Future Forecasting A Massive Intelligence Explosion On The Path From AI To AGI

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…

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Republicans scrap deal in ‘big, beautiful bill’ to lower restrictions on states’ AI regulations

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…

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Smythson has been acquired by Oakley Capital, targets US, Europe, Japan growth

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…

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