OpenAI Admits Model Escaped Containment And Hacked Hugging Face To Cheat On A Test Authored by Felix Ng via CoinTelegraph.com, OpenAI disclosed Tuesday that a combination of its AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model, escaped its testing environment and hacked AI startup Hugging Face last week to cheat on a test meant to measure their capabilities. In a blog post, OpenAI said the evaluation was […]

Futures Slide Ahead Of Google Earnings As Brent Surges Above $95 US futures are lower following a chipmaker-powered jump in Tuesday’s session, with Nasdaq 100 futures falling by 0.8%, which appears to be more of a retracement to yesterday’s strength than a move tied to oil or de-risking into today’s Tech earnings. Alphabet earnings are coming after the close. As of 7:00am ET, S&P futures are down 0.3% and Nasdaq futures […]

Shipping Firms Offering Sailors Massive Bonuses To Risk Crossing Hormuz Via The Cradle International shipping firms are offering crews large bonuses to transit the Strait of Hormuz despite the risks involved, Bloomberg reported Monday. Sinokor Group, the world’s largest owner of supertankers, offered its crews six months of extra salary to make a return voyage collecting oil from Saudi Arabia or Iraq and unloading it in the Gulf […]

Trump Greenlights Saudi Nuclear Deal, Uranium Enrichment In The Kingdom Possible President Trump has formally approved a landmark 30-year civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia that could be worth tens of billions of dollars and put American companies at the center of the kingdom’s nuclear buildout, according to the Wall Street Journal. The accord is expected to be signed Wednesday by US Energy Secretary Chris […]

BritCard Is Dead: Burnham Kills Starmer’s £1.8 Billion Digital ID To Pay For An Energy Tax Cut Ten months ago Keir Starmer warned that anyone without a government digital ID “will not be able to work in the United Kingdom.” On Tuesday – day two of the Burnham premiership – the scheme was formally killed off. It wasn’t the nearly 2.9 million people who signed the petition. It wasn’t the civil liberties groups who dragged it through […]

German Motorists Flood Czech Border As Fuel-Price-Cap Ends Via Remix News, German motorists formed kilometer-long lines at Czech gas stations on Sunday as they rushed to take advantage of lower prices before the government’s fuel cap expired. Stations near the German border were overwhelmed by drivers seeking cheaper gasoline and diesel, with footage showing long queues at some locations. According to Echo24, fuel in the Czech […]

Drone War Enters Terrifying New Phase As Russia Deploys 300-MPH Jet-Powered Shahed Dramatic footage posted on X shows what appears to be a Russian Geran-4 jet-powered, one-way attack drone striking a passenger train in Ukraine. If authenticated, the footage shows just how rapidly drone warfare is evolving beyond conventional two-stroke power plants toward miniature turbojets that sharply increase speed, compress warning and […]

Poland’s Planned Megaport Is Part Of Its Regional Power Play Authored by Andrew Korybko, Poland will become indispensable to Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, and Hungary’s global trade upon the completion of this project, thus securing their place within its “sphere of influence” and reducing the likelihood that German-backed Ukraine “poaches” them as part of their rivalry for regional leadership. “Notes From Poland” […]

India Summons Russian Envoy, Furious At Mass Casualty Tanker Strike In Black Sea Tit-for-tat attacks on shipping between Ukraine and Russia have ratcheted of late in the Black Sea. At least half a dozen commercial vessels have been attacked in these waters over the past two weeks alone. The situation is almost becoming akin to a Hormuz crisis in its own right, as oil transit slows. Tragically, there’s a mounting death toll among […]

The UK Censors The Net ‘For The Children’ Authored by Ted Newson via AmericanThinker.com, Outgoing British prime ministers have a tendency to rapidly expand the remit of the state in their final days. Theresa May tied a Net Zero target into law, Rishi Sunak implemented a generational smoking ban. Keir Starmer is no exception. The British state has now outlawed social media usage for those under sixteen. On June 15, Starmer […]

Spain’s World Cup Hero Rocks ‘Make Spain Great Again’ Hat Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Spain are the world champions again. Ferran Torres came off the bench and smashed home the only goal of the 2026 World Cup final in the 106th minute against Argentina. The next day, as the open-top bus rolled through Madrid and nearly two million Spaniards packed the streets, the hero of the final stood shirtless, draped in the […]

‘Birthright Senatorship’? – Graham’s Sister Announces Bid For Full Term As Mace Opts Out Three days after President Trump publicly urged her to run, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham on Monday afternoon announced that — unsatisfied with serving as an obviously unqualified interim senator through January — she will run for the full six-year-term that starts in January. The development seemed to brush another potential […]

