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Faiqa MansabNaeem Khan After the success of her debut novel, This House of Clay and Water (published in 2017), Faiqa Mansab’s second novel, The Sufi Storyteller, was published by Neem Tree Press and Penguin Random House India earlier this month. Unpretentious and soft-spoken, Mansab is a thoroughly gifted South Asian writer who is adept at weaving together layered stories, featuring complex characters that are all too human in their thoughts, dreams and longings. For her second offering, the Pakistani author brings a thrilling murder mystery to the fore. Written in the traditional style of dastangoi (meaning storytelling in Urdu), an…

MyLoan Dinh, Kiss My Grits, 2024. Boxing gloves, eggshells, acrylic 18 x 13 x 5 inches. Courtesy of the artist.Ogden Museum of Southern Art On April 30, 1975, Saigon fell. For America, its disgraceful 20-year intervention in Vietnam had come to a disgraceful end. Finally. For the citizens of South Vietnam who had been resisting the oncoming Communists and aiding the Americans, their war was not over. In the hours leading up to the Fall, residents fearing political persecution swarmed the U.S. embassy hoping for a ride out. Thousands came. Panic. Chaos. Pictures of American helicopters on rooftops boarding long…

Anton Petrus | Moment | Getty ImagesOKLAHOMA CITY — Amazon and Nvidia told a room of oil and gas executives this week that all options are on the table to power artificial intelligence including fossil fuels such as natural gas.The tech and energy industries gathered in Oklahoma City at the Hamm Institute for American Energy to discuss how the U.S. can meet the growing energy needs for AI data centers. The Big Tech companies have invested mostly in renewable power in an effort to slash their carbon dioxide emissions, but they are now navigating a changed political environment. President Donald Trump…

Subdivisions.com Subdivisions.com Sets New Standards in AI-Driven Real Estate Miami, FL, April 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Subdivisions.com, a leader in AI-enhanced real estate intelligence, has announced a significant expansion of its mission. Following its successful launch as South Florida’s premier subdivision search platform, the company is now evolving into the essential intelligence layer that will power its AI real estate copilot, redefining how homebuyers and investors discover properties. Since its debut in late 2023, Subdivisions.com has curated and structured thousands of South Florida’s residential subdivisions. This effort delivers hyperlocal insights into pricing trends, inventory dynamics, community lifestyles, and comparable…

Researchers from the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), MIT’s Media Lab, the Brazilian university UFABC, and the pandemic prevention non-profit SecureBio have found that leading artificial intelligence models can outperform experienced, PhD-level virologists in troubleshooting complex laboratory procedures. The findings, detailed in a new study introducing the Virology Capabilities Test (VCT), demonstrate AI’s proficiency in specialized scientific tasks but also highlight serious dual-use concerns, suggesting these tools could lower the barrier for creating dangerous biological agents. The VCT benchmark, consisting of 322 questions and detailed further in its research paper, was designed specifically to measure an AI’s ability to assist…

C3.ai experienced a 14% increase in its stock price over the past week, likely spurred by its recent collaboration with Arcfield to enhance Enterprise AI solutions for defense and intelligence. This partnership underscores the company’s dedication to advancing AI technology, potentially strengthening its service offerings. Meanwhile, broader market trends showed mixed movements with the Dow Jones down, S&P 500 steady, and Nasdaq gaining, amid tariff uncertainty. As the market saw a 4% rise over the same period, C3.ai’s price movement aligns with the general upward market trend, albeit boosted by the positive sentiment around its recent announcement. We’ve identified 2…

Emerging technology, when first being presented to the public-at-large, is bound to get people fearful and protective of the status quo. Such is the current case with AI and its practical application in multiple industries, particularly in the space of visual media arts, but rather than turn away, renowned filmmaker and technological innovator James Cameron is choosing to lean in. Last year, he joined the board of the generative AI company Stability AI and during a recent interview on the “Boz to the Future” podcast, he explained how the tech’s ability to shorten VFX workflow could truly be a game-changer…

Mistral AI CEO and cofounder Arthur Mensch. eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. French AI innovator Mistral AI has released Mistral Small 3.1, a new 24-billion-parameter model designed to perform competitively across text, vision, and multilingual benchmarks. A key feature of Mistral Small 3.1 is its ability to operate locally without requiring expensive cloud infrastructure. The model runs efficiently on a single RTX 4090 GPU or a Mac with at least 32 GB of RAM when quantized, potentially making it more accessible for startups,…

The founder of the Chinese tech company Baidu has revealed a significant flaw in the recently launched DeepSeek AI. As a result of this flaw, the reputation of the Chinese AI tool DeepSeek is gradually diminishing. New Delhi: Robin Li, co-founder of Baidu, recently shared significant insights regarding the Chinese AI tool DeepSeek, which has been making headlines. He pointed out a critical flaw in DeepSeek, stating that it is losing its luster. At its launch, DeepSeek posed a serious challenge to major tech companies in Silicon Valley. This AI model operates on reasoning-based language, setting it apart from conventional…

A new threat to large language models (LLMs) is on the rise after a security researcher at HiddenLayer was able to highlight a concerning feature. They claim that a single universal prompt on the LLM can give rise to malicious content without users even realizing it. All the top models in the industry, including ChatGPT, Llama, Deepseek, Qwen, Copilot, Gemini, and Mistral, were said to be vulnerable to the tactic that is novel. Therefore, researchers are raising the alarm by calling it Policy Puppetry Prompt Injection.The single universal prompt makes chatbots give instructions on how to enrich uranium, produce bombs,…