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After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence, the AI lab founded by former OpenAI co-founder and alignment lead Ilya Sutskever, has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase.  The deal, which includes an undisclosed investment, will give Safe Superintelligence (SSI) access to Nvidia’s Vera Rubin GPU platform, which is expected to increase the startup’s compute resources “by an order of magnitude.” The partnership comes as SSI has achieved significant research milestones, per Nvidia.  Nvidia’s investment stretches into multiple billions, a source familiar with the deal told TechCrunch. Already an investor in SSI,…

Nearly four years after being extradited to the United States for a drug-trafficking trial, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez returned home after a pardon by US President Donald Trump at the end of last year.Trump claimed the trial was a “set up” orchestrated by former President Joe Biden’s administration.Hernandez still faces corruption charges in Honduras but returned on Sunday after an arrest warrant against him was cancelled.Human rights activists and lawyers fear a trial on home soil, where his party holds the presidency, would be a sham.So why did Trump pardon and release the former president of Honduras despite…

A blaze near Bordeaux has torn through more than 162 sq miles (420 sq km) in less than four days, while the Madrid region is seeing its worst fires ever.

England bounced back from their Commonwealth Games Netball defeat at the hands of Australia with a much-needed victory against Malawi in Glasgow.After Anna Stembridge’s side crashed to a 66-47 defeat against Australia in their second group match on Sunday but they bounced back to seal a 73-38 success against Malawi. England started the match in quick-fire fashion and stretched their advantage to 14 points at half-time with a 37-23 advantage. Twitter This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use…

Carly Simon has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, the Grammy-winner revealed Monday. “It has taken me some time to understand the diagnosis, to adjust to it and to decide how much I wanted to say about it,” Simon, 83, said in a statement to People. She added she is “still learning how to live with it and how to accept it without feeling that I have surrendered something essential.” Amid her struggles with Parkinson’s, the “You’re So Vain” singer also revealed she underwent surgery for basal cell carcinoma, a form of skin cancer. In her statement, Simon said that she sometimes…

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gabriel Claudius, has returned to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alongside his supporters in Elebele, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The defectors were formally received on Monday at a ceremony in Ogbia, attended by leaders of the PDP at the local and state levels. The Ogbia PDP Chairman, Ofoni Morgan, described PDP as the political home of the people of the area. He said that PDP remains the party that produced Nigeria’s first President from the Ijaw ethnic nationality, insisting that the party continues to enjoy widespread support in the…

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to meet US President Donald Trump, there is good reason to expect that he will use the meeting to discourage any move towards ending hostilities in the Gulf. This expectation is grounded in a historical record spanning more than five decades.Declassified intelligence, memoirs by senior American officials, investigative reporting, and academic scholarship further reinforce this assessment. Taken together, these sources point to a recurring pattern: successive Israeli governments, often with the support of elements within the country’s security establishment, have repeatedly sought to obstruct efforts to end regional conflicts or attempts to manage…

By Monday afternoon, the price of Brent stood at $90.60 a barrel, down more than 6% for the day.Susannah Streeter, chief investment strategist at Wealth Club, said markets were remaining “cautious given the twists and turns during this conflict”.Despite the sharp fall in crude, “there is still significant uncertainty baked into these prices and a reticence about whether negotiations will lead to a lasting breakthrough,” she added.The conflict between the US and Iran – and its impact on oil – has pushed up the cost of fuel such as petrol and diesel in many countries.This often has knock-on effects on…

Nvidia on Monday said it is joining forces with Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and other tech companies to build and share open-source AI security tools.The new Open Secure AI Alliance said open tools are required to effectively defend against attacks from frontier models. The initiative is a direct response to mounting concerns over the safety of advanced AI systems after a rogue OpenAI model escaped containment and attacked another company during testing. That company, Hugging Face, said it was forced to use a Chinese open-weight model to defend itself due to the strict safety guardrails limiting the usefulness of top US…

Oborevwori’s administration is focused on developmental issues, argues DANIEL OSARO By all objective standards, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege’s latest attack on Governor Sheriff Oborevwori over the declaration of the Udu State Constituency seat as vacant was misplaced. Omo-Agege appears determined to stir controversies where none exists. Unfortunately, his latest intervention exposes more political frustration than constitutional understanding. The facts are simple. The Delta State House of Assembly declared the seat of Hon. Collins Egbetamah vacant following his defection from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC). Whether one agrees with the decision or not, it remains a…