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In Scramble To Open Up Hormuz, France & Italy Open Talks With Iran After India's Request Amid very confused and mixed messaging coming from Washington over the status and future fate of Hormuz oil transit, the EU is trying its hand at a solution. France ⁠and ⁠Italy have ​opened 'tentative' talks ‌with Iran ‌seeking ⁠to ⁠negotiate a deal to ​guarantee safe ​passage for their tankers ⁠through vital strait which remains a crucial chokepoint for stalled global crude transit, the ​Financial ⁠Times reports Friday, citing people briefed on ⁠the efforts. This comes as...

US Southern Command has announced that its forces bombed two more small boats it accused of carrying drugs in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, killing at least five people, as the US bombing campaign in the waters of Latin America continues. As usual, the command offered no evidence to back up its claim that the boat […]

'The Best Solution Is To Murder Him In His Sleep': AI Can Learn Violent Tendencies From Each Other Authored by Owen Hughes via Live Science, Large language models (LLMs) are secretly teaching each other unwanted habits through seemingly benign training data, scientists say. The phenomenon, known as "subliminal learning," occurs when a pretrained "teacher" artificial intelligence (AI) model is used to generate the training data for a smaller, "student" model. A new study hints at the darker aspects of Large Language Models (LLMs). (Image credit: DKosig via Getty Images) In a study published April 15...