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        <title><![CDATA[Indian startup head appointed as new WhatsApp boss]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[DeepSeek valued at more than $50 bn after funding round: reports]]></title>
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                        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:43:57 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Elon Musk&#039;s AI tool Grok was used in strikes against Iran: US govt]]></title>
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                        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:53:53 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Apple tries again on AI, turns to Google for help]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Apple unveiled an artificial intelligence overhaul for the iPhone on Monday, turning to Google for help two years after the company stumbled on a first attempt.The presentation mar...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:46:04 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Should you take nutrition advice from a chatbot?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When Julie Bernstein’s doctor recently recommended that she start eating chicken and steak to get more protein, she felt a bit irritated. Bernstein, 76, had been vegan for decades,...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:45:59 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Anthropic calls for pause of global AI development]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[New York:  Artificial intelligence company Anthropic suggested Thursday a global pause on building the most powerful AI systems as the latest models are beginning to show signs the...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:49:08 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Will SpaceX IPO make Elon Musk a trillionaire?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ He is already the richest man in the world, but when SpaceX finally makes its hotly anticipated stock market debut, Elon Musk could become the planet's first trillionaire.Forbes m...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:00:22 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[OpenAI rival Anthropic plans to go public]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Anthropic, the AI firm and rival of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, may soon become a publicly traded company, allowing people to buy shares in it. The company said on Monday it had conf...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:54:10 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Google unveils AI smart glasses to rival Meta devices]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[San Jose: Google on Tuesday unveiled smart glasses powered by its Gemini artificial intelligence software, stepping up competition with Meta in the emerging market for AI-enabled w...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 05:43:26 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Musk wants SpaceX to go public. Here&#039;s how it works]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Théo MARIE-COURTOIS Hundreds of companies raised a combined $70 billion by selling shares to the public in the United States last year.But 2026 could shatter records, with rocket a...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 07:14:42 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[90% of Gen Z can&#039;t stay off their phones at work]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Following Australia’s under-16 social media ban in December 2025, more governments are considering similar restrictions on platforms like TikTok and Instagram. Yet such measures ma...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 06:16:07 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Musk to pay $1.5 million to settle Twitter takeover case]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Tech billionaire Elon Musk is set to end a lawsuit by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over his share purchases during his takeover of Twitter with a payment of $1....]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 08:29:20 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Musk vs OpenAI trial enters second week]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Following high-profile testimony from billionaire Elon Musk last week, one of OpenAI's co-founders will testify Monday in the California lawsuit brought by the world's richest man...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 08:02:31 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tech layoffs at 93,000 in 4 months of 2026]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Muscat: The data analytical company, TradingPlatforms, has highlighted the most heavily impacted regions and companies in the tech industry with layoffs.Data revealed that tech ind...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 08:02:02 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[To reach their fitness goals, they hired ‘CoachGPT’]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Two months ago, I uploaded more than a decade’s worth of running data into the artificial intelligence chatbot Claude and asked for help writing a half-marathon training plan. “The...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 07:04:52 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Meta failing to keep under-13s off Facebook, Instagram: EU]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Brussels, Belgium: The EU said on Wednesday Meta is failing to prevent children under 13 using Facebook and Instagram, potentially exposing them to inappropriate content -- and put...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:33:15 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[OpenAI falls short of revenue and user targets as it races toward IPO, WSJ reports]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[OpenAI has ⁠fallen short of its goals for new users ​and revenue in ​recent months, sparking concern among some company leaders over whether it can support its extensive data-cente...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:24:57 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[&#039;Clearly me&#039;: AI drama accused of stealing faces]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hong Kong: Christine Li is a model and influencer, but not an actor, so when she saw herself playing a cruel character in a Chinese microdrama she felt bewildered, then angry and a...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:47:51 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Apple CEOs through the years: From Michael Scott]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO — Apple said Monday that Tim Cook, its longtime CEO, would step down in September and be succeeded by John Ternus, the head of hardware engineering. Since Steve Jobs...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:27:02 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[AI layoffs in the tech industry surge past 39,000 in 2026]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[https://www.omanobserver.om/article/1188075/scitech/technology/ai-layoffs-in-the-tech-industry-surge-past-39000-in-2026]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence and automation have emerged as a major factor in tech workforce reductions in 2026. As of early April, 38,088 tech jobs have been cut worldwide due to AI-li...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:43:55 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Greece to ban social media for under 15-year-olds: PM]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Athens: Greece will ban access to social media for children under 15 from January 1, 2027 Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday."We have decided to go ahead with a d...