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How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?
OpenAI is rolling out its latest frontier language model, Sol, for wide public access, following a period in which rival Anthropic’s comparable model, Fable, was briefly banned from public release over safety and ownership concerns. The article’s central point is that no one — including researchers, former officials and even frontier-lab employees — seems to…
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Banijay’s Marco Bassetti and Jeff Zucker on Officially Completing Their $8 Billion All3Media Merger
RedBird IMI and Banijay have completed their $8 billion merger, creating what the two companies describe as the largest independent production company in the world. The newly combined business, to be called Banijay Entertainment, is headquartered in London and publicly traded, and unites Banijay’s slate of shows and formats — including “Peaky Blinders” and “Big…
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Democrats are ‘completely stained’ after backing Platner through multiple scandals, Republicans charge
Graham Platner, a populist left-wing Democrat, has withdrawn from Maine’s 2026 US Senate race following a series of scandals culminating in a rape allegation from a former partner. His exit matters because he was challenging long-serving Republican Senator Susan Collins in one of a small number of contests that will decide control of the Senate…
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Broadway Cleaners Reach Tentative Agreement After Holding Strike Vote
Broadway’s cleaners have reached a tentative four-year contract agreement with the Broadway League, coming just a week after they staged a rally and voted to authorise a strike for the first time in 18 years. The deal, struck late on Wednesday, still requires ratification by union members, but it marks a resolution to negotiations that…
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FTC chief accuses Democrats of ‘trying to protect the fraudsters’ by withholding data from Trump admin
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson has accused Democratic governors of “trying to protect the fraudsters” by refusing to hand over data on recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programme (SNAP) to the Trump administration. Speaking on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom” on Thursday, Ferguson claimed that resistance from Democratic-led states is obstructing federal efforts to…
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Wisconsin Democrat downplays appearing on Hasan Piker’s show, doesn’t ‘endorse’ everything he says
Wisconsin state representative and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong has sought to distance herself from far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, less than two weeks after appearing on his livestream in a broadcast that doubled as a fundraiser for her campaign. Speaking on “MS NOW Reports”, Hong said appearing on such platforms did not mean she…
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10 Network TV Characters Written Off Because of Behind-the-Scenes Drama
This Collider feature by Christine Persaud looks at 10 network television characters who were written out of their shows not for storyline reasons but because of behind-the-scenes conflicts involving the actors who played them. It highlights how writers often had to hastily adjust scripts to explain a sudden departure, sometimes resorting to outlandish or abrupt…
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‘Landman’ star Ali Larter stuns in cherry print bikini during mountain getaway
Actress Ali Larter, best known for the series “Landman”, shared a series of Fourth of July photographs on Instagram documenting a mountain getaway in Idaho with family and friends. The post captured an active holiday weekend of fishing, floating down a river and celebrating together, captioned “Epic 4th in the Mountains!” alongside American flag emojis,…
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OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 after government green light — and announces ‘ChatGPT Work’
OpenAI has begun a public rollout of its GPT-5.6 model after receiving approval from the Trump administration, ending a roughly two-week “limited preview” during which the model was available only to government-approved organisations. Alongside the launch, the company introduced ChatGPT Work, a new AI agent that blends ChatGPT with its Codex tool so that non-technical…
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Trump’s enforcer fires off chilling five-day ultimatum carrying threat to prosecute election officials
The US Department of Justice has given election officials in all 50 states and the District of Columbia a five-day deadline to set out how they will maintain “clean voter lists” ahead of upcoming elections, warning that failure to comply could lead to criminal prosecution. The demand, contained in a letter signed by Assistant Attorney…