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Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review : An interview with Google DeepMind Nobel laureate John Jumper on the creative “off-label” uses for AlphaFold, combining AlphaFold's power with LLMs, and more   —  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY  —  In 2017, fresh off a PhD on theoretical chemistry, John Jumper heard rumors that Google DeepMind …

Abram Brown / The Information : A profile of Klay, whose app will let users remake songs using AI; Klay has raised ~$10M and is the first AI startup to close deals with the three major labels   —  “So here's a real surprise,” said Ary Attie, holding open a hidden door in the bowels of the Walker Hotel in the city's Greenwich Village neighborhood.

Joan Verdon / Forbes : Salesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B globally, including $3B in US sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: US online sales rose 9.1% to $11.8B   —  Joan Verdon is a veteran retail reporter based in Northern New Jersey.  —  Consumers spent record amounts online on Black Friday …

Nadeem Badshah / The Guardian : Airbus issues an order to revert 6,000 A320-series planes to old software, after an incident revealed that intense solar radiation corrupted flight control data   —  Immediate software change on ‘significant number’ of jets to result in disruption to half the worldwide fleet

Vice President JD Vance has long cautioned about the U.S. refugee vetting process dating back to the U.S. withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan in 2021 and the refugees who came afterward. Vance’s previous remarks on the matter are resurfacing after two National Guard troops were shot in Washington Wednesday.  Law enforcement officials identified the shooting suspect as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, who entered the U.S. legally in 2021 under the Biden administration's Operation Allies Welcome program, which sought to help resettle Afghan refugees in the U.S.  In 2021, Vance posted a video to social media in response to then-Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., who argued the U.S. had an obligation to assist refugees seeking to depart Afghanistan.  "Yes, let’s help the Afghans that helped us, but let’s ensure that we’re properly vetting them, so that we don’t get a bunch of people who believe they should blow themselves up at a mall because somebody looked at their wife the wrong way,...

Prime Intellect : Prime Intellect debuts INTELLECT-3, an RL-trained 106B parameter open source MOE model it claims outperforms larger models across math, code, science, reasoning   —  Today, we release INTELLECT-3, a 100B+ parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained on our RL stack, achieving state …

EXCLUSIVE: The Thanksgiving Eve shooting that has left one West Virginia National Guard member dead and another clinging to his life enraged top officials in Charleston, West Virginia — as one placed blame squarely on the disastrous 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and said his state is "one big small town" that is mourning together. The suspect, Rahmahullah Lakanwal, reportedly worked with a CIA-operated unit that fought the Taliban on America’s behalf, Fox News Digital confirmed, which helped evacuate people during the fall of Kabul under then-President Joe Biden. West Virginia Republican Party Chairman Josh Holstein told Fox News Digital Friday the news angered him, and that anger turned to devastation when Sarah Beckstrom of Summersville, West Virginia, succumbed to her wounds, and as Andrew Wolfe of Inwood, West Virginia, remains in critical condition. ALLEGED DC SHOOTER ENTERED US UNDER AFGHAN RESETTLEMENT PUSH MAYORKAS VOWED WOULD BE DONE ‘SWIFTLY AND SAFELY...

EXCLUSIVE – Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley – the South Texas nonprofit long known for its migrant shelter run by Sister Norma Pimentel – has been suspended from receiving federal funds and now faces a rare six-year debarment after a Department of Homeland Security investigation found major grant violations, according to internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) documents shared exclusively with Fox News Digital. The action, taken by FEMA on behalf of DHS on Nov. 19-20, follows months of warnings and data reviews that auditors say uncovered sweeping inaccuracies, large gaps in migrant records and significant billing outside federally allowed timeframes. The suspension applies only to this South Texas affiliate, not to Catholic Charities USA or any other Catholic Charities chapters nationwide. In a formal Notice of Suspension and Proposed Debarment, DHS officials accused the organization of submitting migrant data so inconsistent the agency could not verify whethe...

Wall Street Journal : Sources detail how Anduril's fast-moving approach with its defense tech led to setbacks; Ukraine stopped using Anduril's Altius drones in 2024 due to problems   —  The company's products have had breakdowns and safety issues, documents show  —  The Navy was attempting to launch and recover …

Nearly three months after his assassination, Charlie Kirk's legacy is inspiring many to live their lives with gratitude, prayer and truth. In 2024, just weeks after the presidential election, Kirk delivered a Thanksgiving statement on the importance of being thankful. Communio president JP De Gance says it is a message that is still relevant in 2025. "I think Charlie's message repeats those messages of Thanksgivings long ago when we were at different times, we've had setbacks as a country, we have had sufferings as a country, we had losses as a country and the message of Thanksgiving is that in all things we can be grateful," De Gance told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. "We can look to God above, and thank him both for all of our many blessings and then even, you know, it's through our sufferings that we so frequently grow to become better men and women." Kirk said that he loved Thanksgiving, which he called a "uniquely American tradition,...

