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Reuters : Sources: US chipmakers and tech firms, including Intel, GlobalFoundries, and Google, plan to attend a business meeting in Vietnam as Biden visits to boost ties   —  Top U.S. semiconductors and digital companies including Intel, GlobalFoundries and Google are expected to attend a business meeting …

Wall Street Journal : A profile of Rene Haas, who Arm appointed as CEO in February 2022 after Nvidia's Arm acquisition was scrapped and SoftBank shared plans to pursue an IPO instead   —  The American CEO of Arm, a British company owned by a Japanese tech conglomerate, must juggle the needs of chip-making customers who are battling each other

The head of the Border Patrol union told Fox News Digital on Saturday that a reported Biden administration plan to force migrants to remain in Texas as they are processed for their asylum hearings won’t do anything to secure the border or help agents. "It's not going to help border security in any way, shape or form because it means catch-and-releases are going to continue to go on," Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, told Fox News Digital. He suggested that the Biden administration is only considering the move in response to complaints from liberal mayors. The Los Angeles Times reported this week that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is considering a policy to force some illegal migrant families to remain in Texas by tracking them with GPS monitoring devices, including ankle bracelets. ABBOTT PROMISES ‘EVEN MORE BUSES’ IF BIDEN ADMIN PUSHES REPORTED PLAN TO KEEP MIGRANTS IN TEXAS The Times reported that the families would be put...

Walter Isaacson / CNBC : How Tesla's Autopilot team moved away from a rules-based approach for the upcoming FSD 12 to a “neural network planner” trained on 10M+ Tesla car video clips   —  The following is adapted from Walter Isaacson's biography “Elon Musk,” publishing Sept. 12.

EXCLUSIVE: Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott gave a one-word response to a California bill that would punish parents in custody battles who don't "affirm" transgender kids.  The South Carolina senator called the proposal "evil" in a statement to Fox News.  The California State Assembly passed legislation Friday that would require judges in child custody cases to consider whether a parent has affirmed a child’s belief that they are transgender.  AB 957 originally proposed that courts deciding custody cases must consider whether each parent were gender-affirming of the child in question. An amendment in June added to the state’s standard of what constitutes parental responsibility for child welfare, requiring that parents must be affirming of a child’s gender identity if they are to be judged fit for providing for "the health, safety, and welfare of the child" in a court of law.  CALIFORNIA PASSES BILL PUNISHING PARENTS WHO DON'T ‘AF...

Jay Peters / The Verge : Some Wyze security camera owners report briefly seeing feeds from cameras they didn't own or recognize; Wyze blames “a web caching issue”   —  Some Wyze security camera owners reported Friday that they were unexpectedly able to see webcam feeds that weren't theirs …

The Democrat candidate in one of the most closely watched state legislature races in Virginia said earlier this year that "unqualified" White people are able to secure high-paying jobs while Black people need "a Ph.D." to be considered for the same type of job. Nadarius Clark, a political activist and former member of the Virginia House of Delegates who hopes to win another term made the claim during an April 17, 2021, episode of his former podcast, "Polititalk," when he and a guest co-host were discussing what they said was the unfair treatment of Black people by the police. "I refuse to have to teach my kids how to be a perfect person when that doesn't exist. It is ridiculous that we have to dot our i's and cross our t's just to have a regular job," Clark said during the podcast. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub . "Our counterparts, a C...

Peter Kiefer / The Ankler : Sources: Apple spent $5M on the film rights for Michael Lewis' book about Sam Bankman-Fried; at least eight Hollywood projects on SBF are in the works so far   —  Apple paid $5M for Michael Lewis' book, a Nanette Burstein doc is underway, and a who'll-finish-first race is afoot as the crypto con projects pile up

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple no longer plans to launch any MacBook models with an M3 chip “before the end of this year”   —  Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has bad news for Apple fans hoping to see a lineup of M3-powered Macs this year.  According to Kuo, Apple is no longer planning to release …

Jay Peters / The Verge : Roblox announces Roblox Connect, letting users video chat with other people as their Roblox avatar in a shared virtual space, available later in 2023   —  Roblox is launching its own take on video chat called Roblox Connect, the company announced at its Roblox Developers Conference (RDC) 2023 on Friday.

