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An electric wooden boat was capsized by about 400 passengers, with fire near the town of Mundakha.A boat capsized after firing in the Democratic Republic of Northwest Congo (DRC), killing at least 50 people and hundreds have gone missing, local officials said. Following the late Tuesday night’s accident on the Congo River, a search for missing persons took place Wednesday, assisting rescuers, supported by the Red Cross and state officials. An electric wooden boat with around 400 passengers sparked a fire near the town of Mundanka. He spoke to the Associated Press after leaving Matanumu port for Bolomba territory, a…
Openai says it has deployed a new system to monitor the latest AI inference models, O3 and O4-MINI, for prompts related to biological and chemical threats. According to Openai’s safety report, the system aims to prevent the model from providing advice that can instruct someone to carry out a potentially harmful attack. The O3 and O4-MINI represent an increase in meaningful capabilities across Openai’s previous models, the company says, bringing new risks to bad actors’ hands. According to Openai’s internal benchmarks, O3 is particularly skilled at answering questions about creating certain types of biological threats. For this reason, and to…
Emerging tech startups continue to change the way traditional industries operate, setting new benchmarks for changing standards, efficiency, reach and accessibility. These shifts are not speculative, they are highly measurable and structural, and are rooted in specific technical developments. The startup is more than just a participant in this whole process. They act as catalysts and start subsequent changes that established companies often maintain competitiveness. Therefore, here we explore how these startups affect established models across key sectors and how experts can adapt effectively. Sector confusion Startups put pressure on the entire financial, transportation and digital services by implementing high-speed…
In Meta’s antitrust trial this week, Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Snapchat would have grown faster if he accepted his company’s offer to buy social networks in 2013, Business Insider reports. Court documents revealed that Meta, later called Facebook, had offered to buy Snapchat for $6 billion (reports at the time stated that the dollar amount was $3 billion). In response to a question from an FTC lawyer, Zuckerberg said he believes Snapchat “isn’t increasing the likelihood” and believes his company has improved the app. “As to what it’s worth, I think if we had bought them we’d accelerated their…
The Trump administration has kept its secret that it doesn’t like paying money permitted by Congress under the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Inflation Act. However, on Tuesday, a federal judge issued an order that “requires government agencies to revert the funds’ spigot.” Under President Donald Trump, federal agencies have used his executive orders to justify justification for withholding subsidies and contracts approved by Congress. Many of them had already been awarded. However, US District Judge Mary McElroy, whom Trump appointed during his first term, said the administration’s actions were “not rational or rational explained.” “Wide power [Office of…
According to Bloomberg, Windsurf, the manufacturer of popular AI coding assistants, is in talks that Openai will be acquired for around $3 billion. If a transaction occurs, you will be directly competing with many other AI coding assistant providers, including Anysphere, the manufacturer of Cursors that Openai supported by the Openai Startup Fund. Those familiar with Cursor’s cap table could risk the reliability of the Openai Startup Fund, given that the acquisition is one of Cursor’s biggest investors. It is not clear whether Openai has approached the cursor about the acquisition. In addition to what sources told Bloomberg, there are…
Dallas (AP) – Student accused of injuring four people Filming at Dallas High School According to an arrest warrant released Wednesday, they entered the building through unsecured doors, walked down the hallway towards a group of students, setting the students on fire and appearing to have been blown away by one.The 17-year-old suspect was held at the Dallas County Jail on Wednesday for allegedly shooting the attack. He was taken into custody several hours after the shooting, which happened at Wilmer Hutchins High School at 1pm on Tuesday. Authorities say four male students were injured in the shooting and were…
The announcement will arrive in Tehran for consultations that could revolve around inspector accessibility.Iran has confirmed that the next nuclear talks with the US will be held in Rome this weekend after previous confusion over where negotiations will take place. The announcement on Iranian state television on Wednesday comes as Iranian President Masuud Pezeshkian officially approved the resignation of one of the vice presidents, who served as Tehran’s leading negotiator in a 2015 nuclear deal with the world power. Rafael Grossi, head of the UN Nuclear Watchdog Agency, also arrived in Tehran on Wednesday for consultations that could include negotiations…
According to Nuveen, income investors looking for a way to play the boom with artificial intelligence can turn to local government bonds connected to data centers. There is a large need for data centers to provide AI infrastructure, and there has since been an increasing demand to strengthen them. Power consumption by data centers is expected to account for almost half of the demand for electricity growth from now until 2030. Public power bonds issued totaled $26.8 billion in 2024, up from an average annual average of $14 billion over the past decade, Nuveen said. Municipal bonds are preferred by…
Turo, a San Francisco-based peer-to-peer rental startup, is often described as an “Airbnb for cars,” and after planning to shelve, it fired about 15% of its team, and about 150 employees. The news first reported by Bloomberg comes as Toro tries to cut costs and continue to float in a tough funding environment. Like many startups, Turo was focusing on the open market to raise fresh capital. However, these plans are currently pending as investors’ appetites are still trying to prove that they are trying to prove that they can make a profit. “Due to continued economic uncertainty and to…