1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (333+ words) Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of AI safety company Anthropic, is urging the technology industry to pull back on the pace of AI development before autonomous systems cause catastrophic harm. As Axios reported on Friday, Amodei published an essay warning…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (419+ words) Digital bank Revolut disclosed passport scans, home addresses and full Bitcoin transaction histories belonging to an unknown number of customers after a fraudulent email impersonating a government agency cleared its internal verification process, CoinDesk reported on Friday. The company discovered…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (461+ words) Microsoft founder Bill Gates told a panel at the Telluride Film Festival on Saturday that artificial intelligence has already developed qualities resembling HAL, the autonomous computer in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, according to Variety. Gates said that telling today's…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (531+ words) A German aerospace company reached a milestone Saturday that no European private firm had managed before, according to Ars Technica: Isar Aerospace successfully launched its Spectrum rocket into low-Earth orbit from Andøya Spaceport in Arctic Norway. The two-stage, 28-meter rocket…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (441+ words) The University of Exeter has approved a partnership with Saudi Arabia’s National Defense University in Riyadh to train senior military officers and government officials, the Guardian reported. The deal would have Exeter academics deliver a master’s degree in applied security…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (661+ words) Bill Gates wants the world to know it is not ready for what artificial intelligence is about to do. The Microsoft co-founder published a lengthy essay this week arguing that political and business leaders have no real plan for managing…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (683+ words) A South Philadelphia startup called Albacore is manufacturing underwater military drones in a former marble and granite showroom on Washington Avenue, less than two years after the company was founded. Albacore has received more than $10 million in investments and holds…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (208+ words) President Donald Trump bought as much as $50,000 worth of SpaceX shares on June 23, two weeks after Elon Musk’s rocket company went public in what was a record-setting IPO, according to a financial disclosure first reported by Reuters. The purchase price…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (353+ words) A majority of Americans say President Donald Trump and his family crossed an ethical line by profiting from cryptocurrency since he returned to the White House. That’s the headline finding from a new Reuters/Ipsos poll that lands as Congress…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (459+ words) A scientist who previously consulted on Pentagon UFO programs is making headlines with an extraordinary claim: the US government is storing bodies belonging to at least four alien species inside secret military facilities. Dr. Eric Davis, an astrophysicist who says…...