The president of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is facing backlash after it was recently revealed that she had enrolled her eldest child in a private school. Stacy Davis Gates – who was elected president of CTU in 2022 and also serves as executive vice president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers – placed her teenage son in a Catholic high school located in Chicago's South Side, according to a report by NBC Chicago. The report, which cited multiple sources and Davis Gates' own social media posts as confirmation of the enrollment, did not specify the name of Davis Gates' child or the school he had been enrolled in. Davis Gates said last year that having her children in public schools helps to "legitimize" her position within the union and that she could not advocate on behalf of public schools if that were not the case, according to NBC Chicago . CHICAGO MAYOR PLANS TO RELOCATE NEARLY 1,600 MIGRANTS FROM POLICE STATION TO TENTS BEFORE WINTER In March 2...

Joseph Fiordaliso, who was implementing one of the country's most aggressive clean energy programs as head of New Jersey's state utilities regulation board, has died. He was 78. The governor's office said Thursday that Fiordaliso died Wednesday. It didn't provide a cause of death. Fiordaliso, who had been president of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities since 2018, often spoke of his grandchildren when describing the type of planet he hoped to leave to them — one in which green energy sources like wind, solar and geothermal help reduce the worst effects of climate change by replacing the burning of fossil fuels. 4 NEW OFFSHORE WIND PROJECTS PLANNED IN NEW JERSEY Gov. Phil Murphy called Fiordaliso, who was born in Newark, "a consummate public servant, a trusted colleague, and a good friend." "Joe skillfully led our work to responsibly transition to a clean energy economy while always putting the needs of consumers first," the governor said...

Linda Hardesty / Fierce Wireless : The Senate votes 55 to 43 to approve Anna Gomez as the fifth FCC commissioner, breaking the deadlock at the agency and giving the FCC a 3-2 Democratic majority   —  Today, the U.S. Senate finally approved a nominee to fill the vacant, fifth seat on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin's accomplished fundraising ability has Democrats playing defense ahead of the commonwealth's November contests for legislative control, and multiple strategists from across the board suggest there's a larger motive at play. President Biden reportedly directed the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to dump $1.2 million into Virginia legislative races last week — a sure sign that the president is looking to counter Youngkin's influence on voters. The additional funding, which was first reported by the Washington Post, brings the DNC's contributions to the Virginia Democratic Party to $1.5 million. That figure, the outlet noted, is 15 times the amount the DNC had given four years ago, when all 140 seats in the Virginia Senate and House of Delegates appeared on the ballot. Youngkin hopes to boot Democrats from their last stronghold in Richmond, where Democrats hold a slim majority in the state Senate. If he's successful...

AJ Vicens / CyberScoop : Microsoft says Chinese state-affiliated hackers are using AI to generate content designed to “go viral across social networks in the US and other democracies”   —  Chinese state-affiliated hacking groups are become more adept at using artificial intelligence to generate content designed to …

A battleground House race in Michigan that national Democrats are eyeing to help them flip the chamber in 2024 is growing increasingly crowded after Carl Marlinga announced Thursday he will again challenge Republican U.S. Rep. John James for the seat. Marlinga's 2024 campaign in Michigan's 10th Congressional District, which was announced in a news release provided to The Associated Press, comes after the Democrat lost last year by half a percentage point to James, who had a significant fundraising advantage. In seeking the rematch with James in the suburban district north of Detroit, Marlinga is hoping to extend his party's recent winning streak in Michigan. Democrats have taken control of the governor's office and both chambers of the Legislature for the first time in decades, though they fell 1,600 votes short of claiming the 10th District in 2022. MICHIGAN VOTERS ELECT REPUBLICAN JOHN JAMES TO US HOUSE IN NEWLY CREATED 10TH DISTRICT National Democrats have alrea...

House Republicans are demanding Hunter Biden’s legal team turn over all records of communications with the Justice Department related to the collapsed plea agreement for the president’s son—records that appeared to later be leaked to media outlets that reported details of the negotiations. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith warned in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital that noncompliance could result in the panels seeking testimony from Hunter Biden and his attorneys. Fox News Digital obtained a letter Jordan, Comer and Smith sent to Hunter Biden’s attorneys Chris Clark and Abbe Lowell Wednesday demanding documents and communications related to the "failed settlement negotiations." The lawmakers argued that because the documents have been publicly disclosed and reported, "no basis exists to withhold these documents and communications from the Commit...

Wayne Ma / The Information : Source: Apple's budget for training AI is now millions of dollars per day; its conversational AI team Foundational Models has ~16 people led by Ruoming Pang   —  Apple has been expanding its computing budget for building artificial intelligence to millions of dollars a day.

