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Biden makes first contact with Pakistani PM in years

ISLAMABAD: US President Joe Biden wrote a letter to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday, stating that Washington will continue to stand with Pakistan to tackle the most “pressing global and regional challenges.” This marked Biden’s first official communication with any Pakistani prime minister in years. President Biden broke with tradition by not engaging with […]

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Dimitrov stuns Alcaraz to book Zverev Miami semi-final

MIAMI: World number two Carlos Alcaraz was knocked out of the Miami Open quarter-finals on Thursday, beaten 6-2, 6-4 by Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov. Dimitrov played sparkling and energetic tennis to beat the Spanish top seed and will now face Germany’s Alexander Zverev for a place in the final. Germany’s Zverev held off rising Hungarian Fabian […]

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Chinese investigators arrive to probe Besham suicide attack

ISLAMABAD: Chinese investigators arrived in Pakistan on Friday to join a probe into the killing of five Chinese nationals in a suicide attack, the interior ministry said, seeking to stem assaults threatening Islamabad’s drive to modernise the economy. Tuesday’s incident was the third major attack in little over a week on China’s interests in Pakistan, […]

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Analysts laud formation of commission to probe judges’ allegations

Analysts have stressed the importance of a clear and transparent investigation into alleged interference in judiciary affairs, particularly regarding pressure on judges. This call for transparency came during the political talk show, “Experts,” aired on Express News, where Naveed Hussain, Chief Editor of The Express Tribune, highlighted the necessity to focus on discussing alleged interference […]

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Musk’s xAI to launch improved version of chatbot

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI said on Thursday it will launch an enhanced version of its chatbot Grok. The new version, called Grok-1.5, will be made available to early testers and existing Grok users on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in the coming days, xAI said in a statement. The startup […]

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Power consumers to pay extra Rs85b

ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has approved an increase of Rs2.7492 per unit in electricity tariffs on account of second quarterly adjustment for financial year 2023-24. The quarterly adjustment will have a total impact of Rs85.2 billion on consumers for the October-December period of FY24. The currently applicable two quarterly adjustments of […]

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Collins dominates to set up Miami final with Rybakina

MIAMI: Danielle Collins, in her final year on the WTA Tour before retirement, booked her first ever 1000 series final in Miami on Thursday with a dominant 6-3, 6-2 victory over Ekaterina Alexandrova. The 30-year-old Collins, will face fourth-ranked Elena Rybakina in Saturday’s final. The Kazakhstan player was pushed all the way by veteran Victoria […]

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AI fails to detect depression signs in posts by Black Americans

 Analyzing social media using artificial intelligence may pick up signals of depression in white Americans but not in Black counterparts, according to a study that highlights the risk of training AI models for healthcare-related tasks without data from diverse racial and ethnic groups. The AI model used for the study was more than three times […]