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10/24/26 9:33 AM
Alex Turner said at the NDTV World Summit that AI systems are becoming increasingly capable, while researchers struggle to understand their behaviour.
"Don't Play With Fire": Iran Warns Of Undersea Cable Attacks If War Resumes
10/24/26 7:12 AM
The official warned Washington not to "play with fire", and said Iran had full access to the undersea cables and could easily destroy them.
"People Like Abhijeet Dipke...": Piyush Goyal's Jab During Berlin Event
10/24/26 12:11 PM
Union Minister Piyush Goyal asked the Indian students to think about ideas that would help attract Indian talent back to the country.
$1.3 Billion Indo-US Satellite Saw Nepal Disaster Coming. But No One Saw It
10/24/26 1:45 PM
Experts say merely putting what can only be called 'White Elephants' in the sky is not good enough; one needs human intelligence combined with artificial intelligence to accurately issue early warnings.
'A definitive backslide.' Inside fashion's worrying runway trend
04/06/23 8:53 PM
Now that the Fall-Winter 2023 catwalks have been disassembled, it's clear one trend was more pervasive than any collective penchant for ruffles, pleated skirts or tailored coats.
'Iran's Plot Against Americans Have Reached Advanced Stages': US Spy Chief
10/24/26 2:04 PM
The warning comes after Washington ordered non-essential US embassy staff and their families to leave Saudi Arabia this week, following increasing attacks from Yemen's Houthis.
'Ridiculous': Kara Swisher flabbergasted as Trump and Musk play games for 'dominion'
10/20/26 1:34 AM
Veteran technology journalist Kara Swisher was flabbergasted Monday as President Donald Trump and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk seemingly played games in Ukraine with people's lives at stake. Over the last week, reports indicate that Trump's White House gave an order to slow down Ukraine's access to Starshield systems, a Musk-developed product that helps the Ukrainian military defend against Russian ballistic missile attacks. Trump and Musk have both pointed fingers at each other about the incident, even though both were at least aware of the incident, Swisher said. "I don't think he's telling the truth. Obviously someone knows how it happened, and I would tend to believe the Ukrainians over Musk or Trump at any time," Swisher said on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360." "They were basically trying to pass the hot potato back and forth when things blew up in them, so to speak," she added. The slowdown of Ukraine's Starshield capabilities was followed up by a series of moves by Trump that have some Republicans up in arms. Trump has agreed to purchase millions of barrels of diesel fuel from Russia, which gives the country more money to fight its war of aggression against Ukraine, and has suspended sanctions on Russia that were due to go into effect this week.Swisher noted that Trump and Musk's finger-pointing has served both men as a distraction. "This is just kind of ridiculous that we even play these games with these people," Swisher said. She also noted that it is "hard to square" how Trump can deny he knew about the order coming from his White House. It raises questions about why he didn't know and who is making decisions about a war that has resulted in American casualties. At the same time, Trump appears to be entertaining a hypothetical summit between himself, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and China's Xi Jinping to end the war in Ukraine. Such a summit would seem like a blast from the distant past, according to Swisher. "It's an incredible idea to do something to slice up dominion, essentially. It feels like we're back in another century," she said.
'Sheer insanity': Trump's envoy skewered as he fawns over dictator with 'cringe' remarks
10/21/26 1:27 PM
President Donald Trump's Special Envoy for Peace Missions, Steve Witkoff, prostrated himself before Russia's Vladimir Putin at a summit on Wednesday — despite Putin's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, butcher of civilians, and the lack of any progress in getting him to back off his demands for territorial and political control of his neighbors."You talk so much about my president, President Trump, being a humanitarian," said Witkoff. "You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that, I commend you, and I thank you again."This display earned disgust and horror from commentators on social media, both in the U.S. and around the world."Holy s---, Witkoff just called Putin a 'humanitarian,'" wrote the account "Vatnik Soup." "Because of Putin, thousands of Ukrainian civilians are dead, hospitals lie in ruins, and people are suffering from hunger, torture and Russian terrorism.""What is clear is Putin is playing rope a dope with Trump/Witkoff: Release a hostage here, feign interest in peace talks there, signalling willingness to listen, while blaming Ukraine for intransigence. But never actually agreeing to change course," wrote John Foreman, an independent defense consultant and former British defence attaché in Moscow."The sheer insanity of American diplomacy under Trump is becoming difficult to comprehend," wrote Substacker Gandalv. "Steve Witkoff, a New York property developer somehow entrusted with negotiating Europe’s most consequential war since 1945, has just saluted Vladimir Putin as a humanitarian. The man who invaded Ukraine, ordered the destruction of its cities and presides over a state accused of abducting Ukrainian children. Apparently, releasing an American whom Russia wrongfully imprisoned makes Putin a humanitarian. Imagine sending a property salesman to negotiate with a war criminal, only to discover he cannot distinguish between a humanitarian gesture and the man responsible for creating the humanitarian catastrophe. They are so cringe.""US humiliation level 100," wrote Czech political analyst Vláďa Foltán."Absurd simpering obsequiousness from a representative of the most powerful country on earth, and another American humiliation, to add to the growing, growing list," wrote Kyiv Independent correspondent Jimmy Rushton.
'Triangular object rose, descended into canyon': Pentagon releases latest batch of UFO files
10/23/26 12:13 PM
The Pentagon on Friday released its seventh collection of UFO files since President Trump issued an executive order early this year directing federal agencies to identify and declassify records associated with unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs.
'We'll Do A Little Stopover After Iran': Trump Revives Talk Of US Action In Cuba
10/24/26 10:34 AM
Cuba has struggled since 2020 with an economic and energy crisis. Its gross domestic product has shrunk, and its 10 million residents have endured blackouts, food shortages and inflation.