like Dubai Internet City to the bustling startup ecosystems in DIFC and the Dubai Future Accelerators, the city attracts a diverse community of developers, engineers, data scientists, fintech
