Google is updating search to refine its AI experience by adding additional context to links, like excerpts from web forums and blogs, as well as a feature that highlights links from a user’s news subscriptions. While citing web forums and discussion boards can help users find answers to more niche queries, this design choice could…
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Iran is reviewing a Washington-backed peace proposal while Trump says conflict will end if both sides strike agreement
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt reposted a scathing AI-generated ad on X on Tuesday, which cast the city as a bleak hellscape under its current leadership. In the viral video, created by film-maker Charlie Curran, flames engulf the Hollywood sign; a socialist militia patrols the streets; and California’s political brass, including governor Gavin Newsom,…
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers held its pop music awards last week, honoring Grammy Award-winning musicians Laufey, Amy Allen and EJAE, along with several other musicians at a ceremony in Los Angeles. Laufey was presented with the Creative Voice Award by fellow singer-songwriter Suki Waterhouse. The award recognizes society members whose “significant…
Philippine growth unexpectedly slowed in the first quarter, making the country a laggard within the region and challenging policymakers trying to cool inflation and support the peso.
The acclaimed Australian film-maker Phillip Noyce is being paid by the Saudi regime to make a feature film portraying the repressive state’s narcotics officers as heroes. The Watchful Eyes, based on a real Saudi ministry of interior narcotics case, is billed as a dramatic depiction of the “heroism of security men in combating drugs”. Saudi…
Director James Cameron and The Walt Disney Company have been sued for unauthorized use of an Indigenous actress’ likeness without her knowledge and consent. In the complaint, obtained by Variety, actress Q’orianka Kilcher alleges that when she was 14 and had recently appeared as Pocahontas in Terrence Malick’s film “The New World,” Cameron extracted her…
A reconnaissance flight a few days after the tsunami captured this photo of Tracy Arm fjord, showing bare sections of slopes on the far side where the tsunami stripped away vegetation Cyrus Read/U.S. Geological Survey A massive landslide in August 2025 caused the second-biggest tsunami ever recorded, with waters rising over 480 metres inside an…
DeepSeek is in talks to raise its first round of venture capital, and in just a few weeks, its potential valuation has soared from $20 billion to $45 billion, the Financial Times and Bloomberg reported. The Chinese AI lab came to prominence in early 2025 after launching a large language model that trained on a…
