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Last summer, mining startup Kobold created a splash when he said he had discovered one of the world’s largest copper deposits in Zambia for over a decade. Now another startup, Earth AI, talks only about its own discoveries to TechCrunch. That other mining outfits, which are promising for important mineral deposits in parts of Australia, have ignored for decades. Whether they are as big as Kobold is still unknown, but the news suggests that future supply of critical minerals is likely to emerge from the combination of field data that has xaded artificial intelligence. “Actual, real frontier [in mining] Earth…

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia voters said in November they wanted property tax relief, but many local governments retain the authority to raise taxes despite a statewide vote.Now, state lawmakers are trying to agree to push local governments to rethink and limit how much taxable the increase in home value can be.From 2018 to 2023, the total valuation of property across Georgia increased by nearly 61%. Georgia Department of Revenue. Value rose so quickly that most local governments pocketed revenue growth even if they lower their tax rates, and statewide property tax collection rose 44% from 2018 to 2023.Chuck Hofstetler, chairman…

Violence in border regions indicates an increase in friction between Israel and Syria.At least six people have been killed in an Israeli attack on Koya in southern Syria, the country’s foreign ministry said. Israeli forces said the attack occurred Tuesday after armed fighters fired at Israeli forces without specifying whether they were within Syrian territory when they were targeted. The army returned the fire and said Israeli fighters had attacked the fighter. He did not elaborate on the victim, but said, “A hit was identified.” Syrian Foreign Ministry accused them of “continuing Israeli invasion of Syrian territory.” It called for…

During Tuesday’s live stream, Openai CEO Sam Altman announced his first major upgrade to ChatGpt’s image generation capabilities in over a year. ChatGPT can now leverage the company’s GPT-4O model to natively create and modify images and photos. The GPT-4o has long supported AI-powered chatbot platforms, but up until now, models have been able to generate and edit text, not images. According to Altman, GPT-4o Native Image Generation today said Openai’s AI video generation products ChatGpt and Sora are live for the company’s $200 monthly Pro Plan subscribers. According to Openai, the feature is quickly rolling out to ChatGPT users…

The US gave Syria a list of conditions it hopes to meet Damascus in exchange for partial sanctions relief, such as preventing foreigners from playing the role of senior management. The US Deputy Director of the Levant and Syrian Natasha Francesti gave Syrian Foreign Minister Assad al-Shabani the list of requests during a face-to-face meeting on bystanders at the Syrian Donors Conference held in Brussels on March 18th. Neither the list nor the in-person meetings have been the first high-level direct contact between Damascus and Washington since US President Donald Trump took office on January 20th, but have not been…

Cybernakes Wire, Menlo Park, USA, March 25, 2025 FinTech and Communications Leader IDT Corporation will partner with ACCUKNOX to deploy a runtime security-driven CNAPP (cloud-native application protection platform) for IoT/Edge security. Accuknox, Inc. has announced that Telecom and Fintech leader IDT Corporation have partnered with Accuknox to deploy Zero Trust CNAApp. Gartner’s predictions on the Internet of Things (IoT) security environment for 2025 highlight the impact of AI agents’ abuse. Leading to security breaches: By 2028, Gartner predicts that 25% of enterprise security violations will be tracked by the misuse of AI agents by external and internal malicious actors. This…

Just yesterday, Deepseek quietly pushed out the software release of its latest model, the Deepseek-V3-0324. Based on early tests, V3 not only outweighs Openai’s GPT-4O and Sonnet 3.5 in coding and mathematics, but also retains its own against Claude 3.5 and 3.7. Mac Studio records 20 tokens per second. It’s not bad for something you can run locally. There are no announcements. There is no hype. Just drops on your hugging face. But it didn’t remain quiet for a long time. For hours, users began to let it go through its pace. One outstanding feature? Ability to generate fully functional…

Jakub Porzycki | nuphoto | Getty ImagesRipple and the U.S. Securities and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have reached an agreement to end the long legal battle over allegations that the company provided unregistered securities. Following last week’s news that the SEC would remove appeals without a condition, Ripple has now agreed to withdraw its cross appeal, Stuart Aldeoty, the company’s chief legal officer, said Tuesday.The SEC is expected to hold $50 million, a previously imposed $125 million fine. This is funds already held in the escrow account, Aldeoty said. The remaining balance will be returned to Ripple.Additionally, Aldeoty…

On Tuesday, Google announced Gemini 2.5, a new family of AI inference models that pause to “think” before answering questions. To launch a new model family, Google is launching Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, a multimodal inference AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental. The model will be available on Tuesday at the company’s developer platform, Google AI Studio, and on the Gemini app for subscribers to Gemini Advanced, the company’s $20-month AI plan. Google says that all new AI models will burn reasoning capabilities. Since Openai launched its first AI inference model in September 2024, at O1, the technology industry has…

Indonesia finished fourth in Group C in Asia’s 2026 World Cup Qualifiers with a 1-0 victory over Bahrain.Indonesia secured a crucial 1-0 victory in Jakarta’s Group C qualifier against Bahrain in order to raise hopes of reaching the 2026 World Cup. Manager Patrick Kruibert’s first victory came in charge after losing his opening game 5-1 in Australia last Thursday. Ole Romeny scored the only goal of the game in the 24th minute, latching onto a pass from Marceno Ferdinan before defeating the keeper. The victory is the bottom of a group of six teams, with 4th-placed Indonesia taking 3 points,…