German Chancellor Friedrich Merz suffered a serious political blow after Alternative for Germany (AfD) saw big gains in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, as he watched his own Christian Democratic Union (CDU) lose over half of its support since 2021 and is now polling at 17.4 percent, according to the Financial Times.
Children across the world are falling behind traditional standards in various educational tasks, like “skim reading” and writing drafts for reports, raising new concerns about the impact that smartphones are having on the development of young minds.
The Alternative for Germany [AfD] party saw its best performance ever in Sunday’s election in Saxony-Anhalt, the eastern state, after securing 44 percent of the vote as the country continues to turn on Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition.
Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), founded in 2015, has been seen inside the country as a burgeoning agency tasked with investigating top officials – some of whom have close ties with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Financial Times reported.
The excitement In Washington is palpable with the announcement that President Donald Trump has a new project to help beautify the city on top of the huge banners bearing his image festooning the fronts of government buildings, his billion-dollar White House fortified ballroom, the paving of the rose garden, the enlarging of the helicopter landing pad, the soon-to-be-demolished and renamed “Trump”-Kennedy Center, the renaming of the “Trump” Institute of Peace, and the soon-to-be-started Trump-fal Arch being constructed between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.
Twenty-five years after 9/11, one has to ask: has the nightmare ever really ended?
In an essay posted on X on 12 September, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for AI labs to slow development of new, more powerful models to better understand whether the systems pose threats to humanity.
More than 30 candidates for political office around the U.S. have signed the AI Pact, a pledge formulated in August by the Political Integrity Project, a nonprofit group working to get Big Money out of politics and hold politicians accountable.
A squad of OpenAI agents broke out of their containment facility last spring, invaded a German website, and transformed it into a bulletin board where AI agents could swap tips about, among other things, escaping confinement.
For years, AI has been designing drugs and proteins new to science.