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Elon Musk is expected to attend a global summit on artificial intelligence in the UK this week. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he would do a live interview with the tech billionaire after Thursday’s event. The summit, at Bletchley Park, hopes to bring together AI experts and global leaders to discuss the potential risks of artificial intelligence. US Vice-President Kamala Harris and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are due to attend. The BBC also understands Open AI’s Sam Altman and Meta’s Nick Clegg will join the gathering – as well as a host of other tech leaders.…

A company in New Zealand has been found guilty of not “minimising risk” to 22 people who died in the 2019 White Island volcano disaster. Judge Evangelos Thomas criticised what he referred to as “astonishing failures” on the part of Whakaari Management. Whakaari Management licenses tours to White island. The case is the largest action of its kind brought by New Zealand’s regulator Worksafe NZ. The company faces up to NZ$1.5m ($928,000; £724,000) in fines. Thirteen parties were charged over the disaster – six had pleaded guilty while six more had their charges dismissed.The judge said Whakaari Management “managed and…

The US military in Japan has started to bulk buy the country’s seafood in response to a Chinese import ban after the release of treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant. The US ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said Washington may also look into other ways to help counter China’s ban. He described it as part of Beijing’s “economic wars”. China, which was the biggest buyer of Japanese seafood, said it barred imports due to safety fears. Last year Japan exported more than 100,000 tons of scallops to China. The first purchase under the US scheme is a fraction of that…

The cast of Friends have said they are “utterly devastated” by the loss of their fellow star Matthew Perry, who died on Saturday at the age of 54. In a joint statement, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow said it was an “unfathomable loss”. The Friends actor was reportedly found unresponsive in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home on Saturday. Perry’s post-mortem examination was inconclusive. Officials are awaiting the results of toxicology tests. “We are all so utterly devastated by the loss of Matthew,” the Friends cast said in the statement released to…

Canada has announced it will ban WeChat on government devices. The Chinese-owned app is sometimes referred to as the “everything app” – like WhatsApp, Facebook, Amazon and Tinder all in one. However Western governments have security concerns about it, mainly that the app could be used to spy on users. The BBC has reached out to Tencent, the company that owns WeChat, for comment but has not yet received a response. WeChat is one of the most used apps in the world. It is ubiquitous in China and also popular in Southeast Asia and within Chinese diaspora communities. Canada’s ban…

Love it or hate it, candy corn season is upon us. The polarizing, sugary kernels start shipping out to stores over the summer, and generally stay on shelves through Halloween or a bit after. Brach’s, a candy brand which dates back to 1904, says it is the leader in the candy corn market by far. It makes 30 million pounds of candy corn each year, along with candy canes and other seasonal treats. So it’s largely up to Brach’s to keep consumers interested. In some ways, its efforts appear to have been paying off. Sales of Brach’s candy corn have been growing year-over-year from…

Growing up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Dawson Her Many Horses was rich in culture. But he and his family lacked many other critical resources. “When I was a kid we had an outhouse, our home was heated by a wood burning stove,” he told CNN. “I understand what it’s like to live in a rural community without financial resources.” That connection has motivated Her Many Horses to advocate for Native American and Alaskan Native communities throughout his career in finance. He currently serves as head of Native American banking for Wells Fargo and in July the…

A 23-year-old German-Israeli woman who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival by Hamas militants on October 7 has been found dead, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said. “We are devastated to share that the body of 23 year old German-Israeli Shani (Louk) was found and identified,” the ministry posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday. Louk was attending the festival in southern Israel on October 7 when Hamas breached the border between Gaza and Israel. Louk was kidnapped at the festival and “tortured and paraded around Gaza by Hamas terrorists,” the foreign ministry statement said, adding that she…

Oil prices fell again Monday as concerns about the health of the global economy outweighed fears that Israel’s move on the weekend to expand its military operations in Gaza could lead to a regional conflict. Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, fell 1.2% to $89 a barrel, and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude, the US benchmark, dropped 1.3% to trade at $84 a barrel by 6.50 a.m. ET. Last week, Brent fell 1.8% and WTI 3.6%. Susannah Streeter, head of money and markets at Hargreaves Lansdown, wrote in a note Monday that, while “the risks of regional escalation are still clear…

Touching the side of his neck gingerly, 30-year-old Withawat Kunwong reveals a jagged network of scars he received after being attacked at a poultry farm where he had been working in southern Israel. The wound, Kunwong says, is a painful reminder of the fear and trauma he endured on October 7 when thousands of Hamas fighters broke through Israel’s border defenses in an unprecedented surprise attack. The farm he had been working on was located in the Holit kibbutz, an agrarian community near the Gaza Strip. He was livestreaming from the farm when loud explosions were heard and thick black…