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Intelligence before AI

IN A world increasingly driven by artificial intelligence, we find ourselves captivated by machines that emulate what we call ‘intelligence’. But before we marvel at neural nets and language models, we must ask: whose intelligence are we referring to when we use the term? The rise of AI, paradoxically, urges us to reflect not just on technology, but on what...

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US intel says strikes did not destroy Iran nuclear programme

A classified preliminary US intelligence report has concluded that American strikes on Iran set back Tehran’s nuclear programme by just a few months — rather than destroying it as claimed by president Donald Trump...

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The vanishing mind

ONCE the pinnacle of evolutionary achievement, the human brain is now experiencing an unprecedented decline in its cognitive and analytical capabilities. What began as a gradual erosion with the rise of social media has accelerated into a cognitive crisis with the integration of artificial intelligence into our educational systems. Recent ground-breaking research...

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Pope warns of AI risks to young brains

Pope Leo XIV warned on Friday of the potential consequences of artificial intelligence on the intellectual development of young people, saying it could damage their grip on reality.

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Big tech on a quest for ideal AI device

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has enlisted the legendary designer behind the iPhone to create an irresistible gadget for using generative artificial intelligence or AI...

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Google turns queries into conversations

Google on Friday began letting people turn online searches into conversations, with generative artificial intelligence providing spoken summaries of query results...

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Market Intelligence Platform launched

Market Intelligence Platform, designed as a one-stop digital hub for exporters, was launched at a programme held at a hotel in Gulshan in Dhaka on Thursday, says a press release.

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Suspicious transactions of money rise by 56pc

The number of reports on suspicious transactions and activities related to money laundering rose by 56.41 per cent in July-May period of the financial year 2024-25 amid increased cash transactions and fraudulent activities following the political shift on August 5, 2024...

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Machines may generate, only people can mean

NOT long ago, artificial intelligence made headlines for what many described as a creative breakthrough. OpenAI’s GPT-4 ranked in the top one per cent on standardised creative thinking assessments — those same tests used to measure human originality and problem-solving. Around the same time, an Artifical Intelligence generated song that mimicked the...

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Oil prices jump

Crude prices rallied Wednesday following a report that US intelligence suggested Israel was planning a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, which would send geopolitical tensions into overdrive and fuel regional conflict fears...

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Tackling AI-generated crimes

AS BANGLADESH moves towards a digitally advanced society, it must prepare to face the growing threat of artificial intelligence-driven crimes. Artificial intelligence can help crime in various ways such as generating deepfake videos, fake audio clips and doctored screenshots, creating convincing phishing messages, automating online scams, hacking into secure...

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Bill Gates says AI key for health, education innovation

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said artificial intelligence will play a key role in unlocking new tools for health, education and agriculture at a meeting with Indonesia’s president on Wednesday...

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VOICE hosts webinar on AI, future of journalism

Speakers at an event on Saturday urged the government to publish an update on the National Artificial Intelligence Policy 2024 and finalise it through a consultative process...

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Premier Bank fined as Iqbal withdraws fund

The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit has fined Premier Bank for allowing its former chairman, HBM Iqbal, to illegally withdraw Tk 1.11 crore and $30,000 from frozen accounts, according to BFIU officials...

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German industry grapples with AI at trade fair

Artificial intelligence is set to bring sweeping change to modern life, but at an industrial fair in Germany many companies wonder how they fit into the tech revolution.

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Meta's head of AI research stepping down

The head of Meta's artificial intelligence research division said she plans to step down, vacating a high-profile position at a time of intense competition in the development of AI technology...

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Google to buy cybersecurity company Wiz for $32b

Google said Tuesday it will acquire cloud security platform Wiz for $32 billion, citing the need for greater cybersecurity capacity as artificial intelligence embeds itself in technology infrastructure...

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US should keep off misleading remark, India smear campaign

THE US director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s saying in an interview with India’s NDTV World on March 17 — now owned by the Adani Group alleged to be fuelling the hinduvta agenda of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological parent of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party — that the United States is deeply concerned about the situation in Bangladesh...

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Tulsi Gabbard’s misguided accusations

TULSI Gabbard, the newly appointed US Director of National Intelligence, has recently made inflammatory and baseless remarks regarding the treatment of religious minorities in Bangladesh. In an interview with NDTV, she alleged that religious minorities in Bangladesh face systemic persecution and killings, linking the situation to the ideology of an...

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Baidu releases AI model to compete with DeepSeek

Chinese internet search giant Baidu released a new artificial intelligence reasoning model Sunday and made its AI chatbot services free to consumers as ferocious competition grips the sector...

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Alibaba to invest $50b in AI, cloud

Chinese tech giant Alibaba said Monday it will spend more than $50 billion on artificial intelligence and cloud computing over the next three years, a week after co-founder Jack Ma was seen meeting president Xi Jinping...

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BITAC holds seminar on AI

The Bangladesh Industrial and Technical Assistance Center, with the supports of GOTT SDN BHD, Malaysia and MICRO MAX Technologies Limited Bangladesh, held a seminar on Artificial Intelligence to face the Fourth Industrial Revolution at the BITAC building in Dhaka on Saturday...