OpenAI’s Sam Altman said Saturday that he’s “very uncomfortable” with people treating AI like a god. In a vaguepost on X, Altman said that people who try to “ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models” are a safety issue. I am very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force
A New York Times executive was fatally shot in California, allegedly by his wife’s elderly parents who have been arrested on suspicion of murder. Jonathan McKinsey, 40, the newspaper’s director of engineering for games player experience, was found with multiple gunshot wounds in a car park in Dublin – 35 miles (56km) east of San
President Donald Trump’s financial accounts made nearly 40 times as many trades in one month as those belonging to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a Wall Street veteran with decades of experience. Trump earlier this week disclosed 1,156 transactions made by accounts in his name in July, including 440 purchases and 716 sales, according to a
A bidding war may be in full flower for Letterboxd, the popular film-reviews and social service that has been fielding inbound acquisition offers for several months. Indie studio A24 and the New York Times are the latest to express an interest in buying Letterboxd, according to a New York Times report citing anonymous sources. Any
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NEW YORK — Steel drums, flag-draped floats, and the smell of jerk chicken will fill Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway on Monday, as hundreds of thousands turn out for the West Indian Day Parade, one of the largest celebrations of Caribbean culture in the country. This year, Haitians are marching under more solemn circumstances than in prior
