Joe Biden is mulling over a supplementary request for a massive $100 billion, earmarked for defense assistance to Israel and Ukraine, along with border security funding in the US, and aid to nations in the Indo-Pacific, including Taiwan. Read More.
The growth of the U.S. economy appeared to accelerate in October, with both the services and manufacturing sides of the economy growing, an early read of Read More.
Consortium News, a news website focused on foreign policy founded by an award-winning journalist who helped break the Iran-Contra story in the 1980s, is suing NewsGuard and the U.S. government over alleged collaboration to suppress its reporting, which is critical of U.S. foreign policy. Read More.
Borrowing from social-media platforms, software maker Intuit is hiring content moderators to help keep toxic language and other bad behavior off its AI systems Read More.
Dario Amodei (pictured), of AI researchers Anthropic, said the technology would destroy the world by either going rogue or by being abused by humans. Read More.
State Department issues rare 'worldwide caution' travel advisory telling Americans to be on alert EVERYWHERE overseas due to 'potential terror attacks' and 'increased tensions' Read More.
The European Union on Thursday demanded Meta and TikTok detail their efforts to curb illegal content and disinformation during the Israel-Hamas War Read More.
Amazon will add a slew of new robotics and artificial intelligence-technologies at its warehouses in an effort to reduce delivery times and speed up inventory operations. Read More.
The Hamas-run Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip says at least 500 have been killed in an explosion that it says was caused by an Israeli airstrike. Read More.
BY Najib Jobain, Samya Kullab, Ravi Nessman, and Matthew Lee