China is increasingly keeping its best AI talent to itself For China’s top AI researchers, the borders are quickly closing. Researchers, startup founders and executives at private firms are now reportedly subject to travel restrictions, with some of the industry’s most prominent figures required to seek government approval before heading abroad. The restrictions reflect a wider shift in how...

Hot air balloon makes emergency landing in California backyardA couple in Temecula, California, woke up to find a hot air balloon boarded with 13 people in their backyard on Saturday.The pilot said he had to make an emergency landing due to the balloon hovering and running out of fuel. No injuries were reported.“I was amazed that they missed our tree. They missed our house”, Jenna Perrin said....

Honestly, the grind in this game has gotten a bit ridiculous lately. Everything in 2026 Los Santos costs a small fortune, from a beat-up sedan to anything resembling a decent apartment. So when Rockstar drops a week like this one, you really should pay attention. The May 11 update is leaning hard into passive income, and the Nightclub is sitting right at the centre of it all. If you've been...

Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25 billion per month for compute In Brief Posted: 2:29 PM PDT · May 20, 2026 Image Credits:Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto / Getty Images Earlier this month, Anthropic surprised the AI world with a deal to buy 300 megawatts worth of compute — securing the entire output of the Colossus 1 data center near Memphis,...

US intervention in Iran: What Iranians inside and outside the country sayLeyla Khodabakhshi,Washington, DC,Grace Eliza Goodwin,New York CityandRegan Morris,Los AngelesAFP via Getty ImagesIranian protesters gather near burning cars on a street in Tehran, Iran on 8 January. For Mojdeh and her husband, the question of US intervention in Iran is personal. In early January, they travelled from their...