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Amid growing speculation about Mitch McConnell’s health after he spent weeks out of the public eye following a hospitalization, the Republican Kentucky senator’s office released a statement and image July […]

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“Hunter Biden says he is ‘grateful that the rule of law prevailed’ in a defamation lawsuit that recently netted him a judgment of $1.7m in punitive damages from former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne,” The Guardian reports.

“President Donald Trump is ‘very serious’ about his plan to impose a 20% toll on cargo transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, asserting that it’s a plan he’s wanted to move forward with for months,” Semafor reports. “The president has long flirted with the idea of charging a toll, wondering back in April ‘why shouldn’t’ […]

Why? Because the real energy crunch is coming from the Russia/Ukraine war

On this week’s episode of The Big Interview podcast, WIRED’s senior culture editor Manisha Krishnan talks to Gowanus about eschewing Big Tech, going outside, and rejection in the age of dating apps.

In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

Private buyers are increasingly outbidding museums for fossils. That’s making it difficult—or even impossible—for researchers to improve our understanding of the past.

In response to a public records request, HUD has withheld documents about DOGE’s use of AI—in part by citing a privilege that doesn’t exist.

AnimeFLV, the largest Spanish-language anime piracy site on the internet, has stopped serving video to its tens of millions of monthly visitors. The site, which the MPA flagged as a notorious market in its latest USTR submission, remains online with its directory intact. However, the videos have been unavailable for weeks now, without any explanation from the operators.

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Plus: Microsoft Turns On Model Makers, Meta Split the Town in Half

Momentum, the urban-focused bicycle brand backed by cycling industry heavyweight Giant Group, has unveiled its latest commuter e-bike, the Vida E+ EX. Building on the original Vida E+ launched last year, the new model brings several notable upgrades aimed at making everyday transportation more comfortable, more capable, and a bit more tech-forward.

Sunny Gupta spent a decade and a half building Apptio into the system of record for enterprise technology spend. His

The post What makes CIOs trust an AI agent? Thira bets it’s not the model. appeared first on The New Stack.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE are trying to diversify their AI supply chains, but geopolitical constraints and Nvidia's technological lead leave them with few viable alternatives.

“Iran seems to be playing Donald Trump at his own game,” CNN reports. “The president complained Monday that the Islamic Republic can’t be trusted to honor an agreement, rebuking its rulers for one of his own signature moves.” “‘It was a done deal, and then they broke it. They always break it,’ he told Fox […]

“President Donald Trump said the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was drained Monday to make repairs and that it ‘will be refilled and put back into service soon,’ again claiming that vandals gashed the pool’s lining,” CNN reports. USA Today: From blue to green to empty, a look at the DC Reflecting Pool saga.

“Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg left the door open to a potential 2028 presidential run during a visit to Iowa, but said he is focused on the 2026 midterm elections,” USA Today reports. “After rallying phone bank volunteers with Democratic congressional hopeful Sarah Trone Garriott in Des Moines on July 13, the former mayor […]

“Americans’ confidence in 14 of the nation’s core institutions is at or near all-time lows, according to new Gallup polling,” Axios reports. “Why it matters: Trust in America’s institutions is being pulled apart by a widening partisan gap, with Republicans far more confident than Democrats in the Trump 2.0 era of mass societal disruption.”

New York Times: “Rural voters have been President Trump’s most enduring supporters, but they have edged away from him as the Iran War has spiked prices of diesel and fertilizer. Tariff wars have made it harder for farmers to sell their products, and rural families depend especially heavily on the Affordable Care Act subsidies that […]

Washington Post: “In the days since Graham’s death, our era of paranoid politics has produced a string of theories online: He died in Kyiv. He was taken out by Israel. He was poisoned by Iran. He was blown up by Russia.l ”In a statement, Graham’s office said Sunday that preliminary findings from the D.C. medical […]

“New York became the first U.S. state on Tuesday to halt construction of large new data centers, imposing ‌a one-year moratorium as concerns grow that the facilities driving the artificial-intelligence boom are raising power costs, straining water supplies and burdening local communities,” Reuters reports.