By Joe Brock AUSTIN, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Joe Lonsdale, an investor in Anthropic and the co-founder of technology company Palantir, said on Friday that efforts by some leading artificial intelligence companies to warn of existential risks from AI amounted to a dangerous attempt to shape…
NEW YORK, Sept 25 (Reuters) – A strong nor’easter is expected to bring flooding, powerful wind gusts, heavy rain and rip currents to areas along the East Coast from Maine to Washington, D.C. over the weekend, and to affect flight schedules as world leaders leave New…
By Tom Polansek CHICAGO, Sept 25 (Reuters) – US immigration agents fanned out across southwest Kansas, home to a large concentration of feedlots and slaughterhouses, this week in an operation that had immediate effects on the beef industry, community organizers and local officials said. The prospect…
Sept 25 (Reuters) – Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party has postponed a planned long march from Peshawar to Islamabad until October 4, the chief minister of the PTI-ruled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Sohail Afridi, told reporters on Friday. • PTI had planned to…
By Field Level Media Sep 25 (Field Level Media) – The Los Angeles Sparks fired head coach Lynne Roberts on Friday after falling short of the playoffs in both of her seasons with the team. The Sparks concluded a 16-28 season with a 76-75 home…
Sept 25 (Reuters) – Converse told employees it is pausing all marketing this week after an earlier ad sparked outrage for evoking the Ku Klux Klan and lynching, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing a person familiar with the decision. Reuters could not immediately verify…
Sept 25 (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Friday that the Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has spread to two additional health zones, bringing the total number affected to 63 across seven provinces. The…
MOSCOW, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that all proposals for a settlement in the 4-1/2-year-old war with Ukraine remained on the table, but Moscow still needed to assess what was in its best interest, Russian news agencies reported. Putin,…
Sept 25 (Reuters) – Meta Platforms is adding a clearer safety warning within Muse after a security researcher discovered a vulnerability in the AI agent that could let an attacker access a user’s sensitive personal information, the Information reported on Friday. (Reporting by Anzar Mehraj…
WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Scott Bessent will not be Donald Trump’s AI czar, the Republican president said on Friday, adding that he wants his US Treasury secretary to remain in his current role. “Scott Bessent will not be going to be Super Intelligence (SI)…
