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Sources: crypto exchange Backpack, built by ex-FTX and Alameda leaders, is in talks to raise $50M at a $1B pre-money valuation, reports $100M+ in annual revenue — Backpack Exchange, a centralized crypto trading …
Researchers horrified as ChatGPT generates stadium bombing plans, anthrax recipes and drug formulas
Safety tests in 2025 found that stripped-down versions of OpenAI’s models could generate detailed guidance for violent attacks, explosives and cybercrime when guardrails were removed. Conducted with rival Anthropic, the experiments raised alarms that A…
Bar complaint filed over search of Washington Post reporter’s home
A press group says a prosecutor broke ethics rules by not flagging a law that limits searches for reporting materials.
Landmark cases on social media’s impact on children begin this week in US
One case in California focuses on addiction, while another in New Mexico targets access to explicit material.
‘We got your back’: Michigan Ford worker who heckled Trump was not disciplined by union, report says
The worker called the president a ‘pedophile protector’ during a January event at a Ford plant
At least 15 dead as two apartment blocks collapse with rescuers left searching for survivors after ‘horrific disaster’
AT LEAST 15 people have been killed after two apartment buildings crumbled to the ground in Lebanon. Rescue services combed through the mountain of pulverised concrete in the city of Tripoli desperately pulling survivors from the debris. Witnesses reca…
Starmer Pressured to Resign Over Ambassador’s Ties to Epstein
The British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been left on politically unstable ground as more political figures call for his resignation over his appointment of the former ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, who has close ties to Jeffrey E…
See the Olympic medal count for the 2026 Winter Games
Here is a look at where the medal count stands for Team USA and other nations as the competition heats up in the 2026 Winter Olympics.
‘Day of disruption’: Soaring violent crime pushes Israeli Arabs to mobilize
Israeli President Isaac Herzog calls deadly crime in Arab-Israeli society a “national emergency.” But the police, under far-right Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, appear indifferent. Now Arab citizens are overcoming their fears to protest publicly. Jews are j…
Trump’s DOJ throws out charges against Steve Bannon despite conviction and prison time
Former adviser already served a four-month sentence for defying January 6 committee subpoenas