Kyiv — Wooden boards line the entry corridor, replacing windows shattered by a recent Russian drone attack near the school’s campus, 20 miles south of Ukraine’s capital. The principal says they could become a permanent fixture, as repairs would cost $500,000. Inside, children sit next to old Soviet guns — gifts from their parents’ military units…
A man racing a stolen Tesla down a crowded boardwalk hit a woman, setting off a wild chase involving lots of witnesses, including one recording it all on a pair of smart glasses. Jonah Kaplan reports. Source link
Washington — Steve Bannon, one of President Trump’s earliest advisers, and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders may stand on opposite sides of the political spectrum, but both will be speaking at a gathering Tuesday to press for guardrails for AI. The two — along with a bipartisan group of members of Congress — will be appearing…
Out of their darkest moment, a Greek couple managed to make a new start with a baby born last week. Doing so meant using one of Cristina Rapti‑Tzelepi’s decades-old embryos and racing to beat a government deadline. Just months after their 21‑year‑old son died in a road crash in October, Rapti‑Tzelepi, now 54, and her…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on artificial intelligence companies to move forward more slowly and cautiously with the technology’s development, saying risk prevention is paramount. He offered a three-point plan with the goal, he said, of “pacing the frontier.” “Carefully wielded, AI can be the latest in a long line of technological miracles that have…
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said that artificial intelligence, while safe for people to use today, could one day threaten humanity as the technology grows more powerful. The development of AI “doesn’t look that different from say, ‘Terminator,’ or from science fiction films,” he told CBS News senior business and technology correspondent Jo Ling Kent….
London — A lead researcher at Anthropic, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence firms, said Wednesday that he believes there is a more than 10% chance AI “could kill all humans” within the next decade. “We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next…
Ten years ago, Meghan Cliffel was a working mother in New York City. In December 2015, she was back at work, eight months after giving birth to her second girl: “I had taken on a lot of work stress, and not quite feeling like myself, but outwardly, I was functioning well,” she said. “And it…
A hiker from Texas was among at least two people killed in flash floods that swept through parts of the Grand Canyon over the weekend, and two of his friends were missing, the group’s family members said in a statement Monday. Dr. John Giusti, a 46-year-old chiropractor from Granbury, Texas, described by his family as…
A shooting at a rave in the northern Swiss canton of Aargau killed one person and left five injured early Sunday, local police and media reported. Cantonal police wrote on social media that one person was killed and five injured – some seriously – by a shooting at event in the canton’s capital Aarau, 29…
