LONDON — Artificial intelligence that can match humans at any task is still some way off — but it’s only a matter of time before it becomes a reality, according to the CEO of Google DeepMind. Speaking at a briefing in DeepMind’s London offices on Monday, Demis Hassabis said that he thinks artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which is as smart or ...

The Federal Trade Commission is going after an e-commerce company that allegedly took millions of dollars from consumers as part of a “passive income” scheme, which spun up Amazon storefronts on their behalf and promised “insane returns” that were higher than the stock market. The FTC said Tuesday it filed a lawsuit against the company, called Click Profit; its co-founders Craig Emslie and Patrick ...

The Metropolitan Transit Authority will stop selling and refilling those formerly-ubiquitous MetroCards by the end of the year in favor of the OMNY system, MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber told Crain’s New York Business Wednesday. MetroCards have been around since 1994, but now seem destined to go the way of the subway token, which stopped being used in 2003. MTA officials previously ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang downplayed the negative impact from President Donald Trump’s tariffs, saying there won’t be any significant damage in the short run. “We’ve got a lot of AI to build … AI is the foundation, the operating system of every industry going forward. … We are enthusiastic about building in America,” Huang said Wednesday in a CNBC “Squawk on the ...

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., was gifted a silver-plated beeper during a visit with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the lawmaker praised Israel’s covert operation in which it detonated pagers last year worn by Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon.  Fetterman repeatedly has voiced support for Israel while breaking with the Democratic Party, which has been critical of Israel’s military operations in ...

A federal judge ruled in favor of the Trump administration on Wednesday, after a government-funded nonprofit organization filed a lawsuit protecting itself from ‘ongoing destruction’ from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The U.S. Institute for Peace (USIP) filed a request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) on Tuesday, claiming that DOGE had committed ‘literal trespass and takeover by force…of ...

The Trump administration gutted the Institute of Peace of ‘rogue bureaucrats’ who held a tense standoff with a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team Monday that required police intervention, according to the White House.  ‘Rogue bureaucrats will not be allowed to hold agencies hostage,’ White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told Fox News Digital Tuesday. ‘The Trump administration will enforce the ...

The judicial branch has been behaving ‘erroneously,’ according to White House press secretary, after several judges have blocked various executive orders from President Donald Trump. ‘I would like to point out that the judges in this country are acting erroneously,’ White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a Wednesday news briefing. ‘We have judges who are acting as partisan ...

The FBI on Wednesday shared a wanted poster for Chinese national Baoxia ‘Emily’ Liu, adding that the State Department is offering a reward of up to $15 million for information on her and others accused of smuggling U.S. drone weapons to Iran.  Liu and three other fellow Chinese nationals were charged by President Joe Biden’s Justice Department in January 2024 ...

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday made comparisons between challenges being made by left-wing lawmakers to his power and efforts by officials to thwart President Donald Trump’s agenda, saying the  ‘leftist Deep State’ has weaponized the justice system against both of them.  ‘In America and in Israel, when a strong right wing leader wins an election, ...