Category: World

During a portion of an interview on Wednesday’s edition of CNN’s “The Story Is,” California Democratic gubernatorial nominee Xavier Becerra responded to people who say the state is too expensive by saying that “it is expensive, but tell me a state that isn’t. Every state’s…

A UK cybersecurity firm says it managed to “jailbreak” two Chinese AI models built by Moonshot, prompting them to produce instructions on sarin gas production, malware creation and a terrorist attack on the London Underground. The Daily Mail reports that Mindgard, a company that tests…

Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, continuing the best year for job security in nearly sixty years. The Labor Department said Thursday that new applications for unemployment benefits dipped to 197,000, down from 198,000 in the prior week. (The prior week’s claim was…

Years before she became president of a company reportedly eyeing a $2 trillion IPO, Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei, the sister of CEO Dario Amodei, was running workplace problems past a panel of stuffed animals. A piece published Wednesday in the Atlantic, adapted from journalist Kevin…

Hospitals’ growing use of AI to assign medical billing codes contributed close to $1 billion in extra costs for Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans between 2023 and 2025, according to a new analysis from the insurer’s trade association. 70 percent of the additional cost…

The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced the completion of automatic enrollment for Trump Accounts on Thursday, delivering on news Secretary Scott Bessent broke during Breitbart’s State of the Economy event in early September. Trump Accounts are tax-advantaged investment accounts for American children under the…

The Robots Can Take Our Jobs, But They Can’t Take Our Economy One of the stranger predictions about artificial intelligence is that it will make the economy spectacularly productive while leaving most people unemployed, unemployable, and unable to obtain the things they need. Here’s how…

Los Angeles County introduced a 10.25 percent sales tax on Thursday, four months after voters approved Measure ER. The Essential Services Restoration Act (Measure ER) overwhelmingly passed in L.A. County earlier this year, raising the sales tax by a half-cent to support health care and…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed an executive order Wednesday directing state agencies to stick with the term “artificial intelligence,” a pointed rebuttal to President Trump’s push to rebrand the technology as “superintelligence.” Politico reports that the dueling word choices played out over two days.…

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) said Thursday voters who want lower gas prices should not elect Democrats. During Breitbart News’s Fight Club Roundtable with Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle, Moreno urged Republicans to talk more about their accomplishments while acknowledging voters’ concerns…