A Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy pulled a tiny kitten off the shoulder of Interstate 275 in Florida, and the deputy's family gave the cat a permanent home. The deputy spotted the five-week-old kitten huddled against a concrete wall along southbound I-275, with highway traffic streaming past. Rather than call animal control and move on, the […] The post Florida deputy rescues 5-week-old kitten from busy interstate, then takes it home appeared first on American Almanac .
A Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy pulled a tiny kitten off the shoulder of Interstate 275 in Florida, and the deputy's family gave the cat a permanent home. The deputy spotted the five-week-old kitten huddled against a concrete wall along southbound I-275, with highway traffic streaming past. Rather than call animal control and move on, the deputy climbed out and went after the cat on foot, UPI reported . A Florida Highway Patrol trooper joined in to help corner the animal. Between the two officers, they managed to wrangle the kitten safely off the roadway. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office later shared the rescue on its Facebook page, calling the chase a "foot pur-suit", a bit of wordplay the agency apparently could not…Open
OpenAI will not go public this year given all the safety work it needs to do, CEO Sam Altman said in a Fortune interview released Saturday. Why it matters: Altman's comments come as fears over doomsday AI scenarios have ramped up since an Anthropic employee resigned and issued a dire warning about AI's capabilities. What they're saying: "Right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public," Altman said . - "I would say not 2026, yeah. We got a lot of stuff to do." The intrigue: The market expected blockbuster IPOs from both OpenAI and Anthropic this year. - Altman's move puts the ball squarely in Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's court — especially given Amodei's warning Saturday that AI development needs to be slowed. Editor's note:…
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