GRIF

A new report says Egypt warned Israel ahead of Hamas's October 2023 terror attack, reviving questions over security failures that still preoccupy the country. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denies receiving any such warning, but the allegations are dogging him ahead of the upcoming election, putting intelligence handling and political accountability back at the centre of public debate.

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul met his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, the first meeting of the two countries' top diplomats since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Wadephul explained on German television, during the UN General Assembly, how the encounter with Lavrov came about. The talks mark a notable diplomatic contact between Berlin and Moscow at a time when the war in Ukraine continues.

After the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor lost access to Microsoft services under US sanctions, the Netherlands is moving forward with DAWO, a sovereign workplace for public authorities built on NixOS. The system uses open source code, replaces GitHub with Forgejo, and is designed to connect with openDesk. A pilot is underway in municipalities, with officials citing stability and digital independence from US providers.

AI video company Tavus has introduced Griffin, a conversational video model it says is realistic enough to pass a video Turing test. The announcement is drawing attention to how closely AI-generated humans now resemble real people on camera, and to what that means for trust in video, digital identity and online deception.

OpenAI has paused AI training following a new security incident in which the United Nations was also reportedly attacked, according to a report by German technology news site heise online. The story is being shared and discussed widely on social media, drawing attention to questions about the safety and security of advanced AI systems and their potential vulnerability to hacking.

Carnegie Mellon University hosted a fireside chat with Citadel founder Ken Griffin on reimagining higher education for the future. The discussion focused on how universities can adapt to changing economic and technological demands, with Griffin bringing a financier's perspective on the value and direction of higher education.

Hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin has made the single largest donation ever given to a United States university, according to a report by Fast Company. The gift sets a new record for higher-education philanthropy in the country, adding to Griffin's history of large-scale giving to academic institutions and drawing attention to the growing role of billionaire donors in university funding.

Griffin Eash has offered his perspective on artificial intelligence in a piece associated with Goshen College. Details of his arguments are not yet widely reported, but the item is circulating under the AI topic label, suggesting interest in how students or commentators view the technology's impact.

Tyler Cowen has asked readers of Marginal Revolution to suggest questions for Tom Griffiths, the Princeton cognitive scientist known for work on human decision-making and co-author of 'Algorithms to Live By'. Readers are posting their questions in the comments ahead of an upcoming interview, in line with Cowen's usual practice of crowdsourcing prompts before conversations with prominent thinkers.

Dr. Sabine Hampel of GRIF argues that Europe must draw on private capital to fund its defence and space ambitions, speaking as part of the Mission-K initiative. Her message is that public budgets alone cannot close Europe's strategic investment gap in security and space capability.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin is making the largest donation to higher education in United States history, according to an exclusive report. The unprecedented gift, if confirmed at its reported scale, would surpass all previous charitable contributions to American universities. The story is drawing widespread attention given Griffin's existing record of major gifts to institutions including Harvard, and debate over the growing influence of billionaire donors on higher education.

Two days after a pilot was attacked by his co-pilot on a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, the injured pilot has spoken publicly about the incident for the first time. German public broadcaster Tagesschau reports his account, noting that investigations into the assault are ongoing. The case has drawn attention to cockpit security and crew vetting on international flights.

A super PAC backed by hedge-fund billionaire Ken Griffin has spent $5 million to support a Florida Republican, according to Reuters. The outlay highlights Griffin's continued role as one of the biggest Republican donors, funneling money into state-level races where his backing can shape primary contests and shift campaign dynamics.

German tech magazine c't is running a workshop on observability for cloud-native Kubernetes environments. The session covers metrics, logs and distributed tracing using the Grafana stack tools Loki, Tempo and Mimir, teaching participants how to detect misbehavior and narrow down root causes in complex containerized systems.

Ken Griffin, the hedge fund CEO of Citadel, has donated $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University, a gift tied to his broader investment in Florida. The donation is one of the largest ever made to a US university and is linked to Griffin's push to expand the school's presence in the state, part of his wider bet on Florida's future.

A Swiss health and nutrition writer has added the term 'flavonoide' (flavonoids) to a personal glossary of health and nutrition terms published on la-macchina.ch. Flavonoids are plant compounds found in foods like bananas, tomatoes and broccoli, often discussed for their antioxidant properties. The entry is part of an ongoing effort to explain nutrition vocabulary in plain German for general readers.