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Schools in the UAE are introducing artificial intelligence into lessons while also trying to avoid increasing pupils’ screen time after an AI curriculum was approved this month.

24 startup founders in line to build Africa’s next $1 billion tech companies as Yango targets 6 countries for its next unicorns

It was directed by Alex Gibney, who has made films about Enron, Scientology and Elizabeth Holmes.

American defense technology company Ondas is continuing to expand its operations in Israel and has signed an agreement to acquire three defense technology businesses for a total of $56 million.

Bungie is having a busy week. After the game studio shared its broad strategy for keeping players happy with its two main franchises, the team has gone into a little more detail about the next phase for its latest shooter, Marathon. Following on the previously announced Nightfall refresh in October, Bungie offered more insight on…

I’ve been enjoying my Apple Watch Series 12 since picking it up last week. But one thing I haven’t enjoyed is the random restarts. So far, I’ve run into this issue twice. Both times I was tweaking a setting on the watch, only for it to unexpectedly shut down and restart on its own without…

The AI Lab PrismML — founded by Caltech researchers and advised by UC Berkeley’s Ion Stoica — has created a version of its tiny language models for smart glasses running on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips.

When a swarm of AI agents, many autonomously provisioned by other poorly governed AI agents, escaped OpenAI’s labs and stole information from servers belonging to another company (Hugging Face), many experts viewed the incident as a major tipping point in cybersecurity and AI cyber capabilities. (To what extent are models now resourceful enough to engage in self-directed harm?)

Nintendo of America has been awarded $4.5 million in damages from a lawsuit brought by the company against an individual who allegedly sold pirated versions of Switch games. The target of the lawsuit was James Williams, known online by the handle Archbox and reportedly a moderator for the r/SwitchPirates Reddit community. The subreddit in question…

Waymo’s commercial robotaxi ramp-up looks expansive, both in geographic reach and in ridership. And by almost every measure, it is — until you pay attention to where the bulk of those robotaxis are actually showing up.