Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. Denis Balibouse | Reuters OpenAI on Friday announced its new board and the wrap-up of an internal investigation by U.S. law firm WilmerHale into the events leading up to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s
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Tesla has confirmed that it is working on a NACS to NACS extension cable to fix the issues with Supercharging different electric vehicles with different charge port locations. With Tesla opening Superchargers to non-Tesla EV owners, starting with Ford, it is creating a new problem at charging stations. In North America, Superchargers were previously exclusively
An oil pumpjack operates on July 31, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Crude oil futures were little changed on Friday as traders digested what a mixed U.S. jobs report may mean for the future course of interest rates. The West Texas Intermediate contract for April fell 19 cents, or 0.24%,
US President Joe Biden has said reaching a six-week ceasefire deal in Gaza before the start of Ramadan is “looking tough”. His comments come after the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said it was up to Hamas to make further progress on the truce. “The ball is in their court,” he said. “We’re working
TikTok Music has launched on Wednesday in Australia, Singapore and Mexico to a small group of users. Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images When Joe Biden joined TikTok on the eve of the Super Bowl last month, political scientist Maggie Macdonald was struck by what she called the “meta” nature of the president’s first
Rupert Murdoch is preparing to wed for the fifth time – 68 years after he first got married. The 92-year-old media mogul – who turns 93 on 11 March – is set to marry retired molecular biologist Elena Zhukova, 67, at his California vineyard. The engagement comes just months after the former Fox Corp chairman
The Duchess of Sussex has revealed she received “hateful” abuse on social media while she was pregnant with both of her children, saying it was “cruel”. Appearing on a panel at the SXSW Conference in Texas to mark International Women’s Day, Meghan was asked how she dealt with “endless toxicity” online. The duchess said “for
Politicians have condemned a “moronic act of vandalism” after pro-Palestine activists damaged a portrait of Lord Balfour. Palestine Action shared a video on social media of a demonstrator defacing and slashing the historic painting, which hangs at the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College. In the clip, a woman can be seen spraying red paint before
With Israel still refusing to open up more aid routes into Gaza, and the situation on the ground deteriorating rapidly, the US and Western partners have lost patience and are looking at options to bypass Israel. The US proposal to build a pier off Gaza is an imperfect, risky option but would be one way
The owners of Riviera Travel, one of Britain’s biggest providers of escorted foreign tours for the over-55s, have hired bankers to prepare a sale of the company. Sky News understands that Silverfleet Capital, which has owned Riviera since 2017, has hired Baird, the investment bank, to oversee an auction later this year. Riviera runs river
Gaza’s population, displaced and devastated by Israel’s continuing offensive against the narrow strip, is on the brink of famine. International efforts to get aid in have faced challenges, so much so that President Joe Biden announced on Thursday night that the US would build a temporary port on Gaza’s coast. Follow latest: Aid ship ‘heading
Plans to impose targets for electric heat pump sales on gas boiler manufacturers could be confirmed as early as next week, after fierce debate within government and intense lobbying from industry to abandon the policy. Sky News understands energy secretary Claire Coutinho had intended to ditch the policy, known as the Clean Heat Market Mechanism
Sophie Ellis-Bextor has paid tribute to the victims of the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, before singing Murder On The Dancefloor at the Bataclan concert hall where 90 people were killed. One-hundred and thirty people died and hundreds more were injured in coordinated attacks across the capital on the night of 13 November 2015. By far
The EV maker will begin building its new R2 electric SUV at its Normal, Illinois facility to accelerate the launch. Meanwhile, Rivian (RIVN) is delaying construction at its new $5 billion EV plant in Georgia, where the R2 was initially expected to be produced. The delay is not expected to be significant. Rivian to launch
US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing on the “Federal Reserve’s Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report,” on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 6, 2024. Mandel Ngan | Afp | Getty Images Oil prices edged lower Thursday, giving up some of the previous session’s gains. The West Texas
A minister has admitted that the government’s desire to scrap national insurance could take “several parliaments” to achieve as confusion over the policy mounts. In his budget earlier this week, Jeremy Hunt slashed national insurance by 2p and said the government intended to scrap payments entirely, branding them “unfair” and a “double taxation” on work.
The interim findings of a seven-year investigation into murders linked to the British Army’s most prized mole in the IRA will be published later. Freddie Scappaticci, codenamed “Stakeknife”, headed the IRA’s “nutting squad”, a unit tasked with identifying informants, but was himself operating as a spy for British intelligence. The west Belfast bricklayer, who died
Joe Biden has declared freedom and democracy are “under attack” both in the US and abroad as he delivered one of the most important speeches of his presidency. In his State of the Union address, the US president appealed to Congress to continue supporting Ukraine in its war effort against Russia, as he said: “History
In this article UNH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration the UnitedHealth Group logo displayed on a smartphone screen. Sheldon Cooper | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images UnitedHealth Group on Thursday said it expects to restore Change Healthcare’s systems by mid-March, offering a potential resolution to the ransomware attack
Mohammed looks at me, his eyes wet from tears, and shakes his head gently. Grief is like a weight around him, which he meets with forced smiles and choked-back tears. “Every day, I think of dying a hundred times,” he says. Next to him is his wife, Nour, heavily pregnant and sobbing into her hands.