AI safety requires more than just slowing our pace | Stuart RussellAI safety requires more than just slowing our pace | Stuart Russell

Safety requirements are non-negotiable. They depend on meeting concrete goals, not just adjusting a timeline It has been a week of high drama in AI, precipitated by the resignation of the AI safety researcher Jacob Coxon from Anthropic. This followed several weeks of increasingly lurid and disturbing revelations about the ...

Russia’s ‘gray zone’ tactics in Europe rattle NATORussia’s ‘gray zone’ tactics in Europe rattle NATO

Multiple incidents involving NATO forces responding to what European powers said was Russian aggression drove calls for the military alliance to more actively hit back at Moscow. NATO forces shot down a drone over Lithuania, Warsaw scrambled jets over Russian aerial attacks near Poland’s border with Ukraine, and Denmark said ...

Saudi Arabia under military pressure from Iran, HouthisSaudi Arabia under military pressure from Iran, Houthis

Saudi Arabia is coming under increased military pressure on both its northern and southern borders, marking one of the sternest challenges yet for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Iran-backed Iraqi militias recently forced the closure of the kingdom’s East-West pipeline, which had emerged as a key conduit for oil exports ...