Anthropic accused the Chinese tech giant Alibaba of “brazenly” and “illicitly” trying to extract its artificial intelligence capabilities – carrying out “the largest known distillation attack on Anthropic to date.” Anthropic made the accusations in a letter it sent to the U.S.
The European Trade Union Confederation is pressing the European Commission to set a maximum working temperature law, warning that extreme heat now poses a predictable and preventable threat to workers across the continent.
Bungie, the studio behind Halo, Marathon, and Destiny is hit with mass layoffs by Sony after final Destiny 2 update.
New York prosecutors on Thursday dropped a charge of third-degree rape against Harvey Weinstein, after two juries were unable to reach a verdict on the allegation. In a statement, the D.A.’s office said that the accuser, Jessica Mann, did not wish to testify at a fourth trial
The judge ruled that although the case is 'highly disturbing to right-minded people,' the video of the two nurses allegedly threatening to kill or not treat Israelis was inadmissible, as it had been obtained via a chat platform and without their consent to be recorded
The wild true story of an Australian man whose unique profession sees him hired by people to fulfil their final requests after they have died — a job that sometimes involves crashing their funerals to reveal deep secrets — is being adapted for TV. Fifth Season has secured the
Bungie is laying off ‘most’ of the Destiny 2 team, and some developers working on Marathon
A list of all Jaguar cars from the 1980s in Forza Horizon 6 that can be used to complete the #SnapCat photo challenge.
A memorial concert for the vocalist, who sang "You've Made Me So Very Happy," is in the works
[African Union] The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, this morning received the Letters of Credence of H.E. Khwauli Msiska, Ambassador of the Republic of #Malawi to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia & Permanent
[African Union] H.E. André Poh, Ambassador of the Republic of the Congo to the Ethiopia & Permanent Representative to the African Union (AU), this afternoon presented his Letters of Credence to the Chairperson of the AU Commission, H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf.
BEIJING, June 25 - China and Austria should respect each other's \"core interests\" and work to improve China-EU ties, Beijing's top diplomat told his Austrian counterpart on Thursday, as disputes over trade, market access and Russia strain relations with Brussels.
Decide whether to opt for standard, ultimate, or wait a while.
Once relics of a bygone way of life, the iconic dry-stone dwellings with conical roofs dotted across Puglia are in increasing demand as cool havens in Italy's sweltering south.
University of Miami researchers and collaborators have expanded an offshore reef restoration and coastal resilience project off Miami Beach with the deployment of three 3D-printed SEAHIVE clustered structures.
Marine sponges may play an important, previously underestimated role in reducing methylmercury contamination in marine food webs. In a new modeling study, researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon showed that sponges can significantly influence the spread of this environmental
[Daily News] Dar es Salaam -- THE World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Prof Mohamed Janabi, has stressed the importance of rapid patient monitoring and investment in health systems as key pillars of controlling Ebola in Africa.
Podcaster Joe Rogan said organizers of the UFC Freedom 250 primetime fight night held at the White House earlier this month should not have booked one of the fighters who made an offensive comment about Michelle Obama. Rogan, who served as emcee for the event and endorsed
Adobe said on Thursday it has purchased Topaz Labs, an Emmy-winning AI company specializing in image and video enhancement. The company plans to integrate Topaz’s tools into its Firefly AI studio, enterprise products and the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, hoping to give creators
The number of people put out of work has not been disclosed, but it doesn't sound good.
An impasse sparked by the stalled SAVE America Act could keep the chamber in recess well into next month.
We're expecting to wait about a year, and for Rockstar to keep playing coy about the PC version.
Houston's Hew have a soaring, chiming take on classic emo. When they get going, they can really punch me in the heart. The group, which includes a couple of Football, etc. members, will release their new album Your Version in a few weeks, and you're going to want to hear that
Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) said early Thursday that more people have been arrested over alleged vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool than from files connected to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “There's been more people arrested over this than the
After years of pleading with the studio, Zach Cregger's directorial debut Barbarian is coming to 4K UHD with tons of bonus features.
The European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) has presented a proposal for European legislation to protect workers' health during heatwaves.
At least 101 million Europeans were forecast to swelter in temperatures of more than 35C on Thursday, as scores of people were thought to have been killed by the heat wave.
Apple just raised the prices on Macs and iPads in response to the rising costs of memory chips, right in the middle of Amazon Prime Day. That means existing discounts (even small ones) on Apple laptops like the MacBook Neo, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro just became significantly
The actor will play a washed-up golf pro whose son might surpass his legacy if he doesn't lock in soon
With Paramount’s $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery likely to soon get the go-ahead from the European Union, the next question will be whether the U.K.’s competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), will follow suit. The prospects are that
Disney+ has picked up “The Great White,” ABC Australia’s upcoming legal workplace drama series from See-Saw Films, the Mediawan-owned banner behind “Slow Horses,” for the U.K. Headlined by Hugo Weaving, the anticipated six-part show has been filming in Sydney since the
As part of their marketing strategy, many companies send public relations packages full of curated products to social media influencers, who film themselves opening the gifts on platforms like Instagram and TikTok.
New research indicates that sea turtles seem to navigate across hundreds of miles of open ocean using Earth's magnetic field. Previous experimental studies suggested that sea turtles use geomagnetism to navigate, but this study, published in Science Advances, was purely
Will.i.am, the Black Eyed Peas frontman and tech entrepreneur, said he’s more “worried about human greed” than about musicians being replaced by robots. “Right now is the time for the dreamer, not the regurgitator of yesterday’s imaginations — new imagination because AI is not
Sony is also doing reductions across SIE teams that support Bungie's operations.
Some Parisians are spending the night in city parks to escape sweltering apartments as an intense heatwave continues across France.
Bodywash, the Montreal dream-pop duo of Rosie Long Decter and Chris Steward, released their most recent album I Held The Shape While I Could in 2023, and they followed it with a 2024 cover of Wham!'s "Last Christmas." Yesterday, they came back with a jangly, pretty new one-off
