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Agence France-Presse is an international news agency with headquarters in Paris, France. It is the world's oldest news agency, having been founded in 1835.
Anthropic says will put AI risks ‘on the table’ with Mythos model
PHOTO: Joel Saget / AFP American AI developer Anthropic plans to “lay the risks out on the table”…
April 20, 2026
China seeks to rein in risks from AI ‘digital humans’
Isabel KUA After her father died from cancer, Zhang Xinyu had an artificial intelligence avatar made that looks…
April 20, 2026
Iran entrepreneurs angered by months-long internet blackout
PHOTO: Atta Kenare / AFP Mahla, an interior designer in Tehran, says she has been forced to sell…
April 19, 2026
AI demand drives chipmaker TSMC’s net profit to fresh record
Joy Chiang, with Katie Forster in Tokyo Taiwanese chip maker TSMC said Thursday its net profit surged to…
April 16, 2026
Amazon to buy Globalstar to expand satellite network
Amazon said Tuesday that it had signed a deal to buy the US telecoms satellite group Globalstar to…
April 14, 2026
Dolce and Gabbana brings in ex-Gucci boss
Photo: Miguel Medina / AFP Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana said Monday that it had appointed the…
April 13, 2026
Nigeria’s in vogue handwoven fabric makers resist automation
Tonye Bakare | Photo by Toyin Adedokun / AFP In Iseyin, a sleepy town in southwestern Nigeria, shaded…
April 12, 2026
Waiting for DeepSeek: new model to test China’s AI ambitions
Katie Forster, with Luna Lin in Beijng For weeks now, the global tech industry has been waiting for…
April 9, 2026
Nexperia’s China unit nears fully local production of chips: company sources
Luna LIN The domestic unit of the Chinese-owned, Dutch-headquartered chipmaker Nexperia will soon be able to produce semiconductors…
April 2, 2026
Unilever spins off food unit in multibillion-dollar deal
Unilever said Tuesday it had agreed a multibillion-dollar deal with US spices maker McCormick & Company to spin…
March 31, 2026