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A liquefied natural gas tanker is tugged toward a thermal power station in Futtsu, east of Tokyo.Issei Kato | ReutersThe Trump administration is touting commitments by foreign nations for future large purchases of U.S. energy as part of recent trade deal frameworks, including with the EU, Indonesia, and South Korea, but a separate recent mandate from the U.S. Trade Representative to promote domestic shipbuilding may stand in the way of making those liquified natural gas shipments reality.The USTR policy mandates that 1% of U.S. LNG exports be carried on U.S.-flagged ships starting in April 2028, and a year later, 1%…

While other tech companies push out AI tools at full speed, Apple is taking its time. Its Apple Intelligence features – shown off at WWDC – won’t reach most users until at least 2025 or even 2026. Some see this as Apple falling behind, but the company’s track record suggests it prefers to launch only when products are ready.In contrast, competitors like Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google have already shipped AI features widely – often with bugs and unreliable results, and usually whether or not users ask for them. AI assistants today still struggle with accuracy, consistency, and usefulness in many…

Super Micro Computer shares plunged 20% on Wednesday after the company posted weaker-than-expected fiscal fourth quarter results, dented in part by President Donald Trump’s tariffs.CEO Charles Liang told investors on a conference call that the company has “taken measures to reduce the impact” of the tariffs.”With respect to the tariffs, the situation is dynamic,” CFO David Weigand said on the investor call. “We’re actively monitoring the tariff environment. We know there’s news coming out next week. If we have any updates, we’ll share it with you, but we can only watch and react as every other business is.”Super Micro reported…

The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, known as the EU AI Act, has been described by the European Commission as “the world’s first comprehensive AI law.” After years in the making, it is progressively becoming a part of reality for the 450 million people living in the 27 countries that comprise the EU. The EU AI Act, however, is more than a European affair. It applies to companies both local and foreign, and it can affect both providers and deployers of AI systems; the European Commission cites examples of how it would apply to a developer of a CV screening…

NEW YORK (AP) — WhatsApp has taken down 6.8 million accounts that were “linked to criminal scam centers” targeting people online around that world, its parent company Meta said this week.The account deletions, which Meta said took place over the first six months of the year, arrive as part of wider company efforts to crack down on scams. In a Tuesday announcement, Meta said it was also rolling new tools on WhatsApp to help people spot scams — including a new safety overview that the platform will show when someone who is not in a user’s contacts adds them to…

Technicians stand next to an oil rig which is manufactured by Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Limited (MEIL) at an Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) plant, during a media tour of the plant in Dhamasna village in the western state of Gujarat, India, August 26, 2021. Amit Dave | ReutersU.S. President Donald Trump added further pressure to India on Wednesday by bumping up tariffs to 50% — but calls for India to immediately stop buying Russian oil could cause global crude prices to spike, industry sources told CNBC.Trump has accused India of “fueling” Russia’s war machine and said the country is…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the US Federal Reserve Board of Governors’ “Integrated Review of the Capital Framework for Large Banks Conference” at the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2025. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty ImagesOpenAI on Wednesday announced it will offer its ChatGPT Enterprise product to U.S. federal agencies for $1 through the next year, making its technology available to the federal executive branch workforce at “essentially no cost.”The company has been working to deepen its ties to lawmakers and regulators in recent months, and it will open its first office in Washington, D.C.…

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler gone wild. Many people came to Perplexity’s defense. They argued that Perplexity accessing sites in defiance of the website owner’s wishes, while controversial, is acceptable. And this is a controversy that will certainly grow as AI agents flood the internet: Should an agent accessing a website on behalf of its user be treated like a bot? Or like a human making the same request? Cloudflare is known for…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday is expected to celebrate at the White House a commitment by Apple to increase its U.S. investments by an additional $100 billion over the next four years.“Today’s announcement with Apple is another win for our manufacturing industry that will simultaneously help reshore the production of critical components to protect America’s economic and national security,” White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said.Apple had previously said it intended to invest $500 billion domestically, a figure it will now increase to $600 billion. Trump in recent months has criticized the tech company and its CEO, Tim…

Generative AI is entering a more mature phase in 2025. Models are being refined for accuracy and efficiency, and enterprises are embedding them into everyday workflows.The focus is shifting from what these systems could do to how they can be applied reliably and at scale. What’s emerging is a clearer picture of what it takes to build generative AI that is not just powerful, but dependable.The new generation of LLMsLarge language models are shedding their reputation as resource-hungry giants. The cost of generating a response from a model has dropped by a factor of 1,000 over the past two years,…