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ITV News
17-05-2025
- Sport
- ITV News
Guernsey win first women's Muratti at Victoria Park
Guernsey women kept hold of the Muratti Vase trophy today after defeating Jersey 2-1 at their new home ground, Victoria Park, securing back-to-back victories in the historic competition. The Guernsey team made history last year after beating Jersey 2-0 at Jersey's home ground, Springfield- securing their first Muratti Vase win in 16 years. Calleigh Hedley's brace meant they repeated the trick this year as Guernsey came from behind to win 2-1. Jersey had taken the lead in the first half and missed a penalty before Hedley struck twice to sink The Ceasareans. The men's match will kick off at 3pm today.
NZ Herald
03-05-2025
- Sport
- NZ Herald
Hawke's Bay club rugby: Big cup decider looms as rivals Taradale, Old Boys Marist win again
At Tamatea Park, also in Napier, home side Napier Pirate scored 13 tries to beat Clive 81-0 to leapfrog Hastings Rugby and Sport into third place, while Havelock North secured their top-six place with a 38-21 win over Napier Tech Old Boys in Havelock North. MAC travelled to Dannevirke for a 50-29 win over hosts Aotea, who are still to win a Premier game in 2025. The battle for sixth place will likely go to the wire, with Central ahead of Tech by a single point. OBM had two special heroes in lock Matt Monaghan, who scored two tries, and fullback Patrick Hedley, who scored a try and kicked nine points. It was Hedley's latest in a string of good club performances since moving from Heartland union King Country, for whom he played 11 matches last season, with a debut in the Ranfurly Shield match against Hawke's Bay in Hastings. They teamed up for the try and conversion that opened the scoring after four minutes dominated by OBM with a wind that looked likely to be a decisive factor. But replying against the run-of-play, with a try to first five-eighths Koby Deacon breaking away down the right flank, Hastings Rugby and Sport were able to keep in touch with some stern defence amid a significant territorial deficit. They would have been pleased to be down just five points at 17-12 when flanker and former New Zealand Under-20 representative Jeriah Mua scored a try, converted just before halftime by fullback Oscar Sowman, and ecstatic to be in front 19-17 when Sowman added another two points after Deacon's second try four minutes into the second half. OBM regained the lead just four minutes later when captain and hooker Dylan Homan scored in a well-executed lineout, maul and break from just over 5m out. Hastings Rugby and Sport, flying a little under the radar in the earlier rounds but with just a single loss to their name, came back with a try to centre Perez Malo and a conversion and penalty to Sowman to take a seven-point lead and look a good shot to take out the battle of the greens. Instead, it sparked OBM, with Hedley running into the line wide-out to score in front of his side's clubhouse, then Monaghan getting his second in his last act on the field, with flanker Will Tremain sealing the outcome with a try four minutes from the end. With 46 points against MAC a week earlier, becoming the first to pass 100 in his 13th season at the level, 30-year-old Trinity Spooner-Neera, at first five-eighths, continued the heroics with an 18-point haul in Taradale's latest win, including two of the Maroons' five tries. He has 125 points and 11 tries after seven games and is now three tries ahead as the top try-scorer and 33 points ahead of leading chaser Hedley's 92 points as top points-scorer. Flanker Tipene Maxwell and centre Anaru Paenga each scored three times as the Pirates claimed 13 tries against Clive, while also on the scoresheet were two Super Rugby Pacific players in prop Pouri Rakete-Stones, who scored the first try, and Blues player Zarn Sullivan, who booted two conversions before the kicking duties were taken over by first five Liam Batt, who