Welcome to the Jade Helm Presidency
A panic pervades the internet: terrified talk of troops in American cities, federal shock troops brutalizing citizens and neighbors, the...
artificial intelligence
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 Launch Signals AI Arms Race Intensifying
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.5 with frontier coding and agent capabilities as company raises 2026 revenue forecast 20% amid major...
Google’s AI Detection Tool Can’t Decide if Its Own AI Made Doctored Photo of Crying Activist
When the official White House X account posted an image depicting activist Nekima Levy Armstrong in tears during her arrest,...
Protests and Power Plays: From Tehran to the Arctic Circle
The people of Iran are in the midst of one of the country’s biggest uprisings — and harshest government crackdowns...
Viral protest video against Iran’s supreme leader sparks copycat demonstrations worldwide
A viral video showing an Iranian refugee lighting a cigarette using a burning image of Iran’s supreme leader has become...
Why Is Everyone Suddenly Talking About Putting Data Centers in Space?
Data centers present sprawling engineering and political problems, with ravenous appetites for land and resources. Building them on Earth has...
AI’s Imperial Agenda
After OpenAI CEO Sam Altman launched ChatGPT in 2022, the race for dominance in the field of artificial intelligence hit...
Canadian politician arrested after claiming threatening voicemail was AI-generated
A Canadian politician who claimed a voicemail she allegedly left a potential mayoral candidate last summer was generated by artificial...
How Corporate Partnerships Powered University Surveillance of Palestine Protests
A cluster of tents had sprung up on the University of Houston’s central lawn. Draped in keffiyehs and surrounded by...
The FBI Wants AI Surveillance Drones With Facial Recognition
The FBI is looking for ways to incorporate artificial intelligence into drones, according to federal procurement documents. On Thursday, the...
Robert Reich Thinks Democrats Are On the Brink of a New Era
The Labor Department reported September jobs numbers on Thursday, showing employers added 119,000 jobs to the economy but also an...
Putin says health ‘fine’ after two-day checkup, refuses blood pressure test at AI event: report
Vladimir Putin said he is in good health after a two-day medical checkup despite backing out of a blood pressure...
Putin calls dancing Russian robot ‘very beautiful’ in awkward AI conference moment
Russian President Vladimir Putin was caught on camera looking stony-faced as he watched a robot dance at a Moscow AI...
ICE Investigations, Powered by Nvidia
Nvidia, the computing giant that this week became the world’s first $5 trillion company, is powering U.S. Immigration and Customs...
As Israel Bombed Gaza, Amazon Did Business With Its Bomb-Makers
Amazon sold cloud-computing services to two Israeli weapons manufacturers whose munitions helped devastate Gaza, according to internal company materials obtained...
