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Brennan sprints to historic fifth stage win at Vuelta
Adwaidh Rajan
Great Britain's Matthew Brennan continued his remarkable Grand Tour debut by sprinting to a fifth-stage victory at this year's Vuelta a Espana. The 21-year-old Visma Lease-a-bike rider edged out Jor ...[Continue Reading]
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OpenAI's new safety hire says losing control of AI would be 'catastrophic' and that 'most people could die'
Kelsey Vlamis
OpenAI's new safety hire shared a dire warning about the threat posed by AI.Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images <ul><li>OpenAI's new safety hire, Paul Christiano, shared a dire warning about ris ...[Continue Reading]
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Factoring RSA 260
Eric Lu
Over the past few weeks, the Cognition research team and I have been optimizing our job scheduler to better use disaggregated compute. As a proof of concept, and because Ive enjoyed factoring numbers ...[Continue Reading]
Cognition.com
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Yemen envoy warns of wider war as Houthis threaten Bab al-Mandeb Strait
Osama Bin Javaid
The war in Yemen is threatening to open a new front as the Iran-allied Houthi rebels are trying to advance along the Red Sea coast, through the mountain chains of Taiz province, edging closer to stra ...[Continue Reading]
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Anthropic Just Threatened to Kill Billions of People. This Is Not Okay.
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Yesterday, Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic engineer, resigned. As he explained on X: [OpenAI and Anthropic] are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. A former ...[Continue Reading]
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Urging SCOTUS To Reject AR-15 Bans, the Trump Administration Explains Why They Are Unconstitutional
Jacob Sullum
The Trump administration has repeatedly challenged "assault weapon" bans, arguing that they violate the Second Amendment because they prohibit arms in common use for lawful purposes. In a Supreme Cou ...[Continue Reading]
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