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Amid sustained pressure by Christian groups, the Indian government decided not to bring before Parliament a controversial bill that would have led to Christian organizations losing their properties. Instead, the Hindu nationalist government referred the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment (FCRA) Bill, 2026, to a committee of lawmakers to examine the concerns raised by Christian organizations. Read more. The post India Halts Passage of Bill Targeting Christian Nonprofits appeared first...
When I was a young mother with two active sons just 19 months apart, I spent many days at a park that covered several city blocks, filled with duck ponds and hills to run up and down. My second son, always trying to keep up with his older brother, was a bundle of muscle, shimmying Read more. The post Blessed Are the Risk-Takers appeared first on Christianity Today
One number I haven’t dealt with in this series on homelessness in America: How many homeless people does the United States hold today? It depends on how we consider “doubling up” and the mercy of an extra bedroom. The official total, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), is 746,000. Two-thirds of them are Read more. The post Are Couch Surfers Homeless? Washington Is Divided appeared first on Christianity Today
Elena Burger is joined by a16z's Andy McCall and Joe Schmidt to break down two very different ways AI startups can go to market: the lighthouse and the landgrab. Should founders win a handful of marquee customers whose credibility unlocks an entire industry, or move quickly across a broad market where the ROI already speaks for itself? Drawing on Joe's Lighthouse or Landgrab framework and Andy's experience building sales organizations at Samsara and Meraki, they explore how founders can deter...
David Baszucki is the co-founder and CEO of Roblox, a platform built around a simple idea: give people the tools and incentives to create together. Public Release: August 18. Members have access now.Join us. In this conversation, he explains the decisions that turned around a complex health scare with his son and how it shapes … The post Roblox CEO: How to Make Better Decisions by Fixing Yourself First appeared first on Farnam Street
Mid-term prime ministers – Episode 2: The transition melissa.ittoo Thu, 13/08/2026 - 12:11 Episode two of our series takes a closer look at what happened in the first weeks and months of the mid-term premierships from Major to Sunak. 1 Podcast Institute for Government No Parliament and the constitution Ministers Civil service Cabinet Leadership election Government reshuffle Civil servants Conservative Labour Prime minister Cabinet secretary Special adviser Major government Blair government Br...
OpenAI on Thursday released GPT-6 Astra, which president Greg Brockman called a "generational leap" and said could eventually be seen as the arrival of artificial general intelligence, or AGI. Why it matters: Astra pushes AI agents closer to doing complex professional work on their own — while also raising questions about how safely they can be deployed. Driving the news: Brockman says he personally believes OpenAI has reached AGI, while leaving users to decide whether Astra meets that definition. "I think it might be about this model," Brockman said in a briefing with reporters about whether Astra could mark the arrival of AGI.He ended the briefing by saying: "Welcome to the AGI era." Between the lines: OpenAI said that Astra was built on its largest-ever training run, using more than 100,000 GPUs at its Stargate site in Texas. The company also said this is its first model to use other models in a significant role in supervising Astra's training.GPT-6 Astra will first be available to a limited set of organizations in OpenAI's Daybreak Access program and will be available "in the coming days" for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise customers and API developers. Catch-up quick: OpenAI said earlier this week that Astra would be released soon, but that its most powerful cybersecurity capabilities would remain limited to a small group of trusted testers. Astra is the first model OpenAI has designated as reaching its "critical" cybersecurity threshold under its preparedness framework — meaning it can potentially find and exploit previously unknown vulnerabilities across well-protected systems without step-by-step human guidance.OpenAI previously slowed Astra's release to add safety testing after determining that its cyber capabilities could reach the critical threshold. Zoom in: Astra is designed to work directly inside software, rather than just recommending what a person should do next. In a video demonstration, Astra formatted a legal contract and built a 3D ga