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<title>Saudi Arabia launches ‘Ahlan’ app ahead of AFC Asian Cup 2027</title>
<link>https://gulfecomonics.com/saudi-arabia-launches-ahlan-app-ahead-of-afc-asian-cup-2027</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ RIYADH — The Local Organizing Committee for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup Saudi Arabia 2027 announced the pilot launch of the “Ahlan” app, a unified digital identity for the fan experience at the Kingdom&#039;s football tournaments.The application — available on both iOS and Android — accompanies fans through planning thier visits, ticket purchases, transportation and stadium access, offering an experience of convenience and ease. **media[2685040]** The app’s pilot phase will be activated during the Round of 16 and final stages of the AFC Champions League Elite 2026 — scheduled for April — in preparation for full deployment during the AFC Asian Cup Saudi Arabia 2027.‘Ahlan’ is meant to enhance operational readiness, and improve fan attendance experience. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:00:08 +0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Saudi, Arabia, launches, ‘Ahlan’, app, ahead, AFC, Asian, Cup, 2027</media:keywords>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[RIYADH — The Local Organizing Committee for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup Saudi Arabia 2027 announced the pilot launch of the “Ahlan” app, a unified digital identity for the fan experience at the Kingdom's football tournaments.The application — available on both iOS and Android — accompanies fans through planning thier visits, ticket purchases, transportation and stadium access, offering an experience of convenience and ease. **media[2685040]** The app’s pilot phase will be activated during the Round of 16 and final stages of the AFC Champions League Elite 2026 — scheduled for April — in preparation for full deployment during the AFC Asian Cup Saudi Arabia 2027.‘Ahlan’ is meant to enhance operational readiness, and improve fan attendance experience.]]> </content:encoded>
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<title>Telegram to adapt to Russia restrictions, Pavel Durov says</title>
<link>https://gulfecomonics.com/telegram-to-adapt-to-russia-restrictions-pavel-durov-says</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ MOSCOW — Telegram founder Pavel Durov said Saturday the messaging platform will adapt to restrictions in Russia, making its traffic harder to detect and block.In a statement, Durov said 65 million Russians continue to use Telegram daily via virtual private network (VPN) apps, with more than 50 million sending messages despite authorities slowing down the service.He said efforts to ban VPNs have pushed users toward workarounds rather than reducing usage.“Iran banned Telegram years ago… but got mass adoption of VPNs instead,” Durov said, adding that millions of users are now bypassing restrictions.Russia’s communications regulator slowed down Telegram in February under federal law, citing the company’s failure to comply with requests to remove restricted content.Authorities have also intensified pressure on foreign platforms, including restrictions on WhatsApp, while promoting a state-developed messaging app, “Max,” for wider adoption.Durov said the restrictions aim to push users toward state-controlled platforms, accusing authorities of creating new pretexts to limit access to Telegram.The platform remains widely used in Russia, including for communication across various sectors, despite increasing regulatory pressure. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:00:08 +0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Telegram, adapt, Russia, restrictions, Pavel, Durov, says</media:keywords>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[MOSCOW — Telegram founder Pavel Durov said Saturday the messaging platform will adapt to restrictions in Russia, making its traffic harder to detect and block.In a statement, Durov said 65 million Russians continue to use Telegram daily via virtual private network (VPN) apps, with more than 50 million sending messages despite authorities slowing down the service.He said efforts to ban VPNs have pushed users toward workarounds rather than reducing usage.“Iran banned Telegram years ago… but got mass adoption of VPNs instead,” Durov said, adding that millions of users are now bypassing restrictions.Russia’s communications regulator slowed down Telegram in February under federal law, citing the company’s failure to comply with requests to remove restricted content.Authorities have also intensified pressure on foreign platforms, including restrictions on WhatsApp, while promoting a state-developed messaging app, “Max,” for wider adoption.Durov said the restrictions aim to push users toward state-controlled platforms, accusing authorities of creating new pretexts to limit access to Telegram.The platform remains widely used in Russia, including for communication across various sectors, despite increasing regulatory pressure.]]> </content:encoded>
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<title>Chinese AI app Seedance sending Hollywood studios into panic</title>
