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An AI-generated video clip produced by a Chinese AI company of stars Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting is going viral and it is sending Hollywood into a tailspin. The computer-generated video shows Cruise and Pitt on a roof top fighting with dramatic music behind them. It is just one of a series of videos the company released this week. The hyper realism of clip has tongues wagging and the clip has many in Hollywood worried over being replaced entirely by artificial intelligence and despairing that we are coming dangerously close to a new day when movies can be made without…

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright met with Venezuela’s “acting President” Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas on Wednesday as part of President Donald Trump’s U.S.-Venezuela energy deal and to advance Trump’s plan to restore democracy in the country following the downfall of Nicolás Maduro. Wright travelled to Caracas on Wednesday morning, marking the first time in two decades that a U.S. energy secretary has visited the South American nation. The visit, Wright said in Caracas, is part of President Trump’s broader agenda to “Make the Americas Great Again.” The U.S. Department of Energy detailed in a press release that Wright’s agenda included talks…

Honda Motor has reported a 42 percent decline in its profits from April to December of 2025, as the Japanese automaker navigates challenges from U.S. tariffs and electric vehicle asset write-downs. The Wall Street Journal reports that Honda reported a massive 42 percent decline in net profits for the nine months ending in December, falling to 465.44 billion yen, equivalent to approximately $2.99 billion, compared to the same period the previous year. Despite these weaker results, the company maintained its annual profit forecast, signaling confidence in its ability to navigate current market challenges. A significant factor in the profit decline was…

Thursday on MS NOW’s “All In,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) said no deal was made with border czar Tom Homan, leading to his announcement that the Trump administration’s surge of immigration forces will end. Host Chris Hayes said, “There were some intimations made by Mr. Homan that there was some agreements reached. You know, there’s there’s been this sort of I’m a little skeptical of its authenticity, but I’ll just say it that, you know, all we want is for you to turn over the hardened criminals and let us cooperate with you on the jails, and we won’t…

Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, has predicted that AI will be capable of automating the vast majority of white-collar professional tasks within the next 12 to 18 months. The Financial Times reports that Mustafa Suleyman, who leads Microsoft’s AI division, has made a bold prediction about the near-term impact of AI on white-collar professions. In an interview with the Times published this week, Suleyman stated that he expects most, if not all, tasks performed by white-collar workers will be fully automated by AI within the next 12 to 18 months. According to Suleyman, AI systems will achieve human-level performance across a…

Failed U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was apparently downgraded to Germany’s Intercity Express (ICE) train on Thursday as she travelled to the Munich Security Conference that hit the headlines last year after Vice-President JD Vance used his podium to deliver some hard truths on the crises facing Europe. Hillary Clinton arrived in Munich, Germany on a high-speed ICE intercity train on Thursday, climbing off a first-class carriage to platform 22 surrounded by aides and accompanied by an armed German Federal police officer. Michaela Kuefner, the Chief Political Editor at Deutsche Welle News suggested the four-hour journey may have been less than commodious…

On Thursday’s “CNN News Central,” Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) said that blocking DHS funding will do “very little” to restrict ICE and CBP, and “I think what has had some significant impact is the bravery of the people in Minneapolis who were out videorecording, and, essentially, stepping between ICE and their violence towards some innocent citizens in that town, and where we now see ICE is leaving Minneapolis, and that’s overdue.” Co-host Brianna Keilar asked, “Does holding up this DHS funding actually do anything to hamstring the ICE and CBP operations that Democrats object to?” Welch answered, “Well, very little,…

Modern Ukraine has built its identity on a cult of mass murderers, the Polish Institute of National Remembrance has said Modern Ukraine has built its identity on a cult of mass murderers during World War II, the Polish Institute of National Remembrance has said. The X post on Tuesday came in response to the head of a similar Ukrainian state body calling the WWII-era Volhynia Massacre a myth perpetuated by Warsaw.The Volhynia Massacre refers to events in 1943-45, when units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which collaborated with the Nazis, systematically slaughtered ethnic Poles in what is now western…

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping sent a video holiday greeting to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on Wednesday. In the course of wishing his forces a happy Lunar New Year, he casually confirmed the existence of a Chinese cyberwarfare facility on Fiery Cross Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands of the South China Sea. The big revelation came when Xi essentially gave a shout-out to the PLA Cyberspace Force and received a salute in return from the intelligence section chief and Chinese Communist Party political officer stationed on Fiery Cross Reef. “We shall remain constantly ready for action, resolutely safeguarding our…

Wages for private-sector workers outpaced inflation by roughly $1,400 during President Donald Trump’s first year in office, according to the White House, after runaway inflation crushed Americans’ buying power during the Biden administration. The White House touted a nearly $1,400 increase in real wages for private-sector workers following the release of the January Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, which showed prices were up just 2.4 percent from January 2025. “Today’s expectation-beating CPI report proves that President Trump has defeated Joe Biden’s inflation crisis: overall inflation fell, and real wages grew by $1,400 in President Trump’s first year in office,” White House deputy press…