Nvidia C.E.O. Jensen Huang Hitches Ride With Trump to China After Last-Minute Invite
Jensen Huang boarded Air Force One in Alaska, joining a delegation of more than a dozen business leaders accompanying President Trump on his trip to Beijing.
THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2026, 17:12
Jensen Huang boarded Air Force One in Alaska, joining a delegation of more than a dozen business leaders accompanying President Trump on his trip to Beijing.
The start-up, which recently released a powerful A.I. model called Mythos and is separately battling with the Pentagon, was previously valued at $380 billion.

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The behavioural cue of ‘flexible self-protection’ is a way to establish whether an animal feels pain, scientists say
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Data shows orforglipron could in future avoid need to take other long-term medications for diseases associated with obesity
A daily pill could help people keep weight off and stop them needing other long-term medications, scientists behind landmark new trial data have suggested.
The researchers said orforglipron could help prevent more than 200 diseases associated with obesity and could be...
Mr. Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, said on Tuesday that he worried Elon Musk wanted control of the A.I. lab.

Sam Altman said Elon Musk tried many times for total control of OpenAI, which he’s now suing.

My father, Robert Smith, who has died aged 92, was a pharmacologist and professor at St Mary’s medical school in London (now part of Imperial College) whose work helped shape thinking on people’s differing responses to drugs – genetically, biochemically and clinically.
Bob became well known in particular for his role in the discovery of “debrisoquine polymorphism”. An enthusiastic...
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Anthropic said that Claude Mythos was too dangerous to release to the public. That claim has reopened an old debate over cybersecurity.
Experts and college students used A.I. agents to try to break into and defend computer networks in a national competition. The agents did all right on their own, too.

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The company behind Canvas says it has “reached an agreement” with the hackers who disrupted thousands of colleges and universities.
The online marketplace called the cash-and-stock proposal “neither credible nor attractive.”

The lawsuit comes amid increased scrutiny over platform features like auto-play that deliver endless content to users.

The Food and Drug Administration commissioned the research, received the answer, and is not releasing it
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As tech giants dominate the hardware needed to build artificial intelligence, Amp hopes to create an alternative.
The latest artificial intelligence models from Anthropic and OpenAI are extending the United States’ lead over China and intensifying the rivalry between the countries.
The cases seek to use consumer product safety laws to rein in chatbot companies.