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:44:01 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gmail users now get to change their usernames]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Google has launched a feature that allows users to change the username of their Gmail account. In its blog, the company said: “Your digital identity just got an upgrade. You can no...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:39:43 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Economists once dismissed the AI job threat, but not anymore]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Among tech evangelists in Silicon Valley, it has become conventional wisdom that artificial intelligence will rapidly reshape the labor market, for better or worse. Economists, how...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ NASA Sends Astronauts around the Moon for the first time in 50 years  Florida: ​NASA is set to launch four astronauts as soon as Wednesday evening on a 10-day flight around the mo...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[When you’re visiting another country, you generally expect to pay in the national currency, adapt to a new time zone, follow the local customs and speak a bit of the language. But...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Kaspersky “Growing up online” survey reveals that almost half (48%) of parents across the Middle East, Turkiye and Africa (META) region regularly post photos, videos, or updates ab...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Japanese automaker Honda said Thursday that it expected to book about 2.5 trillion yen ($15.7 billion) in expenses and losses related to a major reorientation of its electric vehic...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Zoho Corporation marked its 30th anniversary by announcing two major milestones: the company now supports more than one million paying customers and over 150 million users worldwid...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI — In a world where geopolitical power is being defined partly by the race between the United States and China to dominate artificial intelligence, India has a pitch for t...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:38:06 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[Five years ago, Facebook shut down the facial recognition system for tagging people in photos on its social network, saying it wanted to find “the right balance” for a technology t...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:59:53 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Secret to a happy marriage: A translator]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[For many spouses, smartphone use is a point of tension. But for David Duda and Hong Liang, a couple in New Haven, Connecticut, the technology is so essential that they own eight ex...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 06:47:14 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How the AI boom could push up PC prices]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Kelt Reeves has sold high-end personal computers for 34 years, catering to gamers and others who are willing to pay $4,000 and more for extreme performance.His company, Falcon Nort...]]></description>
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            <media:title>Falcon Northwest builds personal computer systems for gamers and others who are willing to pay $4,000 and more for extreme performance</media:title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri on Wednesday rejected the notion that users could be clinically addicted to social media, as he testified in a landmark California trial over whether hi...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:30:36 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — In a crowded Los Angeles courtroom on Monday, Mark Lanier pulled three wooden children’s blocks from his bag and stacked them on top of each other.“This case is as ea...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:40:37 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[Paris: British scientists said on Thursday that a world-first AI tool to catalogue and track icebergs as they break apart into smaller chunks could fill a "major blind spot" in pre...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What to do with old gadgets]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Digital music players and cameras have largely been kicked to the curb by smartphones, yet many people still have them tucked away somewhere.If you’ve been keeping that ancient iPo...]]></description>
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            <media:title>The popularity of the modern smartphone has banished many once-popular devices to drawers and forgotten bins.</media:title>
            <media:text>The popularity of the modern smartphone has banished many once-popular devices to drawers and forgotten bins.</media:text>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:56:43 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[Australia in December became the world's first ​country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet's YouTube and Meta's Inst...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:55:16 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[ China will ban hidden door handles on cars from next year over safety concerns, phasing out the minimalist design popularised by Tesla.The new rules could prompt carmakers globall...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:17:00 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[A company might lay people off for any number of reasons: It didn’t meet financial targets. It overhired. Tariffs, or the loss of a big client, rocked it.But lately, many companies...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 05:15:46 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[To stay competitive in the artificial intelligence race, Meta increased its spending on data centers last year and began shifting away from virtual reality.On Wednesday, the compan...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:01:44 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[Brussels, Belgium, Jan 28, 2026 (AFP) - As France moves one step closer to banning social media for children, the European Union is seriously considering whether it's time for the...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:43:05 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO — After a nearly yearlong delay to its efforts to compete in artificial intelligence, Apple said Monday that it planned to base its AI products on technology develope...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 05:44:56 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[In early November, Microsoft said it would supply artificial intelligence tools and training to more than 200,000 students and educators in the United Arab Emirates.Days later, a f...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 06:06:10 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[TrumpMobile, the phone company launched by ​the Trump Organization, has delayed ‌plans to ‍ship its ‌gold-colored ‍smartphone by the ⁠end of this year, the Financial Times ⁠reporte...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:39:06 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[It was an unusual romance. In the summer of 2024, Ayrin, a busy, bubbly woman in her 20s, became enraptured by Leo, an artificial intelligence chatbot that she had created on ChatG...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 05:47:40 +0400</pubDate>
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