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Steve Eisman, the investor who famously called the 2008 housing crash, says the doomsday warnings coming out of the AI industry are a manufactured crisis designed to protect the biggest players. Steve Eisman, the investor who called the 2008 housing crash as immortalized by the movie The Big Short, told CNBC on Thursday that AI companies raising alarms about existential risk are doing so strategically, not out of genuine concern. “They realize that there are no moats around their business whatsoever and they’re trying to manufacture a crisis,” he said. He thinks the goal is to push regulators toward rules that…
The land Down Under is known for hosting any number of creatures great and small that can kill you. Rowers competing at the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games will face that challenge after their event was approved Thursday for the waters of the Fitzroy River which hosts more than 600 saltwater crocodiles. That’s not all. Lethal Australian box jellyfish have also been found found near the mouth and tidal saltwater sections of the central Queensland river’s waters in the past. Add bull sharks and deadly snakes amongst its potential lethal predators in the water and along the banks. Not that any of…
North Carolina Democrat U.S. Senate candidate and former Gov. Roy Cooper was forced to pay $75,000 and issue a formal apology to a Republican opponent in his first statewide campaign to settle a defamation lawsuit. After serving 14 years in the North Carolina General Assembly, Cooper set his sights on becoming the state’s Attorney General in 2000. With the race considered to be close, Cooper’s campaign — led by the same consultant in this year’s race, Morgan Jackson — decided it needed to “hit Boyce and hit him soon.” Not only that, Cooper personally made the false claims in the attack worse and…
A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a police facility in Kohat city as people were praying at a mosque inside A suicide car bomber and accompanying gunmen struck a police facility in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 16 people – including five police officers – during prayers at a mosque, officials have said.The vehicle rammed into an outer wall of the police facility in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province’s Kohat city, provincial police chief Zulfikar Hameed was reported as saying. “It was a suicide attack,” he added.Police personnel, their family members, and other civilians were offering Friday prayers…
Photo credit: depositphotos.com Dmitry Shushlebin, 45, a Russian citizen living in Miami Beach, Florida, was sentenced on Wednesday to six years in prison and three years of supervised release for organizing an identity theft fraud scheme and ordered to pay $458,839.69 in restitution. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Shushlebin’s scheme included efforts to submit more than 100 fraudulent voter registration applications to create fake identities that he could use to commit financial fraud. Per the DOJ: On July 24, 2025, the United States filed a four-count superseding information charging Shushlebin with conspiracy to give false information in registering…
A pro-Palestinian activist will not face any penalty for defacing the statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square despite admitting in court to having spray-painted political messages on the monument. Caspar San Giorgi, 39, was acquitted by the Southwark Crown Court of criminal damage this week over an incident in February in which he climbed onto the Churchill statue and used red spray paint to write the messages “Free Palestine”, “Stop the Genocide”, and describing Britain’s WWII leader as a “Zionist War Criminal”. Despite the prosecution claiming that the red paint vandalism on the public property had caused £7,000 in damage,…
Toys “R” Us is planning to open over 100 new stores with locations announced in two states, according to the New York Post. The retailer experienced bankruptcy in 2017 but toy sales have subsequently been growing, the outlet reported Thursday, noting some stores would be located in White Plains, New York, and Millburn, New Jersey. “Toy sales in the U.S. grew 17 percent in the first half of the year — the strongest first-half performance in six years — largely fueled by adults who are snatching up trading cards and collectibles, according to Circana. Adults now account for 55 percent of…
Angel Mom Elizabeth Carter says her newlywed son, 25-year-old Billy Carter, and his wife, 24-year-old Jenny Lynn Lower, would be alive today if not for former President Joe Biden and former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s catch-and-release policy at the southern border. During an immigration subcommittee hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, Carter detailed her son and daughter-in-law’s deaths allegedly at the hands of an illegal alien truck driver from India. Carter said, “I have to say, as a lifelong Democrat, I am ashamed of what my party is doing,” the New York Post reported. As Breitbart News reported at…
The billionaire wielded his foundation’s vast wealth to push countries to spend more on vaccination, the former German chancellor says Bill Gates turned the vast financial resources of his foundation into political leverage, using its wealth to pressure governments to spend more on vaccination, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. In the Meckel & Matthes podcast released by Handelsblatt earlier this month, Merkel warned that uncontrolled corporate power could leave governments doing “what the corporations order.” She said she first saw the danger not with the rise of artificial intelligence, but when Gates set up his foundation, which had…
New York Mets first baseman Jared Young receives medical attention after being knocked unconscious in a collision with teammate. (Screenshot via X/@deadpullhitter) A terrifying collision at Citi Field Thursday night left New York Mets first baseman Jared Young motionless in the dirt. Then the city’s emergency crews turned a medical emergency into a viral embarrassment. The terrifying incident occurred in the sixth inning when Mets pitcher Nolan McLean raced toward first base to field a slow ground ball. As McLean attempted to cover the bag, his knee slammed into Young’s head, sending the 31-year-old player face-first onto the dirt. Young…