A senior Pentagon official publicly mocked former White House artificial intelligence adviser Dean Ball on Sunday over regulation of Chinese artificial intelligence models. War Department Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael unloaded on Ball — now a top executive at OpenAI — when Ball suggested the Trump administration should discourage use…
A federal judge on Monday granted a 14-day temporary restraining order to block Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The move comes after a dozen Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on July 13 to halt the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin — who then-President Joe Biden nominated in…
Democratic Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones asked a court to throw out a suit against the state’s ban on modern semi-automatic firearms, ignoring multiple rulings by the United States Supreme Court in his filing. Washington County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Campbell issued a statewide injunction blocking enforcement of SB 749, informing Jones and other officials that…
Increasing the size of Congress may be on the table for some scholars on the left and right alike. The U.S. population rose from over 123 million in 1930 to over 331 million in 2020, according to the U.S. Census. Yale University historian Mark Peterson argued that the U.S. House of Representatives’ 435-seat limit set in 1929 makes the…
A paralyzed man in China became the first person on Earth to receive a brain chip cleared for sale. Chinese neurotech firm Neuracle placed its coin-sized Neural Electronic Opportunity device onto the man’s brain, the South China Morning Post reported Wednesday. The brain-computer interface gave him control of a robotic glove with his thoughts, after…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled this week’s meeting with President Donald Trump amid apparent tensions with the American president. Netanyahu cancelled his plans to visit the U.S. due to a scheduling conflict surrounding the late Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham’s funeral, i24NEWS reported Thursday. However, some say the real reason could have more…
