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Why is Donald Trump so opposed to regulating AI?The BBC’s North America editor Sarah Smith looks at why the US president is contradicting AI leaders, who are calling for the technology’s development to be slowed down.2 hrs agoUS & Canada
Getty ImagesUS government borrowing costs climbed to their highest level since 2007 after a jump in oil prices further fuelled concerns about inflation.The effective interest rate on US government bonds over 10 years, known as the 10-year Treasury yield, rose as high as 5.04% but has eased back since.Government bond yields have been rising globally for months, driven by worries that inflation caused by the oil price surge since the start of the US-Israel war with Iran will lead to higher interest rates.The US has been buying back bonds back in a bid to drive the Treasury yield down, with…
Getty ImagesThe US Supreme Court has rejected President Donald Trump’s plan to restrict voting by mail before November’s midterm elections, in a setback for the White House.The justices upheld a federal judge’s order that temporarily blocked the US Postal Service (USPS) from moving forwards with new requirements for postal ballots.Trump called the decision a blow to his political party. “Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court,” the president wrote on Truth Social.One legal group said in response that the decision would prevent the USPS from “sowing chaos in our elections”.Trump, who argued the rules would…
Brianna BeyroutiBrianna Beyrouti says moving to a cheaper part of the US means she can afford to take her kids on holidayWhen Brianna Beyrouti looks back on her former life in the city of Portland, Oregon, she says she had been financially “drowning”.”I was absolutely living paycheque to paycheque. Every time the smallest thing came up, it was like ‘Oh, gosh, the kids need shoes, how am I going to afford that?’ As a single parent, everything falls on my shoulders.”Last year, Brianna left Portland and its metropolitan population of 2.5 million people. She and her two children moved 2,000…
Rune Dyrholm / Danish Armed ForcesFile pictureDenmark has accused a Russian warship of firing two emergency flares at one of its helicopters while it was tracking the vessel in the Baltic Sea.The Danish government has summoned the Russian ambassador over the incident, which it said happened during a “routine” monitoring operation on Monday.Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen branded the Russian action “reckless” and said it was designed to “intimidate and divide”.Russia said it would “thoroughly investigate” the incident but accused Danish helicopters of making “dangerous manoeuvres” near Russian warships.In a statement detailing the incident in the Baltic Sea, the Danish armed…
LIVEPressure mounts on Congress to act on AI as UK warns of ‘huge risk’ without safety measuresElsewhere, Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon will speak at an event to push for more oversight in the fast-changing technology.
Getty ImagesSome types of space weaponry could create a lot of debris and destructionThe announcement by the United States that it has deployed a space weapon in Earth’s orbit has raised questions about what weaponry is actually in space, and what role it could play in efforts by great powers to dominate that arena.Washington has given away little in its announcement. Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink said the “on orbit” weapon was necessary to safeguard US forces against hostile enemy action, but gave no details about the weapon’s capabilities or when it was put into orbit.So what could…
Watch: “Great” or “alarming” – Should AI be reined in?US President Donald Trump has said fears about the safety of artificial intelligence (AI) are a “hoax”, as he criticised calls to have more guardrails in place for the fast-moving technology.It comes after Jack Clark, co-founder of AI giant Anthropic, told the BBC that a “kill switch” that can be checked by a third party may need to be mandatory for the industry.Clark’s comments followed warnings about the risks the technology poses to humanity that have been raised in recent days by several executives and staff at leading AI firms.Those concerns…
ReutersPrime Minister Mark Carney has pitched Canada as a “safe harbour” for some of the world’s largest investors to spend their money in an era of geopolitical and economic uncertainty.The country is “perfectly situated to build in the new global economic order”, he told more than 100 global investors and sovereign wealth fund representatives gathered in Toronto for a major investment summit.The group represent more than C$120tn ($86tn; £64tn) of assets. Carney’s ambition is that they will invest in sectors like defence, energy, mining, AI and infrastructure.Ottawa hopes they can be sold on more than 160 projects, from data centres…
LIVEHospital where killer nurse Lucy Letby worked could have prevented some baby deaths, inquiry findsLady Justice Thirlwall’s inquiry finds there was a “complete failure to protect babies” at the Countess of Chester Hospital, with safeguarding practices not followed.