Washington On Wednesday evening, a military helicopter and a commercial aircraft collided in midair close to Reagan Washington National Airport. The Army Black Hawk and an American Eagle airplane are both in the Potomac River. No survivors are anticipated; there were three persons in the chopper and sixty-four people on the airliner. The event happened just before 9:00 p.m. ET. As information about the flight conditions becomes available, all passengers are thought to be dead. Go here to watch live broadcast. In a statement released Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump claimed to have received a thorough briefing on the disaster. Thanking the first responders, he stated that he "will provide more details as they arise." On Thursday, the airport will remain closed until at least 11 a...

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The U.S. National Laboratories will use OpenAI's most recent artificial intelligence models for scientific research and nuclear weapons security, the company announced Thursday. Up to 15,000 scientists at the National Laboratories could have access to OpenAI's reasoning-focused o1 series under the terms of the deal. According to a press statement, OpenAI will also collaborate with Microsoft, its primary investor, to implement one of its models on Venado, the supercomputer located at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Nvidia technologies power Venado. The collaboration was revealed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during a Building to Win: AI Economics company event in Washington, D.C. In the new collaboration, scientists will use OpenAI's technology to improve cybersecu...

Its recent Chinese competitor, DeepSeek, may have "inappropriately taken data from its model to spin up its own artificial intelligence chatbot," according to OpenAI. On Monday, DeepSeek shocked U.S. markets by releasing an unexpectedly powerful and affordable Large Language Model, or LLM. This caused the stock of Nvidia, the leading U.S. chip manufacturer, to plummet. OpenAI's allegation was first published by the Financial Times. In an emailed statement to NBC News on Wednesday, an OpenAI representative stated that it believes DeepSeek might be one of the anonymous Chinese companies actively attempting to overtake American AI firms using a strategy called distillation, in which an LLM is trained using data produced by another LLM. The spokeswoman clarified that the business was not accus...

According to officials, the American Eagle flight that collided in midair with a U.S. Army Black Hawk chopper and plunged into the Potomac River on Wednesday may have contained a dozen or more professional figure skaters. According to Doug Zeghibe, CEO of the Skating Club of Boston, those athletes had been taking part in a development camp in Wichita, Kansas, which was aimed at young skaters with promise. Zeghibe told reporters in Norwood, Massachusetts, "As far as we know, 14 skaters who were going home... were lost in the plane crash." Our skating community has suffered a significant loss. For live coverage, follow along. According to Zeghibe, two coaches, two skaters, two mothers, and six other victims of Wednesday's tragedy were connected to the Skating Club of Boston. Spencer Lane, J...

Denver Public Schools is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights for "discriminating against its female students" after the district turned a women's lavatory into an all-gender facility, the office said Tuesday. With almost 2,000 pupils, East High School now has "exclusive restroom for male students and no restroom for female students on its second floor," the office claims, following the building of the facility. Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor said in a statement that the disturbing revelation that the Denver Public Schools District denied female pupils a restroom on par with those of their male counterparts seems to clearly violate the District's female students' civil rights. To be clear, we are in a new period in Am...

According to officials, the American Eagle flight that collided in midair with a U.S. Army Black Hawk chopper and plunged into the Potomac River on Wednesday may have contained a dozen or more professional figure skaters. According to Doug Zeghibe, CEO of the Skating Club of Boston, those athletes had been taking part in a development camp in Wichita, Kansas, which was aimed at young skaters with promise. Zeghibe told reporters in Norwood, Massachusetts, "As far as we know, 14 skaters who were going home... were lost in the plane crash." Our skating community has suffered a significant loss. For live coverage, follow along. According to Zeghibe, two coaches, two skaters, two mothers, and six other victims of Wednesday's tragedy were connected to the Skating Club of Boston. According to of...