Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he's uneasy about how much power a handful of tech leaders -- including himself -- have over the future of artificial intelligence. From a report: "I think I'm deeply uncomfortable with these decisions being made by a few companies, by a few people," Amodei told Anderson Cooper in a "60 Minutes" episode that aired Sunday. "Like who elected you and Sam Altman?" asked Anderson. "No one. Honestly, no one," Amodei replied.

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Jeff Bezos has founded an AI startup called Project Prometheus and will serve as its co-chief executive. This is his first formal operational role since stepping down as chief executive of Amazon in July 2021. The company has raised $6.2 billion in funding, The New York Times reports, partly from Bezos. The funding makes Project Prometheus one of the most well-financed early-stage startups in the world.

Bezos's co-founder and co-chief executive is Vik Bajaj, a physicist and chemist who worked closely with Google co-founder Sergey Brin at Google X. Dr. Bajaj was among the founders of Verily in 2015 and co-founded Foresite Labs in 2018. He recently left that position to focus on Project Prometheus. The company is focusing on AI for engineering and manufacturing in computers, aerospace, and automobiles. The startup has already hired nearly 100 employees, the report said. Researchers from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta are among the hires. Project Prometheus is building AI systems that learn from physical experiments rather than just analyzing digital text.

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An anonymous reader shares a report: Elementary-school students would have to learn how to write in cursive, under a bill set to be vetted by a House committee next week. Sen. Erin Grall, R-Vero Beach, filed a similar proposal (SB 444) on Monday. The House Student Academic Success Subcommittee is set to review the measure (HB 127) on Nov. 18.

Sponsored by Rep. Toby Overdorf, R-Palm City, the bill would require cursive instruction in second through fifth grades. The proposal, filed for consideration for the legislative session that begins Jan. 13, also would require students to demonstrate proficiency in cursive by the end of fifth grade.

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Lando Norris has admitted that he feels he “cared too much” about others’ perspectives of him in the past, with the McLaren driver suggesting that he has learned to “deal with those things better” as he focuses on having confidence in himself.

F1TV expert and six-time IndyCar race winner, James Hinchcliffe, joins Tom Clarkson to preview this weekend’s Las Vegas Grand Prix.

It’s been a relentless battle from the moment Doriane Pin and Maya Weug hit the track for the season opener in Shanghai, but now one final race will decide it all as their duel for the 2025 F1 ACADEMY title reaches its zenith.

Discover what’s on at the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix 2025 – full race schedule, entertainment lineup, food and drink offerings and fan experiences along the Strip.

Femke Kok reed zondag in Salt Lake City als eerste Nederlandse schaatser ooit een wereldrecord op de 500 meter. Haar coach Gerard van Velde wist thuis op de bank in Nederland niet wat hem overkwam. „Ik zei tegen mijn vrouw en zoon: hè, zie ik dat nou goed?”

Terwijl de klimaattop in Brazilië in volle gang is, verschenen vorige week twee onderzoeken die gemaakte natuurbeloftes ter discussie stellen.

The Sagrada Família has become the tallest church in the world, after workers placed the first part of a cross at the top of its central tower. The Barcelona church will top 564 feet when the rest of the cross is placed in the next few months.

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