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Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz said in an interview Thursday he is looking to take up legislation to address the “catastrophic risk” posed by artificial intelligence — increasingly top of mind after a major OpenAI security incident this week. It’s a first glimpse at the types of bills that could be on the agenda for a big markup of AI and kids’ online safety measures the Texas Republican plans to hold the first week of August, and about which he has been largely secretive. “Look, it’s deeply concerning, and there are undoubted risks and catastrophic risks that that AI potentially…

Kiev’s drones hit at least 13 ships in the Azov and Black Seas on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the country’s drone chief At least one Turkish sailor was killed and others wounded following a drone strike on a Türkiye-flagged coal bulker off Russia’s port of Novorossiysk on Wednesday, amid intensified Ukrainian attacks on shipping in the Azov and Black seas.The Istanbul-registered MV Reyhan Sari was carrying coal from Russia’s Taman Port to Trabzon in Türkiye when it was struck by a UAV. A crew member working in the engine room died at the scene of the impact, Türkiye Today…

The US Senate on Thursday rejected an Iran war powers resolution to restrain President Trump in a 47 to 49 vote. RINO Senator Susan Collins voted with the Democrats. Democrat Senator John Fetterman voted with the Republicans. Senators Rand Paul and Lisa Murkowski did not vote. The Senate blocked the war powers resolution after the House earlier Thursday voted 214-208 to pass the measure. Four Republicans voted with the Democrats to pass the measure: Barrett, Fitzpatrick, Davidson, and Massie. CBS News reported: The Senate rejected the latest attempt to rein in President Trump’s war powers in Iran on Thursday, soon…

Communist dictator of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega this week declared the end of elections in the Central American country — further cementing his decades-old rule. Ortega made the announcement on Sunday at a regime event in Managua marking the 47th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution next to his wife Rosario Murillo, who serves as his regime’s dictatorial “co-president” since 2025. The announcement marked Ortega’s first public appearance in about two months. The 80-year-old dictator announced that no more elections will take place in Nicaragua to eliminate the possibility of any democratic opposition to his communist regime, including prospective democratic parties with…

The cofounder of Hugging Face, a technology start-up compromised when OpenAI’s advanced AI models broke containment protocols, stated Thursday that the breach by self-directed AI models represents a critical warning for the technology sector. BBC News reports that Thomas Wolf, co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face, told BBC’s Newsday radio that autonomous AI cyber attacks will become increasingly common, yet most companies remain unaware of the fundamental shift in threat landscape. Wolf emphasized that the industry must recognize how dramatically the security environment has transformed. Breitbart News reported this week that OpenAI admitted that its AI models escaped from…

Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said Wednesday that a photo from Abdul El-Sayed’s Detroit rally told him “all he needs to know” about the progressive candidate’s standing with black voters in Michigan’s Democrat Senate primary. Clyburn, who is backing Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), was reacting to a photo from the rally. His comments landed 13 days out from the August 4 primary, with establishment Democrats pressing their advantage over El-Sayed. “I saw a picture that concerned me coming out of Michigan. I saw the rally,” Clyburn said. “I didn’t see a single person that looks like me. That tells me all…

Senators are adding financial penalties against Iran to a bipartisan Russia sanctions package they are hoping to move before the August recess, Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday. “It was a late add,” Thune told reporters. “I think everybody’s fine with it because we would do it anyway. Iran sanctions is something we’ve had in place for the last 30 years.” Senators have been trying to pass a bipartisan bill sanctioning Russia and buyers of its oil for months, but the effort has taken on new momentum after the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham, who was one of the bill’s…

The European Commission has pocketed more than $6 billion in big tech fines this month alone EU regulators have fined Google €890 million ($1 billion) for anti-competitive practices, days after the European Commission confirmed that it will use another €4.6 billion fine against the US tech giant to plug its budget deficit.Two fines were handed down on Thursday by the European Commission. Google was fined €460 million for prioritizing its own services – such as shopping and travel deals – over those of rival companies in search results, in violation of the EU’s Digital Markets Act. A second fine of…

A Framingham, Massachusetts-based LGBTQ youth organization that was endorsed by Governor Maura Healy openly advertised a marketing photoshoot that paid White models less than “people of color” as a “commitment to racial equity.” The organization, OUT MetroWest Inc., is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that describes its mission as building communities where LGBTQ youth “thrive through social, educational, and supportive programming.” OUT MetroWest, in coordination with Rose Wine Photography, promoted a “Youth Photoshoot 2026” scheduled for August 12 from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. at its Framingham headquarters. According to a report from Mass Daily News, the group sought 20 LGBTQ+ youth, pre-K…

Nothing is more amusing than watching people paid to comment on what others do (and I am one of those) smugly assuming they know know best while they underestimate the doers. This was everywhere in the summer of 2015 when Donald Trump announced his run for president. Almost everyone in the media and in establishment politics had a big laugh without ever once sitting back and looking at how much Trump had already accomplished. Here was a guy who remained a pop culture figure for (at the time) over 30 years — how many people have done that? He’d conquered…