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1+ min ago (301+ words) In his New York Times column and frequent appearances on MS NOW, journalist David French isn't shy about attacking President Donald Trump from the right. Like other Never Trump conservatives " from attorney George Conway to MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace to The Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson " French believes that Trump and the MAGA movement have been terrible for the GOP and terrible for conservatism. But French examines MAGA's belief system in his December 14 column for the Times. MAGA, according to French, believes that Trump is fighting to save the United States from a "death spiral" " and that combination of anger and "despair" is one of the things that makes MAGA and the "New Right" so dangerous. French continues, "This sense of loss provides the intellectual and " crucially " emotional foundation of the right's authoritarian turn. It's hard to overstate how much the…...

1+ min ago (497+ words) Google AI Challenge Submission This is a submission for the Google AI Agents Writing Challenge: Learning Reflections I found this writing challenge the day before the deadline. One question: what can you actually learn about AI agents in two days? To save time, I used NotebookLM for the first time and fed the course materials into it. I didn't fully grasp everything. I didn't finish the hands-on labs. Some ideas are still vague. Yet in just two days, my understanding of AI agents and the future role of engineers became clearer. This post isn't a technical deep dive. It's a reflection on what I learned and what I'm still thinking about. Before this course, I couldn't clearly explain what an AI agent actually is. I used to think agents were basically smarter chatbots. My mental image was vague, like a…...

2+ min ago (651+ words) SANTIAGO (AFP) : Chile elected its most right-wing president in 35 years of democracy on Sunday, with arch-conservative Jose Antonio Kast scoring a thumping victory over his leftist runoff rival. With almost all the ballots counted, Kast won some 58 percent of the vote and held an unassailable lead over Jeannette Jara, a communist who headed a broad leftist coalition. Kast campaigned on a promise to expel more than 300,000 immigrants, seal the northern border, take a "firm hand" on near-record crime rates and restart the stalled economy. "Chile wanted change" he told thousands of elated supporters Sunday evening, vowing to "restore respect for the law," while pledging to govern for all Chileans and to listen to critics. Once one of the Americas safest countries, Chile was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, violent social protests and an influx of foreign organized crime groups....

3+ min ago (371+ words) Taylor Swift's latest trip to Arrowhead Stadium came with an unexpected dose of cuteness. During the Sunday, December 14 Kansas City Chiefs vs. Los Angeles Chargers game, the pop star was spotted in a VIP suite holding one of friend Kylie andJason Kelce's daughters, according to a video shared on X by a fan account. Her appearance comes one day after she celebrated her 36th birthday. It's unclear which of the Kelce girls Swift had in her arms, but Kylie, 33, appeared to be carrying her youngest, Finnley, who was born in March. The couple also shares daughters Wyatt, 