Included in the search and seizure warrant for the raid on Natanson’s home is a section titled “Biometric Unlock,” which explicitly authorized law enforcement personnel to obtain Natanson’s phone and both hold the device in front of her face and to forcibly use her fingers to unlock it. In other words, a judge gave the FBI permission to attempt to bypass biometrics: the convenient shortcuts that let you unlock your phone by scanning your fingerprint or face.

OpenAI recently introduced their bespoke in-house AI data agent, a GPT-5.2-powered tool designed to help employees navigate and analyze over 600 petabytes of internal data across 70,000 datasets. By translating natural language questions into complex data insights in minutes, the agent enables teams across the company to bypass manual SQL debugging and quickly make data-driven decisions.

Meanwhile, longtime government contractor Palantir was paid $30 million to extend a contract to build a system designed to locate people flagged for deportation. On Wednesday, the Trump administration disclosed it’s using Palantir’s AI models to sift through immigration enforcement tips submitted to its tip line.

TikTok users in the US have reported being unable to write the word ‘Epstein’ in messages amid accusations that the social media platform is suppressing content critical of President Donald Trump.

"China reportedly coordinated the whole operation," the post reads. "The CIA oversaw it, the FBI covered it up, all to install Biden as a puppet."

This list bridges the Transformer foundations
with the reasoning, MoE, and agentic shift

Recommended Reading Order

1. Attention Is All You Need (Vaswani et al., 2017)

   The original Transformer paper. Covers self-attention,
   multi-head attention, and the encoder-decoder structure
   (even though most modern LLMs are decoder-only.)

2. The Illustrated Transformer (Jay Alammar, 2018)

   Great intuition builder for understanding
   attention and tensor flow before diving into implementations

3. BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers (Devlin et al., 2018)

   Encoder-side fundamentals, masked language modeling,
   and representation learning that still shape modern architectures

4. Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (GPT-3) (Brown et al., 2020)

   Established in-context learning as a real
   capability and shifted how prompting is understood

5. Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (Kaplan et al., 2020)

   First clean empirical scaling framework for parameters, data, and compute
   Read alongside Chinchilla to understand why most models were undertrained

6. Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models (Chinchilla) (Hoffmann et al., 2022)

   Demonstrated that token count matters more than
   parameter count for a fixed compute budget

7. LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models (Touvron et al., 2023)

   The paper that triggered the open-weight era
   Introduced architectural defaults like RMSNorm, SwiGLU
   and RoPE as standard practice

8. RoFormer: Rotary Position Embedding (Su et al., 2021)

   Positional encoding that became the modern default for long-context LLMs

9. FlashAttention (Dao et al., 2022)

   Memory-efficient attention that enabled long context windows
   and high-throughput inference by optimizing GPU memory access.

10. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) (Lewis et al., 2020)

    Combines parametric models with external knowledge sources
    Foundational for grounded and enterprise systems

11. Training Language Models to Follow Instructions with Human Feedback (InstructGPT) (Ouyang et al., 2022)

    The modern post-training and alignment blueprint
    that instruction-tuned models follow

12. Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) (Rafailov et al., 2023)

    A simpler and more stable alternative to PPO-based RLHF
    Preference alignment via the loss function

13. Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models (Wei et al., 2022)

    Demonstrated that reasoning can be elicited through prompting
    alone and laid the groundwork for later reasoning-focused training

14. ReAct: Reasoning and Acting (Yao et al., 2022 / ICLR 2023)

    The foundation of agentic systems
    Combines reasoning traces with tool use and environment interaction

15. DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning (Guo et al., 2025)

    The R1 paper. Proved that large-scale reinforcement learning without
    supervised data can induce self-verification and structured reasoning behavior

16. Qwen3 Technical Report (Yang et al., 2025)

    A modern architecture lightweight overview
    Introduced unified MoE with Thinking Mode and Non-Thinking
    Mode to dynamically trade off cost and reasoning depth

17. Outrageously Large Neural Networks: Sparsely-Gated Mixture of Experts (Shazeer et al., 2017)

    The modern MoE ignition point
    Conditional computation at scale

18. Switch Transformers (Fedus et al., 2021)

    Simplified MoE routing using single-expert activation
    Key to stabilizing trillion-parameter training

