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Mark Zuckerberg rejects calls for industrywide AI slowdown

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed back on calls for AI companies to work together to slow the pace of their products’ development, following warnings from inside AI labs of the potential for human annihilation via rogue technology.

In an interview with NBC News’ chief tech analyst Joanna Stern, Zuckerberg said that leading AI companies could slow down or pause development of their own products if they felt the technology was unsafe. His position cuts against recent calls for coordinated action from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

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Rare September Nor’easter set to slam East Coast with heavy rain, damaging winds

Millions across the Northeast are bracing for an intense, multi-day Nor’easter this weekend that is forecast to bring heavy rain and strong wind gusts to the East Coast.

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Millions brace for nor'easter: Latest forecast

Millions are on alert for a powerful nor'easter set to bring rain and wind to the Northeast this weekend. Intermittent rounds of rain will start Friday afternoon from North Carolina to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Saturday through Monday, windy rain showers will be off and on from New Jersey to Maine.

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Judge orders White House to restore press passes for CNN, Politico and MS NOW

A federal judge has granted CNN, Politico and MS NOW a temporary restraining order requiring the White House to restore the outlets’ hard-pass press credentials.

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Hiker falls over 800 feet to his death after another found dead on same mountain

A man plummeted at least 800 feet to his death while hiking on Washington state's Sauk Mountain over the weekend, authorities said, just a day after another person was found dead on the same mountain. Gary Idleburg, 66, of Olympia, may have fallen as much as 1,000 feet after going over the edge of a switchback trail, according to the Skagit County Sheriff's Office. Witnesses who reported Idleburg's fall told the sheriff's office that it happened at around 3:30 p.m. local time on Saturday.

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