(Reuters) – Market values of major tech firms declined in August amid concerns over escalating artificial intelligence infrastructure costs and rising recession risks that would make the stocks particularly vulnerable during a market correction. Last month, Alphabet Inc’s lost 4.7% of its market value as a slowdown in YouTube’s advertising …

MELAKA: The Melaka Historic City Council (MBMB) has been urged to get public views before giving a fresh look to local trishaw services by January next year, says Cassel Krishnan. The Melaka DAP Youth chief said it’s crucial to obtain the views from locals as the trishaw rides are part …

AS an artist well known for using conventional everyday objects in unconventional ways to create extraordinary mixed media installations, Red Hong Yi is no stranger to the concept of repurposing. Her many remarkable works have included a large-scale portrait of Jackie Chan made of 64,000 bamboo chopsticks, and a tribute …

Artificial intelligence researchers said on Aug 30 they have deleted more than 2,000 web links to suspected child sexual abuse imagery from a dataset used to train popular AI image-generator tools. The LAION research dataset is a huge index of online images and captions that’s been a source for leading …

MOSCOW: France’s arrest of Telegram chief Pavel Durov has raised fears in Russia that the popular messaging app – used both by the Kremlin and its opponents – could be blocked, depriving them of one of the last sources of critical, uncensored news. Since the start of its offensive in …

TAIPEI (Reuters) – A court on Monday released a former mayor of Taipei who now heads a small opposition party after he was arrested in a graft probe of a major property development in the Taiwanese capital, saying there was a lack of evidence. Ko Wen-je, mayor from 2014 to …

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Coco Gauff said she had regrets over her poor service game after recording 19 double faults in Sunday’s U.S. Open fourth round loss to Emma Navarro, even though she was mentally prepared to face her American compatriot who beat her at Wimbledon. Defending champ Gauff was …

BERLIN (Reuters) – German state elections that dealt a heavy blow to the parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government and historic wins for two anti-establishment parties are likely to aggravate instability in an already fractious ruling coalition. With only a year to go before a national election in Europe’s largest …

WASHINGTON: There have been warnings for decades that robots could replace people working in manufacturing and agriculture. More recently, concerns have grown that artificial intelligence (AI) could do the same with some white-collar jobs. The use of robots has been growing, with 3.9 million of them “operational” in manufacturing around …