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Dated: 2025-07-02. Added: 2025-07-03.

Dated: 2025-07-02. Added: 2025-07-03. Alternate title: It Came From Outside Our Solar System, and It Looks Like a Comet

Dated: 2025-06-22. Added: 2025-06-22.

A day after President Trump declared that Iran’s nuclear program had been “completely and totally obliterated” by American bunker-busting bombs and a barrage of missiles, the actual state of the program seemed far more murky, with senior officials conceding they did not know the fate of Iran’s stockpile of near-bomb-grade uranium.

Dated: 2025-05-21. Added: 2025-05-21T05:28+00. Alternate title: “Trump Claims Success After Bombing Key Iran Nuclear Sites (Live Updates)”.

Dated: 2025-06-17. Added: 2025-06-27.

The Senate on Tuesday passed legislation to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoins, putting the cryptocurrency industry, which had long been viewed with suspicion by lawmakers in Washington, on the brink of a major policy breakthrough.

Bipartisan approval of the bill, known as the GENIUS Act, followed an aggressive lobbying campaign aimed at transforming the cryptocurrency industry’s image from scandal-plagued experiment to legitimate financial sector.

Dated: 2025-06-17. Added: 2025-06-17.

The Senate on Tuesday passed legislation to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoins, putting the cryptocurrency industry, which had long been viewed with suspicion by lawmakers in Washington, on the brink of a major policy breakthrough.

Bipartisan approval of the bill, known as the GENIUS Act, followed an aggressive lobbying campaign aimed at transforming the cryptocurrency industry’s image from scandal-plagued experiment to legitimate financial sector.

Senate passage came over the fierce objections of many Democrats, who warned that the measure lacked strict-enough regulations or oversight to prevent abuses, including anti-corruption rules that would bar President Trump and his family from continuing to profit from cryptocurrency.

The bill still must be passed by the House and signed by the president. But the 68-30 vote in the Senate marked the first time the chamber has approved major cryptocurrency legislation. It represented a significant step toward giving the industry what it has long sought from Washington: the credibility that comes with federal oversight.

Fears of a wider war were growing on Tuesday after President Trump called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” cited the possibility of killing Iran’s supreme leader and referred to Israel’s war efforts with the word “we” — all apparent suggestions that the United States could enter the war against Iran.

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Should the United States join the war, Iran has prepared missiles and other military equipment for possible retaliatory strikes on U.S. bases in the Middle East, according to American officials who have reviewed intelligence reports.

Dated: 2025-06-14. Added: 2025-06-14.

Dated: 2025-06-13. Added: 2025-06-13.

Explosions rocked Tehran early Friday morning, as Israel carried out a major attack on Iran intended to cripple the country’s nuclear program, Israeli officials said. The strikes raised fears the long-simmering conflict between the two countries could escalate into a war involving the most powerful militaries in the Middle East.

Residents of Tehran, the Iranian capital, reported hearing huge explosions, and Iranian state television broadcast images of smoke and fire billowing from buildings. One Iranian senior official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Iran’s fighter jets had taken off to intercept the Israeli warplanes.

Several Israeli officials described the attacks as a pre-emptive strike intended to keep Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb. The Israeli military said the strikes had targeted sites critical to Iran’s long-range missile capabilities and its nuclear program.

Israel attacked at least six military bases around Tehran, including Parchin, and residential homes at two highly secure complexes for military commanders and multiple residential buildings around Tehran, in what appears to be targeted assassinations, according to four senior Iranian officials.

The prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said in a video statement that Israel had attacked Iran’s main nuclear “enrichment facility in Natanz,” as well as “Iran’s leading nuclear scientists.” He called Iran’s nuclear program, “a clear and present danger to Israel’s very survival.” Israel is believed to be the only nuclear armed nation in the Middle East.

Dated: 2025-06-07. Added: 2025-06-08. Alternate title: “Inside OpenAI’s Plan to Embed ChatGPT Into College Students’ Lives”.

But even when trained on specific course materials, A.I. can make mistakes. In a new study — “Can A.I. Hold Office Hours?” — law school professors uploaded a patent law casebook into A.I. models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. Then they asked dozens of patent law questions based on the casebook and found that all three A.I. chatbots made “significant” legal errors that could be “harmful for learning.”

“This is a good way to lead students astray,” said Jonathan S. Masur, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and a co-author of the study. “So I think that everyone needs to take a little bit of a deep breath and slow down.”

OpenAI said the 250,000-word casebook used for the study was more than twice the length of text that its GPT-4o model can process at once. Anthropic said the study had limited usefulness because it did not compare the A.I. with human performance. Google said its model accuracy had improved since the study was conducted.

Dated: 2025-06-07. Added: 2025-06-07.

Dated: 2025-05-28. Added: 2025-05-29.