Overnight, Riyadh's skyline lit up with air-raid alerts and a burning fuel tank while Washington and Copenhagen quietly closed out their Greenland standoff with a security deal that stops short of annexation — but the more durable overnight story is AI colliding with hard infrastructure, from a hallucinated intelligence report that nearly triggered a US military boarding to the FAA's $875 million bet on AI air-traffic control; watch today as Fed chair Kevin Warsh faces his first real test and Buffett's succession plan takes its next step.
Journalists from MS Now, CNN, and Politico were turned away from the White House grounds Saturday morning, a day after Trump announced he'd ban them over their coverage, saying "you get sick of it." The move has drawn outrage from free speech advocates and follows a pattern of Trump attempting to restrict press access to government spaces.
More than three dozen nominees for open House and Senate seats this cycle have backgrounds as labor union representatives or members, most of them Democrats. Several are running in safely blue districts and will likely win outright, while others are contesting races that could decide control of Congress as the party tries to rebuild working-class support.
Fed chair Kevin Warsh presided over a unanimous decision to raise interest rates this week despite an intense pressure campaign from the White House, after sparking uncertainty at the prior FOMC meeting by refusing to signal his plans.
New York Assemblymember Alex Bores, who faced a multimillion-dollar tech-industry backlash after leading the state's AI regulation push, says he wants one more swing at Big Tech before leaving office, with an eye on outdoing California's rules.
Flames and a large plume of black smoke rose above Riyadh airport after Saudi authorities sent air-raid alerts to citizens' phones overnight warning of aerial attacks. Firefighters battled a burning fuel tank bearing the Aramco logo near King Khalid airport, with warnings also issued for Jeddah and Yanbu, a major oil port.
The US and Denmark announced a security deal on Greenland, resolving the dispute sparked by Trump's threats to seize the territory by force. Trump said Denmark would grant the US "permanent control over security and all other needs" in the semi-autonomous territory, and NATO said the deal would help stabilize the region; Greenland's and Denmark's leaders welcomed the resolution.
Russian authorities reported attacks on the country's electronic voting system and communication lines during the second day of a tightly controlled three-day parliamentary election, Interfax reported. It's Russia's first election since its invasion of Ukraine and is being watched as a gauge of public support for the war.
Bangalore turned India into a global hub for software services and tech talent, but its success has become a liability: the city lacks the depth of capital available in the US and China, and its physical infrastructure is struggling to keep pace with growth.
The US narrowly avoided boarding a Chinese ship after an "entirely false" intelligence report, generated with the help of AI tools, claimed it was carrying nuclear-arms-program components. Four sources familiar with the episode say the report came from a US Special Operations Command analyst as the military's use of AI accelerates.
Countries and defense-tech companies are racing to build underwater drones and sensors as concern grows over the vulnerability of subsea cables and infrastructure. The piece traces how sea-floor warfare has quietly become one of the fastest-growing corners of the defense-tech boom.
In the span of a week, Musk agreed publicly with the CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI on AI safety while still fighting the regulations that would enforce it, then got contradicted by both Trump and Nvidia's Jensen Huang, in what CNBC frames as a case study in AI politics making for very strange bedfellows.
An AI system called SMART is set to start advising air traffic controllers managing the congested airspace above Washington, DC, the first step toward a planned nationwide rollout across the 29 million square miles the FAA oversees.
Warren Buffett has formally stepped down as Berkshire Hathaway's chairman, handing the role to his son Howard as part of a long-telegraphed succession plan meant to preserve the conglomerate's culture and capital-allocation discipline after Buffett steps back.
Millions of borrowers leaving the SAVE repayment plan could see monthly bills spike if they don't move into an affordable alternative plan before their deadline, per the latest guidance on the wind-down of the Biden-era program.
Google quietly started shipping new platform-level Android APIs to select partners without an AOSP release first, the first time that's happened since Android 3.x, reviving worries about how open Android actually stays.
A free, no-signup way to expose anything running on localhost to a public URL with one command, no account required.
A designer argues AI event posters read as slop mainly because nobody bothers to art-direct the prompt past the first render.
A browser-only demo lets you compare a local model reading raw choice probabilities against making it write those probabilities out token by token as JSON, timed live on your own GPU.
A working writer walks through an actual drafting workflow with an LLM that doesn't end up flattening their own voice.
Stanford researchers argue the brain functions less like one unified organ and more like two separate ones working in tight coordination.
A researcher who published a fast non-autoregressive 'decision model' architecture back in 2025 is publicly annoyed that a well-funded startup just launched the same idea as a brand-new breakthrough.
Cloudflare walks through the math behind trimming another 100 terabytes of memory off its global fleet.
Genetic analysis confirms a population long assumed to be feral hybrids is actually the first new wild cat species identified in a century.
A tongue-in-cheek trading site riffs on the real, genuinely strange US law that has banned onion futures trading since 1958.
A frontier model cracked a century-old unsolved WWI German radio cipher that stumped human cryptographers for decades.
Terence Tao argues math culture over-rewards formal proof at the expense of the intuition-building and exploratory work that never gets published.
A new interactive project visualizes circuit behavior so beginners can build real intuition for electronics before touching the equations.
OpenAI says it used its own models to help design parts of its in-house AI accelerator, compressing months of chip-design grunt work.
An essay argues research software would fix a lot of science's reproducibility problems if it were held to the same openness standards as open-source projects.