Blake Brittain / Reuters : The USPTO issues new guidelines clarifying that generative AI is considered a tool that assists human inventors and cannot itself be considered an inventor   —  The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued new guidelines on Wednesday outlining when inventions created with the help of artificial intelligence can be patented.

A federal court ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump and his former lawyer, Alina Habba, are still on the hook for a $1 million penalty for filing a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, former FBI director James Comey and others. The ruling from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals relates to a now-dismissed lawsuit filed by Trump relating to Russian collusion claims. Trump was first ordered to pay the $1 million in the case in 2023, but he and Habba appealed the ruling. In addition to Clinton and Comey, their lawsuit also named Sen. Adam Schiff , D-Calif., former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, and many more. Trump and Habba, who now serves as U.S. attorney for New Jersey , will be forced to pay approximately $938,000 — split between the dozens of individuals named in the lawsuit. TRUMP SCORES LEGAL WIN AS HE GETS LAWSUIT AGAINST IOWA POLLSTER, DES MOINES REGISTER MOVED TO STATE COURT In the original lawsuit, Trump accused the high-profile figures...

Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg : In an October 7 letter, the Pentagon informed lawmakers that Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD should be added to a list of companies that aid the Chinese military   —  The Pentagon concluded that Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Baidu Inc. and BYD Co. should be added to a list of companies that aid the Chinese military …

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth criticized a post Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., made about his service, telling the lawmaker, "you can’t even display your uniform correctly."  Hegseth’s comments come a day after the Department of War announced a formal review into allegations of misconduct against Kelly  over a video calling on service members to "refuse illegal orders."  "So ‘Captain’ Kelly, not only did your sedition video intentionally undercut good order & discipline…but you can’t even display your uniform correctly," Hegseth replied to a post Kelly made on X.  "Your medals are out of order & rows reversed. When/if you are recalled to active duty, it’ll start with a uniform inspection," Hegseth added. FBI SCHEDULING INTERVIEWS WITH 6 LAWMAKERS WHO ENCOURAGED MILITARY MEMBERS TO REFUSE 'ILLEGAL ORDERS'  Kelly on Monday posted a picture of a uniform on X, writing, "When I was 22 years old, I commissioned as an Ensign in th...

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac : OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main text chat interface by default; users can still switch back to the original, separate voice mode   —  ChatGPT has an impressive voice mode that offers a very natural, conversational flow.  The latest update to ChatGPT now combines voice mode with the main text mode by default.

Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET : OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer's guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini   —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — OpenAI released a shopping research feature in ChatGPT.  — The experience helps you find products and deals.

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News : Flexion, which is building a full autonomy stack for humanoid robots, raised a $50M Series A from DST Global Partners, NVentures, and others, after a $7M+ seed   —  Flexion, a startup that's “building the brain for humanoid and human-capable robots,” has raised $50 million in funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

Forbes : Sources: Infinite Reality, rebranded as Napster, told staff that $3B+ in funding from an unnamed investor is not coming, calling itself a “victim of misconduct”   —  Forbes raised questions about the massive funding round metaverse-turned-AI firm Napster announced as a done deal in January.

A new feature on Elon Musk's X is exposing the truth behind social media accounts across the political spectrum, with account owners apparently misleading followers about where they are posting from. The new feature allows all X users to inspect where a given account is based, usually listing a country or region. Many popular accounts posing as American "patriots" or "constitutionalists" have been exposed as being run from foreign countries since the update rolled out on Friday. One account with the handle "@1776General_" boasts over 140,000 followers and has a user biography describing the owner as a "constitutionalist, patriot and ethnically American." The biography claims the account is based in the U.S., but X's new feature reveals it is actually based in Turkey. "I work in international business. I'm currently working in Turkey on a contract," the owner of the account posted after the new feature was released. STO...

Scharon Harding / Ars Technica : Science-centric streamer CuriosityStream's Q3 revenue rose 46% YoY to $18.4M, driven by IP licensing deals for AI training that generated $23.4M through Sept.   —  We all know streaming services' usual tricks for making more money: get more subscribers, charge those subscribers more money, and sell ads.