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OpenAI called off plans to launch its latest GPT-6.1 Astra model on Tuesday, after the system failed to meet the company’s safety standards. The...
President Donald Trump has become the subject of bipartisan pushback after another taxpayer-funded television ad aired during at least two Sunday NFL...
On Sunday afternoon, Ireland is set to play a soccer match against Israel amid widespread public calls and protests in the country to boycott the game...
OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly investigating tens of thousands of incidents where their advanced models bypassed monitors and guardrails,...
By 6 p.m. Sunday, the union had already run out of the colorful pins representing each bargaining unit—all 7,000 of them—as people kept coming up...
“I am the code.” So said President Trump to the first architect working on the new White House ballroom being built on the ruins of the...
President Trump’s rambling, combative speech Tuesday to the United Nations General Assembly saw him return to his most serious quagmire yet—the...
President Donald Trump, who loves a media hit, may no longer get his moments of glory on television after major news networks ABC, CBS, Fox News, and...
The shooting of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez came more than two months after an ICE officer fatally shot a man in Houston.
Ed Sheeran opened his Philadelphia show Saturday night by admitting to “making mistakes”—maybe not quite the apology some people were hoping...
President Donald Trump said that he plans to make his proposed 250-foot arch in Washington, DC, a “top grade military complex” that holds large...
I grew up in a highly insular environment, never knowing—let alone interacting with—the outside world, in part due to my family’s history with...
More US military personnel have reportedly died during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has shared publicly, the latest and most serious...
“It’s a milestone deal in making the Western Hemisphere the center of the global energy system,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on...
Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of, among a ton of other stuff, the New England Patriots and its stadium, allegedly pressured Ed Sheeran and his...
In an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, FBI Director Kash Patel did little to acknowledge the continuing fallout...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was on the receiving end of a nearly 10-minute chorus of boos on Saturday morning ahead of the heavyweight college football...
On Friday, former President George W. Bush shared his new collection of self-congratulatory paintings to mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11...
FBI Director Kash Patel seems to be very bad at his job. This was confirmed yet again on Thursday, when national security journalist Seth Hettena...
A Republican-led Senate subcommittee on disaster management is now investigating the July incident where OpenAI’s autonomous models hacked Hugging...
“Countries will fall. Industries are gonna collapse,” Andrew Garfield, the actor playing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, says in the teaser trailer for...
The Trump administration announced an arrangement with Venezuela last week that would see the US take control of 65 billion barrels worth of oil...
On Thursday, Nvidia, the tech giant that develops chips that power AI tools like ChatGPT, announced its acquisition of Hugging Face for nearly $13...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a one-year moratorium on AI use for elementary and middle school students on Wednesday. The decision,...
US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is set to depart the Pentagon in the next few days, following a months-long feud with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth...
The Trump administration is back on the warpath. Over the weekend, the government resumed military attacks on Iran for the first time in a month,...
On Monday, President Trump promoted continued data center construction and criticized opponents, despite growing bipartisan backlash ahead of the...
On Tuesday, Canadian officials announced funding to back businesses, workers, and industries, as they implement dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs on...
As women’s sports continue to be used as a battleground over trans rights, hundreds of people attended a rally before a New York Liberty game...
Democrats and critics of the Trump administration have criticized House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries as reports came out Sunday that he met with...
North Korea launched several ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan on Thursday, according to South Korea’s military—just a day after the...
President Trump hinted on Wednesday that his friendly relationship with North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un may owe a lot to the country’s...
On Tuesday, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung reiterated his calls for the country to retake full control of its military operations from the US...
President Trump spent the weekend turning on two US security partners. He ordered a cutback in joint military exercises with South Korea, citing his...
Since Abdul El-Sayed’s win earlier this month to become the Democratic nominee for Michigan’s US Senate seat, the right has ramped up its attacks...
On Thursday, the surveillance technology company Flock announced that it will limit access to its network of over 120,000 automatic license plate...
Following a chaotic race for Wisconsin governor, moderate Democrat David Crowley defeated progressive Francesca Hong on Tuesday night. Although Hong...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez invoked the term “Woke 1.0” during her Sunday interview on ABC News’ This Week to refer to rhetoric many...
On Saturday, a senior Iranian national security official issued a set of demands that the US must meet before a key waterway for oil shipping can be...
Early Saturday morning, the Senate voted to confirm Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to the official role after Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) caved...
As an ordinary internet user, I am skeptical about AI. My colleagues and I have reported on several harmful aspects of the technology in the US:...
A candidate who suspended his campaign a month ago, spent no money, and endorsed his own rival won Michigan’s 8th Congressional District GOP primary...
Admittedly, I don’t know much about baseball—but I do know that watching the first home run of the Women’s Professional Baseball League on...
When Sen. Bill Cassidy on Thursday expressed his support for Erica Schwartz, President Trump’s pick for CDC director, he signaled that he may once...
The Trump administration has paused its latest, 13-night bombing campaign on Iran, reportedly following concerns within the administration over the...
The incident sounded straight out of a science fiction movie: OpenAI’s super-advanced tool hacked another AI company’s systems in an attempt to...
I don’t know many specifics about former UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer—but I do know his goodbye video is baffling. On Monday, Starmer posted a...
On Monday night, Senate candidate Troy Jackson, Maine Democrats’ likely replacement for Graham Platner, was the subject of reports from colleagues...
As the US military announced an eighth consecutive night of strikes on Saturday against Iran’s military systems, it also reportedly hit the...
“I see the federal agents walking. I had one of those ‘Kick ICE out’ buttons, and he looked at me, and he looked at it again. I said, would you...