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The head chef and co-founder of Noma, one of the world’s most acclaimed restaurants with three Michelin stars, has resigned after being accused of physically and emotionally abusing staff. René Redzepi announced on social media on Wednesday that he is stepping down as the manager of a Copenhagen restaurant. This follows a March 7 report in the New York Times detailing allegations of abuse by Redzepi from 2009 to 2017. The report, which spoke to 35 former employees, said Redzepi “punched employees in the face, poked them with kitchen utensils, and slammed them against walls.” “The past few weeks have…
Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei.Morteza Nicobazul | Nur Photo | Getty ImagesIn his first public statement since taking office, Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei said on Thursday that the naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz should continue as a “means to put pressure on the enemy.”Khamenei also said in televised comments translated by Reuters that all US military bases in the Middle East should be closed immediately and that “those bases will be attacked.” Oil prices widened their rise following the statement read out on state television. Since the war began, oil shipments through the Strait of…
Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa+ has a new personality. The company announced Thursday that it is expanding the lineup of personality styles users can choose from, including adding an adult-only “Sassy” option. Amazon notes that users must undergo an additional security check in the Alexa app before choosing to use the Sassy personality. Personality styles will also no longer be available if Amazon Kids is enabled, according to Amazon. This new option joins options like Brief, Chill, and Sweet that launched last month. Image credit: Amazon When you turn on the Sassy option in the Alexa mobile app, you’ll be warned…
Pentagon Chief Technology Officer Emile Michael said Thursday that Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence model “contaminates” the Pentagon’s supply chain because it incorporates “different policy preferences.””We cannot allow companies with different policy preferences that are built into their models, through their constitution and their soul and their policy preferences, to contaminate our supply chain so that our warfighters are getting ineffective weapons, ineffective body armor, ineffective body armor,” Michael said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “That’s where the supply chain risk designation comes from.” Anthropic is the first U.S. company to be publicly certified for supply chain risk, an unusual step historically…
Western intelligence officials say Russia is aiding Iran in the Ukraine war with advanced drone tactics to attack U.S. and Gulf targets in the Middle East. The Shahed drone, designed by Iran and mass-produced by Moscow for use in Ukraine, has had unexpected success in penetrating Gulf states’ air defenses. Russia’s intelligence sharing with Iran has previously been reported as general targeting assistance. Specific tactical advice would represent a new level of potentially lethal support. “What used to be more general assistance, such as the UAS (unmanned aerial vehicle) targeting strategy that Russia has adopted in Ukraine, is now becoming…
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Palantir As the clash between the artificial intelligence startup and the Department of Defense unfolds, the company is still using Anthropic’s Claude, CEO Alex Karp told CNBC on Thursday.”The Department of the Army has a plan to phase out Anthropic, but it is not being phased out at this time,” Karp told CNBC’s Seema Modi at Palantir’s AIPcon 9 in Maryland. “Our product is integrated with Anthropic and may be integrated with other large language models in the future.”As CNBC previously reported, the Pentagon formally designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk last week, but is still using the Claude…
When Max Brodeur-Urbas co-founded Gumloop in mid-2023, his vision was to help non-technical employees automate repetitive tasks using AI. At the time, the concept of AI agents was still largely experimental and error-prone. As AI technology has matured, so have Gumloop’s services. The company claims that teams at organizations like Shopify, Ramp, Gusto, Samsara, Instacart, and Opendoor can now deploy reliable AI agents that autonomously handle complex, multi-step tasks without the need for engineers. Employees can share the agents they build with colleagues, creating a compounding effect that accelerates internal automation. “They get addicted and start building more and more…
Photo: Jaromir Chalabala/GettyBritish regulators are calling on social media giants to implement stricter protections for children on their platforms after lawmakers rejected a blanket ban on under-16s.Online safety group Ofcom and the Information Commissioner’s Office announced Thursday that they have written to YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, asking them to address a range of child safety issues, from introducing strict age verification measures to tackling child grooming on their platforms.The move comes after British MPs voted against a proposal to include a social media ban for under-16s in the Child Welfare Bill being debated earlier this month.The UK government…
37. We all know the age-old question celebrities are asked: Who is their celebrity crush? Well, it turns out Aniston is the answer for quite a few men in Hollywood. Riverdale’s two male leads, KJ Apa and Cole Sprouse, nursed unrequited love for her. Although Apa never saw an episode of Friends, he admitted to Cosmopolitan that he’s obsessed with Aniston, and Sprouse recalled co-starring with Aniston on the sitcom (he played Ross’ son Ben, along with his twin brother Dylan). “It was really, really hard to work with her because I loved her so much,” he told the New…