By Michelle Nichols, John Irish and Courtney Rozen UNITED NATIONS, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Executives from OpenAI, Anthropic and Hugging Face will brief the UN Security Council on Wednesday amid warnings increasingly powerful AI technologies could soon improve themselves, slip beyond human control and threaten…
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (Reuters) – A group of US Senate Democrats will introduce legislation on Wednesday to sanction individuals or groups that facilitate Israel’s “E1 project,” a widely condemned West Bank settlement plan cutting across land the Palestinians seek for a state,…
By David Morgan WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (Reuters) – US states may have added more than 30,000 self-declared non-citizens to the nation’s voter rolls since 2000 because of software glitches and clerical errors made while processing their driver’s license and state ID applications, according to official…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (Reuters) – America’s aging air traffic control system — reliant on outdated telecom systems, decades-old Compaq computers and replacement parts bought on eBay — keeps failing. In the latest example, thousands of flights across the densely populated Northeast were…
By David Hood-Nuño and Evan Garcia DONNA, Texas, Sept 23 (Reuters) – South Texas unfurls in long stretches of highways across flat landscapes dotted with pump jacks, mesquite trees, and gas stations sporting prices that voters swear should not be this high. This territory swung…
By Aditya Soni MENLO PARK, California, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Meta Platforms is expected to unveil new smart glasses at its annual Connect conference on Wednesday, including a pair without cameras, amid growing privacy concerns about AI devices that can be used to record people…
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s prime minister said Wednesday the country had eradicated the large-scale scam compounds it became known for globally, without providing significant new evidence. Other governments and experts said Cambodia has not done enough against the perpetrators of the scam industry…
CAIRO (AP) — It took Houthi rebels less than 48 hours to seize Yemen’s Red Sea coast from pro-government forces in a resounding blow to U.S. interests and Washington’s regional allies. But the Houthis didn’t do it alone. Iranian Revolutionary Guard advisers were in the…
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan President Salva Kiir dissolved his country’s transitional government, removing his deputies and introducing a caretaker administration ahead of elections on Dec 22. The changes outlined in an executive decree were announced on state television Tuesday night. The order…
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban forces shelled Pakistani border posts overnight after Pakistani troops foiled what they described as a cross-border infiltration attempt by militants, local Pakistani officials said Wednesday. The spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban government, Zabiullah Mujahid, denied any attacks by the Afghan…
