Meta on Wednesday prevailed against a group of 13 authors in a major copyright case involving the company’s Llama artificial intelligence model, but the judge made clear his ruling was limited to this case. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria sided with…

Basic principles of decency and the modern world are being taught to asylum seekers, who were apparently unaware of how to behave in a Western nation. The re-education scheme, conducted by the Northamptonshire Police, was reportedly launched after a group of…

While Disney insists that the P&T division is critical to its future success, the layoffs nonetheless cut an additional two percent of the company’s workforce. This latest round of cost cutting is just one of a long series of cuts lasting several…

Salesforce is accelerating its use of artificial intelligence in automating workloads, according to CEO Marc Benioff. “All of us have to get our head around this idea that AI could do things, that before, we were doing, and we can move on to do…

Shell rebuffed a Wall Street Journal report that said the oil giant was in early talks to take over rival company BP. “This is further market speculation. No talks are taking place,” the company said in a statement Wednesday. An agreement between…

Trump Mobile, the wireless service provider and phone company launched by the Trump Organization, no longer promises on its website that its upcoming smartphone will be made in America. The company adjusted language on its website on or around June…

Hawaiian Airlines disclosed a cybersecurity event affecting some of its IT systems on June 26, sparking concerns across the industry. Despite the breach, the airline emphasized that flight operations remained unaffected, and the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed there was no…

In a video posted to social media, Emhoff said, “You know, I’m feeling a little trauma walking to the same polling station that I did to vote for Kamala.” “And you know, I’m just feeling a lot of hope right…

Gillen issued a statement criticizing Mamdani’s campaign as having “been built on unachievable promises and higher taxes.” “Socialist Zohran Mamdani is too extreme to lead New York City,” Gillen said. “His entire campaign has been built on unachievable promises and higher taxes,…

Cuomo told his supporters that tonight was “not” their night and added that “tonight was Assemblyman Mamdani’s night,” according to the Hill. “He put together a great campaign, and he touched young people and inspired them and moved them and got them to…

Crypto prices, including bitcoin, rose on Tuesday after President Trump announced a ceasefire between Iran and Israel. By midday Tuesday, bitcoin had passed the $105,000 level, ether jumped back above the $2,400 mark, and XRP climbed to $2.19.  The risk-on action in the markets, which also…

Every few weeks, the Earth cries out for an artificial intelligence scare on a frequency heard only by tech CEOs. And lo, like a rain cloud over a parched valley, here comes Amazon boss Andy Jassy to shower us with fresh…

Pope Leo XIV says tech companies developing artificial intelligence should abide by an “ethical criterion” that respects human dignity. AI must take “into account the well-being of the human person not only materially, but also intellectually and spiritually,” the pope…

Cybercriminals have breached insurance giant Aflac, potentially stealing Social Security numbers, insurance claims and health information, the company said Friday, the latest in a spree of hacks against the insurance industry. With billions of dollars in annual revenue and tens of millions…

The explosion of a SpaceX Starship vehicle during a routine ground test Wednesday sent out a shock wave of fire and smoke that appeared to engulf the company’s testing facilities in Starbase, Texas. The mishap raised questions about the company’s…

TikTok just got another lifeline from the White House, with President Donald Trump set to delay enforcement of the sale-or-ban law by another 90 days. “President Trump will sign an additional Executive Order this week to keep TikTok up and…

Oracle is unveiling a program that it says will help vendors more easily sell technology, including artificial intelligence, to the Department of Defense. The program, called the Oracle Defense Ecosystem, is structured to help smaller companies break through the challenges they…

Shigeo Nagashima, Japan’s most celebrated baseball player and a linchpin of the storied Tokyo Yomiuri Giants dynasty of the 1960s and 1970s, died in a Tokyo hospital on Tuesday. He was 89. He died of pneumonia, according to a joint…

Alasdair MacIntyre, a philosopher who metamorphosed from a London Marxist into a Midwestern American Catholic during a decades-long quest to prove there was an objective foundation to moral virtue — a lonely project that struck many of his academic peers…

Herbert Migdoll, the official photographer and designer of the Joffrey Ballet for about a half-century, who was admired for capturing the flight of its dancers with his lens, died on April 19 in the Bronx. He was 90. His death,…

David Cope, a composer and pioneer in the field of algorithmic composition, who in the 1980s developed a computer program for writing music in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and other Classical masters, died on May…

Seize deteriorating apartment buildings run by negligent landlords. Stop spending on new homeless shelters. Build apartments on church campuses and golf courses and on top of libraries. In the race to be New York City’s next mayor, few issues have generated…

In March, a federal investigator asked the New York Police Department for information about a woman who had been arrested during a pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University and was now detained for overstaying her visa. The woman, Leqaa Kordia, 32,…

A quarter-million dollars came from the head of Suffolk Construction, a Boston-based builder betting big on a New York City expansion. Another $150,000 arrived from the chairman of Vornado Realty Trust, who is searching for a way to revive a…

Loretta Swit, the Emmy-winning actress who made the high-strung and relentlessly militaristic Maj. Margaret Houlihan human, dignified and, against all odds, sympathetic on the acclaimed television series “M*A*S*H,” died on Friday at her home in Manhattan. She was 87. Her…