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@openai : OpenAI updates GPT-5 Instant to better recognize and support people in distress; ChatGPT will route such sensitive parts of conversations to the model   —  We're updating GPT-5 Instant to better recognize and support people in moments of distress. Sensitive parts of conversations will now route to GPT-5 Instant to quickly provide even more helpful responses. ChatGPT will continue to tell users what model is active when asked.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Republicans are winning the messaging war over the ongoing government shutdown and urged his conference to keep the heat on congressional Democrats during a private call with lawmakers on Saturday. The call came on the fourth day of the shutdown, a day after Senate Democrats again rejected a GOP-led plan to keep federal agencies funded through Nov. 21. During the call, Johnson and other House GOP leaders urged fellow Republicans to use this next week in their districts to tell constituents about what the ongoing shutdown means for them, Fox News Digital was told. The House speaker expressed confidence that the shutdown would end quickly if Republicans "hold the line," Fox News Digital was told, and praised the House GOP's unity so far amid the fallout. GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN SPARKS GOP PLAN TO PENALIZE LAWMAKERS WITH NEW SALARY TAX Johnson also told Republicans toward the end of the call that the House would return only after Sen...

John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times : GWI: Time spent on social media globally peaked in 2022 and is steadily declining; North America is the exception, with usage up 15% in 2024 compared to Europe   —  As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away  —  In years to come, we may well look back on September 2025 …

The Trump administration announced a review Friday of federal funding to Portland, Oregon, following violent anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) clashes there, with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt vowing, "We will not fund states that allow anarchy."  The review comes after conservative journalist Nick Sortor was taken into custody late Thursday night while documenting the protests in Portland, something Leavitt described as an "extremely troubling incident." She said the Department of Justice spoke with Sortor Friday morning and "will be launching a full investigation into his arrest."  "This incident is part of a troubling trend in Portland, where left-wing mobs believe they get to decide who can visit and live in their city. It is not their city. It is the American people’s city and President Trump is going to restore that," Leavitt said. "I just spoke with the president about this, and he has directed his ...

Pranav Dixit / Business Insider : Memo: Meta Superintelligence Labs' products team, led by Nat Friedman, pushes staff to ditch Meta's slow internal systems in favor of external tools like Vercel   —  - Meta has made a big bet on AI by forming Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL).  — MSL is adopting external tools …

EXCLUSIVE : As federal agencies hunker down for what could be a protracted government shutdown , Rep. Aaron Bean, R-Fla., is introducing a bill to make sure that Americans’ flights can continue on schedule no matter how long the closure lasts. With the busiest time of the year for air travel quickly approaching and tens of millions of Americans expected to fly in the coming months, an extended government shutdown could have catastrophic impacts on flight safety as well as Americans’ travel plans. To combat this, Bean introduced a bill, the "Aviation Funding Stability Act of 2025," which would ensure that America’s air traffic controllers and essential Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) personnel continue to be paid, even during a shutdown. In a statement to Fox News Digital, Bean’s office called the bill a "preemptive strike against chaos in the control tower, ensuring that the backbone of our aviation system doesn’t buckle under political gridlock." 13 TIME...

Brody Ford / Bloomberg : Microsoft has committed $33B+ to neocloud providers; sources: its $19.4B Nebius deal will provide computing power for creating LLMs and a consumer AI assistant   —  Microsoft Corp.'s deal with neocloud company Nebius Group NV will provide computing power to internal teams creating large language models …

The federal government will soon begin laying off workers if the government shutdown persists, Fox News Digital has learned. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought held a call with House Republicans on Wednesday to discuss how the shutdown will affect the U.S. government. He told lawmakers that reductions in force, or "RIFs," meaning worker layoffs, were "imminent" and "likely a day or two out," Fox News Digital was told. SOCIAL SECURITY, AIRPORTS, FOOD STAMPS: HOW ARE YOU AFFECTED DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN? Vought described the move as Democrats forcing the Trump administration’s hand after Senate Democrats rejected the GOP’s plan to keep federal agencies funded multiple times. House Speaker Mike Johnson , R-La., also spoke up to defend Vought against left-wing attacks about the layoffs, Fox News Digital was told. Johnson said Democratic lawmakers put Vought in a "terrible situation" in having to move forward with ...

Rohan Goswami / Semafor : Sources: Intel is in early-stage talks to add AMD as a foundry customer; Intel currently lacks the technology to produce AMD's most advanced, profitable chips   —  THE SCOOP  —  Intel is in early-stage talks to add AMD as a customer at Intel's factories, in what would be another vote …

Vice President JD Vance and Donald Trump Jr. will attend events in the coming months for Turning Point USA, the influential conservative youth organization co-founded by their close friend, the late Charlie Kirk. The news, first reported by Axios, was confirmed to Fox News Digital on Tuesday morning by a source close to both the vice president and Trump Jr., the eldest son of President Donald Trump. Kirk, the co-founder of the politically potent conservative youth organization, close ally and outside advisor to the president and vice president and media star, was shot and killed earlier this month while speaking at a college campus event at Utah Valley University. MAJORITY OF VOTERS BELIEVE THIS IN WAKE OF KIRK ASSASSINATION: POLL The source close to both Vance and Trump Jr. said they "were so personally close to Charlie that they are determined to do right by him and continue to work closely with Turning Point." HEAD HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS REPORTING ON THE ASSAS...