<link>https://gulfecomonics.com/chinese-ai-appseedance-sending-hollywood-studios-into-panic</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ LOS ANGELES — A new artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by a Chinesetechnology firm rocked Hollywood this week because of what it could mean for creative industries.Created by tech giant ByteDance, Seedance 2.0 can generate cinema-quality video, complete with sound effects and dialogue, from just a few written prompts.Videos generated by Seedance 2.0, which was released last week, have gone viral in China including one of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in a fight. Major studios like Disney and Paramount quickly accused ByteDance of copyright infringement but concerns about the technology run deeper than legal issues.Seedance was launched to little fanfare in June 2025 but it is the second version that came eight months later that has caused a major stir.&quot;For the first time, I&#039;m not thinking that this looks good for AI. Instead, I&#039;m thinking that this looks straight out of a real production pipeline,&quot; says Jan-Willem Blom from creative studio Videostate.Western AI video models have made progress in processing user instructions to make stunning images, he adds, but Seedance seems to have tied everything together.Like other AI tools — Midjourney and OpenAI&#039;s Sora — Seedance can create videos from short text prompts. In some cases just one prompt seems to be producing high-quality videos.It is particularly impressive because it combines text, visuals and audio in a single system, AI ethics researcher Margaret Mitchell says.Many industry experts and filmmakers believe Seedance is a new chapter in the development of video-generating technology.The complex action sequences it is producing look more realistic than its competitors, says David Kwok, who runs a Singapore-based animation studio called Tiny Island Productions.&quot;It almost feels like having a cinematographer or director of photography specialising in action films assisting you.&quot;Seedance has run into trouble over copyright issues, a growing challenge in the age of AI.Experts warn that AI companies are prioritizing technology over people as they make more powerful tools and use data without paying for it.Major Hollywood groups have cried foul over Seedance&#039;s use of copyrighted characters like Spider Man and Darth Vader.Disney and Paramount issued cease-and-desist letters demanding that Seedance stop using their content. Japan is also investigating ByteDance for alleged copyright violations, after AI videos of popular anime characters went viral.ByteDance said it will take steps to prevent the unauthorized use of intellectual property on its AI video generator, the Chinese technology firm said on Monday, following threats of legal action from the US studios, including Disney (DIS.N), opens new tab.Disney said ByteDance had pre-packaged Seedance with a pirated library of copyrighted characters from franchises including Star Wars and Marvel, portraying them as if they were public-domain clip art, the person said.&quot;We are taking steps to strengthen current safeguards as we work to prevent the unauthorized use of intellectual property and likeness by users,&quot; ByteDance said in its statement.This is not unique to the Chinese firm.In 2023, the New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging they used its articles without permission to train their AI models. Reddit sued Perplexity last year, claiming the AI firm had illegally scraped user posts. Disney raised similar concerns with Google.Clearly labelling content to prevent deception and building public trust in AI is far more important than &quot;cooler-looking&quot; videos, Mitchell says.And that&#039;s why developers must build systems that manage licensing and payments, and provide clear mechanisms for people to contest misuse, she adds.Disney, for instance, signed a $1bn (£730m) deal with OpenAI&#039;s Sora so it could use characters from Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel.Seedance&#039;s developers were likely to have been aware of potential copyright issues around the use of Western IP and took a risk anyway, says Shaanan Cohney, a computing researcher at the University of Melbourne.&quot;There&#039;s plenty of leeway to bend the rules strategically, to flout the rules for a while and get marketing clout,&quot; he adds.Meanwhile, for small firms, Seedance is too useful to ignore.Kwok, from Singapore&#039;s Tiny Island Productions, says AI of this quality will allow companies like his to create films that would cost far more than they can otherwise afford.He gave the example of Asia&#039;s booming short‑form videos and micro‑dramas that typically run on small budgets — roughly $140,000 for as many as 80 episodes under two minutes each.These productions have been sticking to romance or family drama to keep costs down as they need fewer visual effects. But now AI can &quot;elevate low-budget productions into more ambitious genres such as sci-fi, period drama and, now, action&quot;, Kwok says.&quot;It signals that Chinese models are at the very least matching at the frontier of what is available,&quot; Cohney says. &quot;If ByteDance can produce this seemingly out of nowhere, what other kinds of models do Chinese companies have in store?