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NAZA, Israeli film on Gaza, to stream for free after theatrical run
'This is an apartheid regime' Does Trump have real leverage over Netanyahu? A documentary that accuses Israel of using AI to carry out mass civilian killings in Gaza will be available to stream online for free once its theatrical rollout in more than 50 countries is complete. Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham, who co-directed NAZA with fellow Israeli filmmaker Rachel Szor, announced on Thursday that viewers will be able to stream the award-winning film from November on The Guardian's website. The UK newspaper helped produce the film. "We made the film to spark a public discussion about the [Israeli] government's actions in Gaza, the killing of more than 73,000 people, most of them civilians, the normalisation of a war of extermination, of the notion that'there are no uninvolved'," he added.
China vs US: Who is winning the AI race, in four charts
United States President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping are set to meet in Washington, DC on Thursday for a summit that is expected to cover trade, artificial intelligence (AI), Taiwan and the US-Israel war on Iran. In advance of the talks, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Washington had proposed an AI " notification mechanism " with China - effectively a hotline to alert each other when AI incidents threaten national security. The meeting comes as leading AI companies warn about the technology's risks, while both superpowers push to accelerate their AI race. In this visual explainer, Al Jazeera compares the US and China's AI strength in computing power, AI models, spending and research. Who has more computing power?
"NAZA" Puts Israel Face to Face with the War in Gaza
"NAZA" Puts Israel Face to Face with the War in Gaza In this documentary, Israeli military and intelligence sources reveal systems, policies, and practices that have resulted in high numbers of civilian deaths and widespread destruction. In November, 2023, and April, 2024, the Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham wrote a pair of articles about the high number of civilian casualties in the attacks that Israel launched in Gaza in response to Hamas's massacre of Israelis on October 7, 2023. In these pieces, which appeared in English in and in Hebrew in, Abraham (who discussed his work with my colleague Isaac Chotiner after the second piece appeared) reported that these civilian deaths were the result of specific policies of the Israel Defense Forces. The I.D.F. had adopted a broad definition of legitimate human targets and was using A.I. to select them; it intentionally destroyed nonmilitary buildings and had chosen to accept a high level of collateral damage. These pieces received some attention, including criticism from the Israeli government and other journalists, but the response fell well short of public uproar.
Fake and divisive ads proliferate in Israel's first AI election
Fake and divisive ads proliferate in Israel's first AI election Artificial intelligence-crafted distortions are saturating the Israeli information environment just weeks before the country's most consequential elections in decades. In a recent video widely circulated online, Israel's top justices and its attorney general are seen being dragged by security guards from a chaotic anti-government protest that never took place. The 33 seconds of emotionally-charged footage was originally posted by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a fierce opponent of the judiciary, and triggered an immediate backlash. Critics said it incited violence, while supporters said it was justified because they accuse the leaders of Israel's legal system of a left-wing plot to stymie the government's policies. But the depicted scenes are fake -- no such protest took place and the video carries a tell-tale watermark to identify content made using artificial intelligence.
Trump speech inaudible as US networks boycott White House event
US President Trump unveiled a new White House helicopter pad as major US TV networks stayed away in protest over CNN, a member of the network'pool', being banned from the grounds. As Trump spoke, the thunder of a helicopter rendered the president inaudible from start to finish. UN Chief Guterres calls for ban on'killer robots' 'Licence to kill:' French protests decry police use-of-force bill Airplane makes'miracle' landing as Typhoon Dujuan hits Japan