TEL AVIV — As Israel and Hamas try to hammer out the thorny details of a U.S.-backed cease-fire proposal, Israeli officials are seeking the release of the remaining hostages held in Gaza. But they don’t actually know how many of them are alive. So far, Hamas has failed to provide Israeli negotiators with a list … Read more
When you drop money in the bank, it looks like it’s just sitting there, ready for you to withdraw. In reality, your institution makes money on your money by lending it elsewhere, including to the fossil fuel companies driving climate change, as well as emissions-heavy industries like manufacturing. So just by leaving money in a … Read more
OsakaWayne Studios/Getty Images One of the seminal events in artificial intelligence (AI) in 2023 was the decision by OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, to disclose almost no information about its latest large language model (LLM), GPT-4, when the company introduced the program in March. That sudden swing to secrecy is becoming a major ethical issue … Read more
Earlier this yr, the New York Instances reported that an unknown federal company had breached official White Home coverage and used secretive strategies to conduct a enterprise take care of the NSO Group, a blacklisted spy ware vendor recognized for promoting highly effective surveillance instruments. The company in query not solely openly disobeyed the federal … Read more