Day: May 22, 2026

The News Tulsi Gabbard resigned as director of national intelligence on Friday, leaving President Donald Trump with three Cabinet-level vacancies to fill as his relations with Republican senators fray. In a letter to Trump reviewed by Semafor, Gabbard cited her husband’s battle with “extremely rare” bone cancer, writing that she ...

The acceptance rate for online job applicants has dropped so low that, in some cases, it now trails getting accepted to Harvard. Take payroll management company Deel, which employs 7,000 people and got 1.3 million job applications last year. After using AI to initially screen applicants, it hired only 2,900 ...

What was most striking about the US government’s $2 billion in grants and investments across nine quantum computing companies were the names that were left off the list: Google, Microsoft, and IonQ. Cohen & Company Capital Markets’ Brandon Sun, who advises quantum companies on going public through SPACs, says the ...

The Scoop A bipartisan quartet of US senators are proposing a resolution on Friday that expresses support for defensive arms sales to Taiwan as President Donald Trump pauses $14 billion in weapons deals with the self-governing island. The measure from Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Thom Tillis, R-N.C., Susan Collins, R-Maine, ...

It’s difficult to imagine the second order impacts of technologies under development today: Quantum computers, fusion reactors, humanoid robots. Their real impact won’t come from what they do directly, but from the second-, third-, and fourth-order effects they unleash across markets, labor, and geopolitics. Trying to comprehend the massive change ...

Secretary of state suggests July meeting of alliance will be fraught as US demands help in strait of Hormuz Donald Trump is disappointed that Nato allies refused to become more actively involved in attacking Iran, the US secretary of state has said, setting up what could become a fraught summit ...

Iran has threatened to impose tolls on shipping, while US demands that Iran hand over its highly enriched uranium may be deferred. Is there an end in sight? Qatar has rushed a team of mediators to Tehran in a sign that talks to open the strait of Hormuz, in return ...

Israeli prison service denies claims of abuse during detention of 430 people trying to take aid to Palestinians Activists released from Israeli custody after being detained on a flotilla trying to take aid to Gaza were subjected to abuse, organisers have alleged, with several hospitalised with injuries and at least ...

He may be the most brazen of the nation’s leaders, but his ideological spirit is found throughout its government, and beyond No, you’re not hallucinating: western governments really are condemning Israel, one-by-one, without equivocation. Not because of the ongoing genocide in Gaza that has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, of ...

Byron Allen’s show Comics Unleashed will take the 11.35pm time slot vacated by the cancellation of The Late Show Viewers accustomed to watching The Late Show With Stephen Colbert at its typical 11.35pm time slot will be greeted with a different show starting on Friday: Comics Unleashed, hosted by Byron ...