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New York state lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday that aims to prevent frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic from contributing to disaster scenarios, including the death or injury of more than 100 people, or more than $1 billion in damages. The passage of the RAISE Act represents a win for the AI safety movement, which has lost...

Felicis founder Aydin Senkut is celebrating his 20th year as an institutional early-stage investor by announcing the firm’s biggest fund yet: a $900 million Fund X. This follows the $825 million Fund IX raised in 2023 and the $600 million Fund XIII raised in 2021. Felicis, a seed and Series A firm, is known for backing a long string of...

When Apple unveiled Image Playground last year, the company touted it as a quick and easy way to generate personalized, original images with the help of Apple Intelligence. Upon launch, the app was met with skepticism, as some users were disappointed by its limitations and low-quality results. For example, one Reddit user was surprised to find that Image Playground kept...

Random-number generators are used to pick juries, select samples for financial audits and assign participants in clinical trials to treatment or placebo groups. The unpredictability of random numbers ensures that such selections are not biased. However, for these systems to be secure and fair, we need a way to verify that a random-number generator has not been tampered with. Writing...

Becky MortonPolitical reporterFCDOUK Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Chief Minister of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo met earlier on WednesdayThe UK has agreed a deal with the European Union over Gibraltar's status after Brexit.Talks on rules governing the border between Spain and the British Overseas Territory have been ongoing since the UK left the EU in 2020.The UK said the agreement would...

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) -- Some Henrico County residents are taking a sigh of relief after the Board of Supervisors approved new regulations around data centers wanting to call Henrico home. “I’m excited -- I mean, totally elated about this," said Henrico resident Sharon Klein. The board voted on Tuesday, June 10, that companies wanting to bring a data center...

(RNS) — On Friday (June 6), the Rev. Brendan Busse, a Jesuit Catholic priest, had just finished a graduation ceremony for eighth graders at Dolores Mission School when he got news about an immigration raid happening in downtown Los Angeles. He abruptly stopped folding chairs, rushed past parents and grandparents leaving the celebration and drove to the city’s Fashion District....

Researchers identify "meal memory" neurons in laboratory rats that could explain why forgetting lunch leads to overeating. Scientists have discovered a specific group of brain cells that create memories of meals, encoding not just what food was eaten but when it was eaten. The findings, published today in Nature Communications, could explain why people with memory problems often overeat and...