Category: Americas
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Caltech researchers report on-chip optical pathways that lose very little light at visible wavelengths, approaching optical fibre. What a waveguide is, why visible light is the hard case, and the specific hurdles between this and a product.
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Florida prosecutors and sheriffs are backing three federal bills targeting organised animal cruelty. Why hoarding cases are the visible part, why crossing a state line changes everything, and the arguments against federal expansion.
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The Supreme Court has declined to undo the civil verdict finding Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll. What a civil finding is, what the court actually decided by refusing to intervene, and why the distinction matters.
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Norwegian goods entering the United States now carry an extra 12.5 per cent duty, while most EU goods face 10 per cent. The reason given is forced labour rules — but the gap says more about who has a trade agreement with Washington and who does not.
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Anthropic settled with authors for a reported $1.5 billion. OpenAI has been ordered to hand over 20 million ChatGPT logs. The Supreme Court is reviewing whether AI-generated works can be copyrighted at all. Where AI copyright law stands.
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The White River has broken records set in the 1913 flood as Indiana counts at least six dead and 130,000 without power. What a broken century-old record actually means, and the pattern it fits.
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Trump has brushed off reports of dire conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, deployed over 250 days with no port call in 200. What’s on the record, and what neither side has evidenced.
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Twenty-four AI bills advanced in California this week and New York’s package awaits the governor’s signature. With Congress stalled, the rules that will govern AI products worldwide are being written in state capitols.
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Google halved the price of its coding model, OpenAI previewed a tier fourteen times faster, DeepSeek is charging more — while AI infrastructure commitments approach $1.5 trillion. The arithmetic only works one way.
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Google halved the price of its coding model and OpenAI previewed a tier running fourteen times faster, while DeepSeek raised prices. The AI contest has shifted from capability to cost per token — and someone is absorbing the difference.