Saudi employee arrested for allegedly bugging OpenAI office

A Saudi employee of OpenAI was arrested after allegedly planting a recording device in one of the company’s San Francisco offices, the AI firm and federal prosecutors said Tuesday.”We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices” and “referred the matter to the FBI,” OpenAI told AFP in a statement. […]

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Saudi says Houthi attacks sparked Aramco fire, wounded 4 in Riyadh

Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday that an attack on an Aramco building in the kingdom’s east sparked a “limited fire” and that debris from intercepted Houthi missiles wounded four people in the capital Riyadh. It came hours after the Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen’s Houthis said it had intercepted several missiles on Tuesday evening, including over […]

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Ukrainischer Präsident Selenskyj zu Besuch bei Burnham in London erwartet

Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj wird an diesem Mittwoch zu einem Besuch in Großbritannien erwartet. Premierminister Andy Burnham werde Selenskyj am Regierungssitz in der Londoner Downing Street empfangen, um die “felsenfeste Unterstützung” Großbritanniens für die Ukraine zu bekräftigen, teilte die britische Regierung in der Nacht mit. Konkret soll es unter anderem um die beschleunigte Lieferung […]

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Vatikan: Papst an Lungenkrebs erkrankt – Unterlappen von Lungenflügel entfernt

Papst Leo XIV. ist an Lungenkrebs erkrankt. Wie der Vatikan am Dienstagabend mitteilte, war der zuvor aus der Lunge des Oberhaupts der Katholiken entfernte Lungenknoten bösartig. Beim Papst habe sich die zuvor vermutete Diagnose eines “Adenokarzinoms der Lunge” bestätigt, erklärte der Heilige Stuhl weiter. Um eine “vollständige Entfernung des Tumors sicherzustellen”, sei beim Pontifex während […]

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Trump ousts Greece ambassador over ethics scandal

US President Donald Trump forced his ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle out of the administration on Tuesday, amid allegations that she sought money from one of his supporters and accepted lavish hospitality from wealthy Greek businessmen.”We have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign,” Trump’s new press secretary Katie Zacharia told reporters at her first White House […]

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Reese Witherspoon, France’s Mediawan to buy Hello Sunshine

Reese Witherspoon and French content group Mediawan on Tuesday said they were buying Hello Sunshine, the women-focused production company the Hollywood star founded before she sold a majority stake in it in 2021. Witherspoon launched Hello Sunshine in 2016 to “change the narrative for women” and how they were represented in the media. The company […]

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Microsoft’s Brad Smith calls for ‘real and effective’ AI safety standards

Microsoft president Brad Smith warned Tuesday that industry and governments must “act with urgency” to create “real and effective safety standards” to contain the risks linked to artificial intelligence.”We’re going to need for AI what we have for everything else in life… we need real and effective safety standards, and we need the public to […]

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No lights, no friends: Cuban youth grapple with loneliness

With frequent power cuts transforming Havana into a ghost town, young Cubans are struggling to get their kicks, many resorting to games of dominoes with strangers to pass the time. Most of 24-year-old Melanie Tejeda’s friends have left the US-blockaded island nation, and only five of the 43 students who started an acting program with […]

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