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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's claim that Codex can do three months of startup work in 17 minutes is not a product pitch — it is a structural argument about who gets to build companies. If he is right, the…
The US Justice Department has quietly redrawn the boundaries of immigration enforcement — by weaponising welfare funding. A new…
Nvidia's Jensen Huang used a high-profile fireside chat with the US Commerce Secretary to make a sweeping counter-argument to AI…
A US congresswoman took the House floor to mourn the Nepal-Tibet floods — and revealed that an estimated 90 Americans are among…
New Zealand's Immigration and Protection Tribunal has rejected every single one of the 40 published Khalistan-related asylum…
A casual warning from friends in 2014 — that human-level AI could arrive within 50 years — pulled Tom Brown out of engineering…
Anthropic's Tom Brown told G20 nations that data centres — not algorithms — are now the defining constraint in the AI race,…
A century-old Hindu temple in Narowal, Pakistan was demolished on 21 August — allegedly to expand a nearby seminary — and India's…
For the second time, Imran Khan's sister Uzma Khan has moved Pakistan's Supreme Court for contempt — alleging that authorities…
