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A viral band on Spotify is probably AI — but there’s no label to tell you
AI slop songs are flooding Spotify — and the latest hit is by an indie rock band called The Velvet Sundown. The track’s success has…
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Republican Senator Rips Trump Budget Bill After Announcing Retirement
Donald Trump erupted Friday after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared victory over Israel. In a defiant video statement…
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Welfare concessions to be set out before key vote
Joshua Nevett Political reporter The government is to release more details about the concessions it has made over proposed welfare…
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Your leadership playbook needs an AI update
As organizations embed artificial intelligence into business operations, the demands on leaders are changing. Today’s teams aren’t made up…
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Transcript: Trump Is Screwing His Voters in “Mind-Boggling” New Scam
Sargent: OK, so let’s talk about Trump’s eruption at Canada. On Truth Social, he suddenly ranted that Canada is putting a digital tax on…
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Bob Vylan: BBC says live coverage of Glastonbury set should have been pulled
The BBC has said it should have cut away from a live broadcast of Bob Vylan's performance at Glastonbury, during which the band's singer…
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Watering Down the SAT Weakens Meritocracy
If we want a society that truly rewards talent and effort, we must preserve and strengthen the tools that make upward mobility possible.…
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Christians Are Being Massacred Globally. The U.S. Must Act
Defenseless Christians in Nigeria and Syria have recently been attacked by extremists intent on purifying those lands for Islam. Source link
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CBO’s Coverage Estimates Merit Skepticism
The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ could help realign state interests with the national interest and finally force some fiscal accountability.…
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Lifetime ISAs leave some with less money than they put in, MPs warn
Shanaz Musafer Business reporter, BBC News Some people who pay into a Lifetime Individual Savings Account (LISA) may end up getting less…
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Is this Hollywood’s moment of AI reckoning?
For some in Hollywood, as Silicon Valley’s AI models have become impossible to ignore, it’s better to have a seat at the table as these…
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The Republicans Are About to Get Away With the Most Outrageous Lies
“Don’t Cut Medicaid,” Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri wrote May 12 in The New York Times. Hawley said it was “morally wrong and…
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The Argentinean Comic Strip That Galvanized a Generation
A uniformed police officer stands sideways, his head turned to face us. His eyes are unnaturally close together, rendered by the artist as…
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Bill Moyers Had Three Careers and Excelled at Every One of Them
“The problem is that the moments of reality are smothered by the steady stream of contrivances and manipulations that people now accept as…
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What Centrist Democrats Need to Learn From Zohran Mamdani
I covered New York City politics for quite a few years in my younger days, but instead of instilling in me a continuing passion about the…
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Video: How Tariffs Are Affecting Wedding Dress Prices
Jordyn Holman, a New York Times business reporter, is planning a wedding. To find out how tariffs are affecting the bridal industry, she…
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Trump’s anti-EV rules aren’t stopping California’s electric truck boom—yet
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Wes Lowe uses so much Claritin that he started…
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Ex-England captain Paul Ince charged with drink driving
Former England captain Paul Ince has been charged with drink-driving after crashing into a central reservation, police said. The…
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China shows off tech resilience in face of trump export controls
As Donald Trump brandishes US export controls on technology as a bargaining chip to wrest supplies of rare earth magnets from Beijing,…
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The race to make AI as multilingual as Europe
The European Union has 24 official languages and dozens more unofficial ones spoken across the continent. If you add in the European…
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Canada Drops Digital Services Tax at 11th Hour, Backing Down After Trump Terminated Trade Talks Over the Issue
Just hours before Canada’s new Digital Services Tax was set to go into effect, the Canadian government announced that it rescinded the…
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These three underrated features make ChatGPT way better
Often lost in the generally breathless coverage of generative AI, ChatGPT sports a few genuinely useful features that aren’t quite so…
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Start your day right with these digital productivity tools
This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps.…