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Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton walked out of a closed-door Capitol Hill briefing on September 17 and gave lawmakers a deadline. “Maybe a year, but not much more than a year,” he told reporters, describing how long Congress has before artificial intelligence moves beyond meaningful human control. It’s not an outlierContinue Reading

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Two years after Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah is weaker but not finished. WaTaawanou, a crowdfunded charity outside Hezbollah’s formal hierarchy, exemplifies one way Hezbollah endures: outsourcing part of the cost of sustaining – and retaining – its Shiite base. Israel eliminated its seniormost military and political leadership, over 5,000Continue Reading

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Attacks on Palestinians in the area are growing at unprecedented levels., Attacks on Palestinians in the area are growing at unprecedented levels. Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory are illegal under international law, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has approved plans to expand settlements in the occupied WestContinue Reading