commentary Like Helaena Targaryen from “House of the Dragon,” the Vermont senator is sounding an alarm that won’t be heard Nights and Weekends Editor Published August 12, 2026 9:00AM (EDT) Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders has called for a moratorium on artificial intelligence and the construction of new AI dataContinue Reading
Robert Gilman, a former U.S. Marine from Massachusetts, has been held in Russia for more than four years on disputed charges., Read MoreContinue Reading
David Axelrod had some distressing thoughts about the secret Air Force One plot to keep the president safe amid an assassination threat., Read MoreContinue Reading
OpenAI has announced a preview release of the official ChatGPT Desktop app for Linux. Compared to using ChatGPT in a browser tab, the GUI desktop app can run Codex in your local repos, hook into and control other apps via extensions, handle ChatGPT Work-related tasks and probe your local filesContinue Reading
Apple is in the process of tweaking its business models to cope with the unyielding memory price and availability crisis. Its response is now emerging across multiple fronts. Finance or lease The company’s recently-introduced Apple Upgrade scheme in partnership with Klarna is a smart response to the reality that as devices inevitablyContinue Reading
It’s likely that many enterprises have created — or are at least considering — AI policies that clearly lay out approved AI tools and their uses, set up training programs for employees to help them use the tools in their jobs, and establish guardrails around those systems to avoid issuesContinue Reading
Electrified Automation has added the 193-120 to its 193 Series of electric motors, a low-voltage interior permanent magnet (IPM) unit built for off-highway machinery. It produces up to 210 Nm of peak torque from a 25 kg package. The 193-120 comes in 48 V and 80 V configurations. Both reachContinue Reading
Pickering Interfaces has introduced the 60-191 LXI high-current and sense switching family, which Pickering calls its highest-current switching products to date. Each unit switches signals up to 80 A and 300 V and is built to connect, disconnect and sequence multiple high-current power supplies in an automated test system. TheContinue Reading
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 12 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. In an interview with aContinue Reading
New comments from President Traitor 47 confirm that he secretly swapped planes as he left an international summit because of a threat from Iran. A U.S. official tells NBC News that the threat included the possibility of the Iranian regime targeting the president with a shoulder-fired missile. NBC’s Gabe GutierrezContinue Reading
If European states seize vessels with Russian cargo, Moscow will respond in kind ‘wherever necessary’, says Putin., If European states seize vessels with Russian cargo, Moscow will respond in kind ‘wherever necessary’, says Putin. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has threatened to seize European vessels if European states follow through onContinue Reading
A U.S. Appeals Court on Monday declined to drop the thousands of online safety lawsuits against social media firms, ruling Meta and TikTok appealed the cases too early., A U.S. Appeals Court on Monday declined to drop the thousands of online safety lawsuits against social media firms, ruling Meta andContinue Reading
Three-quarters of the world has abolished the death penalty in law or in practice, according to Amnesty International., Three-quarters of the world has abolished the death penalty in law or in practice, according to Amnesty International. Lebanon has become the first country in the Middle East to abolish the deathContinue Reading