Posts by Amelia Frost
The Stakes for OpenAI’s Plan B
[ad_1] OpenAI backtracks OpenAI’s decision to scale back its ambitious corporate reorganization has drawn lots of scrutiny, including what the plan means for artificial intelligence safety, potential profits for investors and an ongoing fight with Elon Musk. What’s emerging is that in some ways, how OpenAI operates isn’t changing much. But there are still plenty…
Read MoreTrump Administration Freezes Future Federal Research Grants To Harvard
[ad_1] The U.S. Department of Education has informed Harvard University that it will freeze billions of dollars in future research grants and other forms of federal aid until the institution complies with a series of demands set forth by the Trump administration. A senior department official revealed the decision on Monday, marking a dramatic escalation…
Read MoreAll the Met Gala 2025 After-Party Outfits We’re Obsessed With
[ad_1] Met Gala 2025, and the celebrity looks it brings, is the only thing on our minds right now—and not just the event itself, but the after-party looks that so many stars brought and blew our minds with. Co-hosted by Janelle Monáe and Doechii at the Public Hotel, the after party was the next place…
Read MoreICE Opens New Jersey Detention Center Earlier Than Expected Despite Legal Dispute With City of Newark
[ad_1] U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has begun housing migrants at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, weeks earlier than expected and amid an ongoing legal battle with the city over permitting and safety compliance. The facility, operated by private prison company GEO Group under a 15-year, $60 million-per-year contract, was originally slated to…
Read MoreEU To Lay Out Plan To Cut Last Russian Gas Supplies
[ad_1] The EU on Tuesday is due to unveil a keenly anticipated plan to phase out its remaining gas ties to Moscow, a challenge given Europe’s longstanding dependence on Russian fossil fuels. EU energy chief Dan Jorgensen will set out the measures, which were delayed as Brussels waited to see whether talks between Russia and…
Read MoreTrump’s Return to Power Elevates Ever Fringier Conspiracy Theories
[ad_1] People who question whether the Earth is round — a fact understood by the ancient Greeks and taught to American children in elementary school — might have been political pariahs a decade ago. Now, they’re running local Republican parties in Georgia and Minnesota and seeking public office in Alabama. A prominent far-right activist who…
Read MorePutin Gears Up For ‘Grandest’ Victory Day Amid Ukraine Conflict
[ad_1] Russian President Vladimir Putin will address the “grandest” ever annual Victory Day parade in Moscow on Friday, evoking the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II to rally support for his troops fighting in Ukraine. Russia marks the event more than three years into its offensive, and after pummelling Ukraine with…
Read MoreAustralian Mushroom Murder Suspect Rejected Help Preparing Meal: Witness
[ad_1] An Australian woman accused of murdering three people with a toxic mushroom-laced lunch rejected offers of help before serving the dish, the sole guest to survive the deadly meal told a court on Tuesday. Erin Patterson, 50, is charged with murdering the parents and aunt of her estranged husband with a poisonous beef Wellington…
Read MoreHamas Says No Point In Further Gaza Truce Talks
[ad_1] A senior Hamas official said Tuesday the group was no longer interested in truce talks with Israel and urged the international community to halt Israel’s “hunger war” against Gaza. “There is no sense in engaging in talks or considering new ceasefire proposals as long as the hunger war and extermination war continue in the…
Read MoreDrones Hit Port Sudan Airport In Third Day Of Attacks
[ad_1] Drones struck the airport and targeted an army base in Port Sudan on Tuesday, officials said, the third straight day the Sudanese army-aligned government’s seat of power has come under attack. The strikes come a day after the country’s main fuel depot was hit, causing a massive blaze just south of the eastern city…
Read MoreMet Gala 2025: All The Red Carpet Looks You Can’t Miss
[ad_1] The Met Gala 2025 is here—and on this first Monday in May, fashion fans not lucky enough to be invited to red carpet of the year gather around their computers to debate a simple question: Who stuck to the theme? This year, the Met Gala 2025 Costume exhibition theme is “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,”…
Read MoreTariffs Could Wreck What Bangladesh’s Garment Workers Have Gained
[ad_1] It was always going to be a hard year for Bangladesh. Last summer, amid an economic collapse, protesters toppled a tyrant and pushed the country to the brink of chaos. Then a month ago, as a new government was still working to steady Bangladesh’s economy, came the devastating news that the United States was…
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