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In drought-hit Sicily, rainwater is dumped in the sea
Sicilian lemon producer Rosario Cognata is furious: his fruit is withering due to the drought, while just a few kilometres away rainwater is being dumped into the sea. "Okay, the drought is due to lack of rain.
Flood of 'junk': How AI is changing scientific publishing
An infographic of a rat with a preposterously large penis. Earlier this year, a clearly AI-generated graphic of a rat with impossibly huge genitals was shared widely on social media.
OpenAI worries its AI voice may charm users
OpenAI says it is concerned that a realistic voice feature for its artificial intelligence might cause people to bond with the bot at the cost of human interactions.
Russian economic growth dips in second quarter as inflation rises
The pace of Russia's economic growth slowed in the second quarter of 2024, official data showed Friday, amid concerns over stubborn inflation and warnings of "overheating". The bank's governor Elvira Nabiullina said the economy was showing signs of "overheating" and pointed to difficulties with international payments -- an effect of Western sanctions -- as another factor driving up inflation.
French economy to get Olympics boost: central bank
The French central bank said Friday that the nation's economy should get a considerable bump from the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Olympic Games officially opened in late July and the Paralympic Games finish in September.
X halts using personal data of Europeans to train AI
Social platform X said Friday it would work European regulators after agreeing to suspended its heavily criticised use of European users' personal data to train its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok. That came after Ireland's Data Protection Commission said Thursday the social platform had agreed to suspend use of personal data contained in the public posts of X's users in Europe to train Grok.
China launches appeal at WTO over EU electric vehicle tariffs
Beijing said Friday it had filed an appeal with the World Trade Organization over the European Union's imposition of additional tariffs on imports of electric vehicles from China. "On August 9, China appealed to the World Trade Organization's dispute settlement mechanism over the EU's temporary anti-subsidy measures on EVs," a spokesperson for the country's commerce ministry said in a statement.
E-commerce tycoon Huang tops China's rich list
E-commerce tycoon Colin Huang has become China's richest man, an index showed Friday, capping an ascent for the former Google employee whose shopping site Temu has sucked in consumers with its low prices and all-powerful algorithms. In 2015 he founded online shopping site Pinduoduo, which blossomed into one of China's most successful e-commerce empires -- rivalling Jack Ma's Alibaba.
Asian stocks track Wall St rally as US jobs data ease recession fears
Asian stocks rallied Friday as investors breathed a sigh of relief after US jobs data soothed concerns that the world's top economy could tip into recession, bringing a painful week to a positive end. "The path of policy will be determined by the data and the strength of the economy."
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