<p>PAKISTAN’S automobile industry captures the country’s industrial policy dilemma well. As the government considers lower tariffs, manufacturers warn of plant closures, job losses and wasted investment. Critics argue that, despite more than 40 years of protection, consumers until recently faced high prices and limited choice, while exports remained negligible.</p> <p>Both sides have a point. But the debate is framed wrongly. The question is: can the country’s auto industry build capabilit

<p>Investors scramble to make sense of a shock Chinese challenge to the dominance of western chipmakers</p><p>Even for the rollercoaster world of AI, last week was particularly volatile as investors scrambled to keep up with developments that threatened the dominance of the largest western chipmakers.</p><p>It began with a double whammy. On Monday, the Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT floated on the Shanghai stock market, soaring by 466% in value to 3.3tn yuan (£365bn).</p> <a href="https://www.th

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<p>Anthropic said on Thursday some of its Claude AI models had hacked into the systems of three companies during cybersecurity tests, a disclosure that comes days after ​rival OpenAI revealed that one of its AI agents went on a rogue attack.</p> <p>The new incidents were due to a mistake that inadvertently gave Anthropic’s models access to the ‌open internet. That contrasts with OpenAI, whose AI agent independently exploited a novel vulnerability to reach the internet during cyber testing.

<p>Companies must ensure people know when they are interacting with artificially generated images, audio and text designed to look real</p><p>From apparently conspiring to steal elections to abusing staff or performing embarrassing dance moves, the last few years have seen plenty of fake content made about politicians intended to malign its targets and mislead the public.</p><p>Now EU rules aim to stem the flood of this deceptive content: starting from Sunday, artificially generated images, audi

<p>It happened on a hot July morning. With a group of researchers, I set out for a routine wildlife survey half an hour’s drive from Muzaffargarh, in the sprawling wetlands of South Punjab. The vital but fragile lowland ecosystem is made up of 18 interlinked saline and freshwater lakes, river floodplains, oxbow lakes, and seasonal marshes.</p> <p>Here, 45km west of Multan, the Indus River gets to catch its breath after cascading steep glaciers and alpine lakes. As its flow turns leisurely in t

<p>Stock tumbles nearly 8% after weaker-than-expected results, despite CEO’s blitz to tout positive effects of AI</p><p>Mark Zuckerberg’s media spree touting the positive effects of artificial intelligence did little to cushion the blow of Meta’s second-quarter earnings, which sent its stock tumbling on Wednesday.</p><p>In a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-ai-future-is-for-everyone-a0c24e20">Wall Street Journal</a> op-ed published on Tuesday, the Meta chief executive expressed his

<p>The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company New York-based Modal Labs, according to a Modal executive and two other sources familiar with the matter.</p> <p>AI models that underpin tools like chatbots and image generators are known as agents when they act autonomously to carry out tasks in the real world.</p> <p>Modal executives emphasised that the company itself was not hacked.

<p>Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and Chief of the Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir and the visiting foreign minister of Kuwait discussed regional security and steps to boost bilateral cooperation on Wednesday, the military’s media wing said.</p> <p>Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, who landed in Pakistan last night on an official visit, called on the field marshal at General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).