Top executives at OpenAI and Microsoft admitted they knew artificial intelligence poses an “existential threat” to news publications as the New York Times sues the technology companies over copyright infringement. Brent Hecht, Microsoft’s director of applied science, warned about the damaging effects that AI models will have on the internet and the company’s own business. […]
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) announced Thursday that four Republicans, including him, have signed the Epstein Files II discharge petition and expressed confidence it will pass the House. The news comes after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) sent lawmakers home for a seven-week recess ahead of the midterm elections. Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) are […]
A federal audit has found that UnitedHealthcare, the country’s largest health insurance company by revenue, likely inflated its Medicare billing claims by at least $46.9 million between 2020 and 2021. The Medicare compliance review, conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’s inspector general’s office, concluded that UnitedHealthcare upcoded various diagnoses during the […]
The man who sprayed apple cider vinegar at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) earlier this year was sentenced to 14 months in prison on Thursday as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. Anthony Kazmierczak, 56, attacked the Minnesota lawmaker in January when the Minneapolis-St. Paul area was experiencing a massive surge of federal immigration enforcement […]
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations called for the arrest of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the United States next week. The Israeli diplomat’s remarks came in response to Mamdani’s desire to arrest Netanyahu when he is in New York City for the […]
A senior Justice Department official on Thursday sought to clarify emerging antitrust questions surrounding artificial intelligence companies’ calls to slow development of the technology, saying cooperation on cybersecurity does not appear anticompetitive. Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said at Fordham University in New York that the DOJ is reviewing whether to update existing guidance on […]
A federal appeals court panel weighed on Thursday whether to keep alive Missouri’s attempt to reinstate a new congressional map that would net Republicans a House seat, potentially sending the messy legal saga to the Supreme Court for a third time. The legal battle over which congressional map Missouri will use for the November election […]
Hasan Piker’s media blitz is throwing Senate Democrats their latest curveball after declaring the United States “worse” than al Qaeda, renewing scrutiny of the controversial and far-left Twitch streamer’s ties to party candidates. His association with those like Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul el Sayed, for whom Piker has campaigned, offers Republicans another political layup and […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) this week received a list from a working group, led by Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Terri Sewell (D-AL), that laid out Democratic priorities on healthcare if Democrats flip the House in November. Democrats have campaigned on healthcare throughout the cycle but have, for the most part, offered little […]
The Federal Trade Commission is seeking to force multilevel marketing company Amway to pay $225 million to resolve allegations that it and two affiliated training groups used deceptive tactics to recruit people and pressure them into buying products they struggled to sell. Amway markets itself as a business opportunity in which individuals, whom the company […]
