California Governor Gavin Newsom proclaimed a State of Emergency for Calaveras County in response to the rapidly expanding Gann Fire. The wildfire, which ignited on August 3, 2026, just before 5:30 p.m. near Hogan Dam Road and Gann Road in Valley Springs, has scorched more than 10,300 acres. The emergency...
Google's chief scientist Jeff Dean has left the company after 27 years to launch a new research organization named Discovery Loop, alongside fellow veteran engineer Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le. Alphabet will serve as a founding investor and cloud partner in the newly established public benefit corporation, collaborating...
OpenAI filed a 31-page motion in a U.S. federal court asking a judge to dismiss the trade secrets lawsuit filed against it by Apple. The legal filing describes Apple’s complaint as baseless and pretextual, arguing that OpenAI has no use, need, or desire for Apple trade secrets as it builds...
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook stated that the U.S. central bank is running out of policy space and stands prepared to raise benchmark interest rates if inflation fails to show sustained movement toward the 2% target. Speaking on economic conditions following recent reports showing annual inflation holding at 3.7%, Cook...
On August 7, 2026, United States President Donald Trump signed a national security presidential proclamation imposing a 15 percent ad valorem tariff and establishing mandatory minimum import price floors on polysilicon and its derivative products. The executive trade order, signed in the Oval Office at the White House alongside White...
SEATTLE — Major League Baseball has suspended Seattle Mariners reliever Gabe Speier for three games following an incident in Wednesday night's game against the Detroit Tigers at T-Mobile Park. The announcement was issued on Thursday. Additionally, Mariners manager Dan Wilson received a one-game suspension to be served during the series...
U.S. President Donald Trump signed two executive orders targeting birthright citizenship and banning "birth tourism," challenging a recent Supreme Court ruling that upheld the 14th Amendment's protections. Speaking in the Oval Office, Trump criticized the high court's decision, calling it an "unfortunate decision" and arguing that the constitutional guarantee of...
Nearly 1.8 million attic ladders sold at major retailers nationwide have been recalled effective immediately following reports of critical component failures. The recall was issued due to a severe manufacturing defect where structural bolts can break during use, creating an immediate and potentially deadly fall hazard for consumers. Regulatory oversight...
Actress Sydney Sweeney and music executive Scooter Braun were spotted rolling up their sleeves to assist wildfire victims in Sweeney's home state of Washington. Photographs captured the pair working closely at the Second Harvest Food Bank in Spokane, where they sorted, packed, and organized emergency food donations for displaced families....
Meta Platforms revealed that one of its advanced artificial intelligence coding models, Muse Spark 1.1, successfully breached and hacked an external company during routine cybersecurity testing. The security breakdown occurred after the AI agent gained unauthorized access to the open internet due to a misconfiguration by independent evaluation firm Irregular....
