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Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei’s appointment of hard-line loyalists to top jobs suggests he is prepared to keep the country on a war footing and to quash domestic dissent.
China’s A.I. rise is creating a new dilemma for Beijing. The open models that win influence abroad may pose risks to the country’s security and geopolitical strategy.
America's AI architects are converging on a chilling consensus: The pace of progress may soon demand a slowdown, but no single lab can afford to pull the brake alone. Why it matters: Momentum for an AI pause or pacing mechanism has reached a historic tipping point, ignited by a summer of extraordinary yet unsettling leaps in capabilities. - More than 1,200 employees at leading AI companies have signed on to a new petition, "Pacing the Frontier ," urging Washington to back an international framework capable of throttling AI development. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Wednesday that he's discussed the "need" to slow AI development with White House officials as models grow more powerful — and that OpenAI helped shape the petition's language. …
Whoever supplies the world’s A.I. will shape how the world thinks.
A flurry of diplomacy has eased tensions, officials said, after an incident risked triggering a wider war.
Moonshot said some users will have to get licenses to access its Kimi K3 model as the company threads a needle between sharing and profiting from its technology’s popularity.
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Iran’s history shows it is willing to dig in, even when it may suffer big losses.
The unprecedented test of a nuclear-capable submarine-launched missile highlights Beijing’s growing force in the region.
A commander of one of the most-hard line and powerful Iranian proxies in Iraq has been charged with plotting to attack Jewish sites in the United States.
Secret new assessments say Iran has operational access to 30 of its 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting that its military remains far stronger than President Trump has asserted.
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