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Redmi 17C 5G With 6,000mAh Battery Goes on Sale in India: Price, Specifications
The Redmi 17C 5G is now available for purchase in India, following its launch in the country last week. The handset sports a 6.9-inch display with a 120Hz AdaptiveSync refresh rate. It is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 6300 chipset, coupled with up to 6GB of RAM. For photography, it gets a 50-megapixel AI camera. The Redmi 17C 5G runs on HyperOS 3 and packs a 6,000...
US risks ceding AI governance leadership to China and the EU
Standing alongside prominent technology executives, US President Donald Trump announced a voluntary agreement under which major artificial intelligence (AI) companies will use internal controls and monitoring, outside audits and board oversight to manage risks. The White House calls the commitments “morally binding”, but the accord does not create a comparable system of legal enforcement. The administration’s logic is understandable. AI is becoming a source of economic and military power, and...
Anthropic Expands Claude Access for Vetted Cyber Teams as Glasswing Finds 129,000 Flaws
Anthropic on Tuesday said it's expanding a program that allows vetted cybersecurity professionals to test its advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models with reduced safeguards and blocking classifiers, as the company claimed its Project Glasswing initiative uncovered at least 129,000 verified software vulnerabilities between April and July 2026. The company said it also found an additional
What firefighters want you to know about lithium battery fires
Firefighters have raised alarms about hot, fast, hard-to-extinguish fires in lithium batteries from e-bikes in people's homes and huge storage batteries at a P.E.I. solar farm. Here's why lithium battery fires are a challenge and how to minimize the risks.
Wikimedia Says Rogue OpenAI Agents Tried to Turn Its Tools Into Proxies
Wikimedia looked into whether its own websites had seen activity like that disclosed by other organizations The post Wikimedia Says Rogue OpenAI Agents Tried to Turn Its Tools Into Proxies appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Mirai launches the first plugins on ChatGPT that allow bookings on the hotel’s direct channel
Mirai, a technology company specializing in direct hotel sales, has begun rolling out the first plugins for its hotel clients on ChatGPT. Guests and users of the Emperador and Moderno hotels in Madrid, along with the Porcel Hoteles chain in Granada and Gloria Thalasso & Hotels in the Canary Islands, can now interact with them directly from ChatGPT using natural language.
Wikimedia Says Suspected OpenAI AI Agents Generated Millions of Requests, Made Unauthorised Edits: Report
The Wikimedia Foundation says it has identified activity from AI agents it believes were operated by OpenAI across its projects. The reported activity included unauthorised wiki edits, attempts to use Etherpad to retrieve information from other websites and millions of requests to Wikimedia APIs. The Foundation also linked hundreds of thousands of Wikidata Query Servi...
Google Unveils EmbeddingGemma 2 With Multimodal Search and On-Device AI Support; Nano Banana 2.1 Announced
Google has announced EmbeddingGemma 2 as its latest open, lightweight multimodal embedding model. It is designed for on-device multimodal embeddings, natively mapping combinations of text, images, audio, and video into a unified embedding space. The EmbeddingGemma 2 weights are available through Hugging Face and Kaggle. It is built on the Gemma 4 architecture, and th...
eDreams ODIGEO and Amazon Alexa collaborate to bring AI travel search to Alexa+
eDreams ODIGEO, the world’s leading travel subscription platform, today announced a strategic collaboration with Alexa+, Amazon’s next-generation AI assistant, to power travel discovery and booking for the AI assistant. The global travel subscription leader is bringing its pioneering artificial intelligence capabilities to the Alexa-enabled and connected devices, opening a new channel for customers to plan their trips.
Michigan farm used this 10.22-kg rock as a doorstop for decades. It was a meteorite
A 10.22-kg rock used as a barn doorstop on a Michigan farm for decades has been confirmed as an iron meteorite from the IIIAB group. Found after a reported 1939 fall near Edmore, the rock was identified by Central Michigan University and later studied by the Smithsonian Institution.