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TL;DR Lagarde warned AI could trigger financial crises worse than job losses. She wants global AI governance like nuclear non-proliferation treaties. 109 banks stress-tested. ECB President Christine Lagarde warned on Wednesday that artificial intelligence could trigger dangerous financial crises and called for global AI governance modelled on the Cold War-era…

No amount of continuous improvement can save legacy ERP systems that rely on humans acting as middleware to shuffle data and spreadsheets. As a country, we are grappling with a paradox that we are designing and delivering sixth-generation fighters and hypersonic missiles using administrative systems that still mirror the paper-shuffling…

Top Hungary news stories: former prime minister Viktor Orbán named 10 reasons why Fidesz lost this year’s election after 16 years of being in charge. Later, he was re-elected as head of his party, while current Prime Minister Péter Magyar showed documents that reveal the plans of a migrant camp…

The US Department of Energy selected Oklo Inc. as one of five companies to negotiate under its Surplus Plutonium Utilization Program, a initiative aimed at converting Cold War-era plutonium stockpiles into usable fuel for next-generation reactors. The other four companies selected alongside Oklo are Exodys Energy, SHINE Technologies, Standard Nuclear,…

Trump gov’t plans to make about 20 metric tonnes of plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads available to US power firms The United States government has chosen five companies, including nuclear energy company Oklo, to enter advanced talks over potentially using its Cold War-era plutonium as a nuclear reactor fuel. The…

Article content “This guy would not have gotten that funding if he was not a professor at Carleton University, and having a more complete picture of him makes Carleton even more culpable.” Article content Wake was “very prolific at Carleton — he was very engaged in the life of the…

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What Georges Nagelmackers first imagined in 1867, sitting in an uncomfortable American railway car, has become one of the most desirable brands in the world of luxury. Orient Express has survived two world wars, the Cold War, the collapse of its founding operator, twenty years of railway purgatory and two…

"Red Chameleon," a new book by Sonia R. Hill, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. Set over one pulse-pounding week in 1953, the story delivers a masterful blend of courtroom drama, historical intrigue, and atmospheric suspense. The novel follows Carey Grayson, a decorated World War II veteran turned…