Month: October 2023

Rishi Sunak has vowed to tackle fears around artificial intelligence (AI) “head-on” as the government prepares to host a world-first global safety summit. The prime minister has made taking advantage of the fast-improving technology, while also regulating against its potential dangers, a focus since taking office last year. Politics latest: Potential by-election headache for PM
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Negotiations scheduled Wednesday between SAG-AFTRA and the studios didn’t happen after all — and everyone’s good with that. “It’s a step in the right direction and the negotiating committee is taking the time to do a deep review,” a guild source tight to the talks told Deadline this evening, noting it is just a pause
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Scholastic, the children’s book publisher, will no longer separate titles that deal with race, gender, and sexuality at book fairs, according to The New York Times. The company, which runs more than 120,000 book fairs in elementary schools a year, had controversially started listing 64 such books in a catalog titled “Share Every Story, Celebrate
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A self-described “former incel” named Michael Pengchung Lee was allegedly planning a mass shooting at the University of Arizona before he was arrested, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday. He is charged with “transmit[ing] in interstate commerce a communication of a threat to injure the person of another.” On Sunday, Lee, who is 27,
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It’s always heartbreaking when someone loses their life due to a senseless act of violence. Officer Ryan Clickunbroomer had really just started his life at the age of 30-years-old. He was working as a training field officer for the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, and had just celebrated his engagement to his girlfriend four days prior,
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Late-Night TV “Our long national nightmare is finally different” Mike Johnson was elected Speaker of the House yesterday and the late-night hosts have weighed in on his selection following a long, dramatic process from Republicans. On The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon noted that the Republicans finally elected someone after three weeks of delays. “Yep, they
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