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AI surge to double data centre electricity demand by 2030

Electricity consumption by data centres will more than double by 2030, driven by artificial intelligence applications that will create new challenges for energy security and CO2 emission goals, the IEA said Thursday. At the same time, AI can unlock opportunities to produce and consume electricity more efficiently, the International Energy Agency ...

Darth Vader’s Star Wars Lightsaber Goes to Auction

Darth Vader's lightsaber, used to chop off Luke Skywalker's hand in Star Wars classic The Empire Strikes Back, went on display in London on Wednesday, ahead of its US sale next month. The prop has been described as the "Holy Grail" for Star Wars fans, with millions prepared to end up like Skywalker and give their right arm to own the iconic ...

YouTube Turns to AI to Guess Users' Age and Protect Minors

YouTube has started testing an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to identify the age of its users in the United States, in an effort to better protect minors from content and online habits considered inappropriate for them. "This technology will allow us to infer a user’s age and use that signal independently of the date of birth listed on the ...

Forbes 2025: Lebanese Figures Stand Out Among the World's Billionaires

The latest Forbes Billionaires ranking for 2025 was released in early April, setting new records with a total of $16.1 trillion—$2 trillion more than the previous year. No longer just a compilation of names and figures, it now serves as a map of the global economic elite, where market surges, major acquisitions, and breakthrough innovations ...

AWS Outage Disrupts Major Apps and Services Worldwide

A widespread outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) has caused significant disruptions across many of the world’s most popular apps, websites, and online services from social media platforms like Snapchat to government websites such as the UK’s HMRC. The issue, which began around midnight Pacific time (10 a.m. Beirut Time) on Monday, ...

CEO of Iranian Telecom Operator Fired for Failing to Block Internet

The chief executive of Irancell, Iran's second-largest mobile phone operator, was dismissed for failing to comply with the government's decision to shut down the internet, the Fars news agency reported Sunday. In an unprecedented move, Iran cut off all communications on January 8 without warning, as calls intensified for anti-government protests, ...

AI Nostalgia Videos Revive a Dreamy Vision of 1980s Life

“The 1980s are calling,” a teenager with a throwback hairstyle tells viewers as “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” the Tears for Fears rock anthem from that decade, plays in the background. The fake montage — entirely generated using artificial intelligence — has racked up more than 600,000 “likes” on Instagram and is part of an ...

Lebanon Faces Donor Backlash After Decision Extending Disability Benefits to Hezbollah Fighters

Lebanon is facing mounting diplomatic backlash after the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA) extended state and donor-funded disability benefits to the thousands of Hezbollah fighters wounded in Israel’s September 2024 operation targeting Hezbollah’s communication devices. What the ministry described as a humanitarian exemption is now being ...

Google Boss Warns No Company Immune if AI Bubble Bursts

The head of Google's parent company, Alphabet, warned that every company would be impacted if the AI bubble were to burst, in an interview to the BBC. Sundai Pichai acknowledged there was "irrationality" behind the boom in artificial intelligence investment, which has fueled a tech rally this year. But fears that the AI bubble could burst have ...

Video Podcasts Become Next Streaming Battleground

Big tech platforms, including TikTok and Netflix, are all looking to add video podcasts to their content, a rapidly growing format that attracts a young audience prized by advertisers and where YouTube dominates. Roman Wasenmüller, the head of podcasts at Spotify, said that the development "marks a new chapter for podcasting," as he announced a ...

Google Proposes Adtech Changes to Avoid Breakup After EU Fine

Google on Friday announced changes to its advertising services to avert the risk of a breakup, two months after Brussels hit the US giant with a massive fine. The European Commission slapped a 2.95-billion-euro ($3.43 billion) antitrust fine on Google for favoring its own services in September, giving the company 60 days to resolve the issues ...

'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. Over four days, the "Davos for geeks" is set to welcome over 70,000 visitors including 2,500 startups and ...

The AI Revolution Has a Power Problem

In the race for AI dominance, American tech giants have the money and the chips, but their ambitions have hit a new obstacle: electric power. "The biggest issue we are now having is not a compute glut, but it's the power and...the ability to get the builds done fast enough close to power," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella acknowledged on a recent ...

Western Sahara: The Diplomatic Battle Rages On

The resolution extends the mandate without resolving the dispute. On October 31, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2797, extending MINURSO’s mandate—the United Nations Mission for the Organization of a Referendum in Western Sahara established in 1991—for one year. The resolution passed with eleven votes in favor, none against, and ...

Trump Completes Demolition of White House East Wing

Demolition workers have finished tearing down the White House's entire East Wing to make way for US President Donald Trump's giant new $300 million ballroom, satellite pictures showed Thursday. The completion of the wrecking work came as the White House released a list of donors to the ballroom including Apple, Google and Meta. A gray ...

Online Search a Battleground for AI Titans

Tech firms battling for supremacy in artificial intelligence are out to transform how people search the web, challenging the dominance of the Chrome browser at the heart of Google's empire. Chatbots that started out as AI-powered assistants have gradually merged with web browsers and can independently scour the internet for detailed answers to ...

