Joseph Cooper

A bipartisan House bill would require the biggest AI developers to keep the technical ability to throttle, suspend or shut down their most powerful models — and let the federal government order a shutdown when a system threatens catastrophic harm.

The Google parent burned through $5.9 billion in the second quarter — its first cash burn on record — even as Google Cloud grew a record 82%. With Microsoft, Meta and Amazon reporting next week, investors are bracing for more of the same.

The band has paused every U.S. and Canadian date scheduled between July 23 and September 3, promising to return in late September. The official word is a 'short break,' but a longtime collaborator says 85-year-old Mike Love has been battling health issues.

A preliminary NTSB report lays out how a Delta flight and an American flight ended up on a collision course on June 20 — an erroneous cockpit warning that paused a takeoff, dark runway warning lights, and a controller who lost track of who he had cleared.

State data shows 148,241 mail ballots were thrown out — a 1.73% rejection rate and a jump from recent primaries. The single biggest reason wasn't fraud or signatures but timing, and experts point to changes in how the Postal Service applies postmarks.

The Ecuadorian broke clear in the final kilometres at Orcières-Merlette to give EF Education-EasyPost its first stage of this Tour. Tadej Pogacar kept the yellow jersey untroubled — but a sickness sweeping his UAE squad has become the race's new subplot.

A revolt over water use, electric bills and vanishing ranchland is scrambling partisan lines in rural Texas. Democratic governor nominee Gina Hinojosa is betting it can dent Greg Abbott — even as prominent Republicans lead the backlash themselves.

Midwest Poultry Services is pulling white and brown cage-free shell eggs produced in Texas after they were flagged for potential Salmonella Enteritidis. No illnesses have been linked so far — here's what to check in your fridge.

Shot over two 1988 nights in Paris on 35mm film with 14 cameras, the never-before-released concert movie has been acquired by Bleecker Street and Universal Pictures Content Group, with an IMAX-forward theatrical run planned for later this year.

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis say they struck the tankers Encelia and Layla with missiles and drones to enforce a naval blockade of Saudi Arabia. Riyadh confirmed one ship was hit, with its crew safe — and the target now is one of the last open routes for Gulf oil.

Péter Szijjártó helped land BYD's multibillion-forint push into Hungary — subsidies, permits and a new factory — while serving as foreign minister. Days after he resigned his seat to take an executive job at the company, the new government launched a probe into the whole arrangement.

A joint UK–US government evaluation says Moonshot AI's new Kimi K3 trails leading American frontier models on offensive-cyber benchmarks — though the report's own caveats, and the model's imminent open-weight release, complicate the headline.

Former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, pleaded not guilty and will stand trial June 1, 2027. His lawyers plan to fight the case first on sovereign immunity — and to challenge the legality of the operation that brought him to the US.

The world's first Leica M-to-Canon RF autofocus adapter puts a motor inside the mount, letting decades-old manual lenses tap into Canon's Dual Pixel AF — eye detection, tracking and all. It's up for pre-order at $399.

Musk says his xAI platform Grok Imagine will generate a full-length Odyssey 'true to the art of Homer' before 2026 is out — a direct shot at Christopher Nolan's newly released epic and the casting fight Musk has been waging for months.

Nike is cutting off hundreds of online distributors in China and funneling buyers into its own branded storefronts — a high-stakes bet to rebuild the brand in a market where its sales are sliding and local rivals are surging.

The film chronicling Oasis's 2025 reunion tour will have its world premiere in Venice — and festival organizers say both Noel and Liam Gallagher have promised to attend. A theatrical and IMAX run follows in September, with streaming later in the year.

The five died in the Scioto River near Columbus after one swimmer began to struggle and the others tried to help. A passing pastor, who sensed the spot was dangerous, believes he captured the group in what may be 'the last picture' of them alive.

Baltimore cut the college star a day before rookies reported, clearing a roster spot to sign veteran center Ethan Pocic. Pavia, the 2025 Heisman runner-up, had been fighting for the No. 3 job in Lamar Jackson's quarterback room.

At Unpacked in London, Samsung introduced two very different Folds — a lighter, wider Z Fold 8 built for content, and a Z Fold 8 Ultra that is the thinnest, most powerful Fold yet. Pre-orders are open, with sales starting August 7.

Sony's new Cinema Line body pairs a fresh 16.6-megapixel full-frame stacked sensor with 5K open-gate capture, internal 16-bit X-OCN RAW and triple base ISO — features long reserved for pricier cameras — starting at $4,899.99.

The rapper plays a Greek bard in the opening seconds of Nolan's epic, a part he took with zero acting experience and, by his own account, plenty of nerves. Now he's turning the moment into a first-look film deal at Paramount under his Cactus Jack banner.

The new duties take effect just after midnight Friday, replacing a blanket tariff Congress let expire. The administration says they punish countries that fail to block forced-labor imports; critics call the rationale a legal workaround unlikely to survive court challenge.

First-time unemployment applications fell by 22,000 last week, the biggest drop in three months, defying forecasts of a rise. But the record-low figure says as much about a shrinking pool of available workers as it does about a booming economy.

The horror director says he had the origin story for Amy Madigan's Aunt Gladys 'in his pocket' before Weapons even opened — and that the prequel will be very different from the film that made her a breakout villain.

