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Diddy’s daughters to launch fashion line amid dad’s prison sentence
Sometimes being a nepo baby isn’t just an advantage. Page Six has learned that Diddy’s 19-year-old twin daughtersare launching a fashion brand — while their leg-up in life is on lockdown. But it seems Jessie and D’Lila Combs believe they can pull off the delicate feat of piggybacking on his profile while also separating themselves from his…
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How to Ensure AI Serves the Public Good
—J Studios—Getty Images Throughout history, periods of major technological change have reshaped economies and transformed societies. The steam engine, electricity, and the internet are just a few of the innovations that have increased productivity, created new industries and jobs, and changed the lives of millions of people. Artificial intelligence is the newest chapter in that…
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The Age of Reading Is Over
Twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of the world’s written works. Ptolemy, who had served under Alexander the Great, envisioned a library that would safeguard the sum total of humanity’s knowledge. His successors inherited this mandate. Royal forces ransacked every…
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What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out
It’s around an hour and 10 minutes into the role-playing game I’ve been invited to observe, a simulated catastrophic cyberattack on US water utilities, when the whole thing begins to feel less like a fun afternoon playing Dungeons & Dragons and more like a plausible threat to civilization. A full 24 hours of in-game time…
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The Trump ‘curse’ at the World Cup is his latest red card against Americans
For the past 11 years, I’ve waited for a scandal, a slip up, a moment of clarity that would finally make President Trump’s supporters realize that their man is charlatan. My fellow Americans, I think we finally found it. Earlier this week, Trump appears to have successfully lobbied FIFA to allow U.S. striker Folarin Balogun…
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This Former DeepMind Exec Thinks the AI Arms Race Could End in Disaster
Reports of an artificial intelligence arms race are everywhere—even in this very publication. But what if that framing is fundamentally dangerous? That’s Verity Harding’s conceit. Between 2016 and 2020, Harding spent her days briefing politicians across the globe, from Barack Obama to Emmanuel Macron, on advances in AI. As the head of global public policy…
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Trump just declared these parts of America are outside the Constitution
In the winter of 1986 while living in West Germany I visited East Berlin with my oldest daughter, who was still a teenager, and on the far side of Checkpoint Charlie we were picked up by a young man named Torsten who ran a gypsy cab. Before we’d gone more than a block he had…
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Buckling building in Midtown NYC will face partial demolition — but even stabilizing it beforehand will be highly risky: experts
The Midtown high-rise that dangerously buckledTuesday will need to be partially demolished — although stabilizing it to even attempt the risky move could prove extremely harrowing, experts told The Post. The 37-story former Pfizer headquarters at 235 E. 42nd St. near Second Avenue will first need to be stabilized as soon as possible to prevent…
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Free Waymo Rides in California? You Can Thank a Regulatory Quirk
Robotaxi companies have thrived in California, where the good weather, enthusiasm for technology, and sophisticated labor force have supported their growth for nearly two decades. But a delayed decision from a state regulatory agency is now slowing Alphabet’s subsidiary Waymo, the US leader in driverless robotaxi service. The holdup means that Waymo isn’t yet allowed…
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Trump threatens to cut off trade, tourism with Spain
ANKARA, Turkey — President Trump threatened Wednesday to cut off “all trade” and tourism with Spain — citing Madrid’s refusal to boost military spending and its restrictions on US military operations during the Iran war. “Spain is a wasted cause. We don’t want to do any trade business with Spain anymore,” Trump declared during a…