The President recently floated renaming the Strait of Hormuz as "Trump Strait" and signed an Executive Order renaming Lake Ontario as "Lake America." It also follows Trump signing an Executive Order renaming Lake Ontario as “Lake America” on Aug. 27, amid a widening trade war with Canada.

Matt Clifford said he was stepping down to ensure his Anthropic role'doesn't become a distraction' for the government's AI research unit. Matt Clifford said he was stepping down to ensure his Anthropic role'doesn't become a distraction' for the government's AI research unit. Architect of UK's AI policy quits after Anthropic conflict of interest concerns The chair of the UK government's "moonshot" science and technology research unit has been forced to stand down after taking a job with the San Francisco AI firm Anthropic, in a move senior MPs called a "clear conflict of interest". Matt Clifford announced last week that he was taking a full-time job working for the company behind the Claude chatbot, "leading its engagement" with governments outside the US - including the UK. But he retained his leadership at the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria), which funds frontier science and tech projects .

Jaguar Land Rover's decision to shed 4,000 jobs comes after the carmaker has travelled down a very rough road. The company has seen sales fall in all of its major markets and it has been dealing with the consequences of a devastating cyber-attack that paralysed production last year. At the same time, it has been investing billions in an effort to reinvent itself for an electric future, in which it is likely to face intense competition from aggressively expanding Chinese brands. Executives have now decided a major overhaul is needed. One of the main concerns for JLR is China.

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The European Commission's president recognized "new trade routes, new security risks, and new environmental concerns" for Greenland and vowed to "navigate these changes together."

OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has called for extreme caution over AI's runaway progress and warned more intervention may be needed to ensure humans remain in control of the future. I am concerned no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence, he wrote in a blog post entitled An Alien Mind, external . The post comes only a few days after the ChatGPT-maker released its latest model GPT-6 Astra, which it called its most powerful product ever. OpenAI and other AI firms like Anthropic shared reports of their AI agents acting autonomously and carrying out real-world cyber-attacks on other companies. In July, OpenAI called an incident in which its AI agents - AI systems which can operate alone after human instruction - hacked the tech platform Hugging Face unprecedented.

The FAA tested Elroy Air's Chaparral, a pilotless hybrid-electric cargo aircraft that can carry over 500 pounds and take off vertically without a runway.

Astronomers Have Completed the Largest Map of Space. The intricate, 5.6 trillion-pixel map covers approximately 75 percent of the sky and includes about 4 billion celestial objects. The new DESI map contains some of the highest resolution images of galaxies, like this one in the constellation Leo over 35 million light years from earth. The driving force behind our universe's accelerated expansion remains one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy. While this force, which scientists refer to as dark energy, pervades our universe, we know almost nothing about it.

Donald Trump's Acting Secretary of Labor celebrates American workers this Labor Day, highlighting manufacturing growth, skilled trades apprenticeships, and AI job training programs.

Has the A.I. Job Apocalypse Been Postponed? So far, the proliferation of products such as Claude and ChatGPT hasn't led to mass displacement of workers. But deployment is accelerating and economic pressures are rising. Nearly three years ago, shortly after OpenAI released ChatGPT-4, Sam Altman, the company's C.E.O., suggested that the artificial-intelligence revolution could eliminate up to half of all existing jobs. "I think that's good," Altman said, at a conference.