A hardware leader at OpenAI has left the artificial intelligence firm in the wake of the company’s recent partnership with the Pentagon, citing concerns over surveillance and autonomous weapons. Caitlin Kalinowski, who was a member of OpenAI’s technical staff overseeing hardware, announced Friday that “principle, not people” led to the decision. “This wasn’t an easy call. AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without...
Mojtaba Khamenei was selected to lead Iran on Monday after his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in U.S.-Israeli airstrikes. Mojtaba was elected by a body of 88 Iranian clerics known as the Assembly of Experts. Father-to-son succession is traditionally frowned upon in the Shiite Muslim clerical establishment in part due to an intent to separate...
The Defense Department on Monday identified the U.S. soldier killed by an Iranian attack on a Saudi Arabia air base as 26-year-old Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington. Pennington, of Glendale, Ky., died Sunday from injuries sustained during the March 1 attack at Prince Sultan Air Base. He had been assigned to 1st Space Battalion, 1st Space...
President Trump on Sunday said the decision to end the war in Iran will be a “mutual” decision with Israel. "I think it’s mutual … a little bit. We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account," Trump told the Times of Israel newspaper in...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is refusing to rule out U.S. boots on the ground in Iran as the joint military operations with Israel against the country enter a second week. During a “60 Minutes” interview with CBS News’s Major Garrett that aired late Sunday, Hegseth confirmed that U.S. forces were not on the ground in...