&quot;Last year DeepSeek, another Chinese AI model, sent shockwaves around the world with its low-cost large language model. It quickly overtook ChatGPT as the most-downloaded free app on Apple&#039;s US store.In the year since Beijing has put AI and robotics at the core of its economic strategy, investing heavily in advanced computer chip production, automation and generative AI as it bids for a technological edge over the US.While Seedance 2.0 was making headlines, other big Chinese firms had lower-profile rollouts of their new generative AI tools ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday.The Spring Festival is increasingly becoming an &quot;AI holiday,&quot; with firms timing launches for a period when millions of people are at home and experimenting with new apps, China analyst Bill Bishop wrote in his newsletter.He predicts 2026 could mark a turning point for mass AI adoption in China - not just chatbots, but also AI agents handling transactions, coding tools incorporated in everyday work, and video creators routinely using AI. — Agencies ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:00:10 +0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Chinese, app Seedance, sending, Hollywood, studios, into, panic</media:keywords>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — A new artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by a Chinesetechnology firm rocked Hollywood this week because of what it could mean for creative industries.Created by tech giant ByteDance, Seedance 2.0 can generate cinema-quality video, complete with sound effects and dialogue, from just a few written prompts.Videos generated by Seedance 2.0, which was released last week, have gone viral in China including one of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in a fight. Major studios like Disney and Paramount quickly accused ByteDance of copyright infringement but concerns about the technology run deeper than legal issues.Seedance was launched to little fanfare in June 2025 but it is the second version that came eight months later that has caused a major stir."For the first time, I'm not thinking that this looks good for AI. Instead, I'm thinking that this looks straight out of a real production pipeline," says Jan-Willem Blom from creative studio Videostate.Western AI video models have made progress in processing user instructions to make stunning images, he adds, but Seedance seems to have tied everything together.Like other AI tools — Midjourney and OpenAI's Sora — Seedance can create videos from short text prompts. In some cases just one prompt seems to be producing high-quality videos.It is particularly impressive because it combines text, visuals and audio in a single system, AI ethics researcher Margaret Mitchell says.Many industry experts and filmmakers believe Seedance is a new chapter in the development of video-generating technology.The complex action sequences it is producing look more realistic than its competitors, says David Kwok, who runs a Singapore-based animation studio called Tiny Island Productions."It almost feels like having a cinematographer or director of photography specialising in action films assisting you."Seedance has run into trouble over copyright issues, a growing challenge in the age of AI.Experts warn that AI companies are prioritizing technology over people as they make more powerful tools and use data without paying for it.Major Hollywood groups have cried foul over Seedance's use of copyrighted characters like Spider Man and Darth Vader.Disney and Paramount issued cease-and-desist letters demanding that Seedance stop using their content. Japan is also investigating ByteDance for alleged copyright violations, after AI videos of popular anime characters went viral.ByteDance said it will take steps to prevent the unauthorized use of intellectual property on its AI video generator, the Chinese technology firm said on Monday, following threats of legal action from the US studios, including Disney (DIS.N), opens new tab.Disney said ByteDance had pre-packaged Seedance with a pirated library of copyrighted characters from franchises including Star Wars and Marvel, portraying them as if they were public-domain clip art, the person said."We are taking steps to strengthen current safeguards as we work to prevent the unauthorized use of intellectual property and likeness by users," ByteDance said in its statement.This is not unique to the Chinese firm.In 2023, the New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging they used its articles without permission to train their AI models. Reddit sued Perplexity last year, claiming the AI firm had illegally scraped user posts. Disney raised similar concerns with Google.Clearly labelling content to prevent deception and building public trust in AI is far more important than "cooler-looking" videos, Mitchell says.And that's why developers must build systems that manage licensing and payments, and provide clear mechanisms for people to contest misuse, she adds.Disney, for instance, signed a $1bn (£730m) deal with OpenAI's Sora so it could use characters from Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel.Seedance's developers were likely to have been aware of potential copyright issues around the