landed five. Wairoa side Tapuae had their first loss in Poverty Bay Premier rugby since entering the grade at the start of last season, being beaten 28-12 by Gisborne side YMP in a top-of-the-table match in Gisborne. Scores Napier Old Boys Marist 39 (Matt Monaghan 2, Michael Beech, Dylan Homan, Patrick Hedley, Will Tremain tries; Hedley pen, 3 con) Hastings Rugby and Sports 29 (Koby Deacon 2, Jeriah Mua, Perez Malo tries; Oscar Sowman pen, 3 con). Taradale 33 (Trinity Neera Spooner 2, Flynn Allen, Walter Kava, Hadlee Hay-Horton tries; Spooner-Neera 4 con) Central 3 (Tate Harte pen). Napier Pirate 81 (Tipene Maxwell 3, Anaru Paenga-Morgan 3, Pouri Rakete-Stones, Ryota Matsuda, Al Momoisea, Sean Morrison, Eneri McGrath, Hugh Taylor, Rocky Hoffman tries; Liam Batt 5, Zarn Sullivan 2, Momoisea cons) Clive 0. Havelock North 38 (Eroni Nawaqa 3, Reuben Allen, Ash Robinson-Bartlett, Brendon Edmonds tries; Reiri-Paku 4 cons) Napier Tech Old Boys 21 (Elia Bari 2, Tim Farrell tries; Leighton Shaw 3 cons). MAC 50 (Faafetai Osooso Onasei 2, Penisini Taufa, Suilasi Feinga, Tom Iosefo, Solomone Kuii Kefu Fono, William Malaitai, Walter Schuster tries; Malaitai 5 cons) Aotea 29 (Donovan Godinet 2, Hoera Stephenson, Manahi Goulton, Richard Stephenson tries; Stephenson 2 cons). Points: Taradale 35, Napier OBM 35, Napier Pirate 28, Hastings R&S 26, Havelock North 26, Central 11, Napier Tech OB 10, MAC 6, Clive 5, Aotea 2.
Otago Daily Times
26-04-2025
- Climate
- Otago Daily Times
Upgrades entice more skiers as season start approaches
As the leaves change colour and the winds get colder, Wānaka skifields are preparing for another busy winter season. The first alpine snowfall in the region occurred last week and the area's ski resorts have been working hard to ensure they have sufficient capacity for the upcoming season. Cardrona and Treble Cone general manager Laura Hedley said numbers had been going up for a few years and the resort had had to make some changes to accommodate the increasing demand. One of the biggest changes skiers could expect this season was 60ha of new terrain with a new six-seater express lift in the Soho Basin. "The team have been working all summer, actually over the past two summers on that, and we've been doing some trail design, so it's a pretty amazing basin to open up." The upgrade came as increased interest in the resort pushed the limits of both staff and infrastructure. "So we actually put in capacity management over the last two years to manage a better guest experience" she said. The resort is also building a new food and beverage building and retail store to take the pressure off lifts in the main basin. Ms Hedley said they already had high numbers in the pre-bookings which she suspected was partly due to people's excitement over the new terrain. "Yeah, we're seeing good numbers in our pre-bookings ... but all we know is from the last two years managing that capacity we had more people than that before. "So there is an excess demand of people wanting to ski," she said. Although she was disappointed that the skifields would not be hosting the Winter Games this year, she said there were still several events and activities for skiers of varying levels to look forward to. For the more experienced skiers, the Josie Wells Invitational sees some of the world's best skiers coming to the Cardrona slopes to show off their skills Although the slopes are a haven for athletes, they are also open for school activities and family passes. Cardrona and Treble Cone are not the only ones hard at work to cater for an increase in skiers coming to Wānaka. Snow Farm has also highlighted the changes it has made over the last few years including their new Musterers Hut and infrastructure upgrades to better maintain their trails. To prepare for this year's snow season they are working on a new toilet block with the Queenstown Lakes District Council and introducing more robust water storage and solar electric systems.
