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Trump claims the US and Iran will sign a deal on Sunday to extend ceasefire but Iran disagrees while Netanyahu is caught off guard. Plus, one small victory that is bringing millions of Americans joy.
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Depuis que la Coupe du monde est un phénomène social total, les médias se sont mis à produire quantité de contenus inclusifs adaptés aux analphabètes du _«beautiful game»_. Petit tour d'horizon, alors que la Suisse s'apprête à rencontrer le Qatar ce soir à 21 heures, et que certains – honte à eux – s'en fichent.
📺 Imaginez que, pour une raison ou une autre, vous vous trouviez parmi les six…
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Trump officials are secretly telling his supporters that his $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund is still on, even as they publicly say that it’s dead.
_The Atlantic_ reports that staffers in the Justice Department and White House are still telling Trump allies that they will get some form of payment, looking at ways to activate parts of the slush fund and alternative methods of compensating…
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Ted Chiang / The Atlantic:
A look at AI consciousness debates; LLM conversations are cleverly disguised examples of sentence continuation, but that doesn't deny how impressive LLMs can be — Anthropic is regarded as a giant among AI companies, but perhaps what it really excels in is anthropomorphism.
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Matteo Wong / The Atlantic:
A look at Pangram, considered the gold standard for detecting AI writing, and the dangers of its claimed 1 in 10,000 false-positive rate when used at scale — AI-detection tools are getting better. But they still aren't good enough. — Basically every recent, high-profile accusation …
"Sometimes the truly countercultural move at Stanford is staying," Gupta argues.
The post Gupta | Don’t drop out because an adult wants you to appeared first on The Stanford Daily.
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Over the last few days, everyone and their Mother Jones has been talking about Tina Peters, the convicted election fraudster, and whether Colorado Governor Jared Polis “did the right thing” in commuting her sentence last week. This debate doesn’t fall along party lines so neatly. The Atlantic’s David Graham __ called it “a serious mistake” that “weakens the rule of law” and “will encourage those…
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FBI Director Kash Patel’s appearance before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee Tuesday fell apart as soon as he was asked about his widely reported drinking habits.
It was the bureau chief’s first time back on Capitol Hill since The Atlantic published multiple bombshell reports detailing how Patel’s alleged substance abuse and his unexplained absences had alarmed officials in and out of the…
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The architect of Donald Trump’s second-term immigration agenda is losing his influence.
White House deputy chief of staff and Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller has aimed to rewrite U.S. immigration policy since his early days in Washington as a Senate aide. But even atop his perch within the Trump administration, Miller’s schemes have experienced myriad setbacks.
Thus far, the president…
_“The bottles bear the imprint of the Kentucky distillery Woodford Reserve, and are engraved with the words KASH PATEL FBI DIRECTOR, as well as a rendering of an FBI shield. Surrounding the shield is a band of text featuring Patel’s director title and his favored spelling of his first name: Ka$h. An eagle holds the shield in its talons, along with the number 9, presumably a reference to Patel’s…
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FBI Director Kash Patel reportedly had a major meltdown when he lost one of his personalized bottles of bourbon.
The Atlantic reported Wednesday that Patel typically travels with a supply of personalized bottles of Woodford Reserve bourbon, branded with the words “Kash Patel FBI Director,” and a rendering of the FBI shield, surrounded by a band that features his favored spelling of his first…
FBI Director Kash Patel has ordered a criminal investigation into The Atlantic reporter who wrote about his drinking, according to two sources familiar with the matter — an inquiry the bureau publicly denied exists. MS NOW broke the story on Wednesday, writing that agents from an insider threats unit in Huntsville, Alabama are reviewing journalist […]
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A recent wave of legal challenges is putting renewed pressure on journalists and raising concerns about the future of investigative reporting.
