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Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research

After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence, the AI lab founded by former OpenAI co-founder and alignment lead Ilya Sutskever, has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase. The deal, which includes an undisclosed investment, will give Safe Superintelligence (SSI) access to Nvidia’s Vera Rubin GPU platform, which is expected to increase…
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Chris Killip spent months living in deindustrialised communities in North-East England, photographing some of the most intimate images of 1970s and '80s Britain – using a huge camera that was never built for the job

Ask most photographers today what you need for unguarded, intimate documentary work and they’ll say something small, quiet and fast. A rangefinder, a compact, anything you can raise and lower before a subject has time to arrange their face. To say that Chris Killip went in a different direction would be something of an understatement. He mainly used a large-format field camera on a tripod…
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His neighbors “thought him mad to spend so many hours staring into a coffin.” James Clerk Maxwell wasn’t a photographer, but he created the world’s oldest color photo with an idea still used today

Many of the biggest achievements in photography’s history came from photographers and chemists, but the invention of color photographs wasn’t initiated by a photographer at all but a physicist obsessed with the science of colors. James Clerk Maxwell was a mid-1800s…
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Waymo crashes 1/3 as much as a human driver, says IIHS - with some caveats

Waymo’s autonomous electric taxis crash 68% less than the average human driver, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, with lower-severity crashes on average as well. But there are some important caveats that limit the data. In recent years, we’ve seen a proliferation of companies offering autonomous taxi services with “level 4” automation – the ability to operate with…
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India moves closer to a homegrown, long-range air defense

NEW DELHI — India has successfully tested a long-range surface-to-air interceptor missile, advancing development of a domestic air defense system to counter long-range aerial threats. The Defense Ministry said that the maiden flight test intercepted a simulated high-speed, high-altitude aerial electronic target successfully, marking a “key milestone” in the program’s development. It was…
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