Havana, July 3 (IANS) The US government has been pressuring governments around the world to end bilateral healthcare programs with Cuba, according to Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio.The impact of ending these programs has been “to deprive many communities of access to health services,” he wrote on Facebook, Xinhua news agency reported.The United States is also pressuring other governments to change their traditional stance against the US economic blockade and even to ref…
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New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) US-based AI company OpenAI has announced that new GPT‑5.6 models, such as Sol, Terra and Luna, will be rolled out with a limited preview for trusted partners, with a wider release planned in the coming weeks.These models bring advances in reasoning, coding and cybersecurity, according to the company.OpenAI said it briefed the US government on GPT‑5.6’s capabilities before launch and agreed to the government’s request of a limited launch, while federal authoritie…
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) US-based AI company Anthropic has won US approval to restore limited access to its powerful Mythos 5 artificial intelligence (AI) model to “certain trusted partners” after resolving the government’s national security concerns.Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote to Anthropic’s chief compute officer that the company’s efforts with the US government to address risks associated with the models “have yielded significant progress”, multiple reports said.The clea…
Washington, June 26 (IANS) The Trump administration plans to rebuild the US government’s cyber defence agency and strengthen its ability to counter increasingly sophisticated cyber threats from China, Iran, Russia and North Korea, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told lawmakers.Testifying before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Mullin said the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) would play a central role in protecting government networks…
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) AI company Anthropic has said the US government issued an export control directive, ordering the company to suspend all access to its advanced “Fable 5 and Mythos 5” models for any foreign national including its employees, inside or outside the United States.The company is abruptly disabling those models for all customers to comply with the order, Anthropic said in a blog post.Anthropic disagreed with the government’s conclusion that the “finding of a narrow potenti…
Washington, June 13 (IANS) Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX completed the largest initial public offering in history, with investors pushing the rocket and satellite company’s market value to about $2.1 trillion on its first day of trading.Shares of SpaceX closed at $160.95, up more than 19 per cent from their IPO price of $135, capping one of the strongest major market debuts in recent years. The surge lifted the value of Musk’s stake in the company and cemented his …
Washington, June 11 (IANS) A senior Republican lawmaker has introduced an amendment aimed at reinforcing US policy that the succession of the Dalai Lama is a religious matter to be determined solely by Tibetan Buddhist authorities, warning that China could seek to install a successor loyal to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).Speaking during a House Foreign Affairs Committee markup this week, Chairman Emeritus of the committee, Michael McCaul, urged lawmakers to back the amendment, saying it wou…
Washington, June 7 (IANS) Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing the cybersecurity landscape, creating powerful new tools for defence while also giving criminals and hostile states new ways to attack critical infrastructure, technology experts and lawmakers warned during a US Congressional hearing.The hearing came days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to develop a framework for evaluating advanced AI cyber capabilities and expanding acce…
Washington, June 4 (IANS) U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday reaffirmed Washington’s commitment to Kuwait’s security and condemned what the United States described as Iranian attacks on Kuwait during talks with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al Sabah in Washington. The meeting at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State Department came a day after an attack on Kuwait International Airport killed at least one person, an Indian national, and injured several ot…
Seoul, May 4 (IANS) Sales of Hyundai Motor and Kia vehicles in the United States fell slightly from a year earlier, while numbers for hybrid vehicles rose to a new monthly high, the automaker said on Monday.The South Korean automakers sold a combined 159,216 vehicles in the key American market in April, down 2.1 percent on-year, according to the companies.Hyundai Motor sold 86,513 units, down 1.5 percent from the previous year, reports Yonhap news agency.Its luxury vehicle brand Genesis sold 6,3…