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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ recent American Time Use Survey, Americans spend the majority of their leisure time on screens.People over the age of 15 spend an average of about 2.5 hours watching TV and an additional 37 minutes on activities such as video games and social media, out of an average of 5 hours and 10 minutes of leisure and sports time per day.It’s no surprise that we spend so much time on TV, laptops and phones, says Lance Garrison, dean of the School of Professional Psychology at the University of Chicago and a clinician who specializes…
The Supreme Court’s intervention began with an appellate judge’s decision to side with Georgetown’s Badar Khan Suri against Trump.Published July 24, 2026July 24, 2026A U.S. appeals court has rejected immigration officials’ request to remand a Georgetown University academic at risk of deportation for his work opposing Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.In a 2-1 decision, the Virginia-based Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that federal immigration law does not prevent a lower court judge from ordering Badar Khan Suri’s release.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listKhan Suri, an Indian national, was arrested in March 2025 as President Donald Trump’s administration…
OpenAI today announced that ChatGPT Health, a feature that helps users with health-related questions, will be available to all U.S.-based users age 18 and older across all plans. The announcement came a day after a Florida-based pastor sued the company for making a near-fatal suggestion to keep him from seeing a doctor. The company began testing the feature in early January through a dedicated hub, allowing users to integrate data from other services with personal information from services such as Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal. At the time, OpenAI said its users were making 230 million health-related queries each week.…
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna watches a roundtable discussion hosted by President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on December 10, 2025 in Washington.Alex Wong | Getty ImagesIBM CEO Arvind Krishna sought to reassure Wall Street after disappointing second-quarter results, saying only 2% of the company’s software will be replaced by applications built with artificial intelligence models. “The rest of our software will really help people prepare for AI, unlocking data in real time, reducing the cost and complexity of management, and going through the hybrid infrastructure that most of our clients use,” Krishna said Thursday on…
The U.S. Capitol Building photographed on March 16, 2026 in Washington.Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesRep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas) introduced a bill Thursday called the AI Kill Switch Act that would require artificial intelligence companies to maintain the ability to shut down, throttle, or pause their models.”Unfortunately, powerful AI systems can misbehave, behave in extremely dangerous ways, or resist human intervention,” Liu said in a statement. “To prevent this technology from causing catastrophic harm, it is imperative that these AI systems have a kill switch, and that the federal government has clear powers and processes to…
The White House hailed the pledge, which aims to protect consumers from data center energy costs, as “historic.”Published July 23, 2026July 23, 2026President Donald Trump’s administration announced an expansion of a voluntary pledge aimed at protecting consumers from energy costs associated with the rapid expansion of data centers, primarily used by artificial intelligence companies.The White House announced Thursday that it is adding state governors and power companies to the agreement, which was first announced in March between tech and AI companies. But the U.S. government stopped short of enforcing protections.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe White House called…
Runway no longer wants to be just an AI modeling company. We want to be the infrastructure layer for generative media. On Thursday, the startup released Runway Media Router through Runway Dev, a developer platform launched earlier this month. This provides API access to Runway’s own models as well as a growing number of third-party image, video, and audio models. Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether the developer prioritizes quality, speed, or cost. Model routers are becoming increasingly common in the world of large-scale…
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 arrives from Chicago and lands at Los Angeles International Airport on March 7, 2026.Kevin Carter | Getty ImagesHow volatile is the fuel market this year? southwest airlines Chief Financial Officer Tom Doxey told CNBC that the company hired a ship this spring to send jet fuel from Texas to California, where prices were much higher, raising concerns about supply. It was a first for a Dallas airline.”It brought a week’s worth of supply to the West Coast at a time when supply was most constrained and most at risk,” Doxey said.The ship left Houston, transited…
intel announced better-than-expected second-quarter results Thursday, posting the highest revenue growth rate in a quarter since 2011, and issued better-than-expected guidance. Shares rose about 4% in extended trading. Here’s a comparison of the chipmaker’s performance and LSEG’s consensus estimates:Earnings per share: Adjusted 42 cents vs. expected 21 cents Earnings: $16.1 billion vs. expected $14.42 billionIntel shares are up more than 170% so far in 2026 as of Thursday’s close, after soaring 84% last year when the U.S. government took a 10% stake in the company as part of its support for U.S. chip manufacturing. However, the stock has been underperforming…
President Donald Trump attended the dignified transfer Wednesday of four U.S. soldiers recently killed in the war with Iran.Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25 years old. Private Isabella Gonzalez, 19 years old. And Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad, 28, was killed as part of an Iranian attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. The Pentagon announced that Michael Emanuel Swinton, 30, was killed during the controlled explosion of an Iranian drone that was shot down in Iraq.President Trump met privately with the soldier’s family before the transfer and invited Feehan’s relatives to join him on Air Force One en route to…