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UK parliamentarians say reliance on US analytics firm Palantir across critical public services is an "unacceptable point of weakness" and want its role in NHS and defence systems curtailed.
US Central Command and Iran's Revolutionary Guard exchanged fresh strikes overnight, with Kuwait reporting at least one death and dozens injured after Iranian drones hit its international airport.
The Justice Department agreed to pause payouts from President Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund after a federal judge ordered a two-week halt, while Senate Democrats introduced legislation to dismantle it.
Florida's attorney general sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company hid ChatGPT's risks, harmed minors, and rushed a dangerous product to market. The case could become a model for state AI enforcement.
A large-scale Russian missile and drone attack overnight killed at least 10 people in Kyiv and Dnipro and damaged residential buildings across eight Kyiv districts, officials said. The strike follows Moscow's warning of "systematic" retaliation after a deadly attack on an occupied area of eastern Ukraine.
Berkshire Hathaway committed nearly $17 billion across two days in early June, with new CEO Greg Abel steering an acquisition of homebuilder Taylor Morrison. The spending spree puts Berkshire's cash hoard to work and centers on the U.S. housing sector.
Israel's military seized the strategic Beaufort castle in southern Lebanon, the deepest incursion in more than 25 years, prompting condemnation from France, Germany and the UK and a request for an emergency UN Security Council session.
The U.S. military killed three men in a strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific on Saturday, the fourth such operation in a week. The campaign's total death toll is now about 205, and legal experts and human rights groups dispute its legality.
A Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas paper finds the full cost of US tariffs is now passing through to consumers, the central bank's clearest finding yet that households are absorbing the trade war's price increases.
The Trump administration's Center for AI Standards and Innovation has secured agreements with three major US AI developers to evaluate their frontier models for safety and security risks before public release.
The Department of Justice filed four separate federalism lawsuits Thursday, accusing Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington of unconstitutionally denying confidential license plates to ICE while granting them to state agencies.
Vice President JD Vance said US and Iranian negotiators are close to an agreement that would extend the ceasefire and open nuclear talks, though enrichment language remains unsettled and Iran disputes that any text has been finalized.