4+ hour, 25+ min ago   (473+ words) Anthropic chief executive officer Dario Amodei's call for a slower pace of development in artificial intelligence citing risks in “superintelligent” computer systems received backing from OpenAI boss Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Amodei's post on his personal website,…...

5+ hour, 53+ min ago   (529+ words) A 27-year-old software engineer in California is considering giving up life in the US and returning to Hyderabad next year, despite having recently moved to H-1B status and carrying an education loan of about ₹30 lakh ($31,400 approximately). His dilemma has triggered a…...

19+ hour, 6+ min ago   (409+ words) Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called on AI companies to slow the development of powerful artificial intelligence systems, warning that the technology could become difficult for humans to control. His call has received support from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and…...

21+ hour, 35+ min ago   (455+ words) Anthropic chief executive officer Dario Amodei on Saturday urged artificial intelligence (AI) firms to slow down the pace of development of newer models, amid fears over the risks of “superintelligent” computer systems. “We must slow the pace at which we…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (949+ words) Cryptocurrency billionaire Fred Ehrsam spent months living in a luxury hotel in Caracas, building a rolodex of connections in a long-shot bid to become one of Venezuela’s biggest oil producers. Without a track record in oil and gas, the 38-year-old…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (409+ words) With funds allocated for cooking costs under the mid-day meal scheme remaining pending for months, school meal workers in the district have alleged that several institutions are no longer providing LPG cylinders, forcing them to resort to traditional wood fires…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (313+ words) BUKAVU, Congo — A fire swept through two adjacent schools Thursday in the city of Bukavu in eastern Congo, killing at least 26 students and injuring dozens, the provincial government said. The South Kivu provincial government said in a press release that…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (264+ words) Amidst a strengthening El Nino, August was the joint warmest month ever recorded globally, tied with July 2023, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday. The global average surface air temperature was 1.65°C higher than the estimated pre-industrial baseline this…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (607+ words) U.S. security agencies on Tuesday accused six Chinese artificial intelligence companies of systematically exploiting American AI models to train their own systems. The agencies, including the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said the Chinese companies have engaged…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1555+ words) KATHMANDU, Nepal—When a flood came roaring down from the mountains last year, Nepali engineer Santosh Adhikari narrowly escaped by scrambling to higher ground. Two weeks ago, another surge barreled down—this one bigger and faster, an unstoppable torrent of…...