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Andreessen Horowitz Partner Boasts That the Company’s New Tech Can Fabricate Fake History Like in “1984”
Text-to-video AI generating tools have come a long way. Just three years ago, we were all unsettled by grisly clips of actor Will Smith’s face morphing while “eating” a moving pile of spaghetti. Thanks to major leaps in the tech, these tools can now generate photorealistic fake footage at the drop of a hat —…
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Uganda approves sending troops for international force in Gaza
KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan authorities sought and won parliamentary approval Thursday to deploy troops to Gaza as part of the international force proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace to secure the territory following the devastating Israel-Hamas war. The successful motion, brought by the defense minister, is Uganda’s first public indication of its willingness to…
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Soldier’s wife hauled off by ICE during green card appointment: ‘Really betrayed’
An 11-year Army soldier said he felt shocked and betrayed after ICE agents stormed into his wife’s green card interview and detained her, Newsweek reported on Thursday. Staff Sergeant Alexis Jaramillo, 43, described the disbelief after his wife, Maisa Lopes Eliaser, 32, was ripped from his side during what he, his wife, their son and…
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Minnie Driver is ‘grateful to be alive’ after ‘really bad,’ near-fatal car crash
Minnie Driver was in a “really bad” car collision in France. The “Emily in Paris” star told her Instagram followers Thursday — while wearing a neck brace — that she is “grateful to be alive.” The actress, 56, detailed the crash, explaining, “I got into a really bad car accident a few days ago with…
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Crews remove the granite seal on the White House helipad, signaling potential project delays
WASHINGTON — Construction crews working on a new helipad at the White House have taken apart the massive granite seal that would serve as the new landing spot for Marine One, signaling potential delays in the project. Photos captured by the Associated Press on Wednesday show construction workers using a jackhammer on the helipad, which no longer…
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Judge rips Todd Blanche’s ‘strange and unharmonious’ legal grasp in latest benchslap
A federal judge tore apart Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s legal case for seizing voter data Thursday, calling his reading of the law “strange and unharmonious.” U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss, an Obama appointee who once ran the Justice Department’s own legal office, dismissed Blanche’s lawsuit against the D.C. Board of Elections. Blanche had sued…
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For ‘One Night Only’ Director Will Gluck, Rom-Coms Never Died
When Will Gluck’s film “Anyone but You” came out two years ago, it had a pretty sluggish opening weekend over the Christmas holiday. But then, week by week, more people kept showing up. The Sydney Sweeney-Glen Powell rom-com rode positive buzz and momentum to gross more than $220 million against its $25 million budget, in…
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DeepMind Says Its AI Can Predict Hurricanes Earlier Than Everyone Else
In October 2025, a storm brewed over the Caribbean Sea. Weather models differed on its trajectory. Would it remain weak and end up in Haiti, or would it intensify and head to Jamaica? Artificial intelligence model WeatherNext, developed by Google’s DeepMind and Google Research, went with the latter. Five days before landfall, it predicted with…
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Warner Bros. Discovery earnings tumble amid film studio struggles
Warner Bros. Discovery stumbled in the second quarter, demonstrating the hazard of depending heavily on blockbuster returns from its Burbank film studio. Disappointing performances by “Supergirl” and “The Bride,” drove down quarterly theatrical revenue by 46%. The tepid showing illustrated how the Warner Bros. studio has fallen since last year when it was riding high…
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Trump declares he would fire Supreme Court justices if he could
President Donald Trump made a striking admission during a Las Vegas rally Wednesday. Talking at Red Rock Casino Resort Spa, Trump praised liberal Supreme Court justices for their unity while criticizing Republican justices for lacking cohesion. “The Republican judges or justices, they don’t stick together,” but acknowledged the three liberal justices “all stick together like…