News Minute - Video of Major World Affairs - July 26

News Minute – Video of Major World Affairs – July 26

Cheaper, open and intelligent: Chinese AI models make inroads in the US

HONG KONG (AP) – China has a hot new product in the United States: artificial intelligence. San Francisco-based Raffi Krikorian, the chief technology officer at Mozilla, which runs the Firefox browser, switched to Chinese AI startup Moonshot’s Kimi K3 for many of his day-to-day activities within days of the new, powerful model’s launch more than a week ago.

House Democrats kick off 100 days till midterms with affordability agenda

The stage is in battleground Pennsylvania. The stakes are control of the House.

Brazil's government denies visas to US officials over upcoming elections

SAO PAULO (AP) – Brazil’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday it denied visas to two U.S. State Department officials that sought to travel to the South American nation next week, in the latest political barb between the two countries.

Palestinians say mosque set alight by settlers as violence in West Bank continues

Palestinians say mosque set alight by settlers as violence in West Bank continues

Lando Norris Wins F1 Grand Prix in Hungary

MOGYOROD, Hungary (AP) – Lando Norris ended an eight-month wait by “flying” to a Formula 1 victory with strong pace and a dose of good fortune at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday.

'Skynet Day' came too close to sci-fi after rogue agent hacked into a startup

To be fair, James Cameron did warn us. Long before OpenAI broke out of its test corral and hacked into Hugging Face, before the internet and Sam Altman were even born, Cameron wrote a screenplay about an autonomous artificial intelligence system that triggers a nuclear apocalypse.

Today in History - Major Events on This Day

Today in History – Major Events on This Day

As Trump boosts nuclear power, regulators eliminate radiation safety practice

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing to eliminate a foundational safety principle that has for 50 years minimized the radiation people in the United States are exposed to and that has been adopted around the world.