Sam Altman says he agrees with Amodei that "committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea", and OpenAI will do the same (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2098811563415150910
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Viiaan:
🎵 Azkhar
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https://qeone.bandcamp.com/track/azkhar
https://open.spotify.com/track/2iOy6rzoLwiIk4DYououmG
RE: https://mamot.fr/@ploum/117078842383109177
I also agree with the more “safe for work” version left as a comment suggesting to ask people to share their debit card PIN with the entire class. As well as the points that when we go in a public restroom, we still sh…
Former Mexican governor charged in case of 43 students who vanished in 2014 | Mexico | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/12/former-mexican-governor-charged-in-case-of-43-students-who-vanished-in-20…
If there were a 10% chance that AI could wipe out humanity,
no responsible government would leave its development to companies racing to build it.
Yet until recently, that seemed to be the case.
The warning was all the more ominous because it was made by a researcher at Anthropic,
the trillion-dollar AI company behind the Claude chatbot.
The dangers of AI-enabled pandemics or attacks on nuclear systems are real.
Countries need not agree on democracy or …
Sources: Paramount's board approved David Ellison's plan to possibly leave California, selling its 65-acre lot in Hollywood and the Warner Bros. Burbank campus (Meg James/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts
Von mehr Mehrwegverpackungen aus Glas für bspw. Öl und Essig fühle ich mich als irgendwie Öko aus Ostdeutschland ja schon sehr abgeholt.
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/neue-regeln-eu-verpackungsverordnung-100.html
eToro agrees to acquire US-focused online brokerage TradeZero for up to $231M in cash and stock; TradeZero had ~$80M in revenue over the 12 months ended June 30 (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/news/business/2026
Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal agree to sell payments company Moneris to PE firm Francisco Partners for CA$2B in cash, splitting proceeds equally (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-10/f…
Japanese manufacturer Omron says it will acquire US industrial PC firm OnLogic and its parent company, Interlogic, for $675M, to boost its "physical AI" efforts (Anton Bridge/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona