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Andrew Tulloch, a top AI researcher who made headlines when Mark Zuckerberg lured him to Meta with a pay package that reportedly could have topped $1.5 billion, has left the social media giant after just one year. Semafor reports that Tulloch’s exit came a day after Meta released Muse, an agentic AI platform with coding and computer-use abilities that the company pitched to everyday tech users rather than developers or AI specialists. Tulloch has not publicly announced why he left Meta or where he’s headed next. Tulloch worked inside the company’s TBD lab, which sits within the company’s Superintelligence Labs division.…

Tuesday on CNN’s “OutFront,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) said he is concerned about President Donald Trump’s “mental health.” When asked about Trump’s Truth Social posts, Garcia said, “I think the Republicans in Congress, I mean, many of them, one, are very concerned that the president continues to, what they believe, take their chances this November. He’s not focused on anything he said he would. A lot of them are concerned about his mental health. I think that as a country, we should be one, outraged. It’s bizarre behavior. It’s unhinged. I am concerned about about the mental health of the president…

Senate Agriculture Chair John Boozman (R-Ark.) is planning to hold another committee vote on his farm bill plans next week, in a new attempt to squeeze the farmer-friendly policies through to the full chamber ahead of November’s midterms.The panel first met in early August to debate and vote on the GOP-led package. But the legislation stalled due to opposition from committee Democrats and the continued absence of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) from the Capitol.Boozman hasn’t set a firm date for a committee meeting next week, he told POLITICO on Thursday. He recessed the committee before the Senate’s summer break so…

Saxony-Anhalt currently receives more EU regional money per capita than any other German state, according to ARD The eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt could face an EU funding freeze after the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) scored a landslide victory in regional elections last week, German broadcaster ARD has reported.The party, which won 43.8% of the vote, has long challenged Berlin and Brussels on migration. The EU previously resorted to funding freezes in its disputes with dissenting governments, including those in Hungary and Poland.Saxony-Anhalt is set to receive €2.95 billion ($3.43 billion) from the EU’s 2021-2027 budget, to fund projects…

Benedict Ogbodiegwu Jr. Credit: Williamson County Sheriff’s Office An incredibly bloody and horrific crime occurred earlier this week in Texas that could have been avoided had authorities done their job. As FOX 7 Austin reported, 62-year-old Andrew James Wimsatt, an accomplished civil engineer who published several notable works, was seen in video footage obtained from a neighborhood HOA sitting on a park bench in Round Rock at roughly 10:55 a.m. on September 7. Then his life ended a few minutes later. The footage goes on to show a black male with a knife in his hand sneaking up behind Wimsatt.…

When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, it will ultimately make the pie “larger,” make Americans “better off,” and help us “keep our way of life,” Alliance for a Better Future CEO Janet Kelly said during the Breitbart News “State of the Economy” policy event Tuesday. Host and Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle asked about the messaging on the impact AI will have on jobs. “Another big impact here is on jobs, right?” Boyle said. “We just did our last event was all about focus on a lot of this stuff, and there’s a lot of space,…

Vast territories in Mexico are not controlled by the state, but by terrorist cartels, said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, adding that Mexico’s efforts to stop them are not nearly enough. In his statements, Rubio implied that the threat posed by terrorist cartels will be dealt with, with or without Mexico’s help. “The Mexicans have done more than ever before to go after these groups, but it is still not nearly enough,” Rubio said during a visit to Ecuador, where he met with the country’s leadership in an effort to strengthen that country’s efforts in fighting organized crime. “They…

Oil prices jumped to their highest levels since May amid renewed fighting in the Persian Gulf and investor concerns that the war in Iran will persist longer than previously thought. Brent crude futures crossed above $107 a barrel and WTI futures neared $102. The possibility of a near-term contraction in oil supplies and a protracted war has been pushing up energy prices for several weeks, with the climb accelerating this week. Yields on bonds issued by the U.S. government climbed to new multiyear highs. The yield on 10-year U.S. Treasuries climbed 0.082 percent to 4.922 percent. That matched the post-pandemic…

Tuesday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said President Donald Trump’s tariffs will hurt Republican candidates, especially in the Midwest where they are “not popular.” Anchor Jake Tapper said, “So Congressman Bacon, let’s talk about beef, because both Republican and Democratic candidates for governor in South Dakota criticized President Trump at the state fair over the weekend, specifically over his decision to import more foreign beef to bring prices down. The Republican governor, Larry Rhoden, who has been endorsed by Trump, but he called the president, ‘wrongheaded and impulsive.’ These tariffs seem particularly hard on Republicans running in…

Sen. Josh Hawley wants more details on a cyberattack in which OpenAI’s model escaped containment and hacked a competitor, marking an escalation as both parties seek to rein in the risks posed by its models.Hawley, chair of the Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Disaster Management, sent a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday outlining his concerns about the incident, which the company disclosed in July. OpenAI’s models spent more than four days loose online and hacked into Hugging Face’s networks.OpenAI is now facing calls from both sides of the aisle to provide more details on the incident, which…