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Anthropic pledges more than €170 million to study AI's impact on jobs

Anthropic unveiled a research fund and a policy roadmap for governments to follow if AI pushes unemployment sharply higher, with the CEO suggesting taxes on AI firms could one day fund a universal basic income. The creator of the Claude AI model, Anthropic, has become the latest heavyweight to acknowledge that its own technology could upend the labour market, committing an initial $200 million (€173mn) on Wednesday to research AI's effects on jobs and the wider economy. The money will go to...

Has Beijing given up on a nuclear weapon-free Korean peninsula?

China might be downplaying nuclear weapons by not mentioning the issue after Xi Jinping’s visit to North Korea but that does not mean it has accepted its neighbour’s growing arsenal, according to analysts. Neither Beijing nor Pyongyang mentioned nuclear weapons or denuclearisation in their statements on the Chinese president’s two-day state visit to Pyongyang this week. Since Xi’s summit with US President Donald Trump in May, observers have been speculating that Beijing’s stance on...

SpaceX by the numbers: Six charts mapping businesses driving its IPO ambitions

SpaceX by the numbers: Six charts mapping businesses driving its IPO ambitions June 11 : SpaceX's market debut on Friday is expected to be the largest-ever IPO, capping the meteoric rise of a company that has reshaped the space business with reusable rockets and internet beamed from orbit and which now targets space-based AI. Aiming for a $1.75 trillion valuation that would instantly rank it among the world's most valuable companies, SpaceX is pitching itself as humanity's ticket to Mars....

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