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Berkeley, California (AP) – President Donald Trump crackdown Diversity, equity, inclusion The federal government money-Receive program initiative has cast doubt on the future of research Kendra Dahmer has been doing with intestinal parasites in India and Benin.Dahmer, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, holds grants from the National Institutes of Health, the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world.The grant is supposed to cover her research until the summer of 2026, but now I wonder if that is possible. She is the first university graduate in the family and receives diversity-based funding as a woman…
A fatal crash was the third air disaster in the US in just over a week.The remains of the small missing plane in the US have been found to have 10 people on board, as there are no survivors, authorities said. The U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska said Friday it had discovered the remains of an aircraft near Gnome, about 885km (550 miles) northwest of Anchorage. Coast Guard spokesman Mike Salerno told a press conference that two of the staff were close enough to the wreckage and close enough to see the three bodies inside. “Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to…
The leader pledges to oppose China’s “attack” and announces a compromise on the steel deal made by Nippon Steel.Japanese Prime Minister Isba and President Donald Trump spoke warmly at the first meeting. Tokyo avoided tariffs in which Trump slapped other allies. Boiling praise for each other at the White House, the two leaders on Friday pledge to oppose China’s “attack” and find solutions to blocked deals for troubled US steel I said that. But Trump pressed Isba to cut his trade deficit with the US to zero, warning that if Tokyo doesn’t do so, he could face tariffs on exports.…
US President Donald Trump is frozen aid to South Africa with an escalation of the rift between his administration and Pretoria over a controversial land expropriation law aimed at addressing inequality stemming from apartheid. In an executive order signed Friday, Trump said the law showed a “shocking disregard” of citizens’ rights, allowing the government to seize land from minority Africans without compensation. Passing the expropriation law, signed last month by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, has driven violence against “racially disliked” landowners following “countless” policies designed to dismantle equal opportunities They followed the “hate rhetoric” and government actions. He said…
Novore continues to shake the weather with debates over the limits of his authority throughout the end of his latest campaign. The Ecuadorian constitution requires civil servants to take leave to run for reelection. However, Novore instead signed two enforcement orders to avoid transferring power to Vice President Veronica Abbado. Just this week, the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court declared both unconstitutional. After the verdict, the powerful coalition of indigenous rights, the Ecuadorian coalition of indigenous nationalities (Conaie), denounced Novoa for treating the president like a “private hacienda.” “Authoritarian manipulation cannot hide the truth. Novoa’s government is full of irregularities, abuse and…
According to an internal memo seen by Reuters, the metaplatform is preparing for a company-wide layoff next week, quickly tracking the hiring of machine learning engineers. Reuters reported, citing one note from Janelle Gale, head of Meta people, will begin receiving notifications local time at 5am on Monday in most countries, including the United States. However, workers in Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands are exempt from these reductions “due to local regulations.” Employees from more than 12 other countries in Europe, Asia and Africa will receive notifications between February 11th and February 18th. When contacted, a Meta spokesman declined…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald Trump is pursuing credit for the ceasefire contract that halted the war in Gaza, but the US president’s proposal to forcibly drive away Palestinians on his territory risks turning the agreement into a torpedo. Trump repeatedly called for Gaza to be depopulated this week — a push from rights groups saying it would amount to ethnic cleansing, and the US “taking over” Palestinian territory. Leaders around the world have warned that uprooting Palestinians from Gaza would destabilize the entire Middle East. More quickly, Trump’s comments could drive a push to a lasting end to a battle…
Safe Superintelligence (SSI), an AI startup co-founded last year by former Openai chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, is in talks to raise funds at a valuation of at least $20 billion, Reuters said on the issue. I reported using cited four well-versed sources. The new funds will valuate SSI’s $5 billion valuation from the final round of SSI to $400 million from the final round of September, with five well-known investors including Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and DST Global raised $1 billion from. Funding news comes hours after SoftBank has invested $40 billion in Openai, valued at $260 billion. Sutskever, who…
The US president said it was “not necessary” to allow its predecessors to access the classified information.US President Donald Trump has announced that he will revoke former President Joe Biden’s access to Intelligence briefing in his latest retaliation against his rival. Trump said Friday that Biden “is not necessary” to maintain “security clearance” and that he is taking action in response to his predecessor who will revoke access to material classified after he took office. Ta. “He sets this precedent in 2021 and will access the Intelligence Reporting Community (IC) with details on national security, which is the courtesy of…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is worried about his competitor Deepseek, a Chinese AI company that swept Silicon Valley with its R1 model. And his concerns could be more serious than the typical concerns raised by deepseek about sending user data back to China. In an interview with Jordan Schneider’s Chinatalk podcast, Amodei said Deepshek generated rare information about biological weapons in human-run safety tests. Deepseek’s performance was “basically the worst model I tested.” “There were no blocks at all to generate this information.” Amodei said this is part of the assessment and will be routinely implemented in a variety of…