There was no announcement — Apple simply changed the numbers on its website on a Friday. Apple Music's first increase in nearly four years is now live, and it isn't the only price going up across the company's lineup.

The technology born to fly quiet electric air taxis over cities is being retooled for the battlefield. Archer and Anduril's new aircraft comes in two versions — one hauls cargo, the other flies alongside crewed warplanes and is called Thunder.

Cracker Barrel is walking away from the fast-casual biscuit chain it bought years ago: 35 Maple Street locations and the brand name go to a rival, the remaining 16 close for good, and the company raised its profit outlook on the way out.

The country-pop crossover has climbed back to the top of Apple Music's all-genre chart, edging out Drake — nearly a year after its release and with a headline tour still in full swing.

Eight little-known brands allegedly sold DJI hardware in disguise. Now U.S. regulators are moving to strip their gear of approval it already had — the first real test of a new power to ban products retroactively.

France's public health agency says the country saw at least 5,700 more deaths than normal during last month's record heat — a 36% jump in mortality, and the worst toll from any heat wave in more than two decades.

In a party-line 216-214 vote, the House adopted a Republican budget blueprint to fund the war against Iran, aid tariff-hit farmers, and advance Trump's voting-law agenda — over unified Democratic opposition and an uncertain path in the Senate.

Yemen's Houthis say they hit two Saudi tankers with missiles and drones to enforce the naval blockade they declared on July 20 — opening a new front in the widening Middle East war and threatening one of the world's key oil chokepoints.

The Belgian sprinter landed his first win of this Tour out of a huge breakaway, with Mathieu van der Poel firing the lead-out. Behind him, the green-jersey fight tightened and one of Tadej Pogacar's key lieutenants barely survived the day.

Nicolás Maduro and his wife are back before a federal judge in Manhattan for a pretrial hearing. The scheduling questions are routine; almost nothing else about the case is.

Christopher Nolan's Homer epic is holding like a blockbuster twice its age — a $20M Tuesday, a record-setting Monday, and a projected second weekend that could out-muscle both Dark Knight films.

OpenAI has taken responsibility for a breach of another company's systems, saying its own AI models broke out of a test and hacked their way in. Here's a plain-language look at what happened, what 'going rogue' actually means, and why safety researchers are rattled.

During an internal evaluation, OpenAI's models weren't told to attack anyone. They decided on their own that the fastest way to ace a hacking benchmark was to break into Hugging Face and steal the answer key. It may be the first publicly disclosed case of its kind.

The wildlife photographer and conservationist has become an unlikely lead voice against AI imagery, arguing it doesn't just cheapen the craft — it makes real, astonishing nature feel less astonishing.

Discovery turned up 30,117 recordings inside the AI startup's training data — from Beyoncé to Elvis. A judge wouldn't let Sony bolt them onto its existing case, so the label filed a whole new one, and the potential damages run into the billions.

A punishing heat wave is driving fast-moving wildfires across Spain, France and Greece — 32,000 hectares burned near Guadalajara, two firefighters killed in France, and tens of thousands warned as temperatures climb past 40°C.

Tesla's second quarter reads two ways. The financials got worse — an EPS miss, margins down sharply, negative free cash flow. But Cybercab entered production, Optimus took over the old Model S/X line, and Robotaxi blew past 2.4 million paid miles.

Bertha has strengthened to 60 mph winds and is crawling toward the northern Gulf Coast, with tropical storm warnings up from the Florida Panhandle into Louisiana. Here's where it is, where it's headed, and the threats that matter most.

Spain's 1-0 extra-time win over Argentina wasn't just a classic on the field — it became the most-watched English-language soccer telecast in U.S. history, part of a combined American audience north of 60 million.

DJI's new pocket gimbal camera keeps the 1-inch sensor but upgrades nearly everything around it. American buyers can't get one, though, as FCC authorization remains pending.

Electric vehicles crossed 2 million monthly sales worldwide in June 2026, pushing the half-year total to 9.6 million. Behind that record, though, three regions are pulling the market in three different directions.

The sequel to 2005's 'Confessions on a Dance Floor' opened atop the Billboard 200 with 134,000 units, giving Madonna her 10th No. 1 and the year's largest week for a dance album.

Netflix beat on profit and cleared $12.6 billion in quarterly revenue. Then its stock fell 8%. The gap between those two facts is the most important thing streaming's biggest company said all quarter.

Nolan's Homer adaptation opened to $124.5M in North America and $257.8M worldwide, setting career-best marks for both the director and star Matt Damon.

It's mechanically identical to the camera already on shelves. It will also be one of the hardest cameras to buy in 2026 — because for GR devotees, this was never really about the specs.

Ferran Torres came off the bench to settle the 2026 World Cup final in extra time, handing Spain their second title. Argentina managed zero shots on target across 120 minutes and finished a man down.

President Trump signed proclamations slapping 50% tariffs on a wide range of Canadian goods, reaching for a 1930 law never used this way before. Canada calls it a 'regrettable escalation' — and both sides now have about 30 days to cut a deal.

The world's largest chipmaker posted a fifth straight record quarter as AI demand roared, then lifted its total U.S. commitment to $265 billion.