Wall Street Journal : How Jared Kushner helped Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban, who had wanted to buy EA for years, finally secure the $55B acquisition with PIF's help   —  Private-equity firm's co-CEO, Egon Durban, had been eyeing Electronic Arts for years  —  Silver Lake's Egon Durban had his eye …

Portland, Oregon , is on track to face a Trump crime crackdown reckoning that's more than five years in the making. Portland was ravaged by violence in 2020 as liberal protesters, Black Lives Matter activists, Antifa anarchists and others converged on the deep blue stronghold following the death of George Floyd during an interaction with Minneapolis police on Memorial Day of that year.  The Trump administration deployed federal law enforcement to help quell the violence near federal property, but did not roll out crime crackdown initiatives on par with what the president is currently unveiling in cities such as Washington, D.C., this year.  Now, President Donald Trump has set his sights on the left-wing city to remove illegal immigrants and crack down on crime trends — five years after the city saw millions of dollars in damages and witnessed consecutive nights of rioting that began on Memorial Day and continued into September 2020.  TRUMP VOWS 'FULL FORCE' AS HE PLA...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House GOP leaders urged their fellow Republicans to stay united ahead of a likely government shutdown during a lawmaker-only phone call on Monday, Fox News Digital has learned. "Realistically, the way [Democrats have] painted themselves into a corner, I don't think they'll be willing to yield. There's going to be some shutdown at least on October 1st, for a few days at least," Johnson said on the call, Fox News Digital was told. "I think that's probably a good bet." House GOP leaders spent roughly an hour rallying their conference to stay on-message ahead of a possible government shutdown, which will occur if the Senate does not pass a short-term federal funding bill before midnight Wednesday.  Johnson urged Republicans to "stay completely united," Fox News Digital was told, while arguing that Democrats have "no credible argument" against rejecting the GOP spending bill. SPEAKER JOHNSON ...

Anthropic : Anthropic adds context editing and a memory tool to the Claude API, allowing AI agents to handle long-running tasks without frequently hitting context limits   —  Today, we're introducing new capabilities for managing your agents' context on the Claude Developer Platform: context editing and the memory tool.

With New York City Mayor Eric Adams abruptly ending his reelection campaign on Sunday, rivals of front-runner Zohran Mamdani scrambled to capitalize. Adams announced his decision in a nearly nine-minute video posted on X. He offered no clues about his plans after leaving office and did not endorse any of the remaining mayoral candidates. ERIC ADAMS DROPS OUT OF NYC MAYORAL RACE AS MAMDANI GAINS GROUND Mamdani , a democratic socialist, cast the moment as a turning point, vowing that on November 4, "New Yorkers will turn the page on the politics of big money and small ideas." "Donald Trump and his billionaire donors might be able to determine Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo’s actions but they will not dictate the results of this election," Mamdani wrote in a statement.  "New York deserves better than trading in one disgraced, corrupt politician for another. On November 4th, we are going to turn the page on the politics of big money and small ideas and deliver ...

Jeff Kauflin / Forbes : A profile of digital microlender Tala, which has an annualized revenue of $340M but remains unprofitable 11 years in, as it plans to double its lending in 2027   —  Before starting Tala, founder and CEO Shivani Siroya was a Wall Street analyst and studied microloans for the United Nations.

The U.S. secured the release of an American citizen being detained in Afghanistan following months of negotiations on Sunday, Fox News has learned. The U.S. and Qatar jointly negotiated for the release of Amir Amiry, U.S. Special Envoy Adam Boehler told Fox News on Sunday. "When we went to Kabul to pick up George Glezmann six months ago, I asked to see Amir Amiry. He was brought to the airport gate and when he saw us he started to cry. Leaving an American was the hardest thing that I have ever done in my life and I promised him that we would come back for him," Boehler told Fox. "Amir Amiry became a citizen by putting his life at risk fighting for our country and our troops. Today we repay the favor. God bless America and God bless the President," Boehler added. AFGHANISTAN MARKS FOUR YEARS IN POWER BY LURING YOUNG FEMALE INFLUENCERS TO BOOST TOURISM "Throughout Mr. Amiry’s detention, Qatari diplomats remained in close communication with US officials and...

Washington Post : How JD Vance played a key role in the TikTok US deal, amid concerns about the VP acting as a corporate dealmaker in the forced spin-off of a private company   —  The creation of a U.S. spin-off, which has raised questions about censorship and favor for allies, will almost certainly be touted by Vance as a top achievement.