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Musk Warns of Killer AI — While He and the Rest of Silicon Valley Cash In on AI That Kills Elon Musk

Musk Warns of Killer AI — While He and the Rest of Silicon Valley Cash In on AI That Kills

The bitter courtroom brawl between Elon Musk and Sam Altman captivating the tech industry this week revolves in no small part around fears that artificial intelligence technologies both men are building could spiral out of control and exterminate humanity. Such far-looking scenarios obscure the fact that tech companies are enlisting…
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May 1, 2026
Egypt as a Global Operations Hub: How It Got Here, and a Framework for Where It Goes Next China's Social Credit System

Egypt as a Global Operations Hub: How It Got Here, and a Framework for Where It Goes Next

In 2003, a newly established subsidiary of Telecom Egypt called Xceed began its first contact center operations in Cairo, handling customer-facing communications for global companies. Its early contracts were straightforward: inbound voice support, handled in Arabic, English, and French. At the time, India, China, and Malaysia dominated the global outsourcing…
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May 1, 2026
‘Nuclear Weapons Are Not Just Tools of War. They Are Weapons of Mass Suffering.’ Nuclear Disarmament

‘Nuclear Weapons Are Not Just Tools of War. They Are Weapons of Mass Suffering.’

Active Citizens, Armed Conflicts, Asia-Pacific, Civil Society, Conferences, Editors' Choice, Global, Headlines, Human Rights, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Nuclear Disarmament Hideto Matsuura, head of Nihon Hidankyo, addresses an event hosted at the sidelines of the 2026 NPT Review Conference. Credit…
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May 1, 2026
Pentagon inks deals with seven AI companies for classified military work SpaceX

Pentagon inks deals with seven AI companies for classified military work

The Pentagon said on Friday it had reached agreements with eight leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies: SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection, Microsoft, Oracle and Amazon Web Services. “These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force and will strengthen our warfighters’ ability to…
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May 1, 2026
Biden backs Keisha Lance Bottoms for Georgia governor in his first endorsement since leaving office Joe Biden

Biden backs Keisha Lance Bottoms for Georgia governor in his first endorsement since leaving office

Former President Joe Biden on Friday backed former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms' campaign for governor in Georgia, his first endorsement since leaving office last year. "I've known her for a long time, and she's something special," Biden said in a video backing the former mayor, who served as a…
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May 1, 2026