19. Mixtral of Experts (Mistral AI, 2024)

    Open-weight MoE that proved sparse models can match dense quality
    while running at small-model inference cost

20. Sparse Upcycling: Training Mixture-of-Experts from Dense Checkpoints (Komatsuzaki et al., 2022 / ICLR 2023)

    Practical technique for converting dense checkpoints into MoE models
    Critical for compute reuse and iterative scaling

21. The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (Huh et al., 2024)

    Evidence that scaled models converge toward shared
    internal representations across modalities

22. Textbooks Are All You Need (Gunasekar et al., 2023)

    Demonstrated that high-quality synthetic data allows
    small models to outperform much larger ones

23. Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet (Templeton et al., 2024)

    The biggest leap in mechanistic interpretability
    Decomposes neural networks into millions of interpretable features

24. PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways (Chowdhery et al., 2022)

    A masterclass in large-scale training
    orchestration across thousands of accelerators

25. GLaM: Generalist Language Model (Du et al., 2022)

    Validated MoE scaling economics with massive
    total parameters but small active parameter counts

26. The Smol Training Playbook (Hugging Face, 2025)

    Practical end-to-end handbook for efficiently training language models

Bonus Material

T5: Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer (Raffel et al., 2019)
Toolformer (Schick et al., 2023)
GShard (Lepikhin et al., 2020)
Adaptive Mixtures of Local Experts (Jacobs et al., 1991)
Hierarchical Mixtures of Experts (Jordan and Jacobs, 1994)

If you deeply understand these fundamentals; Transformer core, scaling laws, FlashAttention, instruction tuning, R1-style reasoning, and MoE upcycling, you already understand LLMs better than most

Time to lock-in, good luck ;)

If one person with one agent can produce equal or better results than "hundreds of agents for weeks", then the answer to the question: "Can we scale autonomous coding by throwing more agents at a problem?", probably has a more pessimistic answer than some expected.

When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from solid to liquid, an unusual in-between state emerges, where atomic positions loosen like a liquid but still keep some solid-like order. Scientists at the University of Vienna have now captured this elusive “hexatic” phase in real time by filming an ultra-thin silver iodide crystal as it melted inside a protective graphene sandwich.

Mai Trinh is highlighting how difficult it is for Gen Z entrepreneurs to build and scale tech startups in Canada, and why many ultimately move south of the border.

As an international student from Vietnam and her co-founder Gabriel Ravacci, from Brazil, Trinh explained the two would need to work for other employers to collect enough points under Canada’s Comprehensive Ranking System to qualify for permanent residency.

Teens can’t switch off from Instagram even if they want to. Teens talk of Instagram in terms of an ‘addicts narrative’ spending too much time indulging in a compulsive behaviour that they know is negative but feel powerless to resist.

“negative wellbeing effects can result from user behaviors” and documenting four video-watching behaviors that bring about the majority of negative wellbeing effects: (1) late night use, (2) heavy habitual use, (3) unintentional use, and (4) problematic content.

despite the rules that don’t allow those under the age of 13 to be on Snapchat, our focus group clearly showed that the middle school set was a rabid – almost exclusive – user of Snapchat.

a parent asked ‘ how old were you when you started using social media.’ All of them said btwn ages 8-12 and admitted to lieing about their birthdate to get around it

compulsive usage on TikTok is rampant and our users need better tools to understand their usage, manage it effectively, and ensure being on TikTok is time well spent

A hacked trove of emails reveals the revolving door of political leaders, tech billionaires, and intelligence officers.

Kilmeade’s plea to the president was just one part of what appeared to be a multi-pronged effort by Rupert Murdoch to use his right-wing media empire to push the Trump administration to shift its tactics as backlash over the Pretti shooting only intensified. It also saw Fox News and Murdoch’s conservative publications suddenly reverse course and change their own narrative about the killing.

In fact, by the end of the night Monday, it got to the point that even Sean Hannity – Trump’s close confidant who has been a vocal proponent of the administration’s heavy-handed mass deportation operation – took to the air to say that ICE should stop “going into Home Depots and arresting people,” adding that it wasn’t a “good idea.”

