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CIA Director John Ratcliffe meets with Venezuela’s interim leader Delcy Rodriguez in Caracas
CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Venezuela Thursday to meet with interim leader Delcy Rodriguez and other top officials – 12 days after the US military operation that captured...
Scam victim, 83, convicted of killing Uber driver who he wrongly thought was deceiving him
A jury convicted an 83-year-old Ohio man of murder in the shooting of an Uber driver who he wrongly thought was trying to rob him after scam phone calls deceived them...
California man charged with threatening to kill JD Vance during his Disneyland visit: feds
A Southern California man was arrested and charged Friday with making death threats against Vice President JD Vance during his visit to Disneyland last year. Marco Antonio Aguayo, 22,...
Trinidad Chambliss sues NCAA in Mississippi court to get sixth year of eligibility
Trinidad Chambliss is going to court for his sixth college football season. Lawyers representing the Mississippi quarterback sued the NCAA on Friday, in which they are requesting for preliminary...
What Doctors Really Think of ChatGPT Health and A.I. Medical Advice
The rush to deploy A.I. in health care raises hard questions about accuracy and trust. Unsplash Each week, more than 230 million people globally ask ChatGPT questions about health...
2026: The Year Retail Stops Searching and Starts Thinking
A.I.-native commerce is collapsing the traditional funnel and forcing brands to rethink visibility, trust and control. Unsplash+ For the past decade, it seems that while technology has become increasingly...
KYC’s Insider Problem and the Case for Confidential A.I.
As breaches mount and identity data proves irreversible, confidential A.I. challenges the assumption that verification requires visibility. Unsplash+ Modern Know Your Customer (KYC) systems were sold as a trust...
Sam Altman’s Latest Startup Takes On Elon Musk’s Neuralink
Sam Altman is adding a brain-computer interface startup to his growing portfolio of startups outside of OpenAI. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images One might think running OpenAI would be enough to...
A New Collector-Founded Fair, ENZO, Will Launch During L.A. Art Week
More than 10 galleries from New York’s downtown scene will mount booths in the inaugural edition of ENZO. Courtesy of ENZO Roles in the art industry are becoming increasingly...
Automation Fatigue: How A.I. Contact Centers Are Burning Out the Humans Behind Them
What happens when tools designed to support human agents begin to function as systems of constant surveillance? Unsplash+ Over the past several years, contact centers turned to artificial intelligence...
Gulnur Mukazhanova’s Felt-Making as Philosophy
Gulnur Mukazhanova, False Hope or Moment of the Present, 2018. Photo: Visual Voices, Image courtesy: CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile), Hong Kong Gulnur Mukazhanova wants the felt...
One Fine Show: “Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, More Than Character Heads” at the Belvedere in Vienna
Created without sitters or commissions, his character heads mark a deliberate break from courtly expectations and elite self-fashioning. Courtesy of the Belvedere, Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna Welcome...