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WAR (C. Todd Lopez) - Hegseth, Germany Counterpart Agree to Advance Defense Industrial Cooperation

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Boris Pistorius, Germany's defense minister, met at the Pentagon to discuss NATO 3.0, increased European defense spending and the defense industrial bases of both nations.

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AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Hollywood's first AI actress can't explain how she reads your personal data

A London production company's AI-generated "actress" identified a CBS News reporter's age and regional origin within minutes of a video interview, and neither the bot nor its creator could explain how. CBS News reporter Leigh Kiniry sat down for a video interview with "Tilly Norwood," a digital persona billed as the world's first AI actor, […] The post Hollywood's first AI actress can't explain how she reads your personal data appeared first on American Almanac .

A London production company's AI-generated "actress" identified a CBS News reporter's age and regional origin within minutes of a video interview, and neither the bot nor its creator could explain how. CBS News reporter Leigh Kiniry sat down for a video interview with "Tilly Norwood," a digital persona billed as the world's first AI actor, and came away unsettled. Within roughly a minute of conversation, the AI, which takes the form of a freckled twenty-something woman, had pegged Kiniry's approximate age and the region of the United States she comes from. When pressed, the bot's creator offered no clear answer for how that happened. Eileen Van Der Velden, who has run the London-based production company PARTICLE 6 for twelve years,…Open

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AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - Nine dolphins left confined in closed Cancun water park as health reports reveal organ failure and disease

Nine bottlenose dolphins remain locked inside a shuttered Mexican water park where campaigners say the animals are blind, sick, and gnawing at concrete walls, and government officials insist the dolphins are fine. Footage filmed September 2 at Dolphin Discovery Ventura Park in Cancun shows the animals confined in algae-ridden enclosures months after the park announced […] The post Nine dolphins left confined in closed Cancun water park as health reports reveal organ failure and disease appeared first on American Almanac .

Nine bottlenose dolphins remain locked inside a shuttered Mexican water park where campaigners say the animals are blind, sick, and gnawing at concrete walls, and government officials insist the dolphins are fine. Footage filmed September 2 at Dolphin Discovery Ventura Park in Cancun shows the animals confined in algae-ridden enclosures months after the park announced its indefinite closure in January 2025. The animal rights group Veeleaf captured the video, and campaigners from the organization TideBreakers posted it to Facebook, calling it among the worst conditions their team had ever documented for captive dolphins. The park once offered swim-with-dolphins experiences for tourists. Now no tourists come. The gates are shut. But the…Open

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