Verrucchi now suspects this is key to how time works. The arrow of time, she says, might simply be a record of what has been measured. Like flicking through a cosmic flipbook, we reveal new pages by interacting with the elements of reality – or “making measurements” as a physicist might put it. The act of simply being in the world collapses our quantum reality into a definite state, leaving an irreversible record behind.

And if clocks are physical systems that record measurements – and we are, too – then perhaps we aren’t just observers of time, says Verrucchi, but participants in its making: “You create time when you ask what time it is.”

The Trump administration on Monday bowed to increasing pressure to change up its immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, after a second person was killed by federal agents. The White House replaced Greg Bovino with Tom Homan on the ground and signaled a more cooperative tone with local Democrats.

The abrupt firing and replacement of 12 of President Biden’s appointed council members, which no president has done before, has been perceived by many as a partisan attack on the museum. Especially after White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, issued a statement saying, “President Trump looks forward to appointing new individuals who will not only continue to honor the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust, but who are also steadfast supporters of the State of Israel.”

Venezuela’s acting president Delcy Rodríguez said Sunday she has had “enough” of Washington’s orders, as she works to unite the country after the US capture of its former leader Nicolás Maduro.

Days after the US strikes on Caracas in early January, the Trump administration outlined a number of demands that Venezuela must agree to, including cutting ties with China, Iran, Russia and Cuba, and agreeing to partner exclusively with the US on oil production, two senior White House officials told CNN at the time.

I reverse-engineered Claude's hidden subscription usage caps from two unrounded utilization floats, recovered exact denominators via Stern-Brocot, and compared what Pro/Max actually buy you versus API pricing (including caching).

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith testified publicly for the first time on Capitol Hill about his investigation of President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

He said the case had “proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal activity,” and remained confident had it gone to trial.

Smith told the committee that he believed he could have obtained a conviction in what was seen by many as the most serious of the charges: Conspiring to deny Americans a free and fair election by pushing to overturn the 2020 election.

“Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power,” said Smith.

Multiple sources have told Liberation Times that, during the Obama administration, senior intelligence figures James Clapper and Stephanie O’Sullivan oversaw a program relating to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Liberation Times sources allege that Northrop Grumman’s Tejon Ranch Radar Cross Section Facility in southern California is a site where UAPs are routinely retrieved.

Hell froze over. Anthropic fixed Claude Code's signature flicker in their latest update (2.0.72)

“The Guidelines err in promoting meat and dairy products, which are principal drivers of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity,” read a statement from Neal Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

“I’m very disappointed in the new pyramid that features red meat and saturated fat sources at the very top, as if that’s something to prioritize,” Christopher Gardner, a nutrition expert at Stanford University, told NPR. “It does go against decades and decades of evidence and research.”

“Flipping the food pyramid upside down to encourage more meat and dairy consumption is complete ignorance. It’s a giant step back from decades of evidence-based nutrition research and science,” registered dietitian nutritionist Ashley Kitchens, who promotes vegan-based diets, told Truthout.

A culture of corruption is pernicious because it is not just a deviation from government in the public interest; it is also the destruction of the state’s democratic legitimacy. It undermines the necessary faith that the representatives of the people are acting in the interest of the people.

4 percent think it’s a good idea for America to take Greenland by military force. To put that in context: According to a 2022 survey, about 13 percent of Americans believe in Bigfoot.

To watch the push for Greenland is to experience one of the wildest things that any country or head of state has done in the entire history of the modern world, dating back to the very creation of the nation-state era in 1648 with the Treaty of Westphalia.

At one level, Trump’s January rampage highlights the collective failure of every institution, safeguard, check, and balance that the United States thought it had in place to limit executive power gone berserk.

This time, any pretense that the values of Davos and Mr. Trump’s worldview are in opposition has been carefully erased. The official program still includes sessions on the subjects of traditional interest, like one entitled “Can EVs Really Dominate?” But artificial intelligence and crypto have been elevated as the central areas of concern.

the longstanding U.S.-led, rules-based international order is over

“There may be a temptation to duck and hope that all of this passes. But Trump’s fixation on territorial expansion looks real,” he said, suggesting Canada should join European countries to show strong solidarity with Denmark.

