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Meta partners with news outlets to expand AI content

Meta announced Friday it will integrate content from major news organizations into its artificial intelligence assistant to provide Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users with real-time information.

Softbank's Son says super AI could make humans like fish, win Nobel Prize

Softbank CEO and AI investor Masayoshi Son said Friday that advanced artificial intelligence could surpass humans to the extent that "we become fish" and could even win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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IXOPAY Appoints George Hansen as Chief Revenue Officer to Accelerate Global Growth in Tokenization, Orchestration, and Compliance

Seasoned payments executive joins IXOPAY to lead global revenue strategy amid rapid growth and the rise of agentic commerce.

Graid Technology Finalizes Intel VROC Licensing Agreement, Expanding Leadership in Enterprise Storage Solutions

"This agreement represents an exciting new chapter for Graid Technology and for the global ecosystem that relies on Intel® VROC," said Leander Yu, CEO of Graid Technology. "Finalizing the deal allows us to ensure long term continuity for existing customers while also accelerating innovation and value creation across the enterprise storage market."

GA-ASI Completes Full-Scale Fatigue Test on MQ-9B

MQ-9B's Third Lifetime Test Completes the FSF Testing Process With a Total of 120,000 Hours

GA-ASI and Saab Will Demonstrate AEW&C on MQ-9B in 2026

Two Aerospace Leaders Are Bringing Airborne Early Warning and Control to UAS

Rebooted Harlem museum celebrates rise of Black art

As the Studio Museum reopens this weekend in its gleaming new building, New York's premier institution for Black art finds itself looking back and looking forward at the same time.

Musk's Grokipedia leans on 'questionable' sources, study says

Elon Musk's Grokipedia carries thousands of citations to "questionable" and "problematic" sources, US researchers said Friday, raising doubts about the reliability of the AI-powered encyclopedia as an information tool.

As AI data scrapers sap websites' revenues, some fight back

A swarm of AI "crawlers" is running rampant on the internet, scouring billions of websites for data to feed algorithms at leading tech companies -- all without permission or payment, upending the online economy.

Rise of the robots: the promise of physical AI

A pair of swivelling, human-like robotic arms, built for physical artificial intelligence research, mirror the motions of an operator in a VR headset twirling his hands like a magician.

Blue Origin launches NASA Mars mission and nails booster landing

Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket on Thursday with NASA twin spacecraft destined for Mars aboard, and in a breakthrough nailed the landing of its booster.

Blue Origin launches NASA Mars mission and sticks booster landing

Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket on Thursday with NASA twin spacecraft destined for Mars aboard, and in a breakthrough stuck the landing of its booster.

'Black Klimt' steps out of shadows and into political tug-of-war

A man walked into a Viennese gallery one day in the summer of 2023 looking to sell a Gustav Klimt painting. The person who greeted him thought it was a joke, and gently sent him on his way.

France lifts travel ban on Telegram founder Durov

France has lifted its travel ban on Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who is under investigation over illegal content on his messaging app, judicial sources close to the case said Thursday.

Hitler likely had genetic condition limiting sexual development: research

Adolf Hitler most likely suffered from the genetic condition Kallmann Syndrome that can manifest itself in undescended testicles and a micropenis, researchers and documentary makers said Thursday, following DNA testing of the Nazi dictator's blood.

Kraft Heinz and OMP Showcase Smarter, More Sustainable Value Chain at Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit

Kraft Heinz's journey to a smarter, more sustainable value chain

Big platforms chart gradual path to self-driving at Web Summit

Major Western ride-hailing platforms like Uber and Lyft sketched a gradual path towards introducing self-driving cars at this week's Web Summit in Lisbon, with infrastructure, developing regulation and passengers' preference for human contact weighing on the brakes.

Astronomers spot storm on another star for first time

Astronomers revealed Wednesday they have detected a storm on a star other than our Sun for the first time, discovering an explosion so violent it could have stripped away the atmosphere of any planets unlucky enough to be nearby.

UK music industry warns growth threatened by AI, Brexit

Britain's music industry contributed £8 billion ($10.5 billion) to the UK economy in 2024, but the effects of Brexit and AI have clouded the sector's outlook, an industry report showed Wednesday.

