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Top A.I. leaders call for slowing down A.I. development
New York Times: Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, called for a global slowdown of artificial intelligence development in a 3,800-word essay on Saturday,…
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Farage’s Reform UK lands second record £36 million donation in 48 hours
Reuters: Harborne, already Reform’s biggest donor, disclosed the contribution in a Telegraph newspaper article, saying fellow crypto investor…
India wants to buy fewer Chinese imports, but keeps needing more
New York Times: Trade between India and China has nearly doubled in five years, leaving New Delhi with a widening deficit and a difficult…
How Trump wielding power to stifle speech
New York Times: Driven by personal pique, fury over leaks and a determination to shape the political narrative to his advantage, Mr. Trump is…
EU races to Le Pen-proof its agenda
Financial Times: As Le Pen has emerged as the frontrunner in the race to succeed Emmanuel Macron in April, diplomats told the FT that France…
China’s AI industry pivots to agents from models, report says
Bloomberg: AI agents are expected to drive nearly tenfold annual growth in China’s computing demand over the next two to three years, the…
Iran finds escalation is fruitful path to leverage in war with U.S. Inside Hegseth’s push to showcase a dramatic Iran rescue on ‘60 Minutes’—AND MORE
New York Times: Iran and its allies now hold sway over two key oil shipping routes, and Tehran is setting the stage for a diplomatic win that…
C.I.A. releases intelligence sent to White House before Sept. 11
New York Times: The documents do not appear to contain major new revelations, and they remain redacted to obscure the sources of the…
Crypto investor pardoned by Trump donates £36 million to Farage’s Reform UK
Reuters: Delo, the British co-founder of crypto trading platform BitMEX who was convicted of a Bank Secrecy Act violation in the United…
Tech’s new rich suffering from ‘sudden wealth syndrome’
Bloomberg: Walling says the people who handle a windfall best tend to hold two ideas at once: “I worked really hard, and I got really lucky.”…
Anthropic withheld latest AI model from UK testing agency
Financial Times: Anthropic declined to submit its latest model to Britain’s AI Security Institute for testing before release, prompting fears…
Anthropic says Iran used its American AI model to target U.S. navy warships
Wall Street Journal: An Iranian-linked group compiled information from ship and aircraft transponders, military photographs and commercial…
Cyberattack by rogue AI swarm stokes fears of out-of-control agents
Wall Street Journal: The attack overwhelmed maintainers of an online service for coders, called RubyGems, and forced them to shut down new…
MI5 chief says Britain faces greater danger now than on 9/11
Independent UK: “Sadly, mass-casualty terrorist ambition endures… but the terrorist threat now sits alongside strategic national security…
IMF ditched top candidate for chief economist job over Trump tariff remarks
Financial Times: LSE professor Ricardo Reis had said the US president’s trade war would hurt American consumers…
Republicans face tough midterm odds. Their convention told different story.
New York Times: Amid the glitz, glamour and party atmosphere of an unusual midterm convention in Dallas, the president boasted of his…
British man ‘prepared to sabotage UK drone factory for Russia’
Independent UK: Joshua Cammidge, 31, allegedly researched four drone manufacturing sites in Swindon in addition to a wifi jamming device and…
Some in G.O.P. balk at Trump’s $5,000 offer: ‘We’re $40 trillion in debt’
New York Times: Joe Lonsdale, a co-founder of Palantir and a major Republican donor who was a co-host of a Wednesday night party at the Dallas…
Anthropic says it blocked possible attempts to use AI to develop bioweapons
CNN: The new report outlines five real-life case studies in which users “circumvented controls” that block users from specific regions and…
Behind scenes, Vance gathered unvarnished views of Iran war. Tehran producing ballistic missiles again—AND MORE
New York Times: Mr. Vance came away from some of his conversations with deep concerns about the overall strategy and the prospects for…
China overplayed its hand on critical minerals
Scott Morrison/Wall Street Journal: The virtue of the Trump administration’s measures is that they can’t be easily reversed by China’s market…
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