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Huge fire breaks out at Libya's Zawiya refinery after drone attack

Al Jazeera

Fire rages after drone strikes Libya's largest oil refinery Firefighters in Libya are battling a massive blaze at the Zawiya refinery following a drone attack, with the country's national oil company warning it may declare a force majeure and shut down operations if attacks continue. Libya's Ambulance and Emergency Service said in a statement on Tuesday there were no "serious injuries" from the fire, with most patients treated for smoke inhalation. It is located about 40km (25 miles) west of the capital, Tripoli. The National Oil Corporation (NOC) said in a statement on Facebook that the fire broke out on Monday evening at tank number 402-T, belonging to the Brega Oil Company. It said the tank, which contained about 4.5 million litres (1.2 million gallons) of gasoline, was "directly targeted, resulting in a severe fire before the tank completely collapsed".


Artificial Intelligence vs. Human Intelligence: Which is the Force Majeure?

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Anthropomorphizing AI is easy to do. In the age of smart assistants like Google Home, Alexa, and Siri, we imagine that these technologies have our best interests at heart. While painting a mental picture of AI, we usually envision machines that think, learn, and come to conclusions as humans do. For a general understanding of the phenomenon, artificial intelligence is described as the intelligence possessed and displayed by machines and technologies as opposed to the one exhibited by humans. For lack of a better term, AI is used as a blanket expression to represent machine learning, cognitive computing, image recognition, and more.