A senior Democratic senator is attempting to lodge an ethics complaint against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for allegedly violating several canons of judicial ethics. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, who also serves as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee, sent a letter to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to formally request the ethics complaint calling into question Alito’s public criticism of Whitehouse’s Supreme Court ethics reform legislation. "In the worst case facts may reveal, Justice Alito was involved in an organized campaign to block congressional action with regard to a matter in which he has a personal stake. Whether Justice Alito was unwittingly used to provide fodder for such interference, or intentionally participated, is a question whose answer requires additional facts," Whitehouse wrote to Roberts. The Democrat added, "As you have repeatedly emphasized, the Supreme Court should not be helpless when it comes to policing i...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre bristled when questioned Tuesday on Democrat voters' views on President Biden's age and claims from an upcoming book that administration staff treat him "like a toddler." "President Biden is the oldest president in U.S. history. Why does White House staff treat him like a baby?" Fox News' Peter Doocy asked Jean-Pierre during the daily White House press briefing. "No one treats the president of the United States, the commander in chief, like a baby. That's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous claim," Jean-Pierre responded. FORMER FOOTBALL COACH SEN TOMMY TUBERVILLE RIPS GROWING INFLUENCE OF MONEY IN COLLEGE SPORTS, WANTS CHANGES Doocy cited an upcoming book by The Atlantic's Franklin Foer, "The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future," in which the author writes that Biden, after appearing to call for regime change in Russia...

The Senate meets at 3 pm et today for the first time since late July.  The biggest buzz around the Senate centers on the health of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).  THE IMPEACHMENT BISTRO: REPUBLICANS CONTINUE TO KEEP IMPEACHMENT ON THE MENU Some senators want McConnell to be more transparent about his health issues as there are whispers in the Senate corridors about his fitness to serve.  McConnell froze up last week during a speaking engagement in northern Kentucky. He had a similar episode in late July. And there was also an issue in the spring. The latter appeared to be a problem with the Leader’s hearing aids.  Questions about McConnell have swirled since he misses several weeks after a fall where he suffered a concussion.  Republicans also find themselves in a bind: defending McConnell but wanting to raise questions about the health and age of President Biden .  HOW CONGRESS MIGHT END UP FUNDING FLORIDA, HAWAII DISASTER RELIEF...

Allison Johnson / The Verge : Google releases a refreshed Android logo and grab bag of updates for its mobile app and services, including the At a Glance widget and Lookout app   —  Google is releasing a grab bag of updates to its mobile apps and services, including an At a Glance Google Assistant widget …

The top prosecutors in all 50 states are urging Congress to study how artificial intelligence can be used to exploit children through pornography, and come up with legislation to further guard against it. In a letter sent Tuesday to Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate, the attorneys general from across the country call on federal lawmakers to "establish an expert commission to study the means and methods of AI that can be used to exploit children specifically" and expand existing restrictions on child sexual abuse materials specifically to cover AI-generated images. "We are engaged in a race against time to protect the children of our country from the dangers of AI," the prosecutors wrote in the letter, shared ahead of time with The Associated Press. "Indeed, the proverbial walls of the city have already been breached. Now is the time to act." South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson led the effort to add signatories from all ...

Democratic  Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock  is facing an ethics complaint alleging he potentially filed a false financial disclosure form in violation of federal law. The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) lodged the complaint on Tuesday with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics and asked for an immediate investigation into whether he had surpassed outside income limits by using a "fabricated" loophole, the  Washington Free Beacon  reported.  "Either Sen. Warnock and his church had a deferred compensation agreement that both have conspicuously failed to report the existence of for years, or he received outside income of over four times the legal limit," FACT Executive Director Kendra Arnold told the publication.  "In either case, this would be a major breach of Senate ethics laws that must immediately be investigated by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics," Arnold said. "The applicable laws and rules are clear and the people he s...

Seven months after a train derailed in eastern Ohio, there are still questions over just how damaging the accident was to the East Palestine community. Thousands of residents were forced to evacuate their homes after train cars spilled toxic chemicals. Emergency response teams decided to release and burn the materials to prevent the tank cars from exploding.  The clean-up from the event is still ongoing, and some Ohio lawmakers and residents say the effort has taken too long. "They’re frustrated. They're certainly frustrated by the pace of the cleanup," Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, said. "Of course, we're still dealing with the economic devastation… declining home values. Small businesses had to shut down for the next five years. So there's a lot of worry and a lot of frustration. But I think that we’ve got to keep at it." NTSB CALLS OHIO TRAIN DERAILMENT ‘100% PREVENTABLE,’ SAYD OPERATORS WERE WARNED OF OVERHEATED AXLE Ohio’s state Senate minority le...

