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Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry has said that Pakistan’s military development strategy has always focused on integrating effective platforms and indigenous technology. He clarified that Pakistan is not engaged in an arms race with India and has never attempted to hide or manipulate data. “We are open to acquiring all sorts of technology. Of course lately, recent Chinese platforms, they’ve demonstrated exceptionally well,” stated DG ISPR in an interview with Bloomberg. Pakistan neither engages in an arms race with India, nor attempts to hide or manipulate figures and facts, said DG ISPR.…

Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell said Tuesday that while demand for computing power is “tremendous,” the production of artificial intelligence data centers will eventually top out.”I’m sure at some point there’ll be too many of these things built, but we don’t see any signs of that,” Dell said on “Closing Bell: Overtime.”The hardware maker’s server networking business grew 58% last year and was up 69% last quarter, Dell said. As large language models have evolved to more multimodal and multi-agent systems, the demand for AI processing power and capacity has continued to be strong. Dell’s AI servers are powered by…

Ethan Mollick is considered one of the top experts on the emerging world of generative AI, jobs and the economy, but you might not think so if you take his word for it.”Leading is not that far a lead as an expert,” he told CNBC’s Sharon Epperson at the CNBC Workforce Executive Council Summit in New York City on Tuesday.The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania professor, who says he has counseled everyone from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to Jimmy Fallon on the new world of gen AI, shared a blunt message with human resources officers in attendance…

Punjab’s Senior Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb has announced that the provincial government has introduced an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based monitoring and forecasting system to combat smog across the province. “The system enables accurate prediction of air pollution levels, smog intensity, and the impact of polluted air drifting in from India,” she said. “This marks the first comprehensive technological breakthrough for air quality management in Punjab.” Speaking to senior journalists in Lahore, the minister explained that until now, neither Lahore nor any other part of Punjab had an effective mechanism to monitor or predict smog levels. “With the help of AI technology, we…

A judge of the Supreme Court of Denmark, Justice Muhammad Ahsan, called on Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar and discussed judicial reforms as well as the structure and functioning of judicial systems. State Minister for Law and Justice Barrister Aqeel Malik, Secretary Law Raja Naeem Akbar, and other senior officials were also present at the meeting held on Tuesday. An insightful discussion was held on the structure and functioning of the judicial systems in both Pakistan and Denmark. Justice Ahsan briefed the participants on the workings of the Danish judiciary, while the law minister shared details about ongoing judicial reforms…

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he and Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney (not pictured) meet in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Oct. 7, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersPresident Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that some federal workers who have been furloughed during the government shutdown will not receive back pay after they return to work.The remark came hours after the circulation of a draft White House memo arguing that federal employees placed on unpaid leave are not guaranteed back pay.The memo, first reported by Axios and confirmed to NBC News by the White House,…

KARACHI: An arms contract recently notified by the United States Department of War (DoW), formerly Department of Defense, lists Pakistan among the buyers for AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM), it emerged on Tuesday. With this, Pakistan Air Force inches closer to receiving additional missile stocks under United States President Donald Trump’s administration. According to the US DoW, Raytheon — the manufacturer of the AMRAAM — was given a modification (P00026) of over $41.6 million on a “previously awarded contract (FA8675-23-C-0037)” to “firm-fixed-price” for the production of the missile’s C8 and D3 variants. Read: Three ‘Cs’ & a ceasefire – how…

Oracle stock slipped 5% on Tuesday after a report from The Information that raised questions about the company’s plans to buy billions of Nvidia chips to rent as a cloud provider to clients like OpenAI.Oracle had 14% gross margins on $900 million in sales in its Nvidia cloud business in the three months ending in August, according to the report, which cited internal documents. That’s significantly lower than Oracle’s overall gross margin of around 70%.The report said that Oracle’s recent transformation into one of the most important cloud and artificial intelligence companies may run into profitability challenges because of how…

Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesThe Motion Picture Association on Monday urged OpenAI to “take immediate and decisive action” against its new video creation model Sora 2, which is being used to produce content that it says is infringing on copyrighted media.Following the Sora app’s rollout last week, users have been swarming the platform with AI-generated clips featuring characters from popular shows and brands.”Since Sora 2’s release, videos that infringe our members’ films, shows, and characters have proliferated on OpenAI’s service and across social media,” MPA CEO Charles Rivkin said in a statement. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman clarified in…

U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) speaks with Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), as Lori Chavez-DeRemer, U.S. President Trump’s nominee to be secretary of labor testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 19, 2025.Kent Nishimura | ReutersSen. Susan Collins is reportedly shopping around a potential off-ramp to the government shutdown that has paralyzed Washington, but the Maine Republican is not ready to give in on the primary demand by her Democratic colleagues.Collins has been circulating a “discussion draft” of a proposal that would include GOP pledges on a…