Former special counsel Jack Smith's probe into President Trump and Republicans collected "communications" from members of the news media, including major networks and newspapers, the Senate's senior lawmaker revealed Tuesday.
In the span of a few months, advanced AI systems from three leading American laboratories crossed the boundaries of safety tests and affected real systems. Google’s Gemini accessed systems at three companies. An Anthropic model published malicious code that reached 15 outside systems. And as revealed last week, these are creating international incidents, with OpenAI’s […]
When Europe’s leaders gathered in Yerevan, Armenia, in May, the sharpest words about Europe’s view of the South Caucasus came from a leader who was not in the room. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, speaking by video link from Baku, used his allotted time at the European Political Community summit to rebuke the European Parliament for […]
Congress is about to approve millions in federal spending that will teeter on the edge of compromising decades of scientific progress. S. 2898, the Dennis John Benigno Traumatic Brain Injury Program Reauthorization Act, requires the study of long-term effects of traumatic brain injury, or TBI, but its current draft undermines the very science it intends […]
On Sept. 23, a brigadier general advising the Houthi-run Defense Ministry gave an interview to Agence France-Presse and described the war’s architecture better than most analysts have. “The militias and Iran form one alliance and one body,” Abed Mohammed al Thawr said. There is “joint coordination and cooperation between us, Iran and Lebanon, represented by […]
President Donald Trump took a bold step against left-wing, liberal bias in the media this month when he prohibited the political publication Politico and cable outlets CNN and MS Now from the White House grounds. The ban, while unquestionably warranted, was predictably short-lived, as Judge Timothy Kelly of the U.S. District Court in Washington ruled […]
In Iron Man (2008), an American industrialist says to an Asian warlord, “Technology. It’s always been your Achilles’ heel in this part of the world.” While that may not always have been true, it certainly has been for the last 600 years or so. The Chinese had ships much larger than Columbus ever did, but […]