Xsens Announces New Xsens Link for Motion Capture Across Humanoid Robotics, Health, Sports, and Entertainment

Next-Generation motion capture from Xsens combines smarter sensors, seamless connectivity, and adaptive design to deliver precise, real-world motion data.

Loar Holdings Inc. Reports Q3 2025 Record Results and Upward Revisions to 2025 Outlook and Full Year 2026 Outlook

WHITE PLAINS, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 12, 2025 / Loar Holdings Inc. (NYSE:LOAR) (the "Company," "Loar," "we," "us" and "our"), reports record results for the third quarter of 2025, upward revisions to 2025 outlook, and full year 2026 outlook.

Google unveils $6.4 bn investment in Germany

Google unveiled its biggest-ever investment in Germany on Tuesday, pledging 5.5 billion euros ($6.4 billion) for a new data centre and other projects, as Europe seeks to catch up in the AI race.

'Western tech dominance fading' at Lisbon's Web Summit

Global tech leaders will pack Lisbon's annual Web Summit from Tuesday to talk Artificial Intelligence, robots and startups -- all under the shadow of tensions over cutting-edge tech and the natural resources needed to build it.

AI agents open door to new hacking threats

Cybersecurity experts are warning that artificial intelligence agents, widely considered the next frontier in the generative AI revolution, could wind up getting hijacked and doing the dirty work for hackers.

MicroVision Announces Third Quarter 2025 Results

REDMOND, WASHINGTON / ACCESS Newswire / November 11, 2025 / MicroVision, Inc. (NASDAQ:MVIS), a technology pioneer delivering advanced perception solutions in autonomy and mobility, today announced its third quarter 2025 results.

No link between paracetamol and autism, major review finds

There is no clear link between pregnant women taking the common painkiller paracetamol and autism in their children, despite repeated claims otherwise by Donald Trump, according to the most comprehensive review of the existing evidence published Monday.

Typhoon exposes centuries-old shipwreck off Vietnam port

Severe coastal erosion caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi exposed a centuries-old shipwreck in Vietnam, providing a narrow window to salvage what experts say could be a historically significant find.

MicroVision Collaborates with Leading Photonics Ecosystem to Acquire FMCW Lidar Business

REDMOND, WA / ACCESS Newswire / November 10, 2025 / MicroVision, Inc. (NASDAQ:MVIS), a technology pioneer delivering advanced perception solutions in autonomy and mobility, today announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire the business and assets of Scantinel Photonics GmbH, a developer of 1550nm frequency-modulated continuous wave, or FMCW, lidar technology targeted for initial application in the commercial vehicle market. In connection with the acquisition, MicroVision is collaborating with certain funding and strategic partners to accelerate productization and commercial opportunities.

EverC Introduces AI-powered Scam Network Intelligence to Disrupt Fraud Online

The solution maps the entire scam infrastructure across e-commerce, social media, and payments marketplaces

Bezos's Blue Origin postpones rocket launch over weather

Blue Origin, the space company owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, was forced Sunday to postpone the anticipated launch of its New Glenn rocket due to unfavorable weather conditions.

James Watson, Nobel prize-winning DNA pioneer, dead at 97

James Watson -- the Nobel laureate co-credited with the pivotal discovery of DNA's double-helix structure, but whose career was later tainted by his repeated racist remarks -- has died, his former lab said Friday. He was 97.

Global tech tensions overshadow Web Summit's AI and robots

Flashy AI, robotics and self-driving cars will be on show at the annual Web Summit in Lisbon from Monday, but global tensions over high-tech trade, competition and sovereignty will be weighing on the minds of entrepreneurs, investors and policymakers.

'AI president': Trump deepfakes glorify himself, trash rivals

In a parallel reality, Donald Trump reigns as king, fighter pilot, and Superman, and his political opponents are cast as criminals and laughingstocks -- an unprecedented weaponization of AI imagery by a sitting American president.

Loar Holdings Inc. Announces Date and Time for Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call

WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / November 5, 2025 / Loar Holdings Inc. (NYSE:LOAR), will report Q3 2025 earnings before the market opens on Wednesday, November 12, 2025.

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