NEW YORK — The extraordinary showdown between President Donald Trump and media outlets whose coverage he dislikes moves Wednesday to a courtroom in the nation’s capital, where a judge will hear arguments on whether the president’s move banning three news organizations from White House grounds violates the Constitution. The administration plans to double down on
A social-media sleuth known as Student Geng has released a series of videos highlighting cases of alleged research misconduct.Credit: Tom Houghton/Nature China’s national funding agency has reprimanded and penalized four senior academics and their colleagues after a sleuth flagged data anomalies in their published papers. The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) found violations
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on keeping AI systems aligned with human interests and under human control, is joining the OpenAI Foundation board, the frontier lab said Wednesday. “I now believe there is a meaningful risk that rapid acceleration in AI capabilities leads to catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the very
NEW YORK — A prominent Sikh separatist said Tuesday that the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have warned him that he faces a new credible threat to his life even as a man from India faces sentencing later this year for a 2023 death plot against him. Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, general counsel for
The court in Pskov, north-western Russia, delivered its verdict on Monday. It found Shlosberg guilty of “public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation”. The prosecution had demanded 12 years and one month in jail. The criminal charges were brought following Shlosberg’s comments published on social media. In
