Technology

Apple plans to allow external voice-controlled AI chatbots in CarPlay, Bloomberg News reports

Feb 6 (Reuters) - Apple ‌is preparing to allow voice-controlled artificial intelligence ‌apps from other companies in CarPlay, Bloomberg ‌News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Technology

Goldman Sachs teams up with Anthropic to automate banking tasks with AI agents, CNBC reports

Feb 6 (Reuters) - Goldman ‌Sachs is working with technology ‌startup Anthropic to develop AI-powered agents aimed ‌at automating a widening range of internal functions, CNBC reported on Friday, citing the bank's chief ‍information officer.

Technology

US Justice Department casts wide net on Netflix's business practices in merger probe, WSJ reports

Feb 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice ‌is investigating whether Netflix used anti-competitive tactics as part of the streaming giant's proposed $82.7 billion acquisition of ‌Warner Bros Discovery's studios and streaming service, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

World

Armed attack leaves 4 dead in coastal city of Ecuador

QUITO, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Four people were killed early Friday in an armed attack in the coastal city of Machala in Ecuador's El Oro province, local police said.

Metro News

Liverpool seek lift-off

THE 4-1 win over Newcastle United last week was a huge result for Liverpool.

Focus

Fighting for every breath

WITH pollution in Pakistan hitting record highs in recent years, citizens clutching air monitors and legal papers are taking the fight for clean air into their own hands.

Food News

Old ingredients, newly acquainted

CENTURY egg tofu is a cold appetiser that brings together two ingredients of ancient lineage, making it a fitting, if understated, addition to the Chinese New Year table.

Metro News

Momentum with Red Devils as Spurs visit

EVERYTHING points to another win for Manchester United this weekend, when they welcome Tottenham Hotspur to Old Trafford.

Nation

Legal Malaysians living in fear in Minnesota

PETALING JAYA: For Sarah Ng, a 30-year-old Malaysian professional living in southern Minneapolis, a major city in the state of Minnesota, for the past decade, her daily routine was simple: driving to work and back home. 

Nation

Perak official urges public caution as dry spell drags on

IPOH: The people need to be mindful of starting an open fire during the current hot weather, says Datuk Sayani Saidon.

Focus

A giant beneath the steppe

MORE than 3.2km beneath the wind-swept steppe of western Kazakhstan, porous rock formed from the skeletons of ancient coral and marine life holds one of the world's most prolific oil deposits.

Sabah & Sarawak

Teen claims he doesn’t know seriousness of sexual offences

KOTA KINABALU: A teenager has claimed trial to charges of sodomising and molesting his 11-year-old step-sister, saying he did not know the seriousness of the offences.

Focus

The man behind the club

FROM a television studio, Venezuela's feared interior minister would brandish a plastic club and call out the names of government critics – who knew what that usually meant. They could expect government agents to show up and take them away.

Focus

Maimed by someone else’s war

IN the dense hill forests along Bangladesh's border with war-torn Myanmar, villagers are losing limbs to landmines, casualties of a conflict not of their making.

Nation

DVS allows pork imports from Thailand and Brazil

PUTRAJAYA: The Veterinary Services Department (DVS) has approved the import of pork from Thailand and Brazil to meet domestic demand during the Chinese New Year celebration this year.

Nation

New targeted financing schemes for MSMEs lauded

PETALING JAYA: Business groups have welcomed the Entre­preneur Development and Coope­ratives Ministry's introduction of two new targeted financing schemes aimed at supporting micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).

Nation

‘Pengerang TB cluster originated from elderly woman’

JOHOR BARU: The tuberculosis (TB) cluster in Johor, where 33 people tested positive, originated from a female senior citizen, says state health and environment committee chairman Ling Tian Soon (pic).

Nation

Fine print needs to pass real test, say policy experts

PETALING JAYA: Hope is growing around the government's proposed Base Medical and Health Insurance/Takaful (MHIT) plan, particularly following assurances that Malaysians with pre-existing conditions will be included.

Metro News

Happy home in Gelugor

ENGINEER Mohammad Fakruf Aiman Abdul Ghani and his wife, Aida Yasmin Ahmad Azmi, a bank employee, are glad that their loan application for an affordable housing unit in Penang was approved without much hassle.

Japan

Nuclear power to resume soon

THE nation will switch the world's largest nuclear power plant back on next week, after a glitch with an alarm forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.