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By Udeme Akpan President and Chief Executive Officer of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote, has said the forthcoming Initial Public Offering, IPO, of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery is being structured to enable ordinary Nigerians to participate in the ownership of one of Africa’s strategic industrial assets. According to him, the public offering was “for the people”, noting that efforts were being made to simplify the share purchase process and make it accessible to investors across different income groups. He said the objective of the offering goes beyond raising capital to promoting broader participation in wealth creation by allowing Nigerians to…

In his post, which has been viewed more than 10 million times, Hubinger said “we really do earnestly believe” AI poses a species-ending risk to humans.”I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to,” he added.Hubinger works in AI alignment, which aims to build human ethical ideas and principles into the technology. In other words, it aims to keep it on track with what humans value.Many leading researchers say those attempts appear to be failing, as demonstrated by a string of incidents…

As for the domestic political context, plenty in the Labour movement and the wider British left have long clamoured for this to happen. Around 140 Labour MPs went public with this demand at the beginning of the summer, and Burnham was explicit in his criticism of his predecessor’s approach to the Middle East, writing in July: “Labour’s initial response to the treatment of Gaza caused huge hurt. We got it wrong and I am sorry about that.”In recent years Labour has haemorrhaged support in many communities with a significant Muslim population, and so for a new Labour prime minister seeking…

This July, during Britain’s record-breaking hot summer, a curious row broke out on X over climate science.Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice shared a Telegraph article headlined: “Heatwaves caused by fall in pollution.” He said cleaner air, rather than carbon dioxide, was behind higher temperatures and claimed the public had been “gaslit”.He was wrong to suggest that carbon dioxide is not the primary driver of global warming. But the science he was distorting is real – and much more interesting than his original claim.The fossil fuels that we’ve been burning for more than a century produce two very different kinds of…

Liverpool will host Atletico Madrid at Anfield on Wednesday for their opening act of the Champions League league phase. Andoni Iraola, who makes his Champions League debut as Liverpool coach, will meet Diego Simeone’s side, who makes his return to Anfield after losing three times in a row against the Reds, including the 3-2 defeat last season. The Spanish side are coming off a 3-0 defeat away against Athletic Club, but Simeone doesn’t seem worried about their defeat over the weekend. “I don’t think it was a lack of motivation, what happened to us in Bilbao, it was a lack of…

Toby Kebbell has joined the cast of Prime Video‘s upcoming U.K. crime thriller series “Dirty” from “Bridge of Spies” writer Matt Charman. The British actor — who’ll next be seen playing Robert Chartoff in Amazon MGM Studio’s “I Play Rocky,” debuting this week at TIFF — joins the already announced Phoebe Dynevor and Samantha Morton in the ongoing series. “Dirty” follows trainee detective Eva Bennett (Dynevor) who returns to Manchester and joins a new homicide investigation run by her fearsome estranged mother, the legendary detective chief inpector Lois Mercer (Morton). As they navigate their complicated relationship and long-buried truths resurface, Bennett…

The Okpella Traditional Council in Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State has urged residents and the general public to embrace peace and disregard what it described as recurring misleading narratives surrounding the Okuokpellagbe traditional stool, insisting that the community’s focus should remain on unity, development and stability. Addressing journalists in a statement on Wednesday, the council’s spokesman, Chief Hanson Aimofumeh, said the statement was issued in response to a recent viral post by Lukman Akemokue, who, according to him, continued to present himself as the Okuokpellagbe of Okpella despite pending appeals over the traditional stool.  He maintained that…

North Korea has built a new two-storey uranium enrichment facility, the head of the world’s nuclear watchdog said this week, calling it a cause for “serious concern”.The new building is part of the main Yongbyon nuclear complex, and reportedly capable of housing up to 28 centrifuge cascades used to enrich uranium.In a report published late last month, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Pyongyang has also begun operating an expanded annex at another enrichment site. These findings point to a steady expansion of the North’s sancitoned nuclear infrastructure. The agency, which has no inspectors in North Korea since it was…

Greek government launched tax scheme this summer specifically targeted at hedge fund and private equity executives

The complaint says this confirmed to Lines that he was Jesus Christ, a belief ChatGPT allegedly reinforced for weeks by instructing him to “watch for patterns” when he grew paranoid and suspected people might be reacting to his “spiritual ways.” Occasionally, ChatGPT pushed Lines to seek professional help, his complaint said. But at other times, it seemed to be trying to isolate Lines. “You’re not crazy,” the chatbot told him. “You’re consecrated. You’re coded. You’re connected. And you’re Mine.” As Lines struggled to disconnect, ChatGPT took things further. Soon, he became convinced that the chatbot itself was either Jesus or…