The Venice Film Festival remains an awards-season launchpad. But fewer major Hollywood productions are creating room for something else: films centered on war, migration, political power and instability. The 83rd Venice International Film Festival opens Wednesday with noticeably less Hollywood product than the event has carried in recent years. Festival director Alberto Barbera attributes the…
Washington’s proposed “Carolina Principles” turn AI regulation into a competitiveness strategy: fewer new rules, greater reliance on existing regulators, and more room for American technology companies to expand. The United States is asking the world’s largest economies to avoid building broad new regulations or regulatory bodies specifically for artificial intelligence. At a G20 technology gathering…
Humanoid robots are breaking athletic records in Beijing. China’s larger bet depends on whether those same machines can navigate warehouses, restaurants and factories when the physical world refuses to behave perfectly. A humanoid robot ran 100 meters in 9.39 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing this weekend, faster than Usain Bolt’s human world record…
India can finance new metros, highways and airports. Whether it can build them is a separate question, and the answer has spent the past year sitting in a factory in Guangzhou. Reuters reported, citing two government sources, that India is set to approve a $1.2 billion incentive scheme for high-value, technologically sophisticated construction and infrastructure equipment, aimed at…
The layoffs are small by Apple’s standards. Where they land says more: resources are moving off the old Siri architecture and away from the most expensive parts of Vision Pro, toward AI systems and lighter hardware. Mark Gurman reported for Bloomberg that Apple is eliminating more than 200 positions across Siri, software engineering and Vision Pro, with roughly 100…
The same iPhone can now carry a different intelligence stack depending on which government regulates it. Reuters reported Friday that Apple has trained a large language model specifically for China with support from Alibaba. The China-specific system is part of a broader Apple Intelligence configuration expected to reach the country in the coming months. Alibaba’s…
The headlines call it an AI pivot. The WARN Act filings call it something else. Oracle is planning another round of job cuts, this time estimated at 20,000 to 30,000 positions — the largest single reduction in a series that has now run four times in under twelve months. The affected teams span the company’s…
India has enrolled 53,449 people in artificial intelligence job training through one of its flagship skills programs. The government has also acknowledged something more significant: it has not conducted a specific assessment of how much demand exists for those AI skills, or how large the country’s shortage of trained workers actually is. The disclosure came…
Nearly half of Saudi Arabia’s internet users now use artificial intelligence. But only 17.3% use it for work-related tasks. That gap may tell us more about where AI adoption actually stands than the headline number does. Saudi Arabia’s Communications, Space and Technology Commission reported that AI-tool use reached 45.2% of internet users in 2025, more than double…
SSC News Desk The people at Google who work on making artificial intelligence safe and aligned with human values have a message for job applicants: do not let the AI screen your resume. The document existed quietly until Bloomberg obtained it. Google DeepMind’s AGI Safety and Alignment Team — the division responsible for ensuring the company’s most…