The participating companies also agreed to meet regularly to establish safety standards and best practices for their AI systems. US president Donald Trump and the heads of some of the biggest US technology and artificial intelligence companies have signed a voluntary “morally binding” accord aimed at putting stronger safety controls around the development and deployment...
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OpenAI DevDay opens with protest outside venue; protesters in robot costumes chant
OpenAI’s annual DevDay conference began with a protest outside the venue in San Francisco. Demonstrators marched in a circle chanting “Sam Altman, get off it, put people over profit” as attendees arrived for the opening keynote, The Verge reported.The rally, held outside Fort Mason, was aimed mainly at OpenAI’s contract with US Immigration and Customs...
FCRA bill improvement on existing law, says government
MPs from opposition parties and BJP clashed over provisions of the bill with two DMK MPs, A Raja and P Wilson, dubbing the bill violative of Article 300(A), which says no one will be deprived of their property save by the authority of law. NEW DELHI: The vesting of assets is the single-most contentious provision...
Oil stays above $103 after Trump denies easing sanctions on Iran
Oil prices inch higher Oil prices inched higher on Wednesday, trading beyond the $103 per barrel mark as uncertainty over the US stance towards Iran returned to the spotlight. US The momentum came after US President Donald Trump rejected a report that Washington was prepared to ease sanctions on Tehran. Qatar, meanwhile, said it was...
Walking a tightrope: 5 hurdles facing Noel Tata and an unlisted Tata Sons
Tata Trusts chief’s negotiation skills to be tested to the hilt MUMBAI: Noel Tata’s plan to keep Tata Sons private faces five hurdles, the steepest of which is a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) that has already refused to release the group’s holding company from its rules. The chairman of Tata Trusts has proposed merging...
Shiv Sena (UBT) neta shot dead outside party office in Thane
Pradeep Purnekar, a functionary of Shiv Sena (UBT), was shot outside his party office on Tuesday night. THANE: Shiv Sena (UBT) functionary Pradeep Purnekar was allegedly shot twice outside his party office in the Manpada area of Ghodbunder Road on Tuesday night, sending shockwaves through the area.Purnekar sustained serious injuries in the firing and was...
‘Nitish wouldn’t have gone to BJP’: Digvijaya’s CWC claim draws sharp Kharge rebuttal
Intending to stress that Congress should try to spread the opposition umbrella as BJP and RSS are on a weak footing, his argument was that if appeased, Kumar would not have defected to the BJP camp. NEW DELHI: Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh Tuesday told CWC that the political landscape would have been different if Nitish...
INDIA bloc to meet today to finalise plan for anti-SIR agitation
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, Jairam Ramesh, KC Venugopal, TMC’s Mamata Banerjee and members from the Left, CPI, CPM, NCP-SP and Sena UBT will participate. NEW DELHI: Opposition INDIA bloc members will meet here Wednesday to finalise an action plan for a joint agitation over the SIR exercise and demand CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation,...
Supreme Court to hear plea for CEC’s suspension, voiding SIR next week
Petitioner Rakesh Kumar Singh alleged that about 14 decisions were taken in the EC’s name despite objections recorded by the two other election commissioners, S S Sandhu and Vivek Joshi. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear next week a petition filed against chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, seeking his suspension and...
‘Bigger than internet’: Trump officially renames AI as ‘super intelligence’
The executive order came after Trump hosted a high-level White House luncheon with leading technology executives, including SpaceX and Tesla chief Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order directing the federal government to replace the terms “Artificial...
