For most of the artificial intelligence revolution, the global race has revolved around a small group of American companies. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have swapped places at the top, with each new model briefly claiming the title of the world’s most advanced AI system. Chinese firms occasionally disrupted that narrative, producing powerful models at lower […]
Another pause has arrived in the conflict between the United States and Iran. American military strikes have stopped for now. Iran has also refrained from further retaliatory attacks. Diplomacy has been given additional room, and mediators are again trying to turn a temporary halt in violence into something more durable. That is welcome. But it […]
The wife of Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy was shot Sunday at their home in the Northern Virginia suburb of Ashburn, police said. The shooting, which was first reported by ESPN, occurred on the 20000 block of Northpark Drive, where police said they were called just after 7:30 p.m. ESPN reported that Mia...
Former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci was keenly aware of the media's interest in him early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, and considered some of the attention "flattering," according to diary entries released by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). Over the weekend, Paul published more than a thousand pages of Fauci's diary entries as...
Analyst Nate Silver said Sunday that Americans may be “moving on” from President Trump amid rocky political territory for the president and his party. “It's kind of striking how, apart from Iran, most of the Trump-related stories this summer have been boring and dumb (reflection pool, White House Correspondents' Dinner) or kind of funny (FIFA),...
Nvidia is launching a new alliance focused on building and sharing open-source AI tools to boost cybersecurity defenses, as the push for open-source technologies ramps up in the U.S. Nvidia announced Monday that the Open Secure AI Alliance will use open-source tools to identify, patch and disclose security vulnerabilities across infrastructure. Open models, according to...
President Trump is visiting Michigan on Monday in a push to highlight manufacturing and auto industry jobs ahead of the midterm elections. Trump is expected to focus on the economy during a speech at General Motors‘s Milford Proving Ground facility in Milford, Mich., where the automaker tests new vehicles and emerging technologies. He is also expected to...
With the right laws and incentives, data centers can transform from an extractive burden to an engine that builds communities and the clean energy economy. There’s a wrong way to power data centers, but you can push your state to do it right.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said a person who recently visited Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) while he has been in a rehabilitation center described the former leader as "clear-minded." Capito told independent journalist Nicholas Ballasy in a video posted Saturday that she knew what had been reported, that McConnell "is recovering and is healing and...
Thomas Massie accused President Trump and Secretary Hegseth of violating the War Powers Resolution, joining Democrats in a resolution to sue over the Iran war.