Microsoft-backed startup stuns social media with hyper-realistic videos created using text prompts. OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, has unveiled a new form of artificial intelligence that creates realistic video based on text prompts, prompting stunned reactions online. The text-to-video model, named Sora, has “a deep understanding of language” and can generate “compelling characters that express…
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s warning comes days after 10 Lebanese civilians were killed in Israeli air raids. Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah has said that Israel will pay a price “in blood” for killing Lebanese civilians, signalling the conflict across the Lebanon-Israel border could intensify. Israeli air raids on Wednesday killed at least 10 civilians, including five…
Main opposition party says bank accounts frozen just weeks before the expected announcement of the general election. The Indian National Congress party says its bank accounts with 2.1 billion rupees ($25.3m) in deposits have been frozen by the Income Tax Department months before the national election. The main opposition party on Friday called the action…
African countries that have long traded with others outside the continent are now shipping goods to each other. African leaders will this weekend gather in Addis Ababa for the annual summit of the African Union (AU) to discuss key business issues, including plans to make Africa a global economic powerhouse. In the spotlight during the two-day high-level…
Cross-border shelling into Israel will only end when Israel’s ‘aggression’ on Gaza stops, Hassan Nasrallah says. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has said that his armed group’s cross-border shelling into Israel would only end when Israel’s “aggression” on the Gaza Strip stops, saying diplomatic efforts so far to bring a halt to hostilities along Lebanon’s border…
Global defence spending jumped to record $2.2 trillion last year: Spending set to rise in 2024 with Israel’s war on Gaza, Russia-Ukraine conflict, tensions in Indo-Pacific. Global defence spending jumped 9 percent to a record $2.2 trillion last year, a British military think tank said, and is set to rise in 2024 with Israel’s war on…
Number of American Jews who say they feel less secure in the US has jumped 22 percent from last year’s survey. Nearly two-thirds of American Jews feel less secure in the United States than they did a year ago, according to a new national survey. The American Jewish Committee (AJC), a prominent advocacy organisation, conducted…
His interview with Tucker Carlson reveals how he envisions negotiations and peace. On February 8, US TV anchor Tucker Carlson released a two-hour interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. This was the Russian leader’s first encounter with a Western journalist since the start of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The interview was met…
As corporate America pivots to AI, consumers rejected for loans, jobs Unfortunately, that was not the case for Rachel. As soon as she pressed the submit button she was deemed ineligible by the artificial intelligence software the company uses. Puzzled about the outcome, Rachel got in touch with the company’s customer service team. After all,…
