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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that 83% of USAID programs will be canceled following the conclusion of a six-week review by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).In total, 5,200 contracts are being terminated, Rubio wrote in his early Monday morning post on X announcing the new reforms. He said the canceled contracts amounted to “tens of billions of dollars” being spent “in ways that did not serve,” or even harmed, the national interests of the U.S.Rubio added that the remaining 18% of USAID programs—approximately 1,000—will now be managed by the State Department. The move to transfer that authority,…

Taiwan’s Foxconn said on Monday it has launched its first large language model and plans to use the technology to improve manufacturing and supply chain management.The model, named “FoxBrain,” was trained using 120 of Nvidia’s H100 GPUs and completed in about four weeks, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer said in a statement.The company, which assembles iPhones for Apple and also produces Nvidia’s artificial intelligence servers, said the model is based on Meta’s Llama 3.1 architecture.It is Taiwan’s first large language model with reasoning capabilities that is optimised for traditional Chinese and Taiwanese language styles, it said.Foxconn said that though…

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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street’s sell-off is worsening Monday as worries about the economy and President Donald Trump’s tariffs send U.S. stocks further from their record set just last month.The S&P 500 was down 1.9% in morning trading, coming off its worst week since September. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 369 points, or 0.9%, as of 10:30 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 3% lower. The main measure of the U.S. stock market is on track for a seventh swing of more than 1%, up or down, in the last eight days following a scary…

DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused web browser, announced the rollout of AI-assisted answers on its search engine last week. The feature was so far available in beta, but now the company is releasing it to all users. With this, users will be able to see an artificial intelligence (AI) generated summary of their searched query, similar to Google’s AI Overviews feature. However, unlike Google Search, DuckDuckGo is letting users control the frequency of these answers, and they can choose to turn them off entirely as well.DuckDuckGo Introduces AI-Assisted AnswersIn a blog post, DuckDuckGo CEO and Founder Gabriel Weinberg announced the new AI…

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

HELSINKI — Chinese launch startup Deep Blue Aerospace has secured fresh funding as it prepares for a first orbital launch and recovery attempt in mid-2025. The funding round totalled nearly 500 million yuan ($68.9 million). The round was led by the Taian Yuanwang New Energy Industry Investment Fund, a subsidiary of the state-owned Taishan Industrial Development Investment Group. The funds will be mainly used for the research and development and commercialization of the Deep Blue Aerospace’s Nebula series of reusable launch vehicles. The move also aims to create synergy with the Taian Aerospace Industry Cluster and further consolidate Deep Blue Aerospace’s technological…

EXCLUSIVE: Two top DOGE lawmakers are introducing a bill to claw back $3 billion authorized under former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which was designated to create an electric vehicle (EV) fleet for the United States Postal Service (USPS).A South Carolina defense contractor responsible for the 60,000-vehicle order was already “far behind schedule” as of November. A Washington Post exposé revealed that by then, fewer than 100 of these vehicles had been delivered to USPS.Citing that, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, DOGE Caucus chair, and Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, will be forwarding the “Return to Sender Act,” seeking to recoup…

ChatGPT for macOS is getting a new feature that will make it easier for software developers to get coding assistance. Announced last week, the new artificial intelligence (AI) feature allows the OpenAI chatbot to work with integrated development environments (IDEs) and edit code in the user’s preferred coding tool. This will enable them to not spend time manually transferring code and make the process more seamless. The new feature comes just a couple of months after OpenAI expanded the Canvas feature to the Mac version of ChatGPT.ChatGPT for macOS Gets Code Editing CapabilityIn a post on X (formerly known as…