OpenAI Unveils Search Browser in Challenge to Google

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI on Tuesday announced an "Atlas" search browser, leveraging its artificial intelligence prowess in a direct challenge to Google Chrome. "This is an AI-powered web browser built around ChatGPT," OpenAI chief Sam Altman said in a streamed presentation. OpenAI has ramped up its challenge to Google, which has responded by rapidly ...

Internet Services Cut for Hours by Amazon Cloud Outage

Popular internet services ranging from streaming platforms to messaging services to banking were offline for hours Monday due to an outage in Amazon's crucial cloud network, illustrating the extent to which internet life depends on the tech titan. The disruption affected streaming platforms, including Amazon's Prime Video service and Disney+, as ...

OpenAI Commits to Over $100 Billion in AI Chip Orders Amid Uncertain Financing Plans

OpenAI is ordering hundreds of billions of dollars worth of chips in the artificial intelligence race, raising questions among investors about how the startup will finance these purchases. In less than a month, the San Francisco startup behind ChatGPT has committed to acquiring a staggering 26 gigawatts of sophisticated data processors from ...

Iran’s GPS Jamming Hits Daily Life, Leaving Drivers Lost in Tehran

The streets of Tehran have become a confusing maze for driver Farshad Fooladi amid widespread GPS disruption, still ongoing nearly two months after the end of Iran and Israel's unprecedented 12-day war. "For weeks I have been unable to work," said Fooladi, who uses Iran's homegrown ride-hailing app Snapp to find customers. "Most of the time was ...

Virtual Jesus? People of Faith Divided as AI Enters Religion

Artificial intelligence, the technology upending nearly every corner of society, is creeping into religion, serving up virtual Jesus and automated sermons -- a change drawing mixed reviews from the faithful. Religious chatbots and other faith-based digital tools are growing in number, offering counsel, comfort and spiritual guidance during an age ...

Comic-Con Goes Global: Málaga Hosts Inaugural International Edition

Warriors, wizards and other costumed characters flooded the streets of Malaga in southern Spain on Thursday for the opening of the first San Diego Comic-Con held outside the United States. Mirroring the famous California event, the four-day convention will feature blockbuster film presentations, prominent figures from the worlds of comics and ...

Trump and Starmer Seal Historic 205 Billion Dollar Tech Deal

Donald Trump hailed America's "unbreakable bond" with Britain Thursday as he and Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a huge tech deal on the second day of the US president's pomp-filled state visit. A day after King Charles III treated Trump to a day of royal pageantry at Windsor Castle, Trump flew to Starmer's Chequers country residence for talks ...

King Charles Hails Trump's 'Personal Commitment' to Peace

U.S. president Donald Trump was treated to a sumptuous royal state banquet in Windsor Castle, rounding off the US president's first full day of a historic second state visit to Britain. Before some 160 guests at the start of the lavish event, designed to play into the mercurial American leader's love of pomp and pageantry, King Charles ...

King Gives Trump Royal Welcome on UK State Visit

Donald Trump was treated to a royal reception featuring gun salutes, soldiers on horseback and bagpipes as he met Wednesday with Britain's King Charles III for a historic second state visit, which unfolded far from marching protesters. The pair laughed and joked as Trump inspected troops at Windsor Castle, west of London, in an elaborate ...

Trump's UK Visit Lands AI, Pharma and Nuclear Pledges

President Donald Trump's state visit to the UK has delivered pledges from US tech giants to invest a combined $42 billion to help drive Britain's AI sector. The UK and US governments, meanwhile, agreed on cooperation over nuclear and space technology as part of a "Tech Prosperity Deal", and British pharmaceutical group GSK pledged investment in ...

Google says to Invest £5bn in UK Ahead of Trump Visit

Google said Tuesday it was investing £5 billion ($6.8 billion) in the UK over the next two years to help power the country's AI drive, ahead of a visit by US President Donald Trump. The funds would go towards the company's "capital expenditure, research and development ... and encompasses Google DeepMind with its pioneering AI research in ...

The Unconscious in the Digital Age: What Freud and Lacan Would Have Seen on Our Screens

Freud repeatedly insisted that the unconscious cannot be grasped directly; it reveals itself instead through slips of the tongue, dreams, fantasies, and symptoms. Today, the web provides a stage where these formations of the unconscious assume new forms. Each Google search, each video watched on repeat, each story posted—or deleted—becomes the ...

US Tech Leaders Meet Trump at White House Dinner

Top executives from the US technology sector gathered at the White House on Thursday evening for a dinner hosted by President Donald Trump, marking a rare joint appearance by leaders of the country’s most influential companies in artificial intelligence and digital innovation. “This is quite a group to get together,” said Meta ...

Antitrust Cases Against US Tech Giants

Launched under both the Trump and Biden administrations, five major antitrust cases from the Federal Trade Commission and the US Department of Justice are proceeding against major American technology companies. These cases represent a significant shift in antitrust enforcement in the United States, with regulators taking a more aggressive ...