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The West Coast of the United States lies on the Pacific ring of fire, the most seismically active region in the world. It’s home to two major faults, the San Andreas in California and the Cascadia Subduction Zone in the Pacific Northwest, that are capable of producing catastrophic earthquakes. Both are long overdue for one.

Saudi Arabia has entrusted MiniMax with the development of its domestic Arabic large language model. 

Early-stage startups across Africa are invited to apply for the SiGMA Pitch Startup Competition 2027, an international startup competition that gives founders an opportunity to showcase their businesses to investors, venture capitalists, industry leaders and potential partners.

India’s payments industry is entering an AI-led phase, with companies increasingly embedding artificial intelligence into the plumbing of transactions rather than treating it as a side feature.

Shashank Pathak&Mukul Manchanda05 Sep 2026 11:48IST New Update

The week’s funding deals, beyond the usual headline-grabbers. From space infrastructure and aerospace to clean air, EV charging and AI for creators, here are some of the more interesting companies that raised capital this week. Moneycontrol News September 05, 2026 / 12:12 IST Weekly funding roundup: The startup deals you may have missed in week…

Generative artificial intelligence is quietly rewriting the rules of who counts as a student, and a major new review argues that the technology’s deepest effects on educational inequality have little to do with access to information at all. In a critical integrative review published in the journal AI & Society, Steven Watson of the University…

New York City banned student-facing generative AI in public schools through eighth grade under a new policy that will take effect during the 2026-27 school year. The one-year moratorium, announced Wednesday by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels, will apply to nearly 600,000 students from 2-K through grade 8 as the nation’s…

“A six-year-old child is too young to slice an onion, to fry an egg or to use a stove safely. But once that child becomes 16, that knowledge becomes something they are mature enough to learn,” stressed New York’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani, while announcing a one-year moratorium on AI tools for students.

Researchers from Skoltech and Sberbank’s Center for Practical Artificial Intelligence have developed TOHA, a cost-efficient method for pinpointing unsupported responses in large language models. The TOpology-based HAllucination detector analyzes a model’s attention maps as graphs, identifying inconsistencies between source context and generated text without requiring extensive training data. Published in the proceedings of the A*-ranked…