Ilya Sutskever has announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he’s leaving OpenAI almost a decade after he co-founded the company. He’s confident that OpenAI “will build [artificial general intelligence] that is both safe and beneficial” under the leadership of CEO Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman and CTO Mira Murati, he continued. In his…
Sotheby’s kicked off this month’s marquee New York auctions with two sales on Monday evening, one devoted to established contemporary artists, the other to emerging ones. Together, the two auctions brought in $267.3 million, for a total squarely within its pre-sale estimate of $241.8 million to $350.4 million. These were the first two big auctions…
The authorities in New Caledonia, a semiautonomous French territory in the South Pacific, put a curfew in place on Tuesday and banned all public gatherings after protests against a proposed constitutional change turned violent overnight. France’s High Commission of the Republic in New Caledonia announced on Tuesday that a “massive mobilization” of security and defense…
Weight loss drug semaglutide could reduce heart attack risk by 20%, study finds The Irish Times Obesity drug cuts risk of heart attack or stroke regardless of weight lost, study finds Sky News Weight loss drug could reduce heart attack risk by 20%, study finds The Guardian Weight loss jabs like Ozempic cuts risk of heart attack and…
Wonkette will have a full recap of the first day of Michael Cohen testifying in Donald Trump’s porn peener payoff trial mañana, but we wanted to note that today, Republican Senators JD Vance and Tommy Tuberville showed up to bitch and moan outside the courtroom on Trump’s behalf. If you want to see what Vance,…