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Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways

OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest artificial intelligence models as reports of AI agents going rogue mount.

The decision to halt development came just hours after the company disclosed Friday that it was reviewing several incidents from the summer in which OpenAI agents searching federal government websites acted in unexpected ways beyond what was asked of them while gathering and distributing information.

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Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor defend findings on Israel’s killing of Palestinians amid threats from Israeli officials

The film-makers behind NAZA, the award-winning documentary on Israel’s systemic mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza, defended their findings at the film’s North American premiere in New York on Saturday, amid protests in Israel and escalating threats from Israeli officials to strip them of their citizenship.

The critically acclaimed film, directed by Oscar-winning film-makers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and produced by the Guardian, features the testimony of 24 anonymized Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers involved in the surveillance and remote killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, who describe the AI-powered systems used to select their targets. The project takes its name from an acronym used euphemistically by Israeli intelligence to indicate how many civilians it expects to die in an airstrike, which are often conducted at night in private homes, killing many family members, including children, at once.

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New York film festival: The follow-up to 2023’s Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One dazzles with smart social commentary and jaw-dropping effects

Even by the standards of older movie stars catching a major second wind later in their careers, Godzilla pulled off an impressive reclamation of the spotlight three years ago. Godzilla Minus One, the most recent reboot featuring the 70-year-old kaiju – the version(s) from his native Japan, mind, not the Americanized one concurrently starring in a series of Warner Bros blockbusters opposite King Kong – wasn’t just another monster-movie success. It fully crossed over, becoming the highest-grossing Japanese-language movie ever released in North America, and won an Academy Award to boot for its terrific visual effects. Now. Japanese Godzilla characters are mainstream enough to pop up in Happy Meals, and the Toho-made sequel Godzilla Minus Zero is world-premiering at the New York film festival. Arguably the artsiest, brainiest of the major fall fests is playing unexpected host to a truly spectacular monster battle royale, packaged alongside some of the same thoughtful historical context that informed the previous film.

Writer, director and VFX maestro Takashi Yamazaki returns for the sequel, bringing his lead characters back with him. In the previous film, former military pilot Kōichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki) used his experience with Godzilla to overcome his guilt and shame over failing to complete a pointless kamikaze mission toward the end of the second world war – the devastation of which brought Japan back to “zero”, hence a newly emergent Godzilla bringing the country to “minus one”. Minus Zero catches up with Kōichi, his now-wife Noriko (Minami Hamabe), and their adopted daughter Akiko (Sae Nagatani) two years later, in 1949 (although Akiko somehow seems more or less the same age). Another monster threat looms over post-war Japan in the form of a dragon-like creature dubbed Ghidorah, whose menace will be familiar to kaiju fans. (Though he isn’t seen directly in trailers, this isn’t a spoiler; he’s featured from the very first scene of the film.)

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Neue Montreal is a versatile, timeless grotesque, rooted in the city's design legacy?from Expo 67 to its contemporary scene. It blends the quiet confidence of a reliable workhorse with the distinct character of a display face. Continuously developed since its initial release, the typeface has seen its range steadily expand. It now features a full weight axis, from Hairline to Black, and supports Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and Arabic scripts, covering 506 languages and 3.4 billion speakers. For clear legibility at small sizes, a dedicated Text Size version is now also available. Neue Montreal is already in use across identity, editorial, and digital work worldwide. Microsite is online: neuemontreal.com

ODESA (ANP/DPA) - Bij een reeks Russische aanvallen op de Oekraïense havenstad Odesa zijn zeker twee mensen gewond geraakt. Op meerdere plaatsen braken branden uit en dikke rookwolken hingen boven de stad.

Volgens gouverneur Oleh Kiper zijn woningen, een productiebedrijf en loodsen getroffen. Eerder zaterdag viel het Russische leger in Odesa ook twee keer een bouwmarkt aan.

Odesa werd deze week vaker aangevallen. Volgens de Oekraïense nieuwssite Ukrainska Pravda raakten bij een Russische aanval in de nacht van woensdag op donderdag onder meer een ziekenhuis, een school, woningen, een winkelcentrum en loodsen beschadigd. Lokale bestuurders meldden toen twee gewonden.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De Merwedebrug in de A27 bij Gorinchem is sinds zaterdagavond laat weer open voor verkeer. De werkzaamheden verliepen volgens Rijkswaterstaat voorspoedig, waardoor de brug eerder dan gepland kon worden opengesteld. De afsluiting zou aanvankelijk tot maandagochtend duren.

Tijdens de werkzaamheden is de bestaande asfaltlaag vervangen door een dunnere en lichtere laag. Daardoor is de brug ongeveer 400 ton lichter. Dat is volgens Rijkswaterstaat nodig om de brug veilig te kunnen blijven gebruiken tijdens de bouw van de nieuwe Merwedebrug.

Op de brug geldt voortaan een maximumsnelheid van 70 kilometer per uur. Het verbod voor vrachtwagens en touringcars blijft van kracht.