The United States has reached a 35-year high in measles cases, according to new figures from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The United States has seen 2,318 confirmed cases of measles in 2026, just seven months into the year, down from a high of 2,289 last year, when two unvaccinated children
US forces shot down an Iranian Shahed in the Middle East this week using an interceptor drone tested in Ukraine, a US official told Business Insider on Friday. The engagement marks the first time U.S. troops have used the U.S.-made Merops system to intercept a hostile drone in combat. Ukraine has used it to take
Almost 15 years ago, Canada agreed to pay in full for the bridge’s construction to overcome American political resistance and get the project underway, seen as necessary infrastructure to solve a trade bottleneck. The bridge will help support more than C$1 billion (US$710 million; £530 million) of freight passing through the Windsor-Detroit crossing each day.
DETROIT– The tense relationship between the United States and Canada is ruining the celebration of an extraordinary project between the two countries: a new six-lane bridge named after a famous Canadian who played hockey for the Detroit Red Wings. After years of planning and billions of dollars in construction, the Gordie Howe International Bridge is
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 impressive capabilities of Chinese lab Moonshot’s Kimi K3, the largest open-weight large language model, have started a debate that combines two things: the economic possibilities of American AI giants and the future of LLMs as a technology. OpenAI’s head of strategic futures, Dean W. Ball, went so far as to argue that the US