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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…
The Department of Transport (DOT) has suspended funds for a $5 billion EV charging infrastructure program in which Tesla received at least $31 million. This movement is widely seen as illegal. This is the latest attempt from the Trump administration, seeking to hack federally funded renewable energy projects around the country. It also proof that Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s politics is increasingly at odds with the automotive company’s goal of moving towards sustainable energy. By mid-last year, Tesla had won around 6% of all awards from the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program in question, winning millions of dollars in…
On the same day President Donald Trump delayed the end of trade exemptions targeting certain Chinese imports, e-commerce company Shopify published a blog post clarifying its U.S. trade policy stance. In the post, Shopify approved “public trade” and asked regulators to provide online merchants with the freedom to expand without the constraints imposed by the geopolitical brink. “Without small business protection, legitimate entrepreneurs suffer under policies aimed at curbing exploitation,” the post read. “This hiking cost will disrupt supply chains and hinder trade across borders.” Shopify, a platform that hosts millions of sellers both domestically and internationally, is often defeated…
Hartford, Connecticut (AP) – The late New England Patriot brother tight end Aaron Hernandez He was sentenced to 18 months on Friday, and was already sentenced to prison for shooting at the University of Connecticut and threatening to kill three people in 2023, including a judge.Dennis Hernandez38 people who went on “DJ” while playing UConn football quarterback and wide receiver in the mid-2000s suffered from serious mental health issues at the time of the threat and were subsequently treated. I’m taking medicine. Defender Josh Ewing.US District Judge Sarala Nagara of Hartford also sentenced Hernandez to three years of supervised release.…
This week, Silicon Valley barreled to Washington, DC, in the form of fresh engineers who are believed to run the government. According to a report from Bombshell Wired, Elon Musk quietly chose at least six engineers, but the oldest of them is reportedly 24 years old, with government efficiency ( We support the management of DOGE. The group’s secrets and the inexperience of the six identified have sparked anger from the establishment of Washington. “The American people will not support the fact that unelected secret groups are ramping up the administrative division,” Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday. But…
Andrew Ng, the founder and former leader of Google Brain, supports Google’s recent decision to remove its pledge not to build an AI system for weapons. “We are extremely pleased that Google has changed its stance,” NG said in an on-stage interview with TechCrunch at the Military Veteran Startup Conference in San Francisco. Earlier this week, Google removed its seven-year-old pledge from its AI Principles webpage. In addition to deleting, Google has published a blog post written by Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis. DemisHassabis said businesses and governments should work together to build AIs that “support national security.” Google made the…
A large crowd is asking FICO to resign after visiting Moscow.Tens of thousands of Slovakia have filled the streets in sought for Prime Minister Robert Fiko’s resignation, citing policy changes in close ties with Russia. Protesters across the country on Friday chanted “resignation, resignation,” “Slovakia is Europe,” and “Russian agents,” with crowds of between 42,000 and 45,000 people reported in Freedom Square, the capital Bratislava. “We represent democracy, freedom and human rights, as recognized by the EU and as defined by the constitution. Barbora Kabinova, a 39-year-old protester, was quoted as saying by AFP News Agency. Ta. The weekly protests…
MONTREAL, Canada — Donald Trump was in the White House within three weeks, but the US president has already said many are cooperative attacks on immigrants and refugee rights. Republican leaders sent immigrants to the infamous detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They called for more deportation. Effectively banned asylum. The refugee resettlement program has been suspended. Trump has also used tariff threats to put pressure on his country’s neighbors, Canada and Mexico, enacting stricter measures at their respective borders, stopping irregular travel to the United States. For Canadian rights advocates, the Trump administration’s anti-immigration policy is the cause of…