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Anthropic partners with California to expand AI use by government workers
Anthropic teamed up with California to get more state workers to use its artificial intelligence assistant Claude as part of an effort to leverage technology to make the government more efficient. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who announced the partnership on Monday, said state agencies will be able to access Claude at a 50% discount. Free training…
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How the American experiment could last another 250 years
America has accomplished amazing things in the first 250 years of its nationhood. It went from being a peripheral colony to being the richest and most powerful country in the world. We are the nation of Midwestern corn and wheat fields, the automobile, the personal computer, the internet, Hollywood, television, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll, rap,…
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We’ve Been Undercounting the Insects. There May Be Three Times as Many Species as We Knew
A macro wildlife photograph capturing butterfly resting on the ground. —Prasert Krainukul—Getty Images Think your back yard can get buggy in the summer—with mosquitoes, flies, moths, wasps, bees, lightning bugs, crickets, and more swarming, buzzing, and chirping everywhere? That’s nothing compared to the great global yard that is the Earth. According to the Smithsonian Institution,…
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Man arrested after allegedly throwing concrete chunks at LAPD from high-rise building in downtown L.A.
A man was arrested Monday morning after allegedly throwing chunks of concrete at police from a high-rise building in downtown Los Angeles, according to authorities. The Los Angeles Police Department responded to a report of victim in need of medical assistance at 2:30 a.m. on South Broadway, according to the LAPD. The person was hospitalized…
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Taylor Sheridan Slams Studio Execs for Trying to ‘Control Every Element’ of Creative Process
Taylor Sheridan slammed Hollywood studio executives for trying to control “every element” of getting a show made. While speaking on “The Bill Simmons Podcast,” the “Yellowstone” and “Landman” creator laid out his case for why current studio executives are making it increasingly difficult to get shows made. He argued that the number of notes given…
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Deranged Penn Station slasher’s victims desperately tried to fight back, one with a backpack: DA
Penn Station commuters carved up by a blade-wielding madman in a bloody rampage earlier this month desperately tried fighting back, including one victim who used his backpack to shield the attack, prosecutors revealed Monday. Two men — ages 60 and 42 — both failed to stave off Hector Deleon, 51, during his alleged June 7…
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Bravo stars Kyle Cooke and Ava Dash spotted kissing in the Hamptons after denying they are dating
Is it a Bravo match made in EDM heaven? A spy spotted “Summer House” star Kyle Cooke and “Next Gen NYC” breakout Ava Dash (and the daughter of hip hop mogul Damon Dash and designer Rachel Roy) looking close in the VIP section at the Palm Tree Music Festival on the Shinnecock Nation grounds in…
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After Venezuela’s Earthquakes, Neighbors Dig Through Rubble for Survivors
People walk past a collapsed building in Caracas after powerful twin earthquakes struck Venezuela on June 25, 2026. —Manaure Quintero—AFP/Getty Images Maria was in the living room of her third-floor apartment in Caracas when the walls began to move. The television shook. Furniture crashed to the floor. In the bathroom, the quake tore a water…
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T-Pain’s unreleased song with Oliver Tree gets playtime, with a little help from Shaq
Oliver Tree’s music and memory lived on at the Electric Forest festival over the weekend, where T-Pain and Shaquille O’Neal teased what is likely the late singer’s final project. Grammy winner T-Pain and the former NBA player (performing as DJ Diesel) paid tribute to Tree during their set on the second night of the three-day…
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Will This Summer Be a Record Hot One?
People are seen at the Hole-in-the-Rock as temperature hits 107 Fahrenheit at the Papago Park in Phoenix of Maricopa County in Arizona on June 8, 2026. —Tayfun Coskun—Getty Images A heat dome is expected to build over much of the U.S. this week, bringing scorching temperatures to the Midwest, Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, Mid‑Atlantic, and…