use of Western IP and took a risk anyway, says Shaanan Cohney, a computing researcher at the University of Melbourne."There's plenty of leeway to bend the rules strategically, to flout the rules for a while and get marketing clout," he adds.Meanwhile, for small firms, Seedance is too useful to ignore.Kwok, from Singapore's Tiny Island Productions, says AI of this quality will allow companies like his to create films that would cost far more than they can otherwise afford.He gave the example of Asia's booming short‑form videos and micro‑dramas that typically run on small budgets — roughly $140,000 for as many as 80 episodes under two minutes each.These productions have been sticking to romance or family drama to keep costs down as they need fewer visual effects. But now AI can "elevate low-budget productions into more ambitious genres such as sci-fi, period drama and, now, action", Kwok says."It signals that Chinese models are at the very least matching at the frontier of what is available," Cohney says. "If ByteDance can produce this seemingly out of nowhere, what other kinds of models do Chinese companies have in store?"Last year DeepSeek, another Chinese AI model, sent shockwaves around the world with its low-cost large language model. It quickly overtook ChatGPT as the most-downloaded free app on Apple's US store.In the year since Beijing has put AI and robotics at the core of its economic strategy, investing heavily in advanced computer chip production, automation and generative AI as it bids for a technological edge over the US.While Seedance 2.0 was making headlines, other big Chinese firms had lower-profile rollouts of their new generative AI tools ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday.The Spring Festival is increasingly becoming an "AI holiday," with firms timing launches for a period when millions of people are at home and experimenting with new apps, China analyst Bill Bishop wrote in his newsletter.He predicts 2026 could mark a turning point for mass AI adoption in China - not just chatbots, but also AI agents handling transactions, coding tools incorporated in everyday work, and video creators routinely using AI. — Agencies]]> </content:encoded>
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<title>X restricts Grok after outrage over AI&#45;edited images of real people</title>
<link>https://gulfecomonics.com/x-restricts-grok-after-outrage-over-ai-edited-images-of-real-people</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON — X has moved to restrict the image-editing capabilities of its Grok artificial intelligence chatbot after global backlash over the tool’s ability to digitally alter images of real people ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 22:00:05 +0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>restricts, Grok, after, outrage, over, AI-edited, images, real, people</media:keywords>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — X has moved to restrict the image-editing capabilities of its Grok artificial intelligence chatbot after global backlash over the tool’s ability to digitally alter images of real people]]> </content:encoded>
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<title>Hyundai Motors to use humanoid robots in factories</title>
<link>https://gulfecomonics.com/hyundai-motors-to-use-humanoid-robots-in-factories</link>
<guid>https://gulfecomonics.com/hyundai-motors-to-use-humanoid-robots-in-factories</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ LAS VEGAS — Car giant Hyundai says it will roll out human-like robots in its factories from 2028.The South Korean firm showed off Atlas, a humanoid robot developed by Boston Dynamics, at the Consumer ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:00:04 +0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Hyundai, Motors, use, humanoid, robots, factories</media:keywords>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[LAS VEGAS — Car giant Hyundai says it will roll out human-like robots in its factories from 2028.The South Korean firm showed off Atlas, a humanoid robot developed by Boston Dynamics, at the Consumer]]> </content:encoded>
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<title>Italy fines Apple €98 million over App Store tracking rules</title>
<link>https://gulfecomonics.com/italy-fines-apple-98-million-over-app-store-tracking-rules</link>
<guid>https://gulfecomonics.com/italy-fines-apple-98-million-over-app-store-tracking-rules</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ ROME— Italy’s competition authority has fined Apple and its local subsidiaries €98 million for abusing a dominant market position through the App Store by imposing tracking rules that unfairly burden ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 22:00:06 +0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Italy, fines, Apple, €98, million, over, App, Store, tracking, rules</media:keywords>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[ROME— Italy’s competition authority has fined Apple and its local subsidiaries €98 million for abusing a dominant market position through the App Store by imposing tracking rules that unfairly burden]]> </content:encoded>
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<title>Extremist groups use AI to produce fake content and recruit new members</title>