Part of what made the liberal world order liberal was the principle of self-­determination enshrined in the Atlantic Charter and United Nations Charter. This principle was sometimes violated, including by the United States. But in past multi­polar orders, great powers never even had to consider the rights of small nations, and they didn’t. By contrast, the liberalism of the American order pressured powerful countries to cede sovereignty and independence to smaller ones in their orbits.

Moscow’s satellite states in Eastern and Central Europe would not have been so bent on escape had there been nothing to escape to. The American order promised a higher standard of living, national sovereignty, and legal and institutional equali­ty. This gave nations living under the shadow of the Soviet Union an option other than accommodation, and when given the chance to leave Moscow’s control, they took it.

That era is over. Trump has managed in just one year to destroy the American order that was, and he has weakened America’s ability to protect its interests in the world that will be. If Americans thought defending the liberal world order was too expensive, wait until they start paying for what comes next.

By analyzing $4 trillion of shipments between January 2024 and November 2025, the Kiel Institute researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.

In our benchmark scenario, we find that under-reported income rises from about 10% of true income in the bottom 90% of the income distribution to 16% at the 99th percentile of income, where it remains constant or falls

Total billionaire wealth in the EU reached €2.4 trillion by late November, exceeding Italy's entire GDP of €2.2 trillion and approaching France's €2.9 trillion economy, a new Oxfam report found.

Only 8% of Americans support the U.S. using military force to take control of Greenland.

Only 13% of Americans support paying Greenland residents to encourage secession from Denmark.

Venezuela owes international bondholders, oil companies and others as much as $170 billion — one reason why US firms have been reluctant to help rebuild the country’s infrastructure.

Trump told ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance last week that the US is “not going to look at what people lost in the past, because that was their fault.”

The primary reason that Title 42 is not a good deterrent for this population is that they are not likely to be seeking to apply for asylum but rather to enter the country without being arrested, so that they can find jobs. Previously, single adults were likely to be incarcerated for an extended period after their arrest and possibly prosecuted criminally and sent to a U.S. prison. “They are sending back people very quickly, in hours,” said one Mexican seeking to cross. “The rumor is that chances of crossing undetected are higher, as you can try and try again without much consequences.”

"the agreement made the US the de facto protector of Greenland"

US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island

Jonathan Ross, who was identified as the ICE agent who shot Ms. Good, was still on the scene, according to a report from the Minneapolis Police Department. About 15 minutes later, he was taken to a federal building.

There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

“It feels like an invasion,” said a woman who asked not to be named out of fear of retaliation. She was protesting at the Whipple federal detention facility at 7 a.m. on a frigid, 12-degree morning. The woman, a restaurant owner, said she closed her business temporarily because she was trying to protect her employees who were immigrants. “It feels very much like a Nazi Germany situation to me. It needs to stop, and people need to know what’s going on.”

Win for Memphis activists who say ‘Colossus’ facilities add extra pollution to already overburdened communities

“It is vital for the Golden Dome that we are building,” he said, referring to a proposed missile defence system.

Greenland and Denmark have repeatedly pointed out that a 1951 bilateral agreement already allowed the US to vastly expand its military presence on the island.

Only 4%, including just one in 10 Republicans and almost no Democrats, said military force would be a “good idea”.

In October 2023, the Sinaloa Cartel looked to publicly signal that it was moving away from fentanyl trafficking amid an intensifying crackdown on its operations by U.S. and Mexican authorities. As one of two major suppliers, this would be a significant shift, but it remains unclear how genuine this announcement was. In October 2025, the Treasury Department sanctioned a slew of companies and their affiliates for allegedly supplying fentanyl precursors to a faction of Sinaloa.

Researchers cannot yet say with confidence why deaths have gone down. Experts have offered multiple possible explanations: increased availability of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone, expanded addiction treatment, shifts in how people use drugs, and the growing impact of billions of dollars in opioid lawsuit settlement money.

