Fight

Vereinbarungen mit Unternehmen für künstliche Intelligenz wecken Besorgnis über öffentliche Ausgaben, Cybersicherheit und Inlandsüberwachung. Melden Sie sich für die Breaking News US E-Mail an, um Newsletter-Benachrichtigungen in Ihrem Posteingang zu erhalten. Das Pentagon teilte am Freitag mit, dass es Vereinbarungen mit sieben führenden Unternehmen für künstliche Intelligenz (KI) getroffen habe: SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection, Microsoft und Amazon Web Services. „Diese Vereinbarungen beschleunigen die Transformation zur Etablierung des US-Militärs als eine ‚AI-first fighting force‘ und werden die Fähigkeit unserer Soldaten stärken, die Entscheidungsüberlegenheit in allen Bereichen der Kriegsführung zu wahren“, erklärte das Pentagon in einer Stellungnahme. Weiterlesen...

• Vier Monate nach der Festnahme von Nicolás Maduro durch die USA würdigen Beamte die Wiederherstellung der Beziehungen, während ein Flug der American Airlines auf dem Flughafen Simón Bolívar landet. • US-amerikanische und venezolanische Beamte haben eine neue Ära in den diplomatischen Beziehungen begrüßt, als der erste direkte kommerzielle Flug zwischen den beiden Ländern seit mehr als sieben Jahren in Caracas landete. • Vor fast vier Monaten flogen Kampfhubschrauber und Flugzeuge von US-Spezialkräften über die Hauptstadt Venezuelas, nachdem Donald Trump die Festnahme ihres Präsidenten Nicolás Maduro angeordnet hatte. Weiterlesen...

• Mid and West Wales fire and rescue service versucht seit Sonntag, Brände im Elan valley zu löschen • Feuerwehrleute kämpfen den fünften Tag in Folge darum, die Waldbrände unter Kontrolle zu bringen, die im malerischen Elan valley in Mittelwales wüten. • Der Mid and West Wales fire and rescue service arbeitet seit Sonntag daran, Brände in und um die Powys-Naturschönheit zu löschen.

The prime minister faces a standards investigation over Mandelson affair and testimony from Morgan McSweeneyKeir Starmer has told Labour MPs to “stick together and fight together” as ministers launched a massive operation to shore up his fragile position before a critical day for his premiership.The prime minister faces the double threat of a standards investigation into his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the US and a potentially damaging testimony from Morgan McSweeney, his former chief of staff. Continue reading...

• Active fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces has intensified blockades on humanitarian corridors, trapping over 2 million internally displaced persons without access to food and medical supplies. • The UN World Food Programme reported that starvation conditions now affect multiple regions, with malnutrition rates among children exceeding 40 percent in some areas. • The U.S. State Department announced an additional $150 million in emergency humanitarian assistance but acknowledged that insecurity makes delivery of aid increasingly difficult.

Experts fear losing ground to virus even as the end of the HIV epidemic is in sight, and say decline in infant testing is ‘particularly concerning’The US government released likely the last report from Pepfar (President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief) earlier this month and the chief science officer announced his resignation days later as the US moves to a patchwork of individual partnerships with each country, potentially driven by resource extraction.While more leadership with other countries has long been the goal with global HIV efforts, experts fear the US is moving too quickly without being able to monitor its efforts as well as it has done with Pepfar for more than two decades. They fear losing ground to the virus even as the end of the HIV epidemic is in sight. Continue reading...

Auditor found Sarah Wedl-Wilson approved payments of public money to groups that had not been fully vettedBerlin’s top culture official, British-born Sarah Wedl-Wilson, has stood down over a funding scandal involving the the irregular distribution of €2.6m in public money for programmes to fight antisemitism.As culture senator for the Berlin regional government, Wedl-Wilson had already sacked a state secretary in her department, Oliver Friederici, over the affair this week, but the opposition called him a mere scapegoat. Continue reading...

National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report further says crash prevention system didn’t generate alertA firefighter whose truck collided with an Air Canada jet last month on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia airport, killing both pilots, heard an air traffic controller warn “stop, stop, stop” but didn’t know who it was for, federal investigators said Thursday.The National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report on the 22 March collision that a crash prevention system for air traffic controllers didn’t generate an audio or visual alert, and lights on the runway that act as a stop light for crossing traffic were on until about three seconds before the collision. Continue reading...