How an intelligence explosion might lift us from conventional AI to reaching the vaunted AGI … More (artificial general intelligence). getty In today’s column, I continue my special series covering the anticipated pathways that will get us from conventional AI to the revered hoped-for AGI (artificial general intelligence). The focus here is an analytically speculative…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Japan has said it will not sacrifice its farmers to secure tariff exemptions from the US, as Tokyo and Washington hardened their positions in a rice diplomacy stand-off and hopes of an imminent…
Free agency officially kicked off on Monday evening, but within a few hours many of the biggest moves had already been made. At this point, most rosters are beginning to take shape and, barring a surprise, we have an idea of what most teams are broadly up to. Of course, “most” isn’t “all.” Even as…
A London startup called Mozart AI is launching today with $730,000 in pre-seed funding and a challenge to the current wave of generative music platforms. While companies like Suno and Udio promise to turn text prompts into finished pop songs in seconds, Mozart takes a very different approach: it wants to speed up the way…
2023 was the breakout year of AI and since then it’s been going from strength to strength. It’s seen as the solution to everything from productivity and a skills gap to fixing the NHS, with Tony Blair calling for AI doctors and chatbots to ‘save’ the health service. There has been an explosive growth of…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A deal that had been reached between Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, over how states can regulate artificial intelligence has been pulled from President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill. The collapsed agreement would have required states seeking to access hundreds of millions of dollars…
Free agent guard Ty Jerome has agreed to a three-year, $28 million deal with the Memphis Grizzlies, sources told ESPN. The deal, negotiated by agents Kieran Piller and Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports, includes a player option in the third year. Editor’s Picks 1 Related Jerome, 27, turned in one of the best seasons for…
By Bloomberg Published June 30, 2025 A temporary pause on US tariffs has brought little relief to Lesotho’s textile industry, which has suffered layoffs and shuttered factories after orders from America dried up. Bloomberg “It’s very, very dire,” Lesotho’s Trade Minister Mokhethi Shelile, said in an interview Monday. “US buyers are not placing orders because…
Donald Trump must be feeling pretty powerful. He’s even demanding that Israel cancel the criminal trial of Bibi Netanyahu. By any objective analysis, whether you like the president or not, he has been on an incredible winning streak for the last two weeks. Everything seems to be breaking his way. And as he racks up…
Smythson of Bond Street, the high-end British leather goods business, has been acquired from Jacques Bahbout’s Tivoli Group by Oakley Capital, a pan-European, mid-market private equity investor. The purchase price wasn’t disclosed. Smythson The company said it “marks an exciting new chapter in Smythson’s 137-year history of British craftsmanship. Following years of strengthening the brand’s…
