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South Korean chip giant SK Hynix raises $26.5bn in US share sale
South Korean chip maker SK Hynix has raised $26.5bn (£19.8bn) through a share offering in New York, the largest ever US listing by a foreign company. As a key supplier to Nvidia and one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of the advanced memory chips used in AI infrastructure, the move gives the firm easier access…
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Israel shares intelligence warning Iran plotted new assassination attempt against Trump: report
Israel has reportedly shared intelligence with the United States indicating that Iran developed a fresh plan to assassinate President Donald Trump, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing people familiar with the matter. The alleged plot would represent an escalation in the longstanding threats against Trump, whom Iran has repeatedly vowed to target in…
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Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s No. 2 Executive, to Step Down to Focus on Recovery From Chronic Illness
Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s second-most senior executive and CEO of artificial general intelligence deployment, is stepping down from her full-time role to concentrate on recovering from a chronic illness she has lived with for seven years. Announcing the move in a note on X on Thursday, Simo said a severe flare-up of the condition three months…
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Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI’s AGI work due to illness
Fidji Simo is stepping down from her full-time role leading OpenAI’s work on artificial general intelligence (AGI), moving instead to a position as a “part-time advisor,” she announced on X. The change follows her earlier decision in April to take medical leave shortly after assuming the AGI chief title, and matters because it marks the…
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Netflix’s ‘Little House On The Prairie’ Showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine Breaks Down Season 1 Ending; Hints At One Character’s Return For Season 2
Netflix’s reimagining of *Little House on the Prairie* has concluded its first season, and showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine has spoken to Deadline to unpack the finale, which sees the Ingalls family abandon their Kansas homestead near Independence and set out for Minnesota. Sonnenshine framed the bittersweet ending as a coming-of-age turning point, particularly for young Laura,…
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OpenAI’s CEO of AGI Deployment, Fidji Simo, Is Stepping Down
Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s chief executive of AGI deployment, is stepping down from her full-time role and moving into a part-time advisory position. The change follows a months-long medical leave prompted by a worsening chronic neuroimmune condition, which Simo said in a post on X had deteriorated more severely than expected and now required her full…
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British widow ‘forced to bury her husband in an unmarked grave’ in Cape Verde after he fell ill and died there on holiday
A British widow has said she was forced to bury her husband in an unmarked grave in Cape Verde after he fell ill and died suddenly while on an all-inclusive holiday. Retired forklift driver Colin Timson, 74, from Heighington near Lincoln, began suffering sickness and diarrhoea and was found collapsed by his wife Jacqueline the…
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DHS plans costly crackdown on states that don’t cooperate on election security
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to withhold billions of dollars in preparedness grant funding from states that decline to adopt a set of new election-security requirements. The conditions, attached to more than $1 billion available through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Homeland Security Grant Programme, would require measures such as voter…