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GENEVA (AP) — China has filed far more patents for generative AI than any other country, with the United States a distant second, the U.N. intellectual property agency said Wednesday.The technology has the potential to increase efficiency and speed scientific discovery, but it also raises employment and worker concerns, and is linked to about 54,000 inventions in the decade to 2023, according to a report by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).More than a quarter of these inventions emerged in the last year, according to WIPO, a testament to the explosive growth and interest in generative AI since it became…

Former Pakistan cricketer Ahmad Shahzad has been a hot topic in the Pakistani media. His comments about Babar Azam’s national team and the Pakistan Cricket Board have attracted attention from around the world.The 32-year-old Shahzad last played for Pakistan in 2019. Having been barred from the national team since then, Shahzad has been active as a panellist on various television shows. He was a vocal critic of Pakistan’s failure in the ODI World Cup 2023 and the subsequent T20 World Cup 2024. Recently, Shahzad slammed the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for allowing players to play in international T20 leagues. Bet…

A $41 million investment has been secured for the Headwaters Tech Hub.Colton Little Nonstop Local Multimedia Journalist This article was edited on June 3, 2024 at 12:00 pm.MONTANA — A $41 million investment has been secured for the Headwaters Tech Hub. According to a press release issued by Montana Senator Jon Tester’s office on the morning of Tuesday, July 2, the second phase of grant funding will further Headwaters Tech Hub’s efforts to expand the state’s sensing technology strengths to address autonomous systems, national defense, precision agriculture and critical resource management. The funding will come from a…

All of Jamaica was about to feel the power of Hurricane Beryl on Wednesday as the eye of the Category 4 storm approached the island of 3 million people, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its 2 p.m. ET advisory.The hurricane’s outer bands had lashed Jamaica earlier Wednesday after hurtling across warm waters in the Caribbean, forcing residents and tourists to brace for a massive storm that devastated the southern Windward Islands earlier this week. By early afternoon, Beryl and its 140-mph winds had closed to within 45 miles south of the Jamaican capital of Kingston.Beryl is forecast to…

At least four Chinese nationals have been killed in a militia attack on a mining site in the gold-rich Ituri province of north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local sources said.Several Congolese were also killed or wounded in the attack, which local sources said was carried out by Codeco, a militia that claims to be defending Lendu interests against rival Hema tribesmen.Attacks on mining sites and convoys are common in Ituri and further south in South Kivu, another gold-rich province that is home to many Chinese miners and where conflict over gold is also frequent between Congolese residents and Chinese miners.”Codeco…

The two men founded the Central Asia Security Summit to counter Western powers and have strengthened ties since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping hailed their “partnership” at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a regional security alliance set up by the two countries to counter Western powers. Speaking on the sidelines of a summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, Putin and Xi on Wednesday hailed the group’s expansion of membership to include Central Asian countries, India, Iran and next-generation member Belarus. They also continued to assert that China-Russia relations are a stabilizing factor in turbulent…

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping hailed their “partnership” at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a regional security alliance set up by the two countries to counter Western powers. Speaking on the sidelines of a summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, Putin and Xi on Wednesday hailed the group’s expansion of membership to include Central Asian countries, India, Iran and next-generation member Belarus. They also continued to assert that China-Russia relations are a stabilizing factor in turbulent times. Putin said the SCO was “strengthening its role as one of the key pillars of a fair multipolar world order,” but…

Following President Joe Biden’s dismal debate performance, Gavin Newsom has emerged among several names floated as his replacement, which will be a popular outcome in China. Since Biden’s defeat to Donald Trump last week, Chinese social media users have been posting photos and videos of the California governor, who gained popularity during a visit to the world’s second-largest economy last year. A video in which Newsom reaffirmed his support for Biden as the Democratic candidate has been viewed 80,000 times on China’s Weibo platform, with users commenting at the bottom that Newsom has “presidential temperament” and a “perfect resume” for…

Teenage girls aren’t the only young people raiding store aisles once thought of as strictly adult-only: While pre-teen and teenage girls are stocking up on pricey skin-care products at Sephora, teenage boys are hitting the perfume aisle. “Cologne has become such a big thing for me that I don’t feel embarrassed about my interest in it,” enthuses 15-year-old Clive in the latest conversation for SheKnows’ “Be a Man” series. “I love cologne.” Indeed, there’s no denying that cologne culture among pre-teen boys is widespread: Perfume is the fastest-growing beauty category among teenagers, with teenage boys leading the growth, according to…

The youth sports community has been voicing concerns for weeks about plans to shrink some of the sports areas at Douglas County Fairgrounds Regional Park, with officials saying renovations are due and demand for the event venue space has exceeded capacity. Mark Steinke, president of the local Raptors athletics program, isn’t opposed to the expansion, but he is opposed to the elimination of a field that has served kids for more than 20 years. “It’s tough because it’s devastating for us. When we lose these fields, we lose a big part of our program,” Steinke said, referring to the impact…