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Getty ImagesA judge has ordered the Trump administration to immediately reinstate access to the White House for three news organisations barred from the building last week by the president.A District of Columbia court issued a temporary restraining order against the ban, meaning CNN, MS NOW and Politico must have their access restored for 14 days, after ruling the move “likely violated their constitutional due process rights”.The three outlets launched a legal challenge after their reporters had their passes for the White House confiscated and were denied access.The Trump administration defended the move in court, accusing the outlets of publishing false…
Getty ImagesPennsylvania is home to thousands of Amish, who avoid many aspects of modern lifeFor the past few months, nurse Dale Weiser has been making unexpected home visits.As the state battles the deadliest measles outbreak in recent history, the clinical supervisor drives 30 miles (48.3km), sometimes daily, to a rural corner of Pennsylvania where many Amish people live.Walking into strangers’ homes, Weiser says she tries her best to be respectful and non-intrusive as she vaccinates dozens of family members against the measles, sometimes around the kitchen table.”A lot of people that I encounter, they don’t have health insurance. They don’t…
What you need to know about the OpenAI Australian government hackThe BBC’s North America technology correspondent Lily Jamali explains how the Medicare breach happened, and why it matters.21 mins agoAustralia
Purvansh ParmarFoodNeverComes calls itself a ‘dopamine kitchen’You are hungry. Or you are not. It doesn’t matter.You open FoodNeverComes, pick from 22 cuisines and start scrolling. Butter chicken looks good. So does bibimbap. You add a few dishes, watch the total climb and hit checkout. A tracker says a rider is on the way.Then you get a dummy AI-generated call from inside the site. He is outside your building, he says, but cannot find your street or door. Except there was never any food in the first place. The order exists only on the screen.”Order the food. Skip the bill,” says…
A red carpet and military flyover – How Trump welcomed XiUS President Donald Trump has greeted his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping with a military flyover and 100ft (30m) red carpet to kick off their three-day summit in Washington. In a rare move, Trump met China’s premier at the airport as the US Air Force band marched on the tarmac and US and Chinese flags flew.Trump and First Lady Melania Trump welcomed Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday evening in Maryland.The high-stakes visit – Xi’s first trip to Washington since 2015 – is expected to…
Ombudsman Dmytro LubinetsOleshky has been under Russian occupation since 2022 and its people are now trapped”Two more civilians died last night,” says Halia, before her phone connection cuts off.She is trapped in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky, which she says is “constantly shelled” and cut off from food and water.Three days later she tells me the two who were killed were a husband and wife. She knew them well.They were bringing home a bag of food from the closest neighbouring town of Radensk, 23km (14 miles) away, but were unable to get home before a curfew imposed by Russian…
EPA/ShutterstockAlbanese said it took “too long” for OpenAI to inform Australian officials of the breach in JuneAn artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI “infiltrated” an Australian government website in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said.The agent hacked a statistics portal containing “non-sensitive” data from Australia’s universal healthcare scheme Medicare, Albanese said in New York on Wednesday, local time.He had a “very frank discussion” with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for taking “too long” to tell them about the breach, believed to be one of the world’s first publicly reported AI-led hacks of a government website.OpenAI said it only became aware…
A red carpet and military flyover – How Trump welcomed XiThe two B-1 bombers that flew overhead are a key part of the US’s combat arsenal, and produce a notoriously loud roar when they pass by.2 hrs ago
ReutersSam Altman of OpenAI has become a key figure in the AI technology development.The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face have told the UN that the current pace of artificial intelligence (AI) development, and the risks it poses to society, demands international coordination.Altman called for common risk evaluation standards, as did Dario Amodei of Anthropic, a main rival of OpenAI, and Clement Delangue of Hugging Face.Earlier this month, Amodei wrote an essay welcomed by Altman and others calling an AI development slowdown in response to fears about the technology’s threat to humanity. However, at the same UN conference, a…
Getty ImagesThe US and China are locked in a race to develop AI”Whoever wins AI, WINS!”US President Donald Trump has been blunt about his AI ambitions, as well as about who he considers the US’s main rival to be: China.His Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, has not said anything so forthright – but it seems he holds a similar view.”China very much sees it as a race, they very much think China should be the leading force in AI – they see AI as a power maximiser,” says Rebecca Arcesati, from the Mercator Institute for China Studies.For Trump, beating China to…