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China Is Starting to Pull Ahead of US in AI Race
Back in 2017, China’s state council laid out the first draft of its long-term AI strategy in a sweeping policy paper. By 2030, it declared, China should have developed its “AI industry competitiveness” to a “world-leading level,” an ambitious goal for a country whose future economic prosperity was not a given. Today, China’s patient cultivation
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UK’s chief rabbi says Jews are facing ‘sustained campaign of violence’ after rise in arson attacks
The U.K.’s chief rabbi said Sunday that British Jews are facing “a sustained campaign of violence and intimidation” after attempted arson at a London synagogue, the latest in a string of similar attacks. The incident that caused minor damage to Kenton United Synagogue on Saturday night follows a series of blazes at Jewish-linked premises and an Iranian opposition
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Karol G at Coachella was a global hit. Yet other foreign acts fear touring the U.S.
On the first Sunday night of Coachella, headliner Karol G told her American fans, and her global audience, to keep fighting. “This is for my Latinos that have been struggling in this country lately,” the Colombian superstar told the tens of thousands watching her in person, and many more on the fest’s livestream. She’d recently
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Ex-attorney raises red flag over Trump’s ‘revenge prosecution list’ target
President Donald Trump has made his next target for prosecution clear, a former attorney has claimed. Joyce Vance, who served as the United States attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 2009 to 2017, suggested former CIA Director John Brennan could be in the firing line of Trump’s legal wrath. Writing in her Substack,
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Rick Monday saved an American flag in 1976. Why the moment resonates 50 years later
There are the great moments we saw, and then there are the great moments we feel we saw. We have heard about them, seen them, talked about them so often that we feel like we were there, even if we might not have been alive at the time. For generations of Dodgers fans, Vin Scully
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Researchers Invented a Fake Disease to Trick AI and the Funniest Possible Thing Happened
In 2024, a team led by University of Gothenburg medical researcher Almira Osmanovic Thunström invented a fake disease that called “bixonimania.” The fictional skin condition, they said, was caused by staring at screens for too long and rubbing one’s eyes too much. As Nature reports, the team uploaded two fake studies (both since been taken
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After 55 years as a broadcaster in L.A., Randy Rosenbloom is leaving town
It’s time to reveal memories, laughs and crazy times from Randy Rosenbloom’s 55 years as a TV/radio broadcaster in Los Angeles. He’s hopping in a car next Sunday with his wife, saying goodbye to a North Hollywood house that’s been in his family since 1952 and driving 3,300 miles to his new home in Greenville,
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I was one of a few conservative professors at Harvard — here’s where the school went wrong
Harvard is in a fix. The nation’s top university is under siege from the Trump administration for the heavily partisan diversity it has practiced for decades. Republicans have long been aware of the hostility that American universities show for them, but President Trump has led a policy reaction that could have occurred long ago. His
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Inside Keith Richards’ debauched years of drug use and his love for heroin
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has cheated death so many times he’s like a cat with nine lives, only in his case, it’s probably ninety-nine. A show in Sacramento in December 1965 proved almost fatal for Richards. While he was singing, Richards, 82, didn’t realize his mic was ungrounded. Keith Richards, seen here in an
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GOP strategists sound the alarm on possible Senate loss: ‘Momentum has shifted’
The Republican Party could lose the Senate following the midterm elections, a selection of party strategists has claimed. GOP personnel believe a blue wave could hit the party in the November elections, and it may mean losing their majority in the Senate. A dire prediction has been made by party insiders, with Michigan-based GOP strategist