Sam Altman thinks the singularity is already here, but an expert says OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach doesn’t prove it
“It’s the first time in like more than a decade I’ve thought about what is the next thing,” the OpenAI CEO said.
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Current price of oil as of July 24, 2026
When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.
Kalshi tiptoes back into canceled flight markets with new JFK airport wager, bets don’t apply to specific flights
The new contract will let institutional users bet whether 50% of flights will be cancelled at JFK airport over two days in October.
U.S. appeals court upholds block on Trump’s order to create a federal list of eligible voters and limit mail-in ballots only to people on that list
The ruling Saturday by judges of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration's effort to move forward with the mail-in voting restrictions.
Kospi index and U.S. stock futures jump as new Hormuz talks send oil prices plunging amid Iran war pause while Wall Street awaits Fed meeting
Iran and Oman are also in talks that center around having Iran run vessel transit through the Strait of Hormuz with fewer restrictions on ships.
China’s Moonshot, Z.AI, and DeepSeek are challenging U.S. AI labs—and beating them on cost
“The AI ecosystem in China is probably much better than people thought."
Intern arrested in Belgium on suspicion of spying inside NATO military headquarters and ‘being a member of a criminal organization’
Belgium's Federal Prosecutor's Office said it launched an espionage investigation after NATO’s security services tipped off Belgium’s military intelligence.
France deploys giant military cargo plane to dump tons of flame retardants as European wildfires displace more than 250,000
The French military A400M transport plane, specially converted for fire-fighting, was a heavyweight new tool in the battle.
Booted from Malaysia, tech guru Balaji Srinivasan finds a new patron for his ‘nomad’ commune: Kazakhstan
It's been a weekslong saga involving crypto-friendly tech utopianism, tensions over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and even China’s real estate crash.