Some also point to research that suggests the number of people likely to overdose has been shrinking, as fewer teens take up drugs and many illicit drug users have died.

Two other theories recently joined the list.

In a paper published last week in the journal Science, University of Maryland researchers point to the drug supply. They say regulatory changes in China a few years ago appear to have diminished the availability of precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl.

Their argument is based partly on information from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which last year reported that the purity — and dangerous potency — of fentanyl rose early in the COVID-19 pandemic but fell after 2022. It suggests it became harder to make fentanyl and its potency was diluted.

MANN: Yeah, it's pretty remarkable. When I first started reporting on fentanyl, A, most experts said stopping this drug or even slow [inaudible] significantly would be nearly impossible. That's because fentanyl is just easy to make from industrial chemicals. So drug policy experts I've been speaking to think Biden expanded health care and drug addiction treatment programs in ways that saved lives. And this new paper suggests Biden's team also convinced China to help curb the sale of so-called precursor chemicals that are needed to make fentanyl in ways that really hit the drug gangs hard. Again, here's Keith Humphreys.

The Biden administration was disrupting fentanyl traffickers — arresting and prosecuting key drug cartel leaders. Federal officials were also expanding public health and medical insurance programs, funneling more dollars to harm-reduction efforts and making it easier for people to access medications like naloxone and buprenorphine that help prevent overdoses.

An estimated 109,783 additional people would have died from opioid overdose if the population exposed to opioid overdose risk had remained constant rather than declining; an estimated 260,024 fewer people would have died from overdose if probability of fentanyl involvement in opioid overdose deaths had remained constant rather than increasing. Fentanyl's representation in the U.S. drug supply appears to be a key driver of overdose trends. A declining population exposed to overdose risk over the last decade may be related to prior deaths and to evidence-based efforts to prevent substance use and opioid use disorder.

“when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election.”

The effects of climate change and global warming are already evident and shaking up our risk landscape: warmer average temperatures, rising sea levels, melting ice caps, longer and more frequent heatwaves, erratic rainfall patterns and more weather extremes.

A most urgent question we need to ask is not only how to tackle climate change, but also how we can best adapt to a changing climate and avert the most damaging consequences – in short, how to mitigate climate risk.

The most significant increase in these losses in relation to GNI was also visible in the US, where losses measured in terms of GNI rose steeply from decade to decade up to the last five years – by which time they were roughly five times the level between 1980 and 1989. There was a similarly sharp increase in Germany, due in no small part to the losses caused by the Ahr Valley floods in 2021.

The Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators think could be the cause of a series of mysterious ailments impacting spies, diplomats and troops that are colloquially known as Havana Syndrome, according to four sources briefed on the matter.

Trump has reportedly asked special forces to prepare contingency plans for a possible invasion of Greenland, a move that has faced resistance from senior US military officials over legal and political concerns.

Platform has restricted image creation on the Grok AI tool to paying subscribers, but victims and experts say this does not go far enough

Venezuelan guard recounts horrific effects of mystery sonic weapon used by US forces during raid that captured Nicolás Maduro, leaving soldiers bleeding from nose and vomiting blood.

The alleged use of sonic weaponry in the Maduro raid represents a significant escalation in demonstrated US military technology

US shale bosses have warned President Donald Trump that his mission to seize Venezuela’s oil sector and drive down crude prices will put American output on the chopping block.

Trump is set to meet US Big Oil chiefs on Friday, but executives at large independent drillers — who are not on the attendee list — are seething over the president’s plan to flood America with Venezuelan crude.

“We’re talking about this administration screwing us over again,” said a top executive at one of the country’s leading shale groups, describing the plans as “against American producers”.

“If the US government starts providing guarantees to oil companies to produce or grow oil production in Venezuela I’m going to be . . . pissed.”

Trump’s drive to open up Venezuela’s oil riches, potentially subsidising investors, has further strained relations with oil executives in Texas, who have been angered by his dogged pursuit of ever-lower crude prices.

The ire in the shale industry — where many executives bankrolled the president’s return to office — echoes a frustration in the Maga movement that Trump is neglecting his “America First” mantra.

