Henry Kissinger

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is quietly building a kamikaze drone startup in the U.S. and Ukraine called “White Stork,” according to a report by Forbes Tuesday. The project is named after Ukraine’s national bird and White Stork hopes to sell advanced AI drone technology to the country’s ongoing war effort.Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AISince leaving Google, Schmidt has become a bridge between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon. He led the National Security Commission on Artificial…

Henry Kissinger, the late secretary of state under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford whose decisions are linked to millions of deaths around the world, died of congenital heart failure, according to police reports newly obtained by Rolling Stone. Kissinger died at the age of 100 in his house in Connecticut on Nov. 29. The news was confirmed in a statement from his consulting firm, Kissinger Associates, but the statement did not include his cause of death. According to Greg Grandin, the Yale University…

When Pakistani economist Mahub-ul Haq unveiled the first-ever UN Human Development Report before journalists, he did a little thought experiment to ask them a simple question. If an alien were to decide on settling down on Earth, which country would it would choose: Costa Rica, a poorer country with a better quality of life where people lived longer, or one of the oil-rich Middle-eastern nations, where people died younger? The answer was obvious: nobody wants to die prematurely. Putting growth in its place…

The owner of X gets bashed for his answer to a question about whether he's antisemitic Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update began by going after George Santos, the former New York congressman who was expelled by his colleagues Friday. “This week, we said goodbye to a former first lady, a former Secretary of State, and the Supreme Court’s first female justice,” co-anchor Colin Jost began, referring to Rosalynn Carter, Henry Kissinger and Sandra Day O’Connor. “Melania said that she was…

Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update began by going after George Santos, the former New York congressman who was expelled by his colleagues Friday. “This week, we said goodbye to a former first lady, a former secretary of state, and the Supreme Court’s first female justice,” co-anchor Colin Jost began, referring to Rosalynn Carter, Henry Kissinger and Sandra Day O’Connor. “And also to a guy who claims to be all three of those things,” Jost added as a photograph appeared on screen of the indicted former lawmaker…

President Joe Biden issued a brief statement on Henry Kissinger‘s death on Thursday, a day after the former secretary of state died at the age of 100. “I’ll never forget the first time I met Dr. Kissinger. I was a young Senator, and he was Secretary of State —giving a briefing on the state of the world. Throughout our careers, we often disagreed. And often strongly,” Biden said in his statement. “But from that first briefing  — his fierce intellect and profound strategic focus was evident,” he continued.…

Revered and reviled U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger, whose death at 100 on Nov. 29 was met with the widespread view that his realpolitik was responsible for some of this country’s worst global war crimes, loved American celebrity — both his own, an expression of state power, as well as that of others, especially performers. He was “the ultimate starfucker,” noted Daniel Drezner, professor of international politics at the Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, in an appraisal published earlier…

Henry Kissinger, a national security adviser and former secretary of state under two presidents, has evaded accountability, even after death. On Wednesday, the notorious war criminal responsible for the deaths of millions, died at the age of 100. During his lifetime, Kissinger prolonged the Vietnam war and expanded it to Cambodia and Laos; green-lit Indonesia’s bloodshed in East Timor, Pakistan’s bloodshed in Bangladesh, and supported military coups in Chile and Argentina. According to Yale University historian…

Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at his home in Connecticut, his consulting firm said in a statement. The notorious war criminal was 100. Measuring purely by confirmed kills, the worst mass murderer ever executed by the United States was the white supremacist terrorist Timothy McVeigh. On April 19, 1995, McVeigh detonated a massive bomb at the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children. The government killed McVeigh by lethal injection in June 2001. Whatever hesitation a…

Image: mwreck (Shutterstock)A recent survey of AI researchers all over the world showed that more than a third of them were concerned that AI could ultimately lead to a “global disaster” on par with nuclear war. The AI Index Report, released by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, shows researchers are pretty concerned about what could happen with this tech if it isn’t reigned in by proper regulations. “These systems demonstrate capabilities in question answering, and the generation of text,…