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The FBI has launched a criminal leak investigation into the _Atlantic_ reporter who reported on Kash Patel’s excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
The FBI’s probe is focused on journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick, who reported last month that Patel was known to drink in excess, routinely delayed meetings and time-sensitive operations, and was often unreachable, two people familiar with the…
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George Packer / The Atlantic:
A profile of David Sacks, the White House's AI and crypto adviser since December 2024, who is ruthlessly devoted to self-interest and helped pass the GENIUS Act — How David Sacks and the new tech right went full MAGA and captured Washington — the courtship between Silicon Valley and MAGA …
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Ellen Cushing / The Atlantic:
How “emotion AI”, the use of facial and sentiment analysis tools to track workers' moods, is seeping into white-collar jobs amid concerns over privacy and bias — The good news, for me at least, is that the computer thinks I have a nice personality.
Mainstream media focus attention on Hasan Piker rather than ongoing Israeli military killings targeting Palestinians.
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Theo Baker / The Atlantic:
A look at “Stanford inside Stanford”, where VCs pursue 18- and 19-year-old students, offering mentorship and funding in a bid to convert promise into profit — Silicon Valley venture capitalists are wining and dining 18-year-olds. — When i was a freshman at Stanford University …
Secondo i focus group condotti da Sarah Longwell e pubblicati su The Atlantic, il segretario di Stato è visto come una figura competente e stabilizzante, mentre il vicepresidente è accusato di incoerenza.
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It looks like Kash Patel’s major meltdown over _The Atlantic_ ’s humiliating report on his excessive drinking and unexplained absences has only made things worse for the embattled FBI director.
Last weekend, _The Atlantic_ ’s Sarah Fitzpatrick reported that Patel was known to drink in excess, routinely delayed meetings and time-sensitive operations, and was often unreachable, raising concerns…
Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, filed a lawsuit against the Atlantic over a story alleging that he “has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.” Patel’s suit seeks $250 million in damages. In a statement Monday, the Atlantic said: “We stand by our reporting on Kash Patel, and we will […]
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FBI Director Kash Patel filed a $250 million defamation suit against _The Atlantic_ Monday, after a sweeping report detailing his excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
In a 19-page filing, lawyers for Patel alleged that _The Atlantic_ had published an “article replete with false and obviously fabricated allegations designed to destroy Director Patel’s reputation and drive him from…
On this week's broadcast of Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Futures," FBI Director Kash Patel said he was filing a defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic for its story on his tenure at the top of the agency.
The post Kash Patel Vows to Sue The Atlantic — ‘I’ll See You in Court’ appeared first on Breitbart.
16 ans de contrôle médiatique, 97% de portée perdue sur X, 400 juristes qui claquent la porte du ministère, une administration entière qui sort de Microsoft Office. Semaine de défections qui marchent — et si le levier n'était pas l'affrontement, mais la sortie organisée ?
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Hvilken fortid er det, (national)konservative ønsker sig tilbage til? 1950'erne, tiden før 1864, Romertiden?
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Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
Q&A with NYT reporter Tiffany Hsu about AI-generated online influencers, how the volume of synthetic content produces exhaustion for users, and more — AI avatars are redefining influence and trust online. — On this week's Galaxy Brain episode, Charlie Warzel is joined …
Programa da CNN Brasil deste domingo (5) recebe historiadora para discutir autoritarismo e cenário político global
O conteúdo original desta reportagem está disponível em: Anne Applebaum, vencedora do Pulitzer, analisa democracia no WW Especial - Publicado primeiro em Portal da TV.
President Donald Trump is reportedly considering more changes to his top team (Picture: Alex Brandon/UPI/Shutterstock)
Donald Trump is weighing up more changes to his top team following the sacking of Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to reports.
The president has been unhappy with both Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Politico reports.
‘He’s…
It's been fifty years since people from Earth stepped foot on the moon. It was an event watched worldwide; 500 million people tuned in. But how did they capture the footage on the moon? And how did they broadcast it back to the Earth?
And what did Stanley Kubrick do to trick all of you, chumps, into believing it happened?
Today, we're going to talk about the filmmaking of the moon landing,…
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