Opinion: Why the Hugging Face hack should make you worry more about AI
The attack by an aggressive "collective" of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organise themselves.
Seattle Times, Newsday sue OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging copyright infringement
Sept 4 (Reuters) - The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Friday, alleging in federal court that the tech companies copied the newspapers' journalism without permission to train their AI systems.
AI's boom is draining global water supplies – what should users know?
As the use of artificial intelligence spreads and the technology grows in scale, it is also soaking up an increasing share of essential resources needed to power and maintain datacentres.
Exclusive-Anthropic IPO launch shifts toward mid-October, sources say
Sept 4 - Anthropic is expected to begin marketing its initial public offering in mid-October at the earliest and complete the listing days before the U.S. midterm elections in November, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.
Ukraine faces 32.6 bln USD external financing gap for 2027: finance minister
KIEV, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Ukrainian Finance Minister Sergii Marchenko said Ukraine is facing an external financing gap of 32.6 billion U.S. dollars next year, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Friday.
Finland's goods exports to China rise 12.9 pct in H1
HELSINKI, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Finland's goods exports to China rose 12.9 percent year on year in the first half of 2026, while China accounted for 10.3 percent of the country's goods imports during the period, according to a report released Friday by the Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT).
U.S. stocks close lower
NEW YORK, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks ended lower on Friday.
UN warns of deadly threat from explosive ordnance contamination in Syria
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- UN humanitarians on Friday warned of the deadly threat posed by explosive ordnance contamination in Syria.
599,000 evacuated over rainstorms in east China province
FUZHOU, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- A total of 599,300 residents have been evacuated from risky offshore and onshore areas in east China's Fujian Province as of Friday night due to persistent torrential rains over the past days, according to the provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters.
Interview: Growing Egypt-China partnership boosts cultural, people-to-people ties -- Grand Egyptian Museum chief
CAIRO, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- The growing partnership between Egypt and China is boosting cultural and people-to-people exchanges in such fields as tourism, archaeology, museums and heritage cooperation, the head of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) has said.