But problems in Texas’s oil industry are mounting, as cheaper oil forces producers to idle rigs needed to keep production ticking higher.

The US is the biggest producer in the world, but its pivotal shale production requires continuous drilling to keep growing. The number of operating US oil rigs last week was just 412, down by 15 per cent in a year.

The Energy Information Administration forecasts that the US’s record-high output will fall by about 100,000 barrels a day in 2026 as drillers retreat — the first annual drop since the Covid-19 pandemic.

Trump flew to Texas multiple times in 2024 to tap deep-pocketed oil barons for cash, making executives angry at what some describe privately as a “betrayal”.

“To me, the signal from the administration is: we’d rather spend our American money on propping up a Venezuelan oil business than supporting our current independent businesses,” said Kirk Edwards, chief executive of Latigo Petroleum, a private producer based in Odessa, Texas, who donated to the president’s re-election campaign.

Only the biggest energy groups, such as ExxonMobil, Chevron and ConocoPhillips, have access to the tens of billions of dollars in capital, teams of lawyers and security protection needed for a foray into Venezuelan oil.

For smaller US operators, a revitalised Venezuelan industry — if Trump can pull it off — means worsening the market glut.

Shale drillers need a barrel of West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark, to trade above $60 to turn a profit. Its price fell below $56 a barrel this week and the EIA said it would average $51 a barrel this year — a forecast made before Trump’s Venezuela move opened the prospect of a new wave of supply.

Exporters in the Opec cartel, including Saudi Arabia — which has launched two price wars in just over a decade to recapture market share from the US — have been adding production in recent months, triggering more alarm in Texas.

“I think it’s an appropriate reaction by US shale to be miffed,” said Dan Pickering, founder of Pickering Energy Partners. “Not just because Venezuelan production might go up but because the US government, in theory, is going to subsidise that.”

He added: “These guys are already worried about price. They live in a country where the president wants the price of their output to go down.”

Shares in the leading independent US oil groups tumbled this week as traders bet the Venezuelan oil surge would hit them hard. Diamondback Energy, APA Corp and Devon Energy each lost as much as 9 per cent.

“Somebody’s looking at these stocks today going, why would I own this if in a few years, they’re going to be competing against Venezuela for oil, for our refineries in the United States?” said Edwards.

The price of crude has halved since mid-2022 when WTI surged past $120 a barrel following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Gasoline prices have fallen to about $2.80 a gallon. As Trump looks ahead to midterm elections this year, he would prefer crude prices closer to $50 a barrel and gasoline below $2 a gallon.

US energy secretary Chris Wright said on Thursday that Big Oil’s arrival in Venezuela could push up its output as much as 50 per cent to 1.2mn barrels a day within 12 months.

“I think you’ll see more downward pressure on the price of gasoline,” he told Fox News.

Shale executives said Wright, a former oilfield services boss whose appointment by Trump was cheered in Texas, had abandoned his roots.

“He gets it [but] he is just toeing the party line,” said one Midland shale executive, who noted industry relations with Wright had grown strained.

But the executive placed more of the blame on Trump, saying there was “absolute frustration” in the industry at the president.

“He’s definitely not pro oil as far as independent oil companies’ survival and vibrancy. The message will have to come in US production declining,” the person said.

Trump’s comments this week that US taxpayers could help reimburse big oil groups that invest in Venezuela sparked more ire in the shale patch.

“We should not subsidise the big companies in trying to retool Venezuela’s infrastructure and develop their reserves for them,” said another prominent shale executive.

Trump, he said, did not care if smaller oil groups “drill their way into oblivion” and did not “give a damn if they went bankrupt”.

Analysts said the fallout made clear that as the prospects for future production moved beyond US shores, America’s well-resourced oil giants were now solidly in the ascendancy.

“All of this points to the advantage of being larger,” said Maynard Holt, chief executive of Houston-based energy consultancy Veriten.

“Because many of the opportunities that are coming — whether it’s Venezuela or Algeria or some other complicated place — you will be able to consider them more seriously the larger you are.”

One neighbor at Ross's 10-house cul-de-sac told the Daily Mail that until recently Ross had been flying pro-Trump flags and a 'Don't Tread On Me' Gadsden Flag, an emblem of the Make America Great Again movement.

