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#commitments

The last two days have been busy ones at Redmond: yesterday, Microsoft announced its new Azure OpenAI Service for government.Today, the tech giant unveiled a new set of three commitments to its customers as they seek to integrate generative AI into their organizations safely, responsibly, and securely.

This comes after the oil giant tacitly admitted that limiting warming requires an "immediate end to fossil fuel growth."Shell, which more than doubled its annual profits last year, said in a press release that it now intends to "achieve cash flow longevity" by keeping oil production stable until 2030 and boosting gas production, even as scientists say a rapid phaseout of fossil fuels is necessary to avert global climate destruction.VIEW press / Contributor / Getty Images Shell announced Wednesday that it is raising payouts to wealthy shareholders and scrapping plans to cut oil production by up to 2% annually, a move that environmental groups said lays bare the futility of relying on fossil fuel corporations to voluntarily curb their climate-destroying activities.

A flagship law to restore nature across Europe must be agreed by member states or risk sending a dangerous, negative signal to the world, the EU's environment commissioner has warned, amid growing opposition to the legislation.Last June, the European Commission revealed proposals for legally binding targets for all member states to restore wildlife on land, rivers and the sea.

Pope Francis is recovering well after undergoing abdominal surgery this past week, his surgeon said on Saturday, but his doctors advised him not to give his traditional public blessing on Sunday so that he can rest.The surgeon, Dr. Sergio Alfieri, who operated on Francis on Wednesday, told reporters at a news briefing at the Policlinico A. Gemelli hospital in Rome that it was important that the pontiff, who is 86, try to limit movement to avoid straining his abdomen.

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine arrived in Saudi Arabia on Friday to join a summit of Arab leaders, including the heads of wealthy Gulf States that have already provided substantial aid to Ukraine.Mr. Zelensky said he had landed in Saudi Arabia and will meet with the kingdom's leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and others.

Demonstrators smeared oil over a fake, human-sized gannet to protest against plans to develop the Rosebank oil and gas field.Ocean Rebellion climate protesters staged the stunt near Dundee harbour on Thursday, pouring containers filled with fake oil over the mock bird until it became unrecognisable.

The Brit award-winning singer Lewis Capaldi apologised to fans after cancelling all of his upcoming commitments to rest and recover ahead of Glastonbury.Capaldi, 26, said in an Instagram post on Monday that he is struggling after a full on couple of months in which he released the chart-topping album Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent.

UK ministers' efforts to reduce soaring food shopping bills won't touch the sides without measures to make small grocery stores more affordable for low-income households, the chancellor has been warned.Which?, the consumer group, has written to Jeremy Hunt over concerns that a blanket approach to lowering supermarket bills will not address the problem of accessibility to affordable food, after reports that ministers are considering a voluntary price cap scheme.

Swiss company Glencore it has made an offer to buy the steelmaking coal business of Teck Resources Ltd.The company said in a statement Monday it would pay cash for the assets, but did not say how much publicly.Glencore said it remains willing to pursue its offer for all of Teck, but that it has made an alternative offer for the coal operations that it would combine with its own thermal coal assets.

Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden have agreed a new partnership to bolster economic security in response to China's growing influence.The Atlantic Declaration, announced as the Prime Minister and US president met in the White House, includes commitments on easing trade barriers, closer defence industry ties and a data protection deal.

Former prime minister Gordon Brown has come under fire for promises made to Scots ahead of the 2014 referendum, with the Scottish Government's independence minister insisting these commitments were not kept.Jamie Hepburn hit out at the former Labour leader, saying he should apologise to people as jobs have been lost and living standards have been harmed as a result of that.

The government is to launch a compensation scheme for survivors of child sexual abuse in England, the home secretary has said.The scheme is in response to the findings of a seven-year inquiry that revealed failings by schools, local authorities and other institutions to protect and safeguard the children in their care.

