US President Donald Trump has downplayed the need for his administration to place checks on artificial intelligence development, saying he is worried about ceding the US's lead to China. Speaking to reporters during his trip to Ireland on Sunday, Trump also said he acknowledged the need for some regulation but did not provide further details on potential measures. "We can put guardrails, we can do this and that, but I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up, and they're bringing up things that won't happen," Trump told reporters after watching the Irish Open at his resort in Doonbeg. He said that with the US leading the development of AI over China, "frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins." Trump's comments came a day after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a blog post saying the AI industry must slow the pace of improving the technology's capabilities to allow time for guardrails.

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But he was acclaimed for his reforms while serving as Ukraine's minister of digital transformation, and his new duties included logistics, budgets, reforms, anticorruption measures and deals to secure multibillion-dollar Western aid or loans. After his appointment in January, Fedorov provided Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with a list of urgent problems and ways to solve them. He mentioned a "chaotic" management system, constant rotations of commanding officers, non-transparent distribution of arms and military equipment, bureaucracy, resistance to reforms from Commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskii's General Staff of Armed Forces, decision-making based on loyalty and not data analysis, and "isolation" of effective commanders and proponents of reforms. Then on Wednesday, just seven months into his role, Fedorov was removed from his position by Zelenskyy. The changes that Fedorov was trying to bring about in Ukraine's military had angered Syrskii. But Fedorov's ouster appears to have angered Ukrainians even more -- potentially presenting Zelenskyy with a political challenge. Rallies, relatively large by wartime Ukraine's standards, have since erupted in Kyiv and key Ukrainian cities. "He's a young, smart, educated person who proved with his previous job that he really is a reformer and can make Ukraine a nation of the future," Taisiya, who rallied on Thursday in central Kyiv, told Al Jazeera.

The BBC's director general is to leave the broadcaster in April, five months after he announced his resignation amid a storm about the way Panorama edited a Donald Trump speech. Tim Davie stayed in his post after announcing his resignation in November, but will depart on 2 April. He will be replaced by an interim DG, Rhodri Talfan Davies, who has been director of nations since 2021 and is currently leading the BBC's work on generative AI. The search is under way for a permanent director general, one of the most demanding jobs in the British media. Davie has been responsible for dealing with a series of scandals and crises since becoming the BBC's 17th director general in 2020.

The shock resignation came for a very specific reason, but the OBR saga will continue with a series of decisions the chancellor will have to make over Richard Hughes' replacement. Firstly the Chancellor will have to find a respected and credible economist to run the OBR. There are several candidates, who might fit the mould of fiercely independent bean counters. The list will be carefully watched by the markets for any departure from the normal model. The problem is that there is some political pressure to do just that.

From'nepo kids' to PM resignation: How the Nepal protests unfolded Nepal has been shaken by deadly protests that have led to the resignation of the country's Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. The BBC's Charlotte Scarr is on the streets of Kathmandu, where she saw torched government buildings and military presence. The Himalayan nation has been experiencing its worst unrest in decades, after a campaign highlighting the lavish lifestyles of politicians' children and allegations of corruption took off on social media. Thirty people have been killed in the protests and more than 1,000 injured since the unrest began. The military parade was attended by world leaders including Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un and showcased China's new weapons.

In response to the resignation, a spokesperson from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology said: "The technology secretary has been clear on the need for the institute to deliver value for money and maximum impact for taxpayers, and we will continue our work to support that ambition." Staff who wrote the whistleblowing complaint have told the BBC Dr Innes' resignation was the "first step". "With the rest of our 100m public funding still at stake, the priority now is to ensure the leadership overhaul that should follow - board and executive alike - can command the confidence of staff, government, regulators and, most importantly, the nation," they said. The Turing Institute said its board was now looking to appoint a new CEO who will oversee "the next phase" to "step up its work on defence, national security and sovereign capabilities". Its work had once focused on AI and data science research in environmental sustainability, health and national security, but moved on to other areas such as responsible AI.

In May 2023, when Linda Yaccarino, an NBC advertising executive, joined what was then still known as Twitter, she was given a tall order: repair the company's relationship with advertisers after a chaotic year of being owned by Elon Musk. But just weeks after she became CEO, Musk posted an antisemitic tweet that drove away major brands like Disney, Paramount, NBCUniversal, Comcast, Lionsgate and Warner Bros Discovery to pause their advertising on the platform. Musk delivered an apology for the tweet later at a conference – which he called the worst post he's ever done – but it came with a message to advertisers, specifically the Disney CEO Bob Iger: "Go fuck yourselves". Yaccarino was in the audience of the conference. "I don't want them to advertise," he said.

Elon Musk-owned X's CEO Linda Yaccarino announced her resignation in a surprise move, just months after the social media platform was acquired by the billionaire's AI startup, xAI. In a statement posted on the platform Wednesday, the former NBCUniversal advertising executive said she had "decided to step down as CEO of X" following what she described as "two incredible years" leading the company through a major transformation. After two incredible years, I've decided to step down as CEO of . When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company. Yaccarino's departure from the social media company adds to the turbulence in Musk's sprawling business empire, including falling sales at his electric vehicle maker Tesla and artificial intelligence-related controversies.