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The US on Sunday launched its heaviest assault on Iran in weeks, while Tehran hit Gulf nations and announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. American military bases in Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman came under fire in retaliation for the US attacks on southern Iran. Even as ...

Lambs were born via an experimental form of IVF that involved turning immature eggs into viable ones — a development that could potentially improve human success rates. The technique had previously worked in mice but never in large mammals. Each menstrual cycle, several egg-containing ovarian follicles approach maturity, but most ...

Burgess’s view The last time I talked to Lindsey Graham in June, he was trying to be pragmatic about President Donald Trump’s tentative deal to end the war with Iran. The time before that, he was gently panning — but accepting — Trump’s decision to endorse Ken Paxton over John ...

The News Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the former emir who transformed Qatar from a little-known Gulf state with declining resources into one of the world’s richest countries per capita, has died at the age of 74. The Amiri Diwan, the country’s royal court, announced his death on Sunday ...

The News Lindsey Graham, the prominent Republican senator and staunch ally of US President Donald Trump, died on Saturday, aged 71. His office said in a statement that he died following “a brief and sudden illness.” Graham, elected to the Senate in 2002 and running for re-election in November’s midterm ...

Reed’s view Apple leveled major allegations against OpenAI and some of its staffers Friday, alleging the ChatGPT maker systematically directed current and former Apple employees to bring secret information over to OpenAI. Initial allegations in any lawsuit should be taken with a grain of salt. They’re meant to make the ...

Apple on Friday sued OpenAI and its hardware chief, accusing the AI giant of stealing trade secrets. In a legal filing, the iPhone maker alleged that OpenAI’s Tang Tan, who is Apple’s former vice president of product design, gathered information via various methods, including by directing job candidates still working ...

Wearable-makers want a smartphone-adoption moment. Chipmaker Qualcomm is working on up to 40 different kinds of devices with its customers, helping them design things like digital watches, rings, and glasses in a way that delivers consumer data back to the companies creating the products, Ziad Asghar, senior vice president and ...

Reed’s view The AI Futures Project last year issued a gloomy prediction of what will happen if AI progress continues unchecked: Humanity doesn’t make it. This year, the research group headed by former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo is going one step further. In AI 2040: Plan A, the group is ...

Speed is Elon Musk’s superpower, but his abilities clearly have limits. Cursor and SpaceXAI announced Wednesday that they collaboratively released a new model, Grok 4.5, designed to work within Cursor. The announcement came with all the usual comparisons to the big foundation models against benchmarks that provide some vague sense ...