A new startup wants to bring AI to the software you use the most: your smartphone’s keyboard. On Tuesday, Singapore-based Acti (short for “action”) launched an agentic keyboard for iOS and Android, one that doesn’t just suggest your next word but can also take actions on your behalf, bringing AI tools directly into the apps…
US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) posted a record $4.5 billion in net outflows in June, more than three times the $1.25 billion Strategy is authorized to raise through its new Bitcoin monetization program. The record monthly withdrawals pushed US spot Bitcoin ETFs to roughly $5.5 billion in year-to-date net outflows for 2026, reducing cumulative…
The police officer killed in last week’s shooting in Montreal will be honored during a memorial ceremony at the Bell Centre. Montreal police announced on Tuesday that a ceremony is scheduled for July 7 in memory of SPVM Officer Mohamed Lamine Benredouane, who was one of three people who died on June 22 in the…
LAHORE: Both runways of Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport will remain closed for three hours daily for 70 days, from July 5 to September 15, for commercial flights during the upcoming monsoon season, the Pakistan Airports Authority (PAA) said on Wednesday, citing precautionary measures owing to increased risk of bird activity. “During the monsoon season,…
Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched issued a progress report on Tuesday, after TSMC successfully manufactured its chip earlier this year. The startup says it has already booked $1 billion in contract orders for its product: full systems powered by those chips. Etched is currently in the process of testing that first product with customers. It…
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Nearly two years after a massive wildfire ravaged Jasper, Alta., and surrounding area in Jasper National Park, the town is still rebuilding, but efforts are visibly under way. On Tuesday, federal Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced Ottawa is providing a huge financial boost to those recovery efforts — funding worth $520 million that will be…
KARACHI: A provincial anti-corruption court has extended the physical remand of former Yellow Line BRT Project Director Zamir Abbasi by three days in connection with the ongoing corruption case. The court ordered that the accused remain in the custody of anti-corruption authorities for further investigation. The investigating officer has also been directed to submit a…
Mbappe score his ninth goal in World Cup knockout matches, moving him ahead of Leonidas and Ronaldo France thrashed Sweden 3-0 with Kylian Mbappe’s brace to advance to the Round of 16 in the 2026 FIFA World Cup at New York New Jersey Stadium in the US. France struck just before half-time with Mbappe in…
NVIDIA has released Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower, a diffusion language model built on a pretrained autoregressive backbone. It ships as open weights under the NVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License. The release targets a throughput bottleneck in text generation. Autoregressive (AR) models decode one token at a time. That serial process caps generation throughput. Discrete diffusion language models take…
