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Kingmaker Rasmussen pauses work with Frederiksen in Danish government talks – POLITICO

Kingmaker Rasmussen pauses work with Frederiksen in Danish government talks – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

“We will not take part in further meetings with [Frederiksen] unless she takes that request seriously,” said Rasmussen, as he called for center-right parties to be brought into government talks after two weeks spent negotiating with left-wing parties yielded scant results. Known as the kingmaker, Rasmussen wants Frederiksen to put the idea of a center-left government “on pause” and sit down with Troels Lund Poulsen, leader of the center-right Venstre party, who ran against her for prime minister after serving as deputy PM in the outgoing coalition government. Poulsen reached out to Rasmussen on Friday to consider the possibility of finding cooperation on economic policy, which Danish analysts suggest led to his decision to pressure Frederiksen into calling it off with the left-wing “red bloc.” Source link

After Trump pauses war, Iranians fly flags of victory not surrender

After Trump pauses war, Iranians fly flags of victory not surrender

Published by Sam Flores

LONDON — Shortly after President Donald Trump threatened to erase the “whole civilization” of Iran, all 6,000 years of it, the crowds came out into the streets of Tehran waving flags — and not white ones. They bore the green, white and red banners of the still-standing Islamic Republic. Some set fire to the star-spangled ones of the superpower that, according to state media, they had just “humiliated.” Source link

Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk

Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk

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Meta has paused all its work with the data contracting firm Mercor while it investigates a major security breach that impacted the startup, two sources confirmed to WIRED. The pause is indefinite, the sources said. Other major AI labs are also reevaluating their work with Mercor as they assess the scope of the incident, according to people familiar with the matter. Mercor is one of a few firms that OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs rely on to generate training data for their models. The company hires massive networks of human contractors to generate bespoke, proprietary datasets for these labs, which are typically kept highly secret as they’re a core ingredient in the recipe to generate valuable AI models that power products like ChatGPT and Claude Code. AI labs are sensitive about this data because it can reveal to competitors—including other AI labs in the US and China—key details about the ways they train AI models. It’s unclear at this time whether the data exposed in Mercor’s breach would meaningfully help a competitor. While OpenAI …

Federal judge pauses tribal lawsuit over disputed Northern California casino project

Federal judge pauses tribal lawsuit over disputed Northern California casino project

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A federal judge in Washington DC has decided to temporarily stop a lawsuit filed by three California tribes over a controversial casino proposal tied to the Koi Nation of Northern California. The pause, ordered March 27 by US District Judge Carl J. Nichols, puts the case on hold while similar legal fights play out in another court. The tribes behind the lawsuit are described as three “Southern Pomo Indian tribes with strong historical connections to Sonoma County, California.” They challenged how the Interior Department and the Bureau of Indian Affairs handled the approval process, arguing the government rushed to take land into trust for the casino project. The Southern Pomo Indian tribe is a key part of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, which already operates a major casino nearby and has been among those pushing back against the Koi Nation’s plans as construction edges closer. Why the judge paused the Northern California casino tribal case Nichols said it made more sense to wait, pointing to ongoing appeals in related cases in Northern California that …

ByteDance reportedly pauses global launch of its Seedance 2.0 video generator

ByteDance reportedly pauses global launch of its Seedance 2.0 video generator

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ByteDance has paused plans to launch its new AI video model globally, according to a report in The Information. The Chinese company, best known as TikTok’s parent organization (and now a minority shareholder in its U.S. spinoff), launched Seedance 2.0 in China back in February. Brief videos generated by the model, including a clip featuring Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt, soon went viral and drew intense criticism from Hollywood.  While one successful screenwriter declared that the footage meant, “It’s likely over for us,” studios quickly sent ByteDance a flurry of cease-and-desist letters, with Disney’s lawyers accusing the company of a “virtual smash-and-grab of Disney’s IP.” ByteDance responded by promising to introduce stronger safeguards for intellectual property. The company had planned to make Seedance 2.0 available globally in mid-March, The Information said, but it’s delaying those plans as its engineers and lawyers work to avert further legal issues. ByteDance did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment. Source link

