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27-year-old British researcher Jacob Coxon publicly resigned from Anthropic, declaring that his former colleagues at OpenAI and Anthropic "genuinely believe this could kill us all before the end of the decade," and that labs racing to devel

The 191st Oktoberfest — the world's largest beer festival — opened in Munich on Saturday. Gates at the Theresienwiese fairground swung open shortly after nine in the morning, but so many people were eager to get in that a genuine crush form

The Czech Constitutional Court has rejected a complaint from a male academic who was seeking criminal prosecution of his former partner. According to his version of events, the woman deceived him into giving her gifts and hid the fact that

The opposition Civic Democratic Party (ODS) plans to propose reinstating the so-called "quarantine period" — the elimination of pay for the first three days of sick leave — during discussions of the state budget in the Chamber of Deputies.

An attack, believed to have originated from Yemeni territory, struck the Saudi capital Riyadh this morning. Eyewitnesses reported explosions, thick smoke and a fire near the international airport. According to the regional Telegram channel

The Czech government is preparing a new definition of dependent employment that, according to the analytical organization PAQ Research, would effectively legalize between 70% and 90% of current cases of the so-called švarc system. That amou

A year after the Czech parliamentary elections, opposition parties have still failed to narrow the massive lead held by Andrej Babiš's ANO movement in voter preference polls. This was discussed in the latest episode of the Dobrovský&Šídlo p

Prague police have launched a search for a woman who dropped her daughter off at nursery on Friday morning and has not been seen since. The information was released in a police press statement and posted on the force's website.According to

Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council, reacted sharply on Saturday to the latest package of US sanctions against Russia, branding it "Russophobic filth." According to Medvedev's Telegram channel, his outburst was tim

Russian authorities say the electronic voting system in Moscow came under an unprecedented cyberattack during the State Duma elections. The announcement was made by Ella Pamfilova, head of Russia's Central Election Commission."The Moscow sy

A plea bargain between a prosecutor and a young man accused of sexual acts against an underage schoolgirl has collapsed at the Regional Court in Brno. Prosecutor Petr Beišovec had originally classified the act as sexual assault and negotiat

Three-quarters of Czechs believe the president and prime minister should act in harmony rather than compete with one another. That's according to a poll by the STEM/MARK agency, commissioned by the Seznam Zprávy newsroom and conducted among