Industries asked to use more energy

ISLAMABAD: As the government has blocked the solar net metering policy, it is now working on a plan to incentivise increased industrial electricity consumption, particularly during off-peak and solar energy production hours. It plans to provide cheap electricity during day time to counter solar energy consumption, which costs significantly less compared to the national grid….

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Jury finds Meta downplayed youngsters’s security on platforms in landmark trial – Nationwide

Jury finds Meta downplayed youngsters’s security on platforms in landmark trial – Nationwide

A New Mexico jury discovered Tuesday that social media conglomerate Meta is dangerous to youngsters’s psychological well being and in violation of state shopper safety regulation. The landmark resolution comes after an almost seven-week trial. Jurors sided with state prosecutors who argued that Meta — which owns Instagram, Fb and WhatsApp — prioritized income over security. The jury…

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Databricks Open-Sources Omnigent: A Meta-Harness That Composes, Governs, and Shares AI Agents Across Claude Code, Codex, and Pi

Databricks released Omnigent, an open source ‘meta-harness’ for AI agents. The project ships under the Apache 2.0 license. The Databricks AI team built it with Neon. A harness is the wrapper around a model that turns it into an agent. Claude Code, Codex, and Pi are harnesses. Omnigent sits one level above them. It treats…

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Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises B to construct an ‘synthetic common engineer’ for the bodily world

Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to construct an ‘synthetic common engineer’ for the bodily world

Prometheus, the bodily AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, the previous co-founder of Verily, Google’s life sciences unit, introduced it raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation. The brand new funds got here from Bezos himself, in addition to from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock, amongst others. That is the…

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Zverev powers into French Open semis

Tennis player Alexander Zverev in the quarter finals of the French Open against Spanish opponent Rafael Jodar. Photo: AFP PARIS: Alexander Zverev breezed past Rafael Jodar to stay on course for an elusive Grand Slam title at the French Open, while Jakub Mensik halted Joao Fonseca’s scintillating run in the quarter-finals on Tuesday. Zverev, the highest-ranked player left in the men’s…

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Google DeepMind Releases Gemma 4 QAT Checkpoints: Q4_0 and a New Mobile Format Cut On-Device Memory

Google DeepMind released Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) checkpoints for the Gemma 4 family. The release targets local deployment on edge devices and consumer GPUs. It follows the Gemma 4 launch in April and a 12B model two days earlier. We compared the available Gemma 4 edge-model formats using only published numbers. The goal was simple. Show…

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Ariana Grande condemns White House use of her song to push ‘heinous nonsense’ – National

Descrease article font size Increase article font size American pop star Ariana Grande told President Donald Trump‘s administration on ​Thursday to stop using her music to promote its ‌policies. The comment came after the White House shared a video on TikTok earlier this week highlighting its immigration policy. The video, which depicts federal ​agents arresting and…

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