August 22, 2026
2026-08-22T23:00:01+00:00 Shafaq News- Al-Sulaymaniyah Celebrations marking the Prophet Muhammad’s Mawlid (birthday) began in Al-Sulaymaniyah, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, drawing large crowds to mosques and several streets across the city on Saturday. Sheikh Barham ...
In Brief Posted: 2:46 PM PDT · August 22, 2026 Image Credits:Malte Mueller / Getty Images As Harvard Business School seeks to expand its reach, it’s leaning on AI avatars to provide individual feedback. These ...
Following a Bloomberg report that the Department of Justice is investigating venture firm Andreessen Horowitz for holding board seats with rival AI companies, VCs told TechCrunch that they were baffled. On the latest episode of ...
Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent just outperformed much larger models from Anthropic and OpenAI using a fraction of the size. Of all the startups launched by ...
2026-08-22T18:21:02+00:00 Shafaq News- Damascus Thousands of students in Kurdish-language schools in Syria’s Aleppo, Al-Shahba, and Afrin areas face uncertainty over their education after schools and institutes using the Kurdish curriculum closed following recent fighting, the ...
In Brief Posted: 9:30 AM PDT · August 22, 2026 Image Credits:Samuel Boivin / NurPhoto / Getty Images OpenAI is calling for California to add more safeguards to a landmark AI safety bill that was ...
2026-08-22T16:15:44+00:00 Shafaq News- Al-Sulaymaniyah The Kurdish Book Fair in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Al-Sulaymaniyah province has been extended by three days until Aug. 25 following strong visitor turnout, with more than 30,000 books sold during its first ...
Few of the top AI labs have published or demonstrated containment response plans, according to a recent study. A containment plan spells out what happens once an AI is caught trying to subvert human control ...
2026-08-22T15:28:27+00:00 Shafaq News- Al-Sulaymaniyah A wildfire on Mount Azmar near the district of Sitak has been fully brought under control, the Forest and Environment Police Directorate in Al-Sulaymaniyah said on Saturday, adding that an investigation ...
U.S. battery startups hit a rough patch when the One Big Beautiful Bill eliminated battery and EV incentives, undercutting a chunk of future demand. But recently, they’ve found a lifeline in the defense world, helping ...
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