and an ordinary man with repressed trauma who can’t force himself to look away over Christmas in 1985. The beauty of the prose and complexities of the themes lingered in Murphy’s mind. The Irish actor had also been thinking about starting his own production company. Miraculously, the rights were available.
Microsoft didn’t immediately return an emailed request for comment about the protest Monday.Microsoft-owned GitHub also used the Seattle gathering to introduce a new AI coding “agent” to help programmers build new software.
The company already offers a Copilot coding assistant but the promise of so-called AI agents is that they canon their own on a user’s behalf. The updated tool is supposed to work best on tasks of “low-to-medium complexity” in codebases that are already well-tested, handling “boring tasks” while people “focus on the interesting work,” according to Microsoft’s announcement.The new tool arrives just a week after Microsoft
of its own software engineers in Washington’s Puget Sound region as part of global cuts of nearly 3% of its total workforce, amounting to about 6,000 workers.WASHINGTON (AP) — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and executives from Microsoft and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices testified on Capitol Hill about the biggest opportunities, risks and needs facing an industry which lawmakers and technologists agree could fundamentally transform global business, culture and geopolitics.
The hearing comes as the race to control the future of artificial intelligence is heating up between companies and countries. Altman’s OpenAI is in a furious race to develop the best artificial intelligence model against tech rivals like Alphabet and Meta, as well as against those developed by Chinese competitors.
“I believe this will be at least as big as the internet, maybe bigger,” Altman said in his opening remarks about AI’s potential to transform society. “For that to happen, investment in infrastructure is critical.” Altman urged senators to help usher in the “dual revolutions” of artificial intelligence and energy production that “will change the world we live in, I think, in incredibly positive ways.”Fossils of fish, snails, tadpoles and fern leaves are seen among the collection of Aditya Vij, an Indian anthropologist and an avid collector of artifacts, at his house in New Delhi, India, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Over the past few years, Vij says, technology has evolved rapidly and the gadgets from his childhood were made obsolete overnight. He believes archiving them is necessary.“I hope the younger generations realize the importance of history and carry it forward by preserving it,” he said
plans to limit visitor numbers to 20,000 a day and introduce personalized tickets starting next week in a bid to cope with over-tourism and protect the world heritage site, officials said Friday.The move comes after what authorities called a record summer that saw over 4 million people visiting the world-famous remains of the ancient Roman city, buried under ash and rock following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.