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NO SALES. NO ARCHIVING. Rocket Lab’s Electron launched in Mahia, New Zealand.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ilya Sutskever Has a New Plan for Safe Superintelligence]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI’s co-founder discloses his plans to continue his work at a new research lab focused on artificial general intelligence.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-19/openai-co-founder-plans-new-ai-focused-research-lab</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-19/openai-co-founder-plans-new-ai-focused-research-lab</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashlee Vance]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:00:02 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ixoTsJWeZYy8/v2/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail 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GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/itLn.KZhyUlI/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/itLn.KZhyUlI/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A Base Power battery storage system.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pharma Startup Uses AI to Test Old Drugs to Treat Rare Diseases]]></title><description><![CDATA[Transcripta Bio’s AI software analyzes rare diseases to see if existing pharmaceuticals can help.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-24/transcripta-bio-rarebase-uses-ai-for-rare-disease-drugs</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-24/transcripta-bio-rarebase-uses-ai-for-rare-disease-drugs</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashlee Vance]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:00:17 GMT</pubDate><media:content 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The annual event, organized by Giorgia Meloni&apos;s Brothers of Italy party, began in 1998 as a convention for right-wing youths and has evolved into a political kermesse, including ministers and members of the opposition.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obsessed With Ancient Rome? And AI? This Project’s for You]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deciphering the Herculaneum papyri could rewrite history. 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