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Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a talk session in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)Getty ImagesAI’s economics are starting to break down. Across Big Tech, startups and model providers, companies are discovering that the cost of running generative AI systems is rising faster than the revenue they bring in — a reversal that is forcing budget cuts, internal tool restrictions and warnings from executives who once championed the technology. If the trend continues, the sector’s soaring capital spending could drag on margins and valuations.For more than a decade, the idea that AI could replace massive numbers of…

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei — who has not been seen or heard from publicly since succeeding his slain father following the opening U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran — declared Tuesday that “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” would become the rallying cries of the Muslim world while vowing that the Jewish state was nearing the “final stages” of its existence. In a written message marking the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, Khamenei described Israel as a “cancerous tumor,” echoed his father’s prediction that the Jewish state would not survive another 25 years from a decade ago — effectively placing…

Tuesday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were a continuing “threat of violence and escalation.” Kim said, “So I tried my best to get between the ICE agents and the crowd as the ICE convoy decided to just go ahead and plow through the crowd, which was just absolutely so dangerous of an action that they were doing. So I remember the pepper balls starting to get shot towards my feet and past me. I did not get hit directly by a pepper ball, but certainly between the pepper balls and then the…

Social media firms would be forced to boost “reliable” news outlets and punish “disinformation” German regulators plan to force social media platforms such as X to boost government-approved “reliable” media outlets in their algorithms, according to leaked documents. The US government has vowed to respond over what it sees as pressure on American tech firms.In a draft ‘Digital Media State Treaty’ seen by Apollo News, the heads of Germany’s 14 state media regulators have outlined plans to boost the visibility of “public value media” on social media platforms such as X and TikTok.In order to combat “disinformative, polarizing, or merely…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Katy Tur Reports,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) discussed the war in Iran and said that “however we can end this, I don’t know how we come out in a better situation than we were before this war started.” And “The idea that the American military, as good as it is, is going to be able to bomb Iran into subjugation, I think, we found, is not true. … So, if bombing isn’t going to get us there, if the only way we are going to accomplish the president’s goals is to put thousands of…

The Chinese state newspaper Global Times published an article on Tuesday celebrating that Chinese manufacturers were dominating the market for FIFA World Cup branded products, from soccer balls to team jerseys. The FIFA World Cup is one of the world’s most prestigious sporting events, occurring every four years. This year’s contest is scheduled to begin in June and is hosted by all three mainland North American states; the final game will be held in New Jersey. The Chinese national team did not qualify to compete for the World Cup and, despite China’s illustrious record at the Olympics and other international…

Trump-backed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton decisively defeated John Cornyn, a roughly 23-year Senate incumbent, in Tuesday’s Republican U.S. Senate runoff, advancing to face Democrat James Talarico in November after opening a roughly 25-point lead. Associated Press called the race at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time, estimating 49 percent of the vote had been counted. At the time of the call, Paxton led Cornyn 62.5 percent to 37.5 percent, with 505,741 votes to Cornyn’s 303,276. Paxton’s victory comes one week after President Donald Trump gave him his “Complete and Total Endorsement,” calling him “The Highly Respected Attorney General of Texas,” “an…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said that with Iran, “we may end up back where we were under Obama by having an inspection regime, but no ability to really get the enriched uranium out. But I will take that.” Warner said, “Donald Trump’s war of choice needs to come to an end. We are more than 80 days in. He’s not accomplished any of the goals, from regime change, to getting the enriched uranium, to getting rid of their missiles, or Lord knows the Strait of Hormuz was not a problem before the war…

California Democrats running for governor are promising to protect migrant semi-truck drivers from English proficiency tests on the nation’s highways, even after being shown a video of a migrant truck driver who could not understand road signs. During a debate in April, former Biden administration Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra said he would “push back on the Trump administration” regarding migrant truck drivers being given English proficiency tests. “I would definitely push back on the Trump administration on, again, a reckless policy,” Becerra answered in response to being asked if the California Highway Patrol (CHP) should…

A Tbilisi court has handed down seven- and ten-year prison terms over military-grade explosives smuggled through Türkiye A Georgian court has jailed two Ukrainian nationals for smuggling military-grade explosives into the country.The men were sentenced to seven and ten years respectively after being convicted by the Tbilisi City Court of illegally acquiring, storing, transporting, and selling hexogen as well as smuggling the explosive material into Georgia.In September 2025, Georgian security services discovered 2.4 kg of hexogen – known as RDX and described by the authorities as a “high-powered explosive stronger than TNT” – hidden inside a Mercedes-Benz truck with Ukrainian…