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The Ukrainian soldiers got up in the Predawn, stretching, rubbing their eyes and rolling out of sleeping bags in a hiding place in the basement near the first -line line in the east of the country. Their day would not bring them very far away. Most remained in the basement, working with keyboards and joystick that control the drones.At a precarious moment for Ukraine, while the country falters among the hopes that the interviews of ceased the fire of President Trump end the war and the fears that the United States withdraw military support, the soldiers were taking part in an initiative of the Ukrainian army that Kiev hopes that they will allow him to remain in American combat weapons.On Sunday, after a week of war relentlessly in Ukraine, including the most fatal attack in Kiev, the capit...

The question if being educated to artificial intelligence may seem like a controversial point - after all it is artificial.But Sam Altman, CEO of the Openai artificial intelligence company, recently shed light on the cost of adding a further "please!" or "Thanks!" For chatbot suggestions.Someone published on X last week: "I wonder how much Openi money lost the costs of electricity from the people who say" please "and" thanks "to their models."The next day, Mr. Altman replied: "Tens of millions of dollars well spent - you never know".First: every single question of a chatbot costs money and energy and every additional word as part of that church increases the cost for a server.Neil Johnson, a physics professor at the George Washington University who studied artificial intelligence, compared...

Sunday on Sunday, the Israeli army declared in a declaration that had also hit in the southern Lebanon and killed an Hezbollah agent that "he advanced Hezbollah attempts to restore" in the area.Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the main United Nations official in Lebanon, criticized the attack near the capital on Sunday. "Today's strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut has generated panic and fear of renewing violence between those who despair for a return to normal," he said on social media, urging "all the parts to stop any action that could further undermine the fire."While the Israeli military continued to hit southern Lebanon with a certain frequency since the ceased the fire entered into force, the attacks near Beirut had stopped until about a month ago. At the end of March, Israel hi...

Insulin, cardiac treatments and antibiotics have flowed freely on many boundaries for decades, free from the rates in an attempt to make medicine accessible. But this could soon change.For months, President Trump has promised to impose higher rates to pharmaceutical products as part of his plan to rearrange the global trading system and report the key manufacturing industries in the United States. This month, he said that the pharmaceutical rates could arrive in the "not too distant future".If they did, the move would have serious - and wildly uncertain consequences - for drugs made in the European Union.Pharmaceutical products and chemicals are export n. 1 of the blockage in America. Among these are the successful ozemics of weight loss, cancer treatments, cardiovascular drugs and flu vac...

Even before Pope Francis was buried in a basilica of Rome on Saturday, the conservative cardinals who felt his pontificate was a division disaster that endangered the traditions of the Church had started politicians to influence the conclave by electing the next Pope.They have a seductive slogan: unit.It is difficult to imagine a less offensive cry of rally, but in the ears of Francis' most busy supporters, it sounds like a word of code to rest the most inclusive vision of the Catholic Church of Francis.Concerns are a clear sign of the maneuvers by the ideological fields that are already taking place among the cardinals while their shared mourning gives way to the looming task of voting for Francis's successor in the conclave, which should begin the first week of May.The discussion...

This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email [email protected] with any questions.kevin rooseCasey, I miss you. You’re in New York this week.casey newtonI’m in New York. I thought it was time to finally come back to the offices of “The New York Times,” and see what I could find out about your performance review.kevin roose[LAUGHS]: Our studio in San Francisco feels very empty without you. What are you up to there?casey newtonIt’s so empty, you can actually fully extend your legs while standing inside the studio, which is not always true when there’s two hosts present. So I saw “Titanique” last night. Have you seen the...

A third round of interviews between Iran and the United States on Tehran's nuclear activities ended on Saturday after several hours of indirect negotiations, partly in writing, between high officials and teams of technical experts of both sides.Abbas Araghchi, Iranian Foreign Minister, said in an interview with the Iranian state television that the interviews were "very serious" and focused on the details of a potential agreement. He said they were disagreed between Tehran and Washington, but that he was "cautiously optimistic about the fact that we can progress".Araghchi said that the negotiations will resume next Saturday with Oman who continues to mediate the interviews, including Steve Witkoff, special correspondent for President Trump and the teams of experts."The atmosphere of th...

Do we really have the free will when it comes to eating? It is an irritating question that is at the center of the reason why so many people find so difficult to stick to a diet.To obtain answers, a neuroscientist, Harvey J. Grill of the University of Pennsylvania, turned to the mice and asked what would have happened if he had removed the whole brain except their brain trunks. The cerebral trunk controls basic functions such as heart rate and breathing. But the animals could not smell, they could not see, they could not remember.Would they know when they had consumed quite calories?To find out, Dr. Grill dried liquid food in the mouth."When they reached a parking point, they allowed food to drain from the mouth," he said.Those studies, started decades ago, were a starting point for a corp...

Virginia Giuffre, a former victim of Jeffrey Epstein's sex driving force, who said she was "passed as a fruit plate" from teenager to rich and powerful predators, including Prince Andrew of Great Britain, died on Friday in his farm in Western Australia. He was 41 years old.Mrs. Giuffre died of suicide, according to a family declaration. Mrs. Giuffre (pronounced Jiff-Ree) wrote in an Instagram march that was far away from the death of renal failure after being injured in an accident with a school bus that said she was traveling almost 70 mphIn 2019, Epstein was arrested and accused by federal ministries in the southern district of New York with sex trafficking and conspiracy, and was accused of having urged the teenage girls to carry out massages that have become increasingly sexual in ...

At the end of 2023, Israel aimed to assassinate Ibrahim Biari, a high -level commander in the northern strip of Gaza who had contributed to planning the massacres of 7 October. But the Israeli intelligence was unable to find Mr. Biari, who believed it was hidden in the tunnel network under Gaza.So the Israeli officers turned to a new military technology infused with artificial intelligence, three Israeli and American officials informed the events. The technology had been developed a decade before but had not been used in battle. Finding Mr. Biari provided a new incentive to improve the tool, therefore the engineers in the 8200 unit of Israel, equivalent of the country of the National Security Agency, soon integrated the IA in it, said people.Shortly thereafter, Israel listened to the calls...