Month: November 2023

Sam Bankman-Fried has been found guilty of fraud and conspiracy by a jury in a court in New York. The founder of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX was convicted on all of the seven counts on which he was tried. He awaits sentencing. A sprawling and complex case was ultimately...

The main through-line in the defense’s closing statement yesterday was the idea the government had deliberately interpreted various forms of evidence in an inconsistent manner, in whichever way best suited its case in a particular moment. The prosecution had been “unfair,” for example, in its depiction of Bankman-Fried’s testimony,...

“The framework enables a set of binding requirements for federal agencies to put in place safeguards for the use of AI so that we can harness the benefits and enable the public to trust the services the federal government provides,” says Jason Miller, OMB’s deputy director for management. The...

Lawrence Faucette, the 58-year-old patient with terminal heart disease who was the second person to receive a genetically engineered pig heart, died on October 30, according to a statement from the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, where the transplant was performed. Faucette received the transplant on September...