NPR's A Martinez speaks with historian Sergey Radchenko about how Russia benefits from the U.S. being at war with Iran.
Iran retaliates after Israel kills two top Iranian officials Police and first responders work at a scene where an apartment was damaged by a missile strike, in the outskirts of Tel Aviv, Israel on March 18, 2026. Ilia...
Americans now listen to podcasts more often than talk radio, study shows Podcasts have officially overtaken AM/FM talk radio as the more popular medium for spoken word audio in the United States, according to Edison Research’s Share of Ear survey. The researchers have tracked these statistics over the last decade, and almost always, the percentage of time people spent listening to podcasts...
Anthropic’s Claude rises to No. 1 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute In Brief Posted: 6:48 AM PST · March 1, 2026 Image Credits:Maxwell Zeff Anthropic’s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon. As first reported by CNBC, Claude has been rising to the...
OpenAI policy exec who opposed chatbot’s “adult mode” reportedly fired on discrimination claim In Brief Posted: 6:15 PM PST · February 10, 2026 Image Credits:Silas Stein/picture alliance / Getty Images Ryan Beiermeister, who served as OpenAI’s vice president of product policy, was fired in January after a male colleague accused her of sex...
Lucid Motors slashes 12% of its workforce as it seeks profitability Lucid Motors is laying off 12% of its workforce in a bid to “improve operational effectiveness and optimize our resources as we continue on our path toward profitability,” according to an internal memo that was obtained by TechCrunch. Hourly workers on the manufacturing, logistics, and quality teams are not affected by the...