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Weather forecast - Sunny
Sakura forecast - 満開
Having been to Kanazawa Castle Park several times in the past, we had low expectations of what we would be encountering again in this visit. But WOW! The sakura trees are in full bloom, and they created an incredible scene for us to enjoy!

The Trump administration is reportedly considering an executive order to create a working group that could review advanced AI models before public release. The shift follows concerns over Anthropic's powerful Mythos model and its cyber capabilities, with officials weighing whether the government should get early access to frontier models without necessarily blocking their release. The New York Times reports: In meetings last week, White House officials told executives from Anthropic, Google and OpenAI about some of those plans, people briefed on the conversations said. The working group is likely to consider a number of oversight approaches, officials said. But a review process could be similar to one being developed in Britain, which has assigned several government bodies to ensure that A.I. models meet certain safety standards, people in the tech industry and the administration said.

The discussions signal a stark reversal in the Trump administration's approach to A.I. Since returning to office last year, Mr. Trump has been a major booster of the technology, which he has said is vital to winning the geopolitical contest against China. Among other moves, he swiftly rolled back a Biden administration regulatory process that asked A.I. developers to perform safety evaluations and report on A.I. models with potential military applications. "We're going to make this industry absolutely the top, because right now it's a beautiful baby that's born," Mr. Trump said of A.I. at an event in July. "We have to grow that baby and let that baby thrive. We can't stop it. We can't stop it with politics. We can't stop it with foolish rules and even stupid rules." Mr. Trump left room for some rules, but he added that "they have to be more brilliant than even the technology itself."

The White House wants to avoid any political repercussions if a devastating A.I.-enabled cyberattack were to occur, people in the tech industry and the administration said. The administration is also evaluating whether new A.I. models could yield cyber-capabilities that could be useful to the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies, they said. To get ahead of models like Mythos, some officials are pushing for a review system that would give the government first access to A.I. models, but that would not block their release, people briefed on the talks said.

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ZAPORIZJA (ANP) - Deskundigen van het Internationaal Atoomenergieagentschap IAEA hebben geconstateerd dat er meetapparatuur in de kerncentrale van Zaporizja is beschadigd bij een droneaanval.

Het agentschap had toegang gevraagd tot de centrale in het zuidoosten van Oekraïne na Russische berichten over de droneaanval. "Het team constateerde schade aan een deel van de meteorologische meetapparatuur van het laboratorium, die niet langer operationeel is", aldus de IAEA, de nucleaire waakhond van de VN, in een verklaring. Daarin doet IAEA-directeur-generaal Rafael Grossi een nieuwe oproep tot "maximale militaire terughoudendheid in de buurt van alle nucleaire faciliteiten".

De kerncentrale van Zaporizja, de grootste van Europa, werd in de eerste weken van de Russische invasie van Oekraïne in 2022 door Russische troepen ingenomen. Sindsdien beschuldigen beide partijen elkaar regelmatig van militaire acties rond de centrale die de veiligheid in gevaar zouden kunnen brengen.

SUTATAUSA (ANP) - Na een mijnexplosie in Colombia zijn twaalf mijnwerkers opgesloten geraakt. Volgens de gouverneur van de regio in Centraal-Colombia werd de explosie waarschijnlijk veroorzaakt door een ophoping van gassen. In het land vinden geregeld mijnongelukken plaats, meestal als gevolg van slechte ventilatie.

Op welke diepte de mijnwerkers zich bevinden is niet bekend. Drie medewerkers van de mijn in Sutatausa, 75 kilometer ten noorden van de hoofdstad Bogotá, konden wel wegkomen na de explosie.

In het gebied waar het incident van maandag plaatsvond zijn illegale mijnen in bedrijf die niet aan de veiligheidsnormen voldoen, maar de explosie in Sutatausa vond plaats in een mijn die wel legaal geëxploiteerd wordt.

In 2023 kwamen bij een mijnongeluk in Sutatausa meer dan twintig mensen om het leven.