David Heaney / UploadVR : Report: Meta has partnered with LG to launch a new Quest Pro in 2025 to compete with Apple's Vision Pro; Meta plans to release a sub-$200 headset in 2024   —  Meta is reportedly partnering with LG for future Quest Pro headsets.  —  In November last year South Korean news outlet SBS Biz reported Meta …

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times : Sources: Apple and Microsoft have argued that iMessage and Bing are insufficiently popular to be designated “gatekeepers” set to be regulated under the EU's DMA   —  Battle comes ahead of publication of first list of services to be regulated under Digital Markets Act

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg : Email: Spotify raises the listener threshold for creators in Ambassador Ads from 100 to 1,000 over 60 days, and plans to cut ad support for white noise podcasts   —  - Ambient sound shows will no longer be eligible for certain ads  — Company raises listener threshold for ambassador ads program

Texas sent a 12th bus filled with migrants to Los Angeles, California, which arrived on Monday morning, nearly a week after city leaders voted to pursue legal action against the Lone Star State. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s office said the bus arrived at about 7:15 a.m. on Monday at Union Station. FOX 11 in LA reported that the bus was carrying 42 migrants, which included 23 men, 20 women and 21 children, all from Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Russia and Venezuela. TEXAS SENDS 10TH MIGRANT BUS TO LOS ANGELES AFTER MAYOR DECRIES MOVE AS ‘POLITICAL ACT’ The city has continued to work with city departments, the county, and a coalition of nonprofit organizations, in addition to our faith partners, to execute a plan set in place earlier this year," Zach Seidle, the city’s deputy mayor of communications and spokesperson for the mayor said. "As we have before, when we became aware of the bus yesterday, we activated our plan." The bus arrived nearly ...

Noah Smith / Noahpinion : How LLMs like GPT-4 can be an equalizing technology in some cases, boosting less-skilled workers and potentially leveling the human-capital playing field   —  An optimistic take on technology and inequality.  —  On the app formerly known as Twitter, I'm known for occasionally going on rants …

Matt Binder / Mashable : After ADL's CEO noted talking to X CEO Yaccarino last week, anti-Semitic X posts surged and #BanTheADL trended as Elon Musk replied to and liked far-right posts   —  Anti-Semitic rhetoric has been especially rampant on the platform over the past 24 hours.  —  Over the past 24 hours …

The National Rifle Association responded this week to the Biden administration’s proposed rule requiring more background checks to combat rising gun violence, saying it was just another step to attack "law-abiding gun owners." Last year, Biden signed the most significant gun control bill in nearly 30 years, which incentivized states to pass red flag laws and expand background checks for 18- to 21-year-olds. But last week, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) proposed a rule requiring those who sell firearms online or at gun shows to be federally licensed and to run background checks on buyers before completing transactions. BIDEN ADMIN'S PROPOSED RULE TO COMBAT GUN VIOLENCE WOULD REQUIRE FIREARMS DEALERS TO CONDUCT BACKGROUND CHECKS The rule came in response to President Biden’s executive order to Attorney General Merrick Garland to develop and implement a plan clarifying the definition of who is engaged in the business of dealing firearms, ...

Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post : A look at the endless battle being waged by a group of internet sleuths, trans engineers, and activists to banish stalking forum Kiwi Farms from the internet   —  The anonymous forum, known as Kiwi Farms, keeps popping back online despite a relentless campaign by transgender activists and a former insider

President Biden had an explosive reaction when he was told the president of Afghanistan had fled Kabul ahead of the Taliban's takeover of the city in 2021, according to a new book. On Friday, Aug. 12, 2021, Biden left D.C. for what was expected to be a mid-August vacation to Camp David. Three days later, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told him the news that the then-president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani, had fled as the Taliban was poised to march into the capital. "Biden exploded in frustration" when he heard the news and exclaimed, "Give me a break!" according to the forthcoming book "The Last Politician" by journalist Franklin Foer, which describes the inner workings at the White House during the calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. GOLD STAR FAMILIES SLAM BIDEN ADMIN OVER CHAOTIC AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL AS MILLEY VOWS ‘ACCOUNTABILITY’ Biden wasn't the only one on vacation when Ghani escaped and it became clear to the w...