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A Pony.ai autonomous car.Pony.aiChinese start-up Pony.ai said Friday it will develop autonomous driving technology in partnership with Tencent Cloud and offer robotaxi services on tech giant Tencent’s WeChat and other applications.The Nasdaq-listed company which specializes in autonomous vehicle technology, particularly robotaxis and robotrucks, said in a press release that the deal will include cooperation in areas such as cloud services, map data, information security and intelligent cockpit ecosystems.The arrangement will also see the two companies integrate Pony.ai’s robotaxi ride-hailing services within Tencent’s popular WeChat app as well as other applications like Tencent Maps. Both companies had been in talks “for quite…

Many professional writers and artists dream of being chosen for a prestigious residency like Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., or MacDowell in Peterborough, N.H. But even amateurs can benefit from the intense concentration a residency allows. For them, select programs offer the opportunity to pay their own way for a few days or even weeks, sometimes at affordable rates, to create art.“A lot of people don’t realize that they can do residencies and not be someone who has chosen art as their career, or music or dance,” said Alicia Toldi, 34, an artist living in Paonia, Colo. Together with Carolina…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The New England Patriots bolstered their offensive line on Thursday night by adding Will Campbell.But, the former LSU star’s emotional message on draft night went viral across social media.  Offensive Tackle Will Campbell of LSU poses after he is selected by the New England Patriots as the number four pick in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft at Lambeau Field. (Mark Hoffman / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)He was visibly emotional on the draft stage in Green Bay as he spoke to the NFL Network.”It…

Indian and Pakistani forces have exchanged fire along the Line of Control (LOC) separating the two countries as the UN calls for “maximum restraint” amid warnings of a wider military escalation following the latest deadly attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam town. Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since their independence in 1947, with both claiming the territory in full but governing separate portions of it, leading to lingering tensions that have devolved into violence over the years. Indian army sources told Al Jazeera on Friday that the Pakistani side initiated the shooting. A government official in Pakistan-administered Kashmir also…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff are pushing back against a report saying they have discussed lifting sanctions on Russian energy assets, calling the anonymously sourced article from Politico “totally fictitious” and “fake crap.”The outlet released a report citing internal White House officials Thursday, indicating Witkoff and Rubio had been in discussions about potentially lifting energy-related sanctions as part of a wider peace negotiation to end the war in Ukraine.”This is false,” Rubio and Witkoff said in a joint statement released by the White House. “Neither of us have had any conversations about lifting sanctions on…

Does the world’s richest university have enough money to survive a battle with the most powerful man in the world? Alan Blinder, a national correspondent for The New York Times who covers education, describes Harvard’s resources and the scientific and medical research at stake.

Twenty alleged senior members of the Iranian regime have now been found living in Canada, immigration officials confirmed amid an election debate on how best to deal with the Islamic republic. The most recent is an Iranian citizen scheduled to go before the Immigration and Refugee Board in June after the Canada Border Services Agency accused him of having served as a top official in Tehran.The refugee board released his name to Global News on Wednesday but later requested that it not be published because his deportation hearing was being held behind closed doors.Reached by Global News, a Vancouver-area man by the name declined to…

Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton will square off for the final time this election campaign on Sunday night when they meet for the crucial fourth and final debate.Six days out from polling day, the Channel 7 debate will be the leader’s last chance to make their case to a captive TV audience and convince the vital “soft voters” why they should vote for them.After losing three valuable campaigning days this week and still sliding in the polls, the Opposition Leader goes into Sunday’s showdown desperately needing a win.To do so, he will need to leave nothing on the table, be…

SEOUL: South Korea’s former President Moon Jae-in said on Friday (Apr 25) that prosecutors were becoming political and abusing their power and that his indictment on bribery charges was a good example. South Korean prosecutors indicted Moon for alleged bribery on Thursday, making him the latest former leader of the country to face legal troubles in a case linked to the employment of his then son-in-law at a Thai airline between 2018 and 2020. Moon said the indictment against him was unfair and accused the prosecutors of pursuing the case in a predetermined direction. “Beyond revealing my personal innocence, I…

President Trump has ordered the U.S. government to take a major step toward mining vast tracts of the ocean floor, a move that is opposed by nearly all other nations, which consider international waters off limits to this kind of industrial activity.The executive order, signed Thursday, would circumvent a decades-old treaty that every major coastal nation except the United States has ratified. It is the latest example of the Trump administration’s willingness to disregard international institutions and is likely to provoke an outcry from America’s rivals and allies alike.The order “establishes the U.S. as a global leader in seabed mineral…