Devising simulations to test AGI have their tradeoffs. getty In today’s column, I examine a highly touted means of staving off the existential risk of attaining artificial general intelligence (AGI) and artificial superintelligence (ASI). Some stridently believe that one means of ensuring that AGI and ASI won’t opt to wipe out humanity is to first…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Oil markets have shrugged off Israel’s threat to topple the Iranian regime, with crude exports from the Middle East so far unaffected by the escalating conflict. Financial Times analysis of ship-tracking data shows there has…
WNBA announces Cleveland, Detroit, and Philadelphia in new expansion USA TODAY’s Meghan Hall breaks down the news of the WNBA expansion teams to three new cities and what this means to the league. Sports Seriously The WNBA announced the players who will participate in the annual All-Star Game on Monday, and while Indiana Fever guard…
Kindness is in the air. Publishers produce business books with titles like “The Power of Nice” or, simply, “Kind”. LinkedIn, which is ostensibly a networking site for career-minded professionals, is overrun with sickly videos showing people being improbably generous to the homeless. Firms publicly embrace the values of compassion: one manufacturer of safety-gear talks of…
Tom HamiltonJun 29, 2025, 02:00 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 LEICESTER, England — A handful of minutes after Beth Mead had made it 7-0 against Jamaica, the England squad were…
Microsoft’s Majorana 1 quantum computer John Brecher/Microsoft Last month Microsoft announced, with fanfare, that it had created a new kind of matter and used it to make a quantum computer architecture that could lead to machines “capable of solving meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years, not decades”. But since then, the tech giant has increasingly come…
Ohm YoungmisukJun 12, 2025, 12:44 AM ET Close Ohm Youngmisuk has covered the Giants, Jets and the NFL since 2006. Prior to that, he covered the Nets, Knicks and the NBA for nearly a decade. He joined ESPNNewYork.com after working at the New York Daily News for almost 12 years and is a graduate of…
U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Education Linda McMahon attend a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission event, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 22, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters A key, revamped government panel of vaccine advisors appointed by…
Alison Holt & James Melley BBC News BBC Carole Charles’s husband Winbourne’s death is one of 20 involving the same NHS hospital trust where coroners have raised serious concerns An NHS mental health trust, recently found guilty of serious failings in the care of a young patient who took her own life, has had serious…
ORLANDO, Fla. — There were points during Renato Portaluppi’s prematch news conference Thursday when it seemed as if the Fluminense coach was trying to justify the need to play the FIFA Club World Cup quarterfinal against Al Hilal at all. Question after question in the cramped media room at Camping World Stadium in Orlando was…