There is one behavior that underlies all good leadership: treating everyone with respect.It's the fundamental foundation of any relationship, and yet many managers struggle to express it.Data we collected in 2022 from 4,849 employees indicated that only 4% felt disrespected, whereas 86% felt respected.

The UK and Irish governments must act together to ensure the DUP does not head off on its summer holidays with Stormont powersharing still in limbo, a former Sinn Fein minister has warned.Conor Murphy was commenting after meeting with Irish deputy premier Micheal Martin in Belfast.The DUP is blocking the devolved institutions in Belfast in protest at post-Brexit trading arrangements, and the party has insisted it will not return to Stormont until it secures further legislative assurances from the UK Government around sovereignty and trade.

Sir Keir Starmer will pledge to get the NHS off its knees by tackling waiting lists and deaths from heart disease and stroke.The Labour leader will set out his plans for the health service on Monday during a speech in the east of England, in which he will say he will say it is his party that will fight for the NHS.

A senior United Arab Emirates official says the Gulf nation wants the U.N. climate summit it's hosting later this year to deliver game-changing results for international efforts to curb global warming, but doing so will require having the fossil fuel industry at the table.Environmental campaigners have slammed the presence of oil and gas lobbyists at previous rounds of talks, warning that their interests are opposed to the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions caused to a large degree by the burning of fossil fuels.

The German government on Monday rejected criticism that it pushed to weaken existing commitments for phasing out natural gas at a summit of leaders from the Group of Seven major industrialized democracies, saying the concluding statement is in line with international climate efforts.Environmental campaigners slammed the leaders' decision in Japan to back the construction of new infrastructure for liquefied natural gas, a planet-warming fossil fuel.

The window of what AI can't do seems to be contracting week by week.Machines can now write elegant prose and useful code, ace exams, conjure exquisite art, and predict how proteins will fold.Experts are scared.Last summer I surveyed more than 550 AI researchers, and nearly half of them thought that, if built, high-level machine intelligence would lead to impacts that had at least a 10% chance of being extremely bad (e.g.

Google this week said some of its Privacy Sandbox tools will see general availability in Chrome 115 on July 18, in order to prepare for the slow phase-out of third-party cookies next year."Starting with the July Chrome release, and over the following weeks, we'll make the Privacy Sandbox relevance and measurement APIs available to all Chrome users," said Anthony Chavez, VP of Privacy Sandbox, in an announcement.

Joe Biden has claimed that he visited the island of Ireland last month to ensure the Brits didn't screw around.The US President made the comments at a Democratic Party event in New York on Wednesday.Mr Biden, who has long been proud of his Irish roots, made the four-day trip to both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland last month.

Joe Biden has said he visited Northern Ireland for the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement in April to make sure the Brits didn't screw around.The US president made the apparently sceptical remark about the UK's government's approach to post-Brexit issues at a fundraising event speech in New York on Wednesday.

Gov. Hochul said Monday that Jordan Neely's death in Manhattan a week ago offered a "wake-up call" to government officials on the urgency of the mental health crisis gripping New York and the nation.Hochul said the fate of the homeless 30-year-old - who found himself in a Marine veteran's deadly chokehold on an F train's floor last Monday - underscored that people like Neely need more help.

Church leaders from Scotland played their part in the coronation of the King on Saturday.The Right Rev Dr Iain Greenshields represented the Church of Scotland, presenting Charles with his first gift, and the Most Rev Mark Strange, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, presented the Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Four in 10 adults have turned to DIY security like doorbell cameras and alarm systems in the past year because of the Tory Government's failure to tackle crime, the Liberal Democrats have claimed.Some residents have even bought a dog in order to feel safer at home, according to a poll commissioned by the party.

The Duke of Sussex, Sir Elton John and Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon now face a wait to find out if their High Court claims against the publisher of the Daily Mail can continue.Seven people, also including David Furnish, Sadie Frost, Liz Hurley and Sir Simon Hughes, are bringing legal action against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) over denied allegations it carried out or commissioned unlawful information-gathering.