"Firms don't appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale," the firm said. It suspects some are trying to "dress up layoffs" as good news

"Firms don't appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale," the firm said. It suspects some are trying to "dress up layoffs" as good news.

This interaction could help explain both why quantum processes can occur within environments like the brain and why we lose consciousness under anesthesia.

Alexander Dugin, the fascist philosopher known as “Putin’s Rasputin”, said: “The capture of Maduro demonstrates that international law no longer exists — only the law of force applies.”

Alexey Pushkov, a Russian senator, accused the US of returning the world to “the savage imperialism of the 19th century”, adding: “Won’t the ‘triumph’ turn into a disaster?”

“The United States carried out a coup in Venezuela, struck the country, and demonstrated that international law means nothing to a nation that considers itself a hegemon,” said Igor Girkin, a former soldier and FSB officer turned commentator.

According to Michael Kofman, a Russian military analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Trump administration’s decision to strike Venezuela without even the “veneer of justification” “substantially frays” any sense of international order.

He adds that it “will make it much harder in the future for the US to convince other states that this type of behaviour should be punished”.

“By using force to assert its hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, the US is trading these short-term gains for a long-term structural cost to its overall position in the international system and to the advantages it enjoys over its rivals Russia and China,” he said.

“We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he said. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

The statements by the two men amount to an explicit declaration of gunboat diplomacy and an embrace of the kind of 19th-century U.S. imperialist policy in the Western Hemisphere that has been widely criticized across Latin America.

Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in an interview that decades-long efforts by the United States to prove it is not a colonial power in the Americas has been “all thrown out” now, and that Mr. Trump’s actions could “potentially turn the whole region against us.”

He added that the administration’s aim of dominating the Western Hemisphere — including forcibly seizing leaders in the region — could spur China and Russia to try to do the same in their perceived “spheres of influence.”

That’s why, long after the shock has worn off, the enduring lesson for China will be a sense of vindication. Operation Absolute Resolve is a confirmation of what the CCP has always believed — that there is no such thing as a rules-based international order; that it’s a jungle out there.

Now Beijing will feel vindicated that America has shed the pretence. Whether Trump’s actions are the death knell of the rules-based world order, or merely reveal that it never existed, doesn’t truly matter. What matters is that the US and China, as the two most powerful nations on Earth, the two countries with the most capability to uphold the rules for everyone else, share a disdain for them. Like the fairies of Neverland, these laws only ever existed if they were believed in.

America’s greatest successes after the second world war came not from extracting resources from Europe or Japan, but from providing public goods: security, institutional rebuilding and a rules-based order that allowed societies to prosper.

The world order as we knew it has been overturned.

By seizing a sitting head of state and announcing direct American administration over a sovereign country – without international authorisation, coalition partners or even the language of temporariness – he crossed a boundary the post-1945 international system was meant to keep intact.

No fewer than 717 companies filed for Chapter 7 or Chapter 11 bankruptcy between January and November, according to S&P data reviewed by The Washington Post. This marks a 14 percent increase from the same period in 2024 and the highest rate since 2010, when the country was recovering from the Great Recession

Last year, before capturing President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration designated a Venezuelan slang term for drug corruption in the military as a terrorist organization and said he led it

One such study, conducted by Lee Epstein of Washington University in St. Louis and Mitu Gulati of the University of Virginia, concluded that over the century ending in 2021 the court ruled for businesses an average of 41 percent of the time. But the court led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. since 2005 decided for businesses 63 percent of the time.

The study showed a growing partisan divide between the justices. In 1953, the study’s authors wrote, “Democratic and Republican appointees are statistically indistinguishable, deciding on average about 45 percent of the cases in favor of the rich.” By 2022, they wrote, “that share is about 70 percent for the average Republican justice and 35 percent for the average Democratic justice.”

Minnesota child care centers at the center of widespread fraud allegations fueled by a viral video were operating as expected when visited by investigators, the state Department of Children, Youth, and Families said in a news release Friday.

