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A city in Texas could lose its state funding over a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and an arms embargo against Israel. Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, wrote a letter to San Marcos Mayor Jane Hughson admonishing the City Council, which voted to bring the resolution to a formal vote on May 6. In…
Wednesday’s panel on CNN’s “NewsNight with Abby Phillip” devolved into chaos and personal attacks during a heated discussion on President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and the deportation of Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The most contentious moment of the night came when “The View” host Ana Navarro made a comment on illegal immigration versus slavery,…
Microsoft has been instructing engineers working on its AI infrastructure to get ready to host Elon Musk‘s Grok AI model, according to a trusted source familiar with the plans. In recent weeks Microsoft has been in discussions with xAI to host the Grok AI model and make it available to customers and Microsoft’s own product…
A federal judge has cleared the way for a man described by the Department of Justice (DOJ) as MS-13’s leader on the East Coast to be deported. U.S. District Court Judge Claude Hilton dismissed criminal charges against Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos, 24, of El Salvador on Wednesday, according to his lawyer, Muhammad Elsayed. Villatoro Santos…
Golfing great Phil Mickelson fired off on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on social media Wednesday over the Democratic leader’s criticisms of the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. Schumer on Wednesday criticized the Republican-backed legislation which passed in the House earlier this month. The bill would require voters to obtain proof of citizenship in…
It’s not really a secret that the advertising industry is about to get upended by AI – one reason big platform companies like Google and Meta have been so deeply invested in photo and video generation is because they know the first heavy users of those tools will be advertisers on their platforms. But no…
Wikipedia isn’t replacing their human editors with artificial intelligence yet – but they’re giving them a bit of an AI boost. On Wednesday, the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, announced that it was integrating generative AI into its editing process as a means to help its volunteer and largely unpaid staff of moderators,…
Google is preparing to publicly unleash its AI Mode search engine tool for the first time. The company announced today that “a small percentage” of people in the US will start seeing an AI Mode tab in Google Search “in the coming weeks,” allowing users to test the search-centric chatbot outside of Google’s experimental Labs…
Waymo released a new study today that it says shows its fully driverless vehicles continuing to outperform human drivers after 56.7 million miles. The peer-reviewed study, which is slated for publication in Traffic Injury Prevention Journal, analyzes Waymo’s performance in 11 different crash scenarios compared to human drivers. In addition, it cites early evidence that…
After an awkward collision during the fourth inning of the Baltimore Orioles’ 5-4 win over the New York Yankees on Wednesday, tempers flared, and the benches cleared. Orioles’ outfielder Heston Kjerstad stole second base, and as he slid, Yankees second baseman Pablo Reyes landed on Kjerstad’s head and neck area after he jumped in an…