News at its Zenith
News at its Zenith
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman. image source: GETTY IMAGES The owner of the business that created ChatGPT has stated that there are no plans to exit Europe. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has changed his mind about leaving the EU if adhering to upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) rules proves to be too difficult. Earlier this […]
The cubs were the country’s first litter in more than 70 years. Image source: @BYADAVBJP/TWITTER Two cheetah cubs tragically died at a national park in India’s Madhya Pradesh state, while a third cub is presently in critical condition. Tuesday saw the passing of yet another cub in the national park. The fact that these cubs […]
Elon Musk’s brain-chip firm. Image source: REUTERS The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States has given Elon Musk’s brain-chip technology business permission to start the first phase of human testing. By creating a link between the human brain and computers, billionaire Elon Musk’s Neuralink implant firm hopes to improve the restoration of […]
President Joe Biden The White House and congressional Republicans are reportedly in the final stages of negotiating a deal to increase the U.S. government’s debt ceiling, which currently stands at a staggering $31.4 trillion. The proposed agreement would span a two-year period and entail a spending cap on all non-military and non-veteran expenditures. This information […]
Reports from two humanitarian organizations indicate that a vessel transporting roughly 500 asylum seekers, including expectant mothers and a newborn infant, has vanished in the central Mediterranean. On Friday, Alarm Phone, a renowned organization that attends to calls from refugee vessels in dire straits, reported a loss of communication with the vessel on Wednesday morning. […]
Khan was escorted by security officers as he made an appearance at the Islamabad High Court. In a recent development, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has imposed a travel ban on the prominent political figure Imran Khan, his spouse, and a multitude of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders. This move comes amidst a tense standoff between […]
Protesters in Brussels, Belgium hold up pictures of aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele. Oman facilitated a deal between Iran and Belgium resulting in the release of an aid worker and a diplomat who were imprisoned in each other’s countries. On Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian announced that Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi would return home, while […]
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria’s President-elect The All Progressives Congress (APC) can breathe a sigh of relief as the Supreme Court of Nigeria has quashed the lawsuit seeking to disqualify Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima from their presidential and vice-presidential candidacies. On Friday, the supreme court justices ruled that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lacked the […]
Asiana Airlines aircraft taking off at an airport in Seoul. Image source: GETTY IMAGES A man has been apprehended for deliberately opening the emergency door of an Asiana Airlines flight during its landing in South Korea. Fortunately, all 194 people on board the Asiana Airlines flight escaped unharmed, and the aircraft touched down without incident […]
Steve Hanke at his desk on The Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore. Image by Macroguy7979 (CC-BY-SA) Renowned Professor Steve Hanke, a professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University, has described President Muhammadu Buhari as a “sleepy” president. The university don and fellow at the Independent Institute posted this derogatory remark about the president on […]
