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United States Google AI Bubble Alphabet
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 ...
This is Beirut, 09:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Dictionary AI Britain Language
Do you feel a deep bond with pop stars like Taylor Swift or Lily Allen -- even though you've never met them? If you do, then your behavior is "parasocial" and bang on trend, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, which on Tuesday unveiled the adjective as its word of the year for 2025. Lexicographers picked it in a year they said was marked by ...
This is Beirut, 12/11 19:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Music AI Growth Britain Culture
Britain's music industry contributed £8 billion ($10.5 billion) to the UK economy in 2024, but the effects of Brexit and AI have clouded the sector's outlook, an industry report showed Wednesday. UK tours by Taylor Swift and Take That helped lift the industry's contribution to the UK economy last year, according to the annual report from UK ...
This is Beirut, 12/11 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
AI Music Singer Country Culture Art
An artist suspected of being virtual, with a voice generated by Artificial Intelligence, has reached the top of one of the most popular country-music download charts in the United States, marking a first. Walk My Walk, by Breaking Rust, an act with no known identity, is now the most downloaded country track, according to the data published on ...
This is Beirut, 11/11 18:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Music AI Copyright Court Germany Culture
OpenAI has infringed copyright law in Germany by using song lyrics to train its artificial intelligence models, a court in Munich ruled on Tuesday. "Both the memorization in the language models and the reproduction of the song lyrics in the chatbot's outputs constitute infringements of copyright law," the court ruled in a case brought by the ...
This is Beirut, 11/11 09:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
AI Cybersecurity Hacker Language
Cybersecurity experts are warning that artificial intelligence agents, widely considered the next frontier in the generative AI revolution, could wind up getting hijacked and doing the dirty work for hackers. AI agents are programs that use artificial intelligence chatbots to do the work humans do online, like buy a plane ticket or add events to ...
This is Beirut, 10/11 09:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Google Microsoft Amazon AI Meta
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 ...
This is Beirut, 06/11 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
"Vibe coding," a word that essentially means using artificial intelligence (AI) to tell a machine what you want instead of coding it yourself, was on Thursday named the Collins Word of the Year 2025. Coined by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, the word refers to "an emerging software development that turns natural language into computer code ...
This is Beirut, 03/11 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Photography Martin Parr AI Satire Britain Culture
British documentary photographer Martin Parr says the world has never been more in need of satire like that in his images because many people are too wealthy and their lifestyle is unsustainable. "The state we're all in is appalling," said the 73-year-old, known for his humorous snapshots of bronzed beachgoers and selfie-snapping ...
Rayan Chami, 02/11 17:00 - Reading : less than a minute
AI Influencers AI Social Media
They look real, post selfies, and partner with global brands, but they’re not human. Meet the AI-made influencers redefining fame, trust, and authenticity online. Behind every perfect post lies a team and a code, shaping how we see, feel, and connect.
Sana Richa Choucair, 02/11 15:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United Nations International Day Journalists AI Crimes
Every year on November 2, the United Nations marks the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists (IDEI). Between 2006 and 2024, more than 1,700 journalists were killed worldwide. In nearly 9 out of 10 cases, their killers have never been brought to justice, according to UNESCO’s Observatory of Killed Journalists. This ...
This is Beirut, 31/10 13:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
AI Film Broadway Cinema Culture Art
Can great art be made without human genius and all its flaws? It's a vital question at a time when artificial intelligence threatens to subsume Hollywood. Through new movies Nouvelle Vague and Blue Moon, director Richard Linklater offers an answer—delving into the lives of two brilliant, volatile men whose films and plays shaped French New Wave ...