Hollywood powerbroker Ari Emanuel has come to the defense of his friend and business partner David Ellison, alleging that state attorneys general trying to block Paramount’s deal with Warner Bros. Discovery are threatening to “destroy” competition in the entertainment industry. Emanuel, CEO of TKO Group and former director of Endeavor, wrote an op-ed published Tuesday
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent doubled down on his warnings to Chinese AI companies on Wednesday, saying sanctions remain on the table after a White House official accused Moonshot of improperly distilling Anthropic’s Fable model. Model distillation is a common AI training technique in which a smaller model learns from the results of a larger
On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States would examine China’s open source models for signs of intellectual property theft, threatening sanctions against Chinese AI companies if intellectual property theft is found. “We’ve seen a lot of talk about open source models threatening the big language models in the United States,” Bessent said
The United States launched attacks on Iran for the 11th consecutive night late Tuesday, as Tehran warned the United States not to attack its nuclear facilities. The US Central Command (Centcom) said the wave of attacks was “designed to continue to degrade Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping” in the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian state
A tropical storm swirling in the US Gulf is expected to bring heavy rain and “life-threatening storm surge” to the southeast of the country, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). Tropical Storm Bertha was located about 105 miles (165 kilometers) south of Panama City, Florida, with winds of 40 mph (65 km/h) on Monday.
US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose new tariffs on Canada after hundreds of wildfires left much of the northern United States choked by a blanket of smoke. The threat comes after complaints from US lawmakers about the wildfires and Ontario Premier Doug Ford calling on the US to send support to fight the