Google DeepMind lost two high-profile researchers in a week marked by a flurry of departures across major AI labs. Why it matters: The talent wars continue and have intensified at the highest levels as many AI developers believe that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is on the horizon. Driving the news: Noam Shazeer announced last week that he was leaving Google DeepMind for OpenAI. Google previously paid more than $2 billion to acqui-hire Shazeer and part of his Character.ai team. - Shazeer co-authored the pivotal 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need," which introduced the Transformer architecture — the "T" in ChatGPT. - Two days later, John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, said he was also…
A member of the White Angel unit of Ukrainian police officers, who evacuate people from the frontline towns and villages, checks an area for residents, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in the frontline town of [...]
Vice President Sara Duterte. Composite photo from INQUIRER files. Published June 23, 2026 MANILA, Philippines — The impeachment proceedings against Vice President Sara Duterte intensified this week as the Senate pre-trial entered its third day, [...]
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, wrote a hyperbolic piece titled “America’s Teachers Can’t Afford to Teach,” which appeared in Time magazine […] Source
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Russian theorist Alexandr Dugin offers a vision to address widespread cultural despair and the desire for a revival of national sovereignty and Christian tradition. He […] Source
Vice President JD Vance speaks to members of the media after the U.S. and Iran held talks at the Lake Lucerne Summit, near Stansstad, Switzerland, June 22, 2026.(Nathan Howard/Pool via Reuters) Editor: Diana Zapata Published [...]