The UK government has more than doubled the number of crime agency officers deployed to combat human smuggling in the past 18 months as it steps up efforts to stop the gangs behind illegal migration. Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on a trip to the port of Dover that he would be “relentless” in addressing
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that it may be time to “pace the rate of AI development” so that society can “harden around some of these new capability levels.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed how Altman’s comments were probably prompted by a recent hack
Don’t use Swiss Army knives for surgically precise work; use scalpels. That’s what Manos Koukoumidis and other players in the AI cost-saving business say is the biggest problem with how companies use AI. They’re using the most powerful, versatile, and expensive AI models — from frontier labs like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google — to handle niche
Today’s Strands puzzle is a stumper, with some difficult clues. If you need hints and answers, read on. Hint for today’s Strands puzzle Today’s Strands theme is: There’s nothing like it. If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: No duplicates out there. Clue words to unlock in-game hints Your goal is to find hidden words
U.S. stock futures jumped on Sunday, continuing a bullish mood from late last week, as President Donald Trump balked at a major attack on Iran. Futures tied to the Dow Jones industrial average surged 189 points, or 0.36%. S&P 500 futures jumped 0.41%, and Nasdaq futures shot up 0.89%. South Korea’s Kospi index, which has
Two minutes and thirty seconds into the title track of Rachika Nayar’s Heaven Come Crashing, an absolutely massive drum and bass beat drops. As a fan of Nayar’s debut record Our Hands Against The Dusk, it caught me off guard. That album has no percussion on it at all. Heaven Comes Crashing is almost entirely