Ryan Gosling pauses interview to check on journalist who called in from broken-down bus in the desert

Ryan Gosling pauses interview to check on journalist who called in from broken-down bus in the desert

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Ryan Gosling had bigger concerns than promoting his film while interviewing a journalist who dialed in from the middle of the desert. Gosling was doing a press junket for Project Hail Mary — his new film based on the popular 2021 sci-fi book by Andy Weir — when journalist Jake Hamilton appeared via video link. “Do you have help on the way?” the actor asked Hamilton after joking that he looked like he was appearing from the inside of a volcano. “You look like Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible, the one where he’s climbing,” he continued, referencing the red rocks surrounding the reporter. “This is amazing. I don’t want you to be stranded, but the production value on this… Do you technically need a permit to shoot there? It’s like you’re doing a Western!” During an interview for his upcoming film, …

Labour Pauses Chagos Handover Deal For More Talks With US After Trump Outburst

Labour Pauses Chagos Handover Deal For More Talks With US After Trump Outburst

Published by Sam Flores

The government has paused its plans to hand the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius after criticism of the deal by Donald Trump. Labour announced last year that it intended to cede sovereignty of the archipelago while paying £99 billion to lease back the UK-US military base on the largest island, Diego Garcia, for the next 99 years. Trump initially backed the agreement but rowed back on his support in January amid a wider spat with European allies over Greenland’s sovereignty. A phone call from Keir Starmer then convinced the president this was the “best deal” available. But last week, Trump U-turned again, calling the plan a “blight” on the UK in an explosive social media post. He wrote on TruthSocial that he had told the UK PM “leases are no good when it comes to countries” and that Britain was “making a big mistake by entering a 100 year lease”. He added: “Prime minister Starmer is losing control of this important Island by claims of entities never known of before. In our opinion, they are …

Blue Origin pauses space tourism flights to focus on the moon

Blue Origin pauses space tourism flights to focus on the moon

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Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is pausing its space tourism flights for “no less than two years” in order to focus all of its resources on upcoming missions to the moon, the company announced Friday. The decision puts a temporary halt on a program that Blue Origin has been using to fly humans past the Kármán line, the recognized boundary of space, for the last five years. Blue Origin made the announcement just a few weeks ahead of the expected third launch of its New Glenn mega-rocket, which is slated for late February. The company had previously suggested it was going to use the third New Glenn launch to send its robotic lunar lander to the moon, but that spacecraft is still undergoing testing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas. Since retaking office, President Donald Trump has put pressure on NASA to send astronauts back to the moon before the end of his second term. That has cleared the way for companies other than SpaceX to compete for these missions. “The decision reflects …

Tesla Quietly Pauses Its “Unsupervised” Robotaxi Rides as Reality Sets In

Tesla Quietly Pauses Its “Unsupervised” Robotaxi Rides as Reality Sets In

Published by José Betancourt

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Jay Janner / Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images It appears that Tesla CEO Elon Musk may have once again duped his fans and investors — which, these days, is an increasingly meaningless distinction. Last week, Musk made huge waves when he announced that the automaker’s Robotaxi service would finally be giving rides in Austin, Texas, without a human “safety monitor” in the car — something he promised would’ve been the case since day one. What Musk left out of that announcement, however, was that the human supervisors were moved to another car that followed the robotaxi instead, a workaround that was as dishonest as it was impractical. Now, the EV blog Electrek reports another bit of Musk subterfuge. Based on what the service’s customers are saying, it appears that, at this moment, none of the Robotaxi rides that Tesla has been giving are “unsupervised.” The most convincing testimony comes from Tesla enthusiast David Moss, who made a name for himself by purportedly driving 10,000 miles on FSD v14 …