President Trump is promising $5,000 checks for every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans retain control of Congress in the upcoming midterm election. Why it matters: He's made similar suggestions before, many times, none of which ever came to pass. - It'd also cost more than $1 trillion to fulfill. Driving the news: At Wednesday night's GOP midterm convention , Trump made the unexpected offer. - If Republicans keep control of both the House and the Senate, Trump said , ""I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000." Yes, but: It's not the first time the president has suggested some sort of rebate for Americans from his administration's policy actions. - In July 2025 and again in October 2025,…
ABC News' Danny New spoke to David Ferrugio, who lost his father in the Sept. 11 attacks and started a podcast where he talks about his grief journey while trying to normalize talking about death.
Two seemingly contradictory realities are true at once: - Most people find AI only modestly useful, a more clever Google search. - Many people building AI or using it obsessively worry it could severely damage or destroy humanity. Why it matters: We're living in an AI twilight zone. For many, the technology is simultaneously underwhelming in daily use and terrifying in its trajectory. - The gap between these two realities helps explain why confusion and fear are exploding across politics, AI labs and business. State of play: The AI labs are in full panic. They worry the public dislikes AI and despises data centers — and that's before Anthropic insiders went public with their latest warnings that AI could end humanity this decade. -…
Elon Musk bought Twitter saying civilization needed a "common digital town square." Four years later, it's more like a live group chat for Silicon Valley's AI obsessives . Why it matters: Two years ago, X was fighting off competition from a slew of new entrants. Today, it remains relevant by becoming more niche. - The people making AI news are often debating it, explaining it and occasionally breaking it on X before the rest of the information ecosystem catches up. State of play: New model releases, research papers, demos, hiring moves, high-profile executive exits and technical arguments ricochet through X in real time. - The latest viral example came Tuesday when Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation on X, along…
Gina Hinojosa decided to give birth despite her child’s fatal genetic anomaly. Though her ad doesn’t say it, Texas abortion laws no longer allow women that choice.
DALLAS — Republicans are invoking 9/11 to bash left-wing Democrats in a growing number of midterm races , seizing on the 25th anniversary of the attacks to portray them or their supporters as anti-American and sympathetic to terrorists. Why it matters: It marks the return of a controversial political tactic that was common in the years after the 9/11 attacks but had largely faded from campaigns over the past quarter-century. Driving the news: The strategy is playing out most prominently in Michigan, where Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers is expected to use his speech at the GOP's midterm convention to assail Democrat Abdul El-Sayed over 9/11, Axios has learned. - Rogers aims to contrast El-Sayed's relationship with left-wing…
A Republican-led Senate subcommittee that oversees disaster management is investigating OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach in July, Axios has learned. Why it matters: The investigation comes amid rapidly escalating concern on Capitol Hill about the existential dangers posed by AI following public warnings by several Anthropic and OpenAI researchers. - "As you may know, in the public domain, more AI experts are warning about the existential risks of AI," Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) wrote in a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman first obtained by Axios. - He added: "Just this week, three Anthropic researchers expressed publicly that there is a greater than 10% chance that AI could kill all human beings within the next decade." Driving…