WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — Under President Donald Trump, the drug war is looking a lot like the war on terror. To support strikes against Latin American gangs and drug cartels, the Trump administration is relying on a legal argument that gained traction after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, which allowed U.S. authorities to use … Read more
Canadian Nobel winner Peter Howitt believes that artificial intelligence (AI) symbolises the most dramatic shift in our times. “It has tremendous potential to benefit mankind but also tremendous potential to destroy the value of a lot of people’s human capital,” he said. Howitt shares one half of the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with … Read more
In Beijing this week, the company’s chief executive, Tim Cook, made promises similar to ones he’d made at the White House. He also got a custom Labubu. Source link
PHOENIX — PHOENIX (AP) — A man who was convicted of killing four members of a Phoenix family over 30 years ago as an act of revenge is set to be put to death Friday in what is set be Arizona’s second execution of the year. Richard Kenneth Djerf, 55, is scheduled to die by … Read more
AI systems acting without human control could one day pose a security threat, the head of Britain’s MI5 spy agency said on Thursday, although he said he was not predicting doom scenarios as depicted in sci-fi movies. Tech leaders have warned about the dangers of unchecked AI, and that people should be concerned about a … Read more
The chair of the House Select Committee on China said Thursday that a licensing agreement for use of the TikTok algorithm, as part of a deal by China-based ByteDance to sell U.S. assets of the short video app, would raise “serious concerns.” Representative John Moolenaar, a Republican, is waiting for a briefing to get more … Read more
Indian IT firms Infosys , Wipro and LTIMindtree beat estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday and pointed to improving demand in the back half of the year as clients show more willingness to fund AI projects. Their upbeat results follow a strong showing by market leader Tata Consultancy Services last week and bode well for … Read more
A federal judge had previously dismissed the complaint as unnecessarily lengthy and digressive. The president claims that The Times sought to defame him during the 2024 election. Source link
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is showing little urgency to broker a compromise that would end the government shutdown, even as Democrats insist no breakthrough is possible without his direct involvement. Three weeks in, Congress is at a standstill. The House hasn’t been in session for a month, and senators left Washington … Read more
LAS CUEVAS, Trinidad — LAS CUEVAS, Trinidad (AP) — Venezuela’s ambassador to the U.N., Samuel Moncada, condemned on Thursday a recent U.S. strike on a small boat in Caribbean waters that killed six people, calling it “a new set of extrajudicial executions.” He called on the U.N. Security Council to investigate what he called a … Read more