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Rusijos smūgių Kyjivo sričiai intensyvumas yra pasiekęs lygį, kokio nebuvo matyta nuo 2022 metų kovo, kai nuo Maskvos invazijos į Ukrainą buvo praėjusios tik kelios savaitės, parodė naujienų agentūros AFP atlikta pasaulinių konfliktų stebėtojos ACLED duomenų analizė.

The tenant of the flat in Madrid, Maricarmen, was unable to pay the rent set by the firm which recently bought it.

Canadian-Haitian writer Thélyson Orélien has just been awarded the Prix du Roman Fnac for his first novel.

Consumers are feeling the squeeze from the rising price of protein.

OpenAI's Sam Altman has called for risk evaluation standards, as have Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Hugging Face's Clement Delangue.

Top officials from the U.S. and China on Wednesday promoted starkly conflicting visions for international AI safety, with the Americans arguing against expanded regulation while Beijing signaled an openness to restrictions on the technology. The opposing world views — laid out during a United Nations General Assembly Security Council meeting — made clear that building an international consensus on the rapidly-evolving technology could be very challenging. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios strenuously opposed creating new global governance for controlling AI development. “The United States totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme of control of superintelligence,” Kratsios said, quoting a line from President Donald Trump’s speech to the UNGA on Tuesday. While Kratsios told the council that the U.S. is “committed to diplomacy and dialogue,” he stressed that countries should “preserve national sovereignty” on governing AI rather than “abdicate responsibility to international bodies.” But China’s U.N. representative Fu Cong appealed for closer global collaboration on AI safeguards. “We should enhance alignment and coordination of AI development strategies, governance and technical standards, and form a consensus-based global governance framework at an early date so as to build institutional guardrails that preserve international peace and security,” Fu said. Fu also seemed to take an indirect swipe at the U.S., warning that an “us-versus-them” dynamic would serve “certain major powers’ attempt to maintain their technological edge through monopoly in their quest for digital hegemony.” On Tuesday, President Donald Trump said that U.S. AI efforts were “leading now over China by a lot and everyone else, and we’re going to keep it that way.” Like Fu, several top executives in the American tech industry have called for global AI guardrails. In his opening remarks at the meeting, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pushed for “a mechanism for complementary national and international frontier AI standards” — in line with a proposal his company released Monday. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei similarly reiterated his support for international collaboration “to make sure the industry and the world can proceed at a rate where we can be sure that safety keeps up with capability.”

LONDON — Britain should seek to rejoin a reformed European Union within the next decade, ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair said in a report published Thursday. In the foreword to a paper published by his think tank, the ex-Labour leader said Britain “must be in the room shaping Europe’s future.” The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change argues Britain’s return to the bloc should be a “cornerstone” of the U.K. government’s upcoming 10-year plan — but only if Brussels is serious about reform. New British Prime Minister Andy Burnham promised when he took office in July that he would lay out his vision for the next decade later this year In the report, Blair writes: “We should be clear that we want back into a formal relationship with the EU. But it must be a Europe on a credible path to reform, a Europe of nation states, a Europe capable of being a genuine global power.” Failing this, the U.K. should cooperate with Europe where interests align, but show that “it can and is prepared to remain independent,” Blair added. The Tony Blair institute report warns Britain must move away from the old Brexit rhetoric and the “red lines” in the Labour party’s election-winning 2024 manifesto. Co-operation between the U.K. and its European partners should be encouraged through new shared institutions, such as turning the North Sea into a shared energy hub, joint work on AI, and joining the EU’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) loans for arms scheme, the report suggests. Blair has been consistently opposed Britain’s withdrawal from the EU. He described the country’s referendum result as “the most serious it’s taken since the second world war.” In 2017, the former prime minister said that he would make it his “mission” to persuade voters to “rise-up” and change their minds on Brexit.

China's President Xi Jinping has touched down at Joint Base Andrews as he begins a much anticipated official state visit

Trump takes rare step of meeting foreign leader at the airport, underscoring significance of US-China relationship.

The US president travelled to Joint Base Andrews to meet the Chinese leader, ahead of a meeting set to be dominated by trade, AI and the Iran warTrump greets Xi Jinping at plane as Chinese leader arrives for state visitThese latest attacks come just hours before Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s address to the UN general assembly, so he is likely to reflect on them during his UN speech later.So far, we have had no public comment from Zelenskyy or Ukraine’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha. Continue reading...

The Ukrainian president called for de-escalation of the war with Russia and urged his peers to keep choking Russia's revenues and impede its war efforts at the UN general assembly on Wednesday. Zelenskyy said Ukrainians were prepared for a 'very harsh winter' but were prepared to respond to any continued Russian attacks by making the colder months 'painful' for Moscow as well. Russia's minister of foreign affairs will address the UN on SaturdayUNGA liveUkraine war briefing: Zelenskyy ready for ‘energy ceasefire’, as Nato warns Putin becoming ‘increasingly cavalier’ Continue reading...

FT investigation shows the state oil group’s hard currency was at heart of Russia’s efforts to circumvent sanctions

Head of one of US’s top artificial intelligence companies calls for common model testing standards and a notification system for internationally significant AI incidents

An AI agent developed by OpenAI gained unauthorised access to an Australian government website in June, accessing public and non-public files in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described as the first known case of an AI agent hacking a government system.

Leaders of some of the world's biggest AI companies urged caution at the United Nations on Wednesday, warning that increasingly autonomous systems could outpace human oversight. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pledged to slow development to ensure new AI systems are safe, while OpenAI chief Sam Altman called for 'extreme care'.

The leader of Morocco's opposition PPS (Party of Progress and Socialism) arrived at a polling station in Rabat on Wednesday to vote in the parliamentary election.

As the Ebola outbreak in the DRC reaches unprecedented levels, disease surveillance is spreading beyond the country's borders. The International Organization for Migration tracks the epidemic along major travel routes, with the help of neighbouring governments.