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Senate Democrats led by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) are pressing FBI Director Kash Patel and the Department of Justice’s acting inspector general for answers about whether Patel is using government resources for personal leisure after he took a “VIP snorkel” trip in Hawaii. Schumer, Hirono and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)…
There’s a lot going on in “I Forgot,” one of two ambitious new songs Cara Delevingne releases today via Warner Records, officially launching her music career as a major-label artist. The track veers between unadorned balladry and wild blasts of hyperpop distortion, and as Delevingne recorded it with collaborator BJ Burton (Charli XCX, Bon Iver), the model/actress/musician was thinking about how the public only knows her “through a phone or on a billboard or in a magazine or something,” she says. “There was this thing of wanting it to feel like the real me was breaking through the phone, trying…
Andrew here. Anthropic is now more valuable than OpenAI, something Silicon Valley wouldn’t have expected a year ago. We go behind the numbers — and outline the risks the new leader in A.I. faces.Also: Lauren Hirsch has a scoop on deal talks between iHeartMedia and SiriusXM, which were put on pause. And Dell’s stock is flying, raising new questions about President Trump’s investments in the computer giant.The numbers behind Anthropic’s riseA year ago, the biggest and buzziest artificial intelligence start-up around was undoubtedly OpenAI. That’s no longer the case.Anthropic has taken that crown with its $65 billion fund-raising round. How…
Mexico is no stranger to surrealism. In fact, the surrealist Spanish painter Salvador Dali once proclaimed that the exuberantly spontaneous nation is more surreal than even his most imaginative works. You can see it all in Mexico: a beer-bellied Spider-Man climbing various objects in a plaza at midday to gain some coins; armies of dancing Dr. Simi’s on bustling corners; firefighters rescuing a cat from a tree while a nearby quinceañera proceeds below, uninterrupted. The Mexican internet has even dubbed it all as a cultural joke, often with the title “Mexico vs. AI” — that is, anything comical and or…
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Whether you are a fan of the R&B sounds of Tiwa Savage, can’t wait to see such South Korean rising performers as Kimmy gone, EK and rom&BAAWLA, love DJs Pete Tong and Gilles Peterson, like to get wild with goth-grunge sonority Venus Grrrls, groove to dance superproducer Jax Jones, check out the latest in contemporary classical from the likes of afromerm and Carolina Cury & Kostako, listen to rapper Earl Sweatshirt, appreciate British songwriter Rachel Chinouriri, enjoy pianist and Shazam developer Charlie Hooper-Williams or go wild for Nigerian star ODUMODUBLVCK, you can see all of them, and many more, during…
Syd’s third album is on the way. Beard arrives on July 17 via Warner imprint Free Lunch Records, and features Raphael Saadiq, Big Sean, Rodney Jerkins, James Fauntleroy, Van Hunt, and Jordan Ward. The Internet co-founder also tapped Florida duo Blu June for a lead single, “Callin.” Check that out below.Beard marks Syd’s first new album since 2022’s Broken Hearts Club. In a press statement, she said the album is, in part, inspired by something quite literal: the peach fuzz on her upper lip. “I fell in love with my peach fuzz and it made me rethink everything that was…
A Russian attack drone hit an apartment building in eastern Romania early on Friday, according to the authorities, drawing swift and sharp condemnation from NATO and the European Union.The episode comes amid heightened fears that Russia might seek to expand the war beyond Ukraine to target a member of the NATO security alliance. Ukraine is not a member of NATO, but Romania is.Romania’s Foreign Ministry said the drone had been involved in an overnight assault on Ukraine but had crashed into an apartment building in Galati, Romania, sparking a fire. Two people were injured and several others required medical attention.The…
NEW CHANDIGARH: Pat Cummins had a plan. Of course he did. He’s Pat Cummins, multiple World Cup winner, one of the shrewdest operators the game has produced, a man who has spent a career thinking two steps ahead of the batsman. Before the IPL-2026 Eliminator, he would’ve sat in meetings, reviewed footage and drawn margins on what he could and couldn’t do.Vaibhav Sooryavanshi walked out at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Stadium here on Wednesday evening and turned Cummins’s plans and SRH’s entire bowling attack into something resembling a video game simulation.Twenty-nine balls, 97 runs, 12 sixes. A strike-rate of…
The dissident CNTE teachers union broke off talks with the federal government on Wednesday after protesters were violently removed from a blockade they had established in the town of Villa de Mitla, Oaxaca. CNTE members were in meetings with the Interior Ministry in the capital attempting to resolve long-standing labor issues when news of the attack prompted the teachers to abandon the negotiating table. Mitla Mayor Esaú López, seen here at a press conference after the events of Wednesday, said he would gladly accept reponsibility for his actions if they help put an end to the constant disruptive protests by…