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Openi is intended to complete a fundraising agreement of $ 40 billion which doubles the evaluation of the high -profile company only four months ago.The new fundraising round, led by the Japanese conglomerate Softbank, Openai values ​​at $ 300 billion, according to three people with knowledge of the agreement that spoke on condition of anonymity. The agreement would make Openi one of the most precious private companies in the world, together with the Spacex and Bytedance missile company, the manufacturer of Tiktok.SoftBank will invest up to $ 40 billion in Openai and will unions the agreement, with other investors who provide about a quarter of the total funds, said people. That figure would be an increase of $ 15 billion compared to a total that was discussed a week ago.CNBC previously re...

President Trump has advertised the Abraham agreements of 2020 which established formal links between Israel and four Arab countries as one of the major foreign policy results of his first term.Now he is pursuing his longtime goal to convince Saudi Arabia to join the agreements, but a serious setback may have just been distributed. Mr. Trump's proposal to transfer all and two million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and therefore reconstruct the enclave while the "Riviera del Middle East" has antagonized some of the same people he needs to seal the agreement.Gaza's idea was quickly rejected by the Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia. The Golfo power plant released a statement before dawn immediately after Trump float the proposal on Tuesday evening together with Prime Minister Benjamin N...

Asanda Zondi received a surprising phone call last Thursday, with orders to reach a health clinic in Vulindlela, South Africa, where he was participating in a research study that was testing a new device to prevent pregnancy and H.IV. infection.The trial was closing, told her a nurse. The device, a silicone ring inserted in its vagina, had to be removed immediately.When Mrs. Zondi, 22 years old, arrived in the clinic, learned why: the US agency for international development, which financed the study, had withdrawn financial support and had issued a stop-work order to all organizations all over the world who receive his money. The Brusca move followed an executive order of President Trump who freezed all foreign aid for at least 90 days. Since then, the Trump administration has taken measur...

The freezing of the financing of President Trump has confused the future of a Syrian desert field that holds thousands of members of the Islamic State and their families, the director of the field and the people who are familiar, describe as a potential threat to safety in the region.The field, at the Hol, which hosts about 39,000 people, was short of a detention for the programs financed by the United States and then reprints and is still fighting to understand its status. Although some fundamental programs to guarantee the field have received temporary extensions, another essential organization for the management of the field has declared that it may have to stop its work there as soon as Monday.The confusion derives from the executive order of Mr. Trump last month who frozen the foreign...

In 2020, Uber was at a crossroads: the company had made a expensive bet on the taxis of the robots, but the project was full of legal problems and burning in cash. So Uber gave it to another start-up.But five years later, Uber's future seems to be linked to autonomous vehicles as always. The company is now betting that it can embrace the driver without driver without spending money to build them, at risk of being exceeded by the companies that do it.In recent months, Uber has doubled on what he calls his "platform strategy", collaborating with taxi robot companies like Waymo. In Phoenix, cyclists can order a Waymo car via the Uber and Austin app in Texas, Waymo's taxi robotes soon wear the Uber logo. The giant who spent the trip now has 15 autonomous partnerships for vehicles, from Waymo t...

Tuesday Trump said that the United States should take control of Gaza and permanently move the entire Palestinian population of the devastated sea enclave, one of the most brazen ideas that any American leader has advanced over the years.Hosting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel in the White House, Trump said that all the two million Palestinians from Gaza should be transferred to countries such as Egypt and Jordan due to the devastation caused by the Israel campaign against Hamas after the terrorist attack of 7 October, 2023."The United States will take control of the Gaza Strip and we will also do a job," Trump said during a press conference on Tuesday evening. "We will have it and will be responsible" for the disposal of unexploded ammunition and the reconstruction of Gaza in ...

Nevada dairy cows were infected with a new form of bird influence which is distinct from the version that has spread through the herds in the last year, has announced the Department of Agriculture of the United States on Wednesday.The discovery indicates that the virus, known as H5n1, has spread from birds in cows at least twice - leading to these two series of infections - and that it could continue to do so. It also suggests that the virus can involve a persistent risk for cows and people who work closely with them.Before last year, scientists did not know that the cows were susceptible to this type of influence."This is not what someone wanted to see," said Louise Moncla, an evolutionary biologist who studies avian influence at the University of Pennsylvania. "We must now consider the p...

The French government lived to see another day on Wednesday, after it survived a vote of distrust in Parliament and gave the Prime Minister recently appointed temporary recovery for months of political turbulence and the country a promise of stability, at least shortly term.The motion of no confidence was supported by only 128 legislators in the 577 -seater national assembly, the lower part of France, short of the absolute majority required. If he had passed, the motion would have forced the centrist Prime Minister, François Bayrou, and his cabinet to resign.The failure of the motion guarantees a safe passage of an invoice of the 2025 budget of which France needs serious - has operated with temporary arrest funding since the beginning of the year - and that the hopes of the government rene...

Leah Barlow, professor of liberal studies at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, prepared to teach his introduction to the class of African American studies in this semester as always: he put together a program, mapped assignments and created an account Tiktok to make the material account as accessible as possible.He published a video on January 20 welcoming his 35 students to the course. The next morning, he emerged in the algorithm of quite Tiktok users who 250,000 people had enrolled in his channel.In a few days, the videos of Dr. Barlow had involuntarily inspired a freely affiliated network of black educators, experts and creators of content to form what has become known as Hillmantok University, a free and unconvented online and unofficial online socket and...

On Tuesday evening the declaration of President Trump according to which the United States could "take over" to the Gaza Strip and that its Palestinian population could have been permanently churned out was immediately criticized in the Middle East and beyond. In a joint press conference of the White House with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Trump said: "The United States will take control of the Gaza strip and we will also do a job with it". He said that the enclave, which has been devastated for over 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas, could be redeveloped and transformed into "The Riviera del Middle East". Riyad Mansour, leader of the Palestinian delegation at the United Nations, said on social media that instead of being transferred to other countries, the Palestin...