After Israel’s unprecedented use ofartificial intelligenceto select bombing targets inGaza, experts are now sounding the alarm regarding what one analyst on Thursday called a lack of human supervision over Israeli AI targeting in Iran. “Similarities between Israel’s bombing ofGazaandTehranare growing stronger,” Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft executive vice president Trita ParsisaidThursday on X. “In both…
Chinese Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang has acknowledged it is no “easy task” to truly implement Hong Kong’s executive-led governance system, stressing that it must be a “shared responsibility” of the legislative and judicial branches and society as a whole. But Ding, the head of the Central Leading Group on Hong Kong and Macau Affairs, said an…
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK banks myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Lloyds Banking Group will sell more customer data and automate governance checks in a bid to slash technology costs and reinvent itself as “the UK’s biggest fintech”. The high street lender, which has 28mn customers,…
On February 16, a fortnight before the outbreak of the Iran war, US President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged having a “good conversation” with Chinese President Xi Jinping about a forthcoming US arms package for Taiwan. This statement came a few weeks after the Chinese president condemned a previous package, demanding that Washington act with “extreme…
Several people told the BBC on Thursday morning that they had left the building at the beginning of the week and were staying elsewhere because of safety concerns, noting that the area had been targeted in the past. They said they did not know, or would not comment on, what the target may have been.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Anthropic has said the Pentagon’s designation of the AI lab as a supply chain risk will not affect the “vast majority” of its customers as it vowed to fight the measure in court. The defence…
If you haven’t heard about the fight between the AI company Anthropic and the US Department of War, you should read about it, because it could be critical for our future — as a nation, but also as a species. Anthropic, along with OpenAI, is one of the two leading AI model-making companies. OpenAI has…
Japan could build a “China-free” supply chain for defence equipment, but doing so would be costly and could take years as Tokyo tries to reduce its reliance on a strategic rival, analysts have said. The debate gained urgency after Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi last week said Tokyo should consider creating a “China-free” supply chain for…
“Because of this, the sleep benefits of L‑theanine when consumed in products like chocolate or snack bars are not well studied, and their effects should not be expected to be dramatic,” says Stearns, who’s the director of the university’s Family, Adolescent, Child, and Caregiver Translational Sleep (FACCTS) Lab.
