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US and Europe will block some Russian banks from SWIFT

The Verge

The organization’s eponymous payments network does not actually exchange money but is used to authenticate payment instructions between banks. used to authenticate payment instructions between banks. Its services are used to process some 42 million exchanges in more than 200 countries each day. billion to $52 billion.

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5G coronavirus conspiracy theorists are endangering the workers who keep networks running

The Verge

5G was causing the symptoms of COVID-19, she told him, and he was secretly installing the high-speed network under instructions from the local council. Rahman notes that other big cities had similar trials without similar outbreaks, while Iran, which also had an early outbreak of COVID-19, doesn’t have 5G networks at all.).

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How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years

The AI Alignment Forum

If instructed to, U3 can run experiments, but U3 doesnt have taste as refined as human researchers at OpenEye. They hold out training data before 2024, instructing models to ponder for hours to predict events in 2025. By October 2025, U3 is writing almost all of the code at OpenEye. Forecasting ability is a broad foundation.

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Harvard and MIT sue Trump administration over new policy on international student visas

The Verge

Immigration authorities made an exception to this rule in March when COVID-19 forced many institutions to move all instruction online. Moreover, for many students, returning to their home countries to participate in online instruction is impossible, impracticable, prohibitively expensive, and/or dangerous.”.

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Chuck Todd on why Meet the Press can’t survive on just one platform

The Verge

That it is an instruction to the audience. I have interviewed the president of Iran. At some point, politicians are going to start dancing on TikTok, so the notion that meeting the press is a forcing function, I’m curious if you think the title holds you back in some way. It’s a fair question. Do you not interview him on anything?

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