Beth Barnes, one of the AI industry’s most influential watchdogs, said in July she was struggling to hire talented researchers to monitor AI’s risks. That has begun to change. Researcher Joe Benton announced this week that he had left Anthropic for Barnes’ nonprofit METR, writing that he worries about “extinction-level risks” from the tech. The
At least 44 people have been injured, including one seriously, after a passenger train derailed in northern France, local officials have said. An 18-year-old woman was airlifted in critical condition by helicopter to hospital. Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot said 180 passengers were on board the train that was operating between Rouen and Caen in Normandy.
Filming “The Uprising” gave British actor Woody Norman, who plays 14-year-old King Richard II in the historical fiction drama, a massive headache. It turns out the only crown they had for him to use during the shoot got damaged the first day of filming. “So it didn’t fit my head,” Norman, 17, tells me over
On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda hijackers took control of four commercial airplanes. Two struck the World Trade Center’s twin towers in Lower Manhattan, a third hit the Pentagon, and a fourth, aimed at Washington, D.C., crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers fought back. Nearly 3,000 people died that
Warning: This story contains distressing details Police in the US state of Mississippi have made their first arrest in the case of a black woman found dead and hanged from a tree, and say they could soon take more people into custody. Tasia Fortune’s body was found in the lot of an abandoned home in
Pink had fallen silent in the face of backlash from many quarters following her reposting a call for Macklemore to be dropped from the Ed Sheeran tour in the wake of his nightly pro-Palestinian songs and statements. Now she has spoken up about the controversy and her part in it in a big way, with