San Francisco Chronicle
23-04-2025
- Business
- San Francisco Chronicle
Ex-OpenAI workers ask California and Delaware AGs to block for-profit conversion of ChatGPT maker
Former employees of OpenAI are asking the top law enforcement officers in California and Delaware to stop the company from shifting control of its artificial intelligence technology from a nonprofit charity to a for-profit business. They're concerned about what happens if the ChatGPT maker fulfills its ambition to build AI that outperforms humans, but is no longer accountable to its public mission to safeguard that technology from causing grievous harms. 'Ultimately, I'm worried about who owns and controls this technology once it's created,' said Page Hedley, a former policy and ethics adviser at OpenAI, in an interview with The Associated Press. Backed by three Nobel Prize winners and other advocates and experts, Hedley and nine other ex-OpenAI workers sent a letter this week to the two state attorneys general. The coalition is asking California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings, both Democrats, to use their authority to protect OpenAI's charitable purpose and block its planned restructuring. OpenAI is incorporated in Delaware and operates out of San Francisco. OpenAI said in response that 'any changes to our existing structure would be in service of ensuring the broader public can benefit from AI.' It said its for-profit will be a public benefit corporation, similar to other AI labs like Anthropic and tech billionaire Elon Musk's xAI, except that OpenAI will still preserve a nonprofit arm. 'This structure will continue to ensure that as the for-profit succeeds and grows, so too does the nonprofit, enabling us to achieve the mission,' the company said in a statement. The letter is the second petition to state officials this month. The last came from a group of labor leaders and nonprofits focused on protecting OpenAI's billions of dollars of charitable assets. Jennings said last fall she would 'review any such transaction to ensure that the public's interests are adequately protected." Bonta's office sought more information from OpenAI late last year but has said it can't comment, even to confirm or deny if it is investigating. OpenAI's co-founders, including current CEO Sam Altman and Musk, originally started it as a nonprofit research laboratory on a mission to safely build what's known as artificial general intelligence, or AGI, for humanity's benefit. Nearly a decade later, OpenAI has reported its market value as $300 billion and counts 400 million weekly users of ChatGPT, its flagship product. OpenAI already has a for-profit subsidiary but faces a number of challenges in converting its core governance structure. One is a lawsuit from Musk, who accuses the company and Altman of betraying the founding principles that led the Tesla CEO to invest in the charity. While some of the signatories of this week's letter support Musk's lawsuit, Hedley said others are 'understandably cynical' because Musk also runs his own rival AI company. The signatories include two Nobel-winning economists, Oliver Hart and Joseph Stiglitz, as well as AI pioneers and computer scientists Geoffrey Hinton, who won last year's Nobel Prize in physics, and Stuart Russell. 'I like OpenAI's mission to 'ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity,' and I would like them to execute that mission instead of enriching their investors," Hinton said in a statement Wednesday. "I'm happy there is an effort to hold OpenAI to its mission that does not involve Elon Musk.' Conflicts over OpenAI's purpose have long simmered at the San Francisco institute, contributing to Musk quitting in 2018, Altman's short-lived ouster in 2023 and other high-profile departures. Hedley, a lawyer by training, worked for OpenAI in 2017 and 2018, a time when the nonprofit was still navigating the best ways to steward the technology it wanted to build. As recently as 2023, Altman said advanced AI held promise but also warned of extraordinary risks, from drastic accidents to societal disruptions. In recent years, however, Hedley said he watched with concern as OpenAI, buoyed by the success of ChatGPT, was increasingly cutting corners on safety testing and rushing out new products to get ahead of business competitors. 'The costs of those decisions will continue to go up as the technology becomes more powerful,' he said. 'I think that in the new structure that OpenAI wants, the incentives to rush to make those decisions will go up and there will no longer be anybody really who can tell them not to, tell them this is not OK.' Software engineer Anish Tondwalkar, a former member of OpenAI's technical team until last year, said an important assurance in OpenAI's nonprofit charter is a 'stop-and-assist clause' that directs OpenAI to stand down and help if another organization is nearing the achievement of better-than-human AI. 'If OpenAI is allowed to become a for-profit, these safeguards, and OpenAI's duty to the public can vanish overnight,' Tondwalkar said in a statement Wednesday. Another former worker who signed the letter puts it more bluntly. 'OpenAI may one day build technology that could get us all killed," said Nisan Stiennon, an AI engineer who worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2020. "It is to OpenAI's credit that it's controlled by a nonprofit with a duty to humanity. This duty precludes giving up that control.' ___
