The US has shared a video of an attack on Iran’s drone carrier IRIS Shahid Bagheri
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ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 AI model is held back by limited compute resources that create a bottleneck, forcing users to wait hours to generate a single video (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
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ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 AI model is held back by limited compute resources that create a bottleneck, forcing users to wait hours to generate a single video — ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 AI video model seemed uns…
US approves temporary sale of stranded Russian oil to India
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the waiver was issued “to enable oil to keep flowing into the global market” after the Iran conflict raised supply concerns.
Expert flags ‘bigger risk’ Trump just created by firing Kristi Noem
A former GOP speechwriter flagged a “bigger risk” that President Donald Trump just created after he fired Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. On Thursday morning, Trump posted on Truth Social that he was replacing Noem with Sen. Mar…
Pokémon Company objects to White House’s political memes
“No permission was granted for the use of our intellectual property,” the company said. The Trump administration frequently promotes policies with content from video games.
Israeli strikes target Iran, Lebanon; U.S. warns bombardment to ‘surge dramatically’
Intense Israeli airstrikes are pounding the capitals of Iran and Lebanon as the U.S. apparently struck an Iranian drone carrier at sea, intensifying its campaign targeting the Islamic Republic’s fleet of warships.
China dials down growth ambitions with decades-low target. Here’s why
China has set its lowest growth target in decades, acknowledging domestic challenges and pointing to global uncertainty.
Trump Is Engineering Ethnic Cleansing to Install a Dictator in Iran
CNN reported this week that the CIA is arming Iranian Kurdish forces to destabilize Iran further. The White House called it “completely false,” while it confirmed Trump had spoken to Kurdish leaders, an intentional contradiction. A former m…
Sources: OpenAI employees claim the DOD tested Microsoft’s Azure version of OpenAI models before OpenAI lifted its blanket ban on military use in January 2024 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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Sources: OpenAI employees claim the DOD tested Microsoft’s Azure version of OpenAI models before OpenAI lifted its blanket ban on military use in January 2024 — Sources allege the Defense Department experimente…
Porn websites begin blocking Australian users as deadline for age verification compliance looms
Several sites now state they are ‘not currently accepting new account registrations in your region’ when accessed from AustraliaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA number of…