“The United States will not make any payments to WHO prior to our withdrawal on January 22, 2026,” the spokesperson said in an emailed statement.… Read More »The US is officially leaving the WHO, leaving hundreds of millions of dollars unpaid
The popular short video app has a new corporate structure in the United States, which could mean some changes for the 200 million Americans who… Read More »Should I download a new TikTok app? And other big questions about the deal.
The Chinese parent company of the popular video app said a group of non-Chinese investors would create a US TikTok to circumvent a federal ban.
Ultimately, local residents may feel disconnected from these batteries and the green energy transition they enable because Hungarians are not the target group. Most lithium… Read More »What happens when a Chinese battery factory comes to town
But “that cannot be the case,” Goldberg argued. Faced with “the implied threat that Grok would keep St. Clair's images online and possibly create more,”… Read More »Asking Grok to remove fake nudes could force victims to file a lawsuit in Musk's chosen court
Ice, sleet and possibly significant snowfall threaten to hamper travel across much of the eastern US starting Friday. Here's what you need to know.
But language models can only do so much, and what robots need most urgently is a new kind of model that understands the physical world… Read More »Your first humanoid robot colleague will probably be Chinese
Waste, secret talks, failed deal talks and a battle for control: the turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab is the latest drama of the artificial intelligence… Read More »The drama at Thinking Machines, a new AI start-up, is keeping Silicon Valley busy
The Federal Reserve's preferred gauge of inflation for October and November was belatedly released following the government shutdown.
the potential of mRNA Previous data from the trial reported that 107 participants received the mRNA vaccine and Keytruda treatment, while the remaining 50 received… Read More »The mRNA cancer vaccine provides protection after five years of follow-up, Moderna and Merck say
Google Deepmind WIRED has hired the CEO and several top engineers from Hume AI, a startup working on emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, as part of… Read More »Google acquires top talent from AI Voice Startup Hume AI in licensing agreement
This month, resolve to revive or give up those old music players and point-and-shoot cameras, and get all the files back on the devices.
The setback came just hours after one of the world's largest nuclear complexes restarted, ending more than a decade of calm following the 2011 Fukushima… Read More »A malfunction forces Japan to take the restarted nuclear power plant offline
“We argue that these attacks can be easily tested, verified, and executed at scale,” wrote the researchers from the universities of New Mexico, Arizona, Louisiana,… Read More »Millions of people are at risk through login links sent by text message
When DeepSeek burst burst onto the world stage in January 2025, it seemed to appear out of nowhere. But the Great Language Model was just… Read More »Thousands of companies are driving China's AI boom. A government register keeps track of them all
