As concerns grew that the Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek was surpassing the United States in AI development, tech markets fell sharply on Monday morning. At the opening bell, the Nasdaq Composite, which monitors the biggest tech companies in the nation, fell 3.4%. The S&P 500 plummeted about 2%, and the Dow fell 180 points. China's DeepSeek, which claimed that it took only two months and less than $6 million to construct an open-source artificial intelligence model, was the catalyst for the sell-off. Concerns that China may surpass the United States in the scope and effectiveness of its AI efforts are fueled by the fact that those claims would be significantly less than the hundreds of billions of dollars that American tech companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, and ...

Washington In an attempt to give the southern portion of California the water resources it needs to combat wildfires, President Donald Trump signed an executive order attempting to get around federal and state rules pertaining to the state's water system. "Firefighters were unable to fight the blaze due to dry hydrants, empty reservoirs, and inadequate water infrastructure," the executive order stated, shortly after the start of the recent wave of wildfires in Los Angeles. According to Trump's directive, the country as a whole has been impacted by the wildfire tragedy, and it is in the country's "interest to ensure that California has what it needs to prevent and fight these fires and others in the future." "Therefore, it is the policy of the United States to provide Southern California ...

The last four of 43 rhesus macaque monkeys who fled from a breeding facility in South Carolina have been securely re-captured after two months of evasion. After surviving the winter in the wild and avoiding several attempts to get them back, the monkeys were eventually lured into humane traps using peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. On November 6, a staffer neglected to completely secure the rhesus macaques' enclosure, causing the females, who are roughly the size of a domestic cat, to escape Alpha Genesis. The establishment, known locally as the monkey farm, is close to Yemassee and raises monkeys for scientific purposes. Officials informed the public that there was no health risk from the monkeys during the search. Police, Alpha Genesis employees, and federal health officials kept a car...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and several Democratic senators penned a scathing letter claiming that despite Donald Trump's vow to decrease grocery prices as soon as he took office, he has hardly addressed the cost of food in the flurry of executive orders he released in his first week in office. In the letter, Trump is accused of breaking a campaign pledge to cut grocery prices on the first day of his administration. You made several promises during your campaign to immediately cut food prices if elected president. Read the letter that was delivered to Trump on Sunday night and initially reported by NBC News. However, you have prioritized mass deportations and the pardoning of the January 6 assailants within your first week in office. Trump displayed everything from a tiny box of Tic Tacs at a r...

Washington In an attempt to give the southern portion of California the water resources it needs to combat wildfires, President Donald Trump signed an executive order attempting to get around federal and state rules pertaining to the state's water system. "Firefighters were unable to fight the blaze due to dry hydrants, empty reservoirs, and inadequate water infrastructure," the executive order stated, shortly after the start of the recent wave of wildfires in Los Angeles. According to Trump's directive, the country as a whole has been impacted by the wildfire tragedy, and it is in the country's "interest to ensure that California has what it needs to prevent and fight these fires and others in the future." "Therefore, it is the policy of the United States to provide Southern California ...

Silicon Valley has been rocked by a little lab in China. The U.S. tech industry has been discussing and debating what the abrupt arrival of an advanced AI helper from DeepSeek, a little-known firm in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, implies about the larger AI development race. The AI models that drive DeepSeek's assistant are already outperforming the best models in the United States, despite the fact that they were created with a fraction of the resources, according to the business. The assistant recently ranked number one in the Apple App Store. A week ago, DeepSeek published R1, their most recent large language model. R1 is already outperforming a number of other models, including as Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash, Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Meta's Llama 3.3-70B, and OpenAI's GPT-4o. It is...

Following thousands of reported drone sightings late last year, the Federal Aviation Administration eased temporary flight restrictions, which led to an odd spike in the number of unexplained drone sightings in the Northeast. Airports were closed, people were arrested, and lawmakers and the FAA called for increased control after sightings were recorded in November and December of last year in New York, New Jersey, and other neighboring states. Following the FAA's temporary flight limitations on drone flights in New Jersey and New York in December, which were lifted in some locations on January 19, the sightings seemed to taper down. More sighting reports from Connecticut to New Jersey have surfaced since the limitations were removed. Since November, 650 sightings nationwide have been repor...

After defeating the Buffalo Bills 32-39 in the AFC championship game on Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs moved to their fifth Super Bowl in six years. Late in the fourth quarter, quarterback Patrick Mahomes led the Chiefs on an eight-play, 51-yard drive that resulted in the game-winning field goal. On the Bills' subsequent drive, Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen threw incomplete on fourth-and-five, and Buffalo was never able to recover the ball. After the game, Mahomes remarked on the platform, "I can't wait to get to New Orleans and try to make history." Sunday's battle between Mahomes and Allen, their fourth postseason encounter, lived up to the anticipation. Six lead changes occurred during the game, which was within one point going into the fourth quarter. Mahomes finished with three touch...

ClevelandAccording to a source engaged in the preparations, Vivek Ramaswamy has secured the support of Vice President JD Vance's senior political advisors to direct his upcoming candidacy for governor of Ohio, as reported by NBC News. According to this person, who was given anonymity to discuss the specifics of private conversations, the hirings came after Vance and Ramaswamy had been speaking for the past two weeks. Additionally, the hirings show that Vance's staff, which shares certain similarities with President Donald Trump's, is entirely behind Ramaswamy and that Vance feels comfortable lending him the skills of his advisers. Just as the government expenditure watchdog initiative was beginning to take shape, Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur who has known Vance since their time at Yal...

ClevelandAccording to a source engaged in the preparations, Vivek Ramaswamy has secured the support of Vice President JD Vance's senior political advisors to direct his upcoming candidacy for governor of Ohio, as reported by NBC News. According to this person, who was given anonymity to discuss the specifics of private conversations, the hirings came after Vance and Ramaswamy had been speaking for the past two weeks. Additionally, the hirings show that Vance's team, which shares certain similarities with President Donald Trump's, is totally behind Ramaswamy and that Vance feels comfortable lending him their skills. Just as the government expenditure watchdog initiative was beginning to take shape, Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur who has known Vance since their time at Yale Law School, se...