- Fall of Assad, rise of Trump: Why 2024 was a very bad year for Iran
- Scott Peterson arrest months after Laci disappeared Christmas Eve may have been strategic: former homicide cop
- Six household appliances that have taken heat from Biden's crackdown on regulations
- Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs topped celebrity scandals of 2024
- Violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua terrorizing Americans in at least 19 states
- 'Baywatch' star Nicole Eggert missed warning signs of breast cancer
- Flight passenger goes viral for revealing how crew member 'saved' her with hack to relieve 'airplane ear'
- Donald Trump's most memorable acting cameos before presidency: From 'Home Alone 2' to 'Sex and the City'
- Louisiana prisons routinely hold inmates past their release date, Justice Department argues
- Cowboys make clutch defensive plays to stymie Bucs, pull off win
- Drone mishap during Orlando holiday aerial show sends child to hospital
- Nick Saban corrects Shane Gillis after comedian jokes coach oversaw cheating during storied Alabama tenure
- Jennifer Lopez admits there are 'no coincidences' in life after Ben Affleck divorce
- Trump names several new White House picks to work on AI, crypto and more: 'America First Patriots'
- WNBA star takes aim at Elon Musk, rips billionaires after funding bill gets passed
- Google and OpenAI's AI product announcements over the past month have transformed the state of AI and show the breadth and pace of change (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)
- A look at new tech-based mental health treatments like the Tetris method and Avatar therapy that are offering promising early results and possibilities (Michael Peel/Financial Times)
- OpenAI details "deliberative alignment", a new method it used to make o1 and o3 "think" about its safety policy before responding, to improve overall alignment (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
- Sources: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has recently become singularly obsessed with how to build the next Nvidia and wants competitive AI chips ready to ship by 2026 (Bloomberg)
- Broadcom CEO Hock Tan says AI spending frenzy will continue until the decade's end, and downplays an Intel bid, saying he had his "hands very full" in AI chips (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
- Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- A survey of 501 organizations globally estimates organizations contribute $7.7B annually to open source software and 86% of contribution value is employee labor (The Linux Foundation)
- Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January (Financial Times)
- A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime (Bloomberg)
- A look at Amazon's revamped drone delivery program near Phoenix, Arizona, where the company's new MK-30 drones deliver dozens of packages a day to customers (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
- Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- Preqin data: Southeast Asia's AI startups raised just $1.7B across 122 deals so far in 2024, out of ~$20B across 1,845 deals for the whole Asia-Pacific region (Bloomberg)
- How Britannica survived the Wikipedia era by changing itself into a maker of education software and AI agents, as it reportedly weighs an IPO at a $1B valuation (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
- Tesla's shares are up 73% since Election Day, as several analysts see the Trump administration easing rules for self-driving tech, benefiting Tesla's ambitions (Esha Dey/Bloomberg)
- Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a "fool's errand", and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing (Wall Street Journal)