PERUGIA: Artificial intelligence is shaking up journalism and in the short term will cause “a fundamental change in the news ecosystem”, media expert David Caswell told AFP.

MADRID: Chinese carmaker Chery signed a deal Friday to produce mainly electric vehicles in Spain, as Beijing’s auto sector pushes ahead with plans to expand into Europe despite growing competition concerns.

KUWAIT: Amidst festive atmospheres and remarkable audience, National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) held a special event on Friday at the 360 Mall, which extended for more than 3 hours and featured a variety of highly engaging activities, marking the announcement of the first draws of Al Jawhara and Al Jawhara Junior grand prizes for 2024.

NEW YORK: The bitcoin market on Friday engineered the “halving” of the reward for operating the cryptocurrency, a much-anticipated step designed to limit production and boost the digital money.

BEIJING: Apple has removed Meta’s WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China on orders from the country’s internet regulator, US media reported Friday.

SAN FRANCISCO: Meta has introduced an improved AI assistant built on new versions of its open-source Llama large language model. Meta AI is smarter and faster due to advances in the publicly available Llama 3, the tech titan said in a blog post.

RIO DE JANEIRO: For centuries, farmers used almanacs to try to understand and predict weather patterns. Now, a new crop of Latin American startups is helping do that with artificial intelligence, promising a farming revolution in agricultural giants like Brazil, the world’s biggest exporter of soybeans, corn and beef.

TOKYO: Japanese inflation slowed to 2.6 percent in March, largely in line with market expectations, data Cutshowed Friday.

NEW YORK: Tesla is recalling 3,878 Cybertruck vehicles because of a defect that can cause unintentional vehicle acceleration, increasing crash risk, according to a US notice posted this week.