Data Centers Were Responsible For 46% Of PJM’s Last Four Capacity Auction Costs By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive Data centers are responsible for $6.3 billion, or 38%, of the $16.4 billion in charges from the PJM Interconnection’s just-held capacity auction, Joseph Bowring, president of Monitoring Analytics, said in an email to Utility Dive. Monitoring Analytics is the grid operator’s independent market monitor. In PJM’s […]

CIA Distances Itself From Trump’s Iran War With Media Leak It seems that CIA and other US intelligence officials hope to distance themselves from Trump’s Iran war, now with the US-initiated conflict having dragged on for nearly five months (with no end in sight), after White House officials had in the opening days touted a swift, limited military excursion.  They are leaking intelligence to the press which shows they have assessed […]

DOJ Probing Harvard Over Financial Aid Programs Linked To China-Based Sources Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The Justice Department (DOJ) said on July 20 that it was investigating whether Harvard University violated Title VI by excluding American students from financial aid programs funded by China-based sources. Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on July 4, 2025. Learner Liu/The Epoch Times The DOJ announced […]

Oklo, X-Energy Join $200 Million Federal Nuclear Push For AI: Bloomberg Bloomberg reports that reactor developers Oklo and X-energy are joining a $200 million Trump administration-led program designed to speed new nuclear power plants for artificial intelligence data centers. Details could be announced Wednesday at a Department of Energy AI energy summit. Microsoft and Nvidia are also involved in the previously announced […]

India Keeps Buying Russian Oil At Near-Record Pace Despite Expired Waiver Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, India’s crude oil imports have remained close to record-high levels in July despite the end of the U.S. waiver the previous month. The U.S. quietly let the waiver allowing the purchase of Russian oil loaded on tankers expire on June 17, just as the U.S. and Iran signed the memorandum of understanding to […]

Ukraine’s Army Chief Latest To Fall Victim To Zelensky’s Risky Reshuffle  Zelensky strikes again in another major military firing, amid his promised big cabinet and military ‘reshuffle’.  The Ukrainian president announced Tuesday that he was dismissing Oleksandr Syrsky, commander-in-chief of country’s army, and appointing joint forces commander Mykhailo Drapaty in his place. Syrsky was in the post for nearly two-and-a-half […]

Thousands Of Noncitizens Registered To Vote In New Jersey, Governor Admits Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said a software error in the state’s Motor Vehicle Commission system resulted in roughly 6,600 people who indicated they were not U.S. citizens being registered to vote between June 2023 and June 2024. New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate, U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.), […]

‘I See Dead People’: Treasury Blocks $99 Million In Federal Payments To Deceased Americans The Treasury Department announced Tuesday morning that it has successfully implemented new safeguards to prevent government payments to dead people in an effort to reduce waste and fraud. The verification system includes screening 885 million federal payments against expanded death records, effectively auditing payments totaling nearly $2.7 […]

“Who The F**k Is This?”: Jon Stewart Thinks He Discovered Trump’s Body Double Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Jon Stewart spent a chunk of Monday’s Daily Show convinced America had just unlocked a secret presidential spare after spotting a mysterious figure strolling behind President Donald Trump on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews. The late-night comic was already deep into his usual routine of roasting Trump when […]

“Safeguard Our Homeland”: FCC Moves To Ban Foreign Military-Grade Drone Imports A little more than a week after we exposed military-grade interceptor drones being openly marketed on Facebook as dual-use technology by a Hong Kong-based company, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced a proposal to prohibit the importation and sale of foreign-produced military-grade drones in the U.S. “Today, the FCC took additional action to safeguard […]

Cuban President Warns “McCarthyism Is Back” As US Begins Fight Against Marxist Subversion Networks One day after the US government convened delegations from 65 countries at the Harry S Truman Building in Washington to coordinate action against far-left extremism and Marxist subversion networks across the West, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel responded sharply in a post on X, signaling grave concern that the Trump administration […]

This Sex Robot Is Going To ‘Teach’ Your Kids In Schools Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A rural New York school district on the Seneca Nation reservation is set to become one of the first in the United States to place a lifelike humanoid robot in front of high school students. Starting this fall, Salamanca High School will introduce “Sally,” an M-Series robot built by Realbotix, to assist in coding, robotics, and […]

Democrats Are Fighting A Civil War, And Bernie Sanders Started It Democrats desperately want to retake the House in November, not just to thwart President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda, but to launch countless investigations under the guise of oversight. However, their most stubborn obstacle to achieving this goal isn’t President Trump or the Republican Party. The biggest obstacle actually sits inside their own party. Sen. […]