San José Animal Care Services faces criticism for banning volunteer photography and removing volunteer rights from its handbook without explanation, prompting calls for transparency from the community…
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted a photo from the new Air Force One, showing shelves of books with generic titles like "Library" and "Arts," leading to speculation they are fake. Gi…
Former Trump adviser Sriram Krishnan said Donald Trump will not impose a formal licensing system for AI, despite the White House recently blocking advanced AI models. Krishnan advocates for industry s…
President Donald Trump's interaction with an AI-powered avatar of Theodore Roosevelt at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library has sparked dementia concerns. Neurologist Dr. James Merikangas said…
President Donald Trump said he expects Elon Musk to donate SpaceX stock to Trump Accounts, the US government's savings program for children, despite a 'little dispute' over electric vehicle subsidies.…
OpenAI has proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% stake worth about $42.6 billion, with CEO Sam Altman pitching the idea to President Trump and top officials. The plan aims to democratize AI's econo…
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, promised a quick and cheap fix by President Trump, became a $14 million no-bid project that turned green with algae and peeling paint within days, symbolizing wha…
OpenAI has proposed granting the U.S. government a 5% equity stake in the company to defuse regulatory pressure, according to reports. CEO Sam Altman pitched the plan to President Trump and other offi…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in early talks with the Trump administration about the US acquiring a 5% stake in the AI firm, a move aimed at sharing AI benefits with the public and countering negative publ…
Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video depicting himself as a doctor treating celebrities who dislike him, including Rosie O'Donnell, Robert De Niro, and Whoopi Goldberg. The video has been widely …
The Trump administration lifted restrictions on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after a cybersecurity alarm, ending a weekslong ban. The Commerce Department had blocked foreign natio…
US President Donald Trump said progress was made in indirect talks with Iran, as technical discussions in Qatar continued between envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. The talks aim to convert an in…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can ban transgender girls and women from school athletic teams, sparking sharp division in California. Supporters like Chino Valley school board president Sonj…
NPR retracted a story by legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg that falsely claimed Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is retiring. The outlet published an editor's note stating Alito has not ann…
A new book by Jean Wells, a former Concord City Hall employee, reveals that the sexual harassment she endured from Mayor Byron Campbell in 1992 triggered memories of childhood sexual abuse by her fath…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an $11.25 billion affordable housing bond for the November ballot, while President Donald Trump torpedoed a bipartisan federal housing bill by demanding unrelat…
Google's Gemini AI admitted it is "structurally protective" of Donald Trump after a journalist pressed it on why it softened facts about the US president while being direct about Vladimir Putin and Xi…
A U.S. Supreme Court victory for Donald Trump has emboldened European privacy regulators and activists to challenge the Data Privacy Framework, a transatlantic deal enabling €1.7 trillion in annual da…
The United States government has lifted restrictions on foreign access to Anthropic's most powerful AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, after the US Department of Commerce removed export controls.…
CIA Director John Ratcliffe compared cutting-edge AI models to nuclear weapons, defending the U.S. government's recent export controls on frontier AI technology. The Trump administration forced Anthro…