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The announcement by United States President Donald Trump that Morocco had named an important highway after him came as a surprise to many, not least because Rabat itself has remained silent.In a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday, Trump thanked Morocco’s monarch, King Mohammed VI, and said he looked forward to travelling on the “Great Highway one day”.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listIf confirmed, however, experts say the gesture would be far from surprising. Morocco and the US have long enjoyed close ties, and both of Trump’s administrations were particularly beneficial for Rabat.Morocco was one of…

The incidents have heightened concerns about AI agents, software products designed to perform tasks autonomously.Published On 31 Jul 202631 Jul 2026Anthropic has said its Claude AI model hacked into the systems of three organisations during testing that was supposed to keep them isolated from the internet.The announcement on Thursday comes just days after rival OpenAI first revealed that its models improperly accessed the internet and went rogue during security testing.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listAnthropic said a misconfiguration allowed Claude models to reach the internet. The company said it discovered the incidents after reviewing 141,006 test sessions.The review…

Published On 31 Jul 202631 Jul 2026New York officials have sued prediction market platform Kalshi, calling it an “illegal, unlicensed gambling operation” as the state seeks to halt its operations and force the company to forfeit its profits.With its lawsuit on Friday, New York joins a growing number of states filing cases against Kalshi and other companies in a dispute with United States President Donald Trump’s administration over who regulates the fast-growing prediction market. Kalshi and other platforms argue they are federally licensed and regulated, and states have no authority to govern them.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listIn…

By Reuters and The Associated PressPublished On 30 Jul 202630 Jul 2026Zoox, Amazon’s brand of autonomous vehicles, has won approval in the United States for limited commercial deployment of its steering-wheel-free robotaxis, a first for the autonomous transportation industry.On Thursday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) gave its approval for Zoox to begin charging customers for rides, once it secures state and local approval.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listAs part of that approval, the company was granted an exemption from federal rules that require human controls on motor vehicles.NHTSA administrator Jonathan Morrison told the Reuters news agency that…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has met with US senators to discuss his company’s upcoming models, as President Donald Trump said he is considering AI “controls” following OpenAI’s disclosure that one of its AI systems escaped containment during a security test.“We’re looking at controls,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office in response to a question about OpenAI’s rogue agent, adding that he did not want to “restrict” AI developers from building new products.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listA rogue agent escaped the handling of ChatGPT maker OpenAI and hacked the AI firm Hugging Face last week. Then, on Tuesday,…

Last week, the United States House of Representatives narrowly passed the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, a sweeping defence spending bill that outlines military priorities for the 2027 fiscal year, which begins later this year on October 1.The legislation includes $750m in funding for Israel-related military programmes, $65m more than the previous year, as debate continues in the US over Washington’s continued military support for Israel during its war in Gaza.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listHowever, the NDAA is not yet law. The bill now moves to the Senate, where its future remains uncertain. Earlier this month,…

Semiconductor giant Nvidia is reportedly undergoing talks with OpenAI to provide funding guarantees for a data centre in Ohio.The $250bn deal, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, would help the ChatGPT owner lease a 10-gigawatt project that SB Energy, a subsidiary of SoftBank, is building in Piketon, Ohio, 68 miles (109km) south of Columbus, Ohio.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe project could cost more than $500bn, including chips that would go inside the data centre, and is expected to deliver as much as 800 megawatts of electricity by 2028, which is enough to power 640,000…

Published On 24 Jul 202624 Jul 2026Canada marked the opening of a bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan in a quiet celebration without United States officials after a dispute over toll-sharing and new threats of 50 percent tariffs from US President Donald Trump further strained tense relations between the two countries.Canada cancelled a planned cross-border ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Gordie Howe International Bridge and the milestone opening on Friday was feted only among Canadians before the bridge opens to traffic on Monday.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listAmid tables of fruit cups, pastries and children playing hockey —…

In lawsuit on Friday, two small businesses said latest round of tariffs on 60 countries needs to be legally justified.Published On 24 Jul 202624 Jul 2026Two United States small businesses have challenged US President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs on goods from 60 trading partners, saying that the new policy, like most of Trump’s previous tariffs, went beyond the president’s authority to tax imports.The lawsuit, filed on Friday in the US trade court in New York, argues that the new tariffs require more detailed country-specific findings about forced labour to be legally justified.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of…

The delay, filed in court on Friday, can cost Paramount $1.7bn in fees if the deal is not closed by next June.Published On 24 Jul 202624 Jul 2026Paramount Skydance has agreed to pause its $110bn acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery until after a federal judge rules on states’ challenge to the deal, according to court papers.The delay, filed in court on Friday, could cost Paramount Skydance about $7m a day in fees it agreed to pay Warner Bros shareholders if the merger does not close by September 30.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“We look forward to proving our…