The Hill
23-04-2025
- Business
- The Hill
Ex-OpenAI workers ask California and Delaware AGs to block for-profit conversion of ChatGPT maker
Former employees of OpenAI are asking the top law enforcement officers in California and Delaware to stop the company from shifting control of its artificial intelligence technology from a nonprofit charity to a for-profit business. They're concerned about what happens if the ChatGPT maker fulfills its ambition to build AI that outperforms humans, but is no longer accountable to its public mission to safeguard that technology from causing grievous harms. 'Ultimately, I'm worried about who owns and controls this technology once it's created,' said Page Hedley, a former policy and ethics adviser at OpenAI, in an interview with The Associated Press. Backed by three Nobel Prize winners and other advocates and experts, Hedley and nine other ex-OpenAI workers sent a letter this week to the two state attorneys general. The coalition is asking California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings, both Democrats, to use their authority to protect OpenAI's charitable purpose and block its planned restructuring. OpenAI is incorporated in Delaware and operates out of San Francisco. OpenAI said in response that 'any changes to our existing structure would be in service of ensuring the broader public can benefit from AI.' It said its for-profit will be a public benefit corporation, similar to other AI labs like Anthropic and tech billionaire Elon Musk's xAI, except that OpenAI will still preserve a nonprofit arm. 'This structure will continue to ensure that as the for-profit succeeds and grows, so too does the nonprofit, enabling us to achieve the mission,' the company said in a statement. The letter is the second petition to state officials this month. The last came from a group of labor leaders and nonprofits focused on protecting OpenAI's billions of dollars of charitable assets. Jennings said last fall she would 'review any such transaction to ensure that the public's interests are adequately protected.' Bonta's office sought more information from OpenAI late last year but has said it can't comment, even to confirm or deny if it is investigating. OpenAI's co-founders, including current CEO Sam Altman and Musk, originally started it as a nonprofit research laboratory on a mission to safely build what's known as artificial general intelligence, or AGI, for humanity's benefit. Nearly a decade later, OpenAI has reported its market value as $300 billion and counts 400 million weekly users of ChatGPT, its flagship product. OpenAI already has a for-profit subsidiary but faces a number of challenges in converting its core governance structure. One is a lawsuit from Musk, who accuses the company and Altman of betraying the founding principles that led the Tesla CEO to invest in the charity. While some of the signatories of this week's letter support Musk's lawsuit, Hedley said others are 'understandably cynical' because Musk also runs his own rival AI company. The signatories include two Nobel-winning economists, Oliver Hart and Joseph Stiglitz, as well as AI pioneers and computer scientists Geoffrey Hinton, who won last year's Nobel Prize in physics, and Stuart Russell. 'I like OpenAI's mission to 'ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity,' and I would like them to execute that mission instead of enriching their investors,' Hinton said in a statement Wednesday. 'I'm happy there is an effort to hold OpenAI to its mission that does not involve Elon Musk.' Conflicts over OpenAI's purpose have long simmered at the San Francisco institute, contributing to Musk quitting in 2018, Altman's short-lived ouster in 2023 and other high-profile departures. Hedley, a lawyer by training, worked for OpenAI in 2017 and 2018, a time when the nonprofit was still navigating the best ways to steward the technology it wanted to build. As recently as 2023, Altman said advanced AI held promise but also warned of extraordinary risks, from drastic accidents to societal disruptions. In recent years, however, Hedley said he watched with concern as OpenAI, buoyed by the success of ChatGPT, was increasingly cutting corners on safety testing and rushing out new products to get ahead of business competitors. 'The costs of those decisions will continue to go up as the technology becomes more powerful,' he said. 'I think that in the new structure that OpenAI wants, the incentives to rush to make those decisions will go up and there will no longer be anybody really who can tell them not to, tell them this is not OK.' Software engineer Anish Tondwalkar, a former member of OpenAI's technical team until last year, said an important assurance in OpenAI's nonprofit charter is a 'stop-and-assist clause' that directs OpenAI to stand down and help if another organization is nearing the achievement of better-than-human AI. 'If OpenAI is allowed to become a for-profit, these safeguards, and OpenAI's duty to the public can vanish overnight,' Tondwalkar said in a statement Wednesday. Another former worker who signed the letter puts it more bluntly. 'OpenAI may one day build technology that could get us all killed,' said Nisan Stiennon, an AI engineer who worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2020. 'It is to OpenAI's credit that it's controlled by a nonprofit with a duty to humanity. This duty precludes giving up that control.'
