Utah One Vote Away, But Some States Fail to Break Through on Crypto Stakes Five states’ crypto efforts faltered as Texas advances and Utah nears a final vote, leaving the state-level push for digital asset reserves with mixed results.

Jeff Bezos is sending Katy Perry to space Katy Perry will fly to space during Blue Origin’s next crewed mission, the Jeff Bezos-owned space company has announced. The pop star will join CBS host Gayle King and Bezos’s fiancé Lauren Sánchez aboard the New Shepard rocket this spring, marking its 11th human flight. Along with Perry and Sánchez, who is known for her

Here’s a new trailer for the ambitious survival game from PUBG’s creator PlayerUnknown Productions, the studio from PUBG creator Brendan Greene (aka PlayerUnknown), has shared a gameplay trailer for Prologue: Go Wayback!, a single-player survival game that’s launching in early access on Steam this year. The studio previously shared that the game would be built with “machine-learning-driven terrain generation technolo…

Meta is firing about 20 employees for leaking Meta has fired “roughly 20” employees who leaked “confidential information outside the company,” according to a spokesperson. “We tell employees when they join the company, and we offer periodic reminders, that it is against our policies to leak internal information, no matter the intent,” Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold tells The Verge …

Sesame is the first voice assistant I’ve ever wanted to talk to more than once I tell Amazon’s Alexa to shut up on a near daily basis. I have almost zero interest in speaking to Gemini after our first awkward chat. The hitches, misunderstandings, and lag in any given AI “conversation” mean I’m always wasting time speaking when I could be texting instead.  But speaking to “Maya,” one of two

Hands-on with Alexa Plus in the smart home Oh, Alexa, how you’ve changed. The long-awaited new Alexa, Alexa Plus, is set to bring a more conversational, context-aware, and capable assistant to your smart home. With a new voice (eight of them, in fact) and a new attitude, this is the biggest change to the voice assistant since it debuted in 2014. And it

OpenAI announces GPT-4.5, warns it’s not a frontier AI model OpenAI is launching GPT-4.5 today, its newest and largest model. GPT-4.5 will be available as a research preview, and OpenAI is calling it the company’s “largest and most knowledgeable model yet,” but warning that it’s not a frontier model and might not perform as well as o1 or o3-mini. GPT-4.5 will have better writing capabilities,

Microsoft releases a Copilot app for Mac Microsoft is releasing a native Copilot app for macOS today. Much like the Windows app, the Copilot version for Mac will provide access to the web-based version of Microsoft’s AI assistant, where you can upload images and generate images or text. The macOS version of Copilot also includes a dark mode and a shortcut command

Trump’s Third-Term Talk Faces Pushback From a Democratic Congressman Representative Dan Goldman plans a resolution to reinforce the Constitution’s two-term limit.

Trump Team Tightens Control Over Government Lawyers Who Might Say ‘No’ At the Justice Department and the Pentagon, the administration is curtailing the ability of lawyers to raise internal objections to the president’s use of power.

Inside the Rush to Respond to Musk’s ‘What Did You Do Last Week?’ Email Behind the scenes, cabinet secretaries compared notes as they tried to figure out how to respond to a directive from President Trump’s most powerful adviser without angering the president.

Starmer Offers Trump a Plea and a Promise Over Ukraine President Trump, who is hosting Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, was expected to have some difficult conversations about the future of Ukraine.

Defense Secretary Hegseth Enters the Sept. 11 Case Fray The new Pentagon chief got a look at Guantánamo Bay’s most infamous inmate in his recent visit to the wartime prison.

U.S. Canceled Work to Contain a Serious Ebola Outbreak The contracts financed Ebola screening at airports and protective gear for health workers, among other measures. Work had been held up for weeks, contrary to Elon Musk’s claim on Wednesday.

OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology for ‘Natural Conversation’ The new technology, called GPT-4.5, signifies the end of an era for OpenAI.

I Loved ‘Anora’ but I Still Hope It Loses at the Oscars “Anora” is neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian. But its Oscar nominations have been portrayed as a national victory in Russia.

Meet the Trans Troops the Trump Administration Is Barring Officers and enlisted. Combat veterans and recent recruits. Transgender service members say their military experience has looked nothing like the portrayal of them in the political arena.

A Loan-Scorned Socialite Reported Her Warhol Stolen. A Tempest Ensued. It was not a theft, Hamptons police ruled, but acrimony erupted after a lender decided it could not arrange a loan, but that a painting used as collateral would still need to be sold to cover its costs.

Israel’s Military Lays Out Its Oct. 7 Hamas Attack Failures The highly anticipated public findings, the first from its internal inquiries into the devastating Hamas-led attack, do not apportion individual responsibility, though officials said that may come later.

Trump Says Canada and Mexico Tariffs Will Start March 4, Plus an Increase on China The president also said he would impose an additional 10 percent tariff on China as he tries to force other countries to take more action on drug shipments.