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Driscoll appeared on a panel alongside former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and lauded Kyiv’s wartime technologies.
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The creators of "South Park" announced they are temporarily renaming their long-running animated series "South America", a satirical swipe at President Trump's geographic renaming orders and the tech companies that rushed to comply. Trey Parker and Matt Stone posted the announcement on the show's official social media accounts just one week before the 29th season […] The post Trey Parker and Matt Stone rebrand 'South Park' as 'South America' to mock Trump's renaming push appeared first on American Almanac .
The creators of "South Park" announced they are temporarily renaming their long-running animated series "South America", a satirical swipe at President Trump's geographic renaming orders and the tech companies that rushed to comply. Trey Parker and Matt Stone posted the announcement on the show's official social media accounts just one week before the 29th season premiere, calling out Apple and Google by name for adopting Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario to "Lake America" on their mapping platforms. The statement also took a shot at their own parent company, Paramount, over its merger with Skydance. The full statement, reported by the Associated Press , read: "Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are…Open
America is shedding its status as the default choice for foreign governments to park money, buy weapons and send students. Why it matters: Even modest shifts away from the U.S. could chip away at advantages that have helped sustain American economic and geopolitical power for decades. Driving the news: The Netherlands moved 86 tons of gold out of the U.S. and Canada last week, citing the move as a hedge against "extreme systemic risks." France already moved all of its gold out of New York, while Germany debated doing the same. - Norway's sovereign wealth fund — the world's largest — announced plans to reduce its holdings of U.S. government bonds amid turbulence in the Treasury market. The big picture: Beyond finance, European…
Silicon Valley’s strange new theology.
Researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google are increasingly trying to raise awareness about the risks of artificial intelligence.
Members of the state’s congressional delegation said they don’t want a repeat of what happened with Lake America and the Gulf of America.
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Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job due to concerns about the safety of AI two months before his equity would have vested, he told Axios. Why it matters: The disclosure raises the stakes on Coxon's now mega-viral resignation from the AI lab, which laid out the broad view that the tech could end humanity. What they're saying: "I no longer have anything to gain by juicing up Anthropic's valuation... I left before any of my equity vested," Coxon said in an interview with Axios Wednesday. - In his post on X announcing his resignation, which now has over 115 million views, he wrote: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt." - Other AI…
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“I view it as a complement, not a replacement,”
The Energy Department's loan aims to revive the Duane Arnold nuclear plant, marking a significant move in the U.S. nuclear energy sector.
The Energy Department’s loan aims to revive the Duane Arnold nuclear plant, marking a significant move in the U.S. nuclear energy sector. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The U.S. Energy Department announced a $1.9 billion loan to assist in restarting the Duane Arnold nuclear power plant in Iowa, which ceased operations in 2020. This initiative is part of a broader effort to revive nuclear energy in the United States, in part to power the boom in artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. DETAIL: NextEra Energy, the company behind the project, plans to refurbish the plant’s reactor and aims to restart operations by 2029. The federal loan is expected to lower financing costs for NextEra, which has also secured a deal with Google to purchase…Open