President Donald Trump’s administration is working quickly to establish a pliant interim government in Venezuela following the dramatic capture of Nicolás Maduro, according to US officials, prioritizing administrative stability and repairing the country’s oil infrastructure over an immediate turn to democracy.

President Donald Trump's love affair with the Supreme Court could turn sour in the new year.

Sheldon Whitehouse, an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center board, remains undeterred and determined to press on with his investigation

Ms. Hassan is of Somali ancestry, as are all but eight of the 86 people charged in the meals, housing and autism therapy fraud cases, according to prosecutors. A vast majority are American citizens, by birth or naturalization.

Another year has passed, and with it, another collection of Elon Musk’s ambitious timelines that didn’t quite align with reality....

Elon Musk made many 2025 promises that he couldn't keep.

The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account

Intimacy is entirely transactional and the entire human — from body, mind, and ordinary life — become consumer products.

Solar farms are already proving to be an effective addition to traditional power, but now it looks like they may have additional environmental benefits.

It appears the justice has some regrets.

A repeat of the disaster that ended the 1930s is not inevitable. But just as then, capitalists and intellectuals can’t thrash out how to adapt their favored economic model in a way that voters will accept. Capitalism is still the least terrible way to run an economy, but it will have to change profoundly if the future really is a world where most people’s labor isn’t needed.

The BBC has been forced to apologise after technical problems interrupted their broadcast of the 'Battle of the Sexes' clash between Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios.

French insect farming company Ÿnsect was recently placed into judicial liquidation for insolvency, despite raising over $600 million.

Unlike womanhood, which is often treated as a biological inevitability, manhood must be proven through action. This psychological framework suggests that men experience anxiety about failing to meet societal standards of masculinity. They must constant reinforce their status and avoid behaviors that appear feminine.

the avoidance of feminine stereotypes is a key reason why insecure men distance themselves from environmentalism. They appear to regulate their attitudes to avoid signaling traits that society assigns to women.

The current data indicates that for many men, the desire to be seen as a “real man” conflicts with the desire to save the planet.

Mack was writing his first book about alien encounters at the time he prepared this essay. Based on a lecture given in Spring 1993.

US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a new class of battleships bearing his name puts a fresh spotlight on a US naval shipbuilding program that has fallen short on delivering the new warships on time and on budget in recent years, something Trump himself pointed out in his speech from Mar-a-Lago on Monday.

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No matter what happens, the country could be in for a shock. If AI progress stalls and the money dries up, there will be economic chaos. If AI progress advances and leads to massive waves of automation, there will also be economic chaos.

Comments follow reports that US president discussed idea with constitutional scholar Alan Dershowitz

A Trump State Department official who shut down a U.S. counter-disinformation office has Kremlin ties, the Telegraph reported on June 3. The official, Darren Beattie, is married to the niece of a former Russian official linked to Putin and has echoed pro-Kremlin narratives.

“People don’t flee the city simply because the taxes are gonna go up two percent,” he added.

Even if more people considered moving out of New York City, Olshan said, the reality is that it takes “a lot” for people to move in general.

“They have jobs, they have kids in school, they have families in the area, they have friends, and you just can’t decide to pick up and move on the prospect that the mayor is going to deteriorate the city,” she said. “So people have been buying and they will continue to buy in New York City. We’ll just have to wait and see how Mamdani governs in New York.”

If you are reading this, you probably have strong opinions about AGI, superintelligence, and the future of AI. Maybe you believe we are on the cusp of a transformative breakthrough. Maybe you are skeptical. This blog post is for those who want to think more carefully about these claims and examine them from a perspective […]

A calorie-restricted diet could slow down the aging that naturally happens in the brain as we get older, according to a new study of rhesus monkeys, and the findings could also be relevant to brain diseases such as Alzheimer's.

The National Weather Service is working to hire back hundreds of positions laid off or otherwise cut by the Trump administration, but it’s progressing at a snail’s pace, forcing many offices to continue to cope with vacancies that could affect winter forecasts.

The agency received permission in late July to add a total of 450 people after about 550 were cut by DOGE earlier this year. The decision to authorize new hires came after lawmakers and citizens expressed concerns about how the NWS cuts would impact public safety.