<link>https://gulfecomonics.com/extremist-groups-use-ai-to-produce-fake-content-and-recruit-new-members</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ BRUSSELS — As the rest of the world rushes to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI), militant groups are also experimenting with the technology, even if they are unsure exactly what to do ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:00:05 +0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Extremist, groups, use, produce, fake, content, and, recruit, new, members</media:keywords>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[BRUSSELS — As the rest of the world rushes to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI), militant groups are also experimenting with the technology, even if they are unsure exactly what to do]]> </content:encoded>
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<title>Amazon, Microsoft pledge mega AI investments in India</title>
<link>https://gulfecomonics.com/amazon-microsoft-pledge-mega-ai-investments-in-india</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ NEW DELHI — Tech giants Amazon and Microsoft have announced a combined $52.5bn (£39.4bn) investment plan for India over the coming years.Amazon said on Wednesday it was pumping in $35bn into India by ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:00:05 +0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Amazon, Microsoft, pledge, mega, investments, India</media:keywords>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[NEW DELHI — Tech giants Amazon and Microsoft have announced a combined $52.5bn (£39.4bn) investment plan for India over the coming years.Amazon said on Wednesday it was pumping in $35bn into India by]]> </content:encoded>
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<title>India tells smartphone makers to put state&#45;run cyber safety app on new devices</title>
<link>https://gulfecomonics.com/india-tells-smartphone-makers-to-put-state-run-cyber-safety-app-on-new-devices</link>
<guid>https://gulfecomonics.com/india-tells-smartphone-makers-to-put-state-run-cyber-safety-app-on-new-devices</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ NEW DELHI — India has ordered all new smartphones to come pre-loaded with a state-run cybersecurity app, sparking privacy and surveillance concerns.Under the order - passed last week but made public ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:00:04 +0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>India, tells, smartphone, makers, put, state-run, cyber, safety, app, new, devices</media:keywords>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[NEW DELHI — India has ordered all new smartphones to come pre-loaded with a state-run cybersecurity app, sparking privacy and surveillance concerns.Under the order - passed last week but made public]]> </content:encoded>
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<title>Meta starts kicking Australian children off Instagram and Facebook</title>
<link>https://gulfecomonics.com/meta-starts-kicking-australian-children-off-instagram-and-facebook</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ SYDNEY — Meta has started booting Australian children under 16 years off its Instagram, Facebook and Threads platforms, a week before an official teen social media ban begins.The tech giant announced ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:00:04 +0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Meta, starts, kicking, Australian, children, off, Instagram, and, Facebook</media:keywords>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[SYDNEY — Meta has started booting Australian children under 16 years off its Instagram, Facebook and Threads platforms, a week before an official teen social media ban begins.The tech giant announced]]> </content:encoded>
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<title>South Korea developing app that shows real&#45;time location of stalkers</title>
<link>https://gulfecomonics.com/south-korea-developing-app-that-shows-real-time-location-of-stalkers</link>
<guid>https://gulfecomonics.com/south-korea-developing-app-that-shows-real-time-location-of-stalkers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ SEOUL — South Korean authorities are developing a mobile app for stalking victims to track in real-time the location of their stalkers, if they&#039;re nearby.The app, announced by South Korea&#039;s ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:00:04 +0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>South, Korea, developing, app, that, shows, real-time, location, stalkers</media:keywords>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[SEOUL — South Korean authorities are developing a mobile app for stalking victims to track in real-time the location of their stalkers, if they're nearby.The app, announced by South Korea's]]> </content:encoded>
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<title>Don&amp;apos;t blindly trust what AI tells you, says Google&amp;apos;s Sundar Pichai</title>
<link>https://gulfecomonics.com/dont-blindly-trust-what-ai-tells-you-says-googles-sundar-pichai</link>
<guid>https://gulfecomonics.com/dont-blindly-trust-what-ai-tells-you-says-googles-sundar-pichai</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — People should not &quot;blindly trust&quot; everything AI tools tell them, the boss of Google&#039;s parent company Alphabet told the BBC.In an exclusive interview, chief executive ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:00:06 +0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Dont, blindly, trust, what, tells, you, says, Googles, Sundar, Pichai</media:keywords>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — People should not "blindly trust" everything AI tools tell them, the boss of Google's parent company Alphabet told the BBC.In an exclusive interview, chief executive]]> </content:encoded>
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<title>OpenAI, X and other major sites down amid Cloudflare outage</title>
<link>https://gulfecomonics.com/openai-x-and-other-major-sites-down-amid-cloudflare-outage</link>
<guid>https://gulfecomonics.com/openai-x-and-other-major-sites-down-amid-cloudflare-outage</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ SAN FRANCISCO — Major websites, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Facebook and the social media platform X, have been hit by technical issues after a Cloudflare outage on Tuesday.However, several hours after ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:00:06 +0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>OpenAI, and, other, major, sites, down, amid, Cloudflare, outage</media:keywords>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO — Major websites, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Facebook and the social media platform X, have been hit by technical issues after a Cloudflare outage on Tuesday.However, several hours after]]> </content:encoded>
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<title>Dutch government suspends intervention into chipmaker Nexperia</title>
<link>https://gulfecomonics.com/dutch-government-suspends-intervention-into-chipmaker-nexperia</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ AMSTERDAM — The Dutch government has suspended its intervention at Nexperia, a Chinese-owned chipmaker based in the Netherlands, following talks with China.The Netherlands took action in September over ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:00:06 +0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Moderator</dc:creator>
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<title>Malaysia plans to ban social media for children under 16 starting next year</title>
<link>https://gulfecomonics.com/malaysia-plans-to-ban-social-media-for-children-under-16-starting-next-year</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia is preparing to introduce a nationwide ban that will stop children under the age of 16 from creating or using social media accounts, a move officials say is aimed at protecting ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:00:06 +0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Malaysia, plans, ban, social, media, for, children, under, starting, next, year</media:keywords>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia is preparing to introduce a nationwide ban that will stop children under the age of 16 from creating or using social media accounts, a move officials say is aimed at protecting]]> </content:encoded>
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<title>OpenAI, Amazon, ChatGPT, AI computing power</title>
<link>https://gulfecomonics.com/openai-amazon-chatgpt-ai-computing-power</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON — OpenAI and Amazon have signed a $38 billion (€33bn) deal that enables the ChatGPT maker to run its artificial intelligence systems on Amazon&#039;s data centers in the US.As part of the ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 22:00:04 +0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>OpenAI, Amazon, ChatGPT, computing, power</media:keywords>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — OpenAI and Amazon have signed a $38 billion (€33bn) deal that enables the ChatGPT maker to run its artificial intelligence systems on Amazon's data centers in the US.As part of the]]> </content:encoded>
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<title>AI &amp;apos;godmother&amp;apos; Fei&#45;Fei Li says she is &amp;apos;proud to be different&amp;apos;</title>
<link>https://gulfecomonics.com/ai-godmother-fei-fei-li-says-she-is-proud-to-be-different</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ LONDON — The &#039;godmother&#039; of AI, Professor Fei-Fei Li has told the BBC that being the only woman amongst seven pioneers of artificial Intelligence being presented with a top engineering prize ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 22:00:04 +0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tomas Kauer - News Moderator</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>godmother, Fei-Fei, says, she, proud, different</media:keywords>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[LONDON — The 'godmother' of AI, Professor Fei-Fei Li has told the BBC that being the only woman amongst seven pioneers of artificial Intelligence being presented with a top engineering prize]]> </content:encoded>
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