The disgraced king of FTX is shooting his shot for a presidential pardon. After turning a massive crypto empire into a giant hole in the ground, he is now testing whether his past political donations can buy him a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Senator Adam Schiff is tired of waiting for the future to decide if machines should have the final say on the battlefield. His new bill hopes to force a human finger back onto the trigger before the Department of Defense hands it over to an algorithm.
The Public Integrity Project is taking the Trump administration to court, aiming to ground a massive UFC event planned for the White House South Lawn. It seems the intersection of federal grounds and cage fighting is, shockingly, not for everyone.
OpenAI has quietly moved to go public, joining a crowded race of AI giants hunting for massive valuations. While the company claims to be in no rush, the timing suggests they are hungry for the kind of capital only Wall Street can provide.
The great American migration is usually painted as a holy war of liberals fleeing to blue havens and conservatives packing for red strongholds. But new research suggests we might be giving our political obsession way too much credit.
Just when the world was bracing for the big one, a couple of late-night social media posts and a blunt phone call apparently did what decades of traditional diplomacy couldn't. Here is how we avoided a massive regional explosion by the skin of our teeth.
Because nothing says public service like getting a get-out-of-jail-free card for playing the stock market with cheat codes. The ultimate political safety net just rescued another well-connected ally.
Well, that didn't last long. The fragile peace everyone was pretending to believe in just went up in smoke, and now the world is left wondering if "ceasefire" is just ancient Hebrew for "reload your launchers."
The Middle East’s favorite toxic partners, Israel and Iran, just swapped another round of explosive morning greetings. Yes, we are back on the brink of a massive regional war, and no, nobody seems to have an off-button.
A career diplomat survived four presidencies only to watch the US global aid machine get systematically dismantled during a pandemic threat. Here is how deep state bureaucracy met political reality.
It seems the global thermostat of chaos is set to "boil." Just as diplomats try to patch up the Middle East, a deadly virus decides to run a sprint in Africa. It is a double feature of worst-case scenarios playing out at the exact same time.
We spent years fighting for the right to answer emails in our underwear, only to discover that absolute freedom smells a lot like clinical depression. Turns out, trading annoying office small talk for complete sensory deprivation might not be the mental health win we expected.