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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to sue Haaretz over its report that he ignored the UAE president’s explicit warning about Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks, revelations that caused uproar in Israel and widened Netanyahu’s rift with Abu Dhabi. The allegations, which Netanyahu denies, have energized his domestic opponents, some of ...

US long-term bond yields spiked to three-year highs Wednesday after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s bond buybacks failed to impress markets. Borrowing costs leapt higher in part because investors expected more firepower, a Deutsche Bank strategist told Bloomberg: “It’s like Treasury created this monster that it now has to keep feeding.” ...

A new startup wants to make American robotics fun again. Dynamic Creatures, a spinoff of Boston Dynamics, launched out of stealth yesterday with a focus on making robots for hospitality and entertainment, starting with theme parks and retail spaces. Boston Dynamics was once best known for its viral videos of ...

The ominous trailer for the Sam Altman movie, Artificial, launched Tuesday, the same day OpenAI became the first AI company to solve one of the Millennium Prize challenges. It was like a tribute to the company’s brutal duality, constantly achieving impressive milestones while being forced to combat the worst public ...

Students won’t learn without exercising their brains, “in the same way that we do not become fit by watching sports but by doing sports,” wrote an OECD researcher in a recent report. Students who refrain from using AI perform better academically than those who use it, according to the report, ...

Meta’s new AI assistant Muse could be the first experience a lot of people have with the power of AI that can actually do things for you, rather than just answer questions. Think of it like a computer sitting on Meta’s servers that connects to and can control your email, ...

Chinese tech companies are pushing to integrate AI and coding tools into smart glasses as a global debate builds over the devices’ privacy and security implications. Alibaba Cloud announced a glasses edition of its AI coding platform last week, while Tencent is bringing its office agent to co-branded Rokid frames. ...

Singapore increased its prime minister’s salary to $2.8 million, part of its longstanding strategy to boost talent and reduce corruption. For comparison, the UK’s premier earns $230,000 and the US president $400,000. Singapore’s first prime minister argued in 1955 that low pay meant top candidates rarely joined politics and faced ...

An Anthropic researcher quit, warning that the rush to “self-improving superintelligence [is] gambling with our lives.” Jacob Coxon, formerly of OpenAI, said Anthropic — believing itself the only responsible AI lab — was as a result racing to get there first, while OpenAI had not “internalized the civilizational stakes.” “Things ...

Trump administration officials expressed worries about Chinese firms they said undermined Washington’s agenda, comments that come weeks before a planned meeting between the countries’ leaders. The US Treasury secretary warned that “nothing else would matter” if China were to win the AI race, highlighting Washington’s angst that Beijing may be ...