SAN FRANCISCO: A US judge has sided with an AI company in its practice of training a chatbot on copyrighted books without permission from the authors. In a decision with the potential to set legal precedent, District Court Judge William Asup ruled that Anthropic’s training of its AI creation, Claude, with millions of pirated books was allowed under a “fair …

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday approved a search and selection committee for recommending the appointment of members of the Pakistan Digital Authority (PDA) under the Digital Nation Pakistan Act. Enacted in January this year, the act aimed to transform Pakistan into a “digital nation” by enabling a digital society, digital economy, and digital governance. The bill was approved by …

KARACHI: Eighteen suspects, believed to be involved in a high-profile online scam, were arrested and produced before a court on Thursday. A judicial magistrate remanded them into the custody of the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) for interrogation. According to the agency, they were found involved in an ‘online loan scam’ targeting foreign nationals, especially from Gulf countries, besides …

WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday said he was unaware of any intelligence suggesting Iran had moved any of its highly enriched uranium to shield it from U.S. strikes, amid continuing questions about the state of Iran’s nuclear program. U.S. military bombers carried out strikes against three Iranian nuclear facilities early Sunday local time …

Japan condemned US President Donald Trump for comparing recent US strikes on Iran to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II. “That hit ended the war,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday. “I don’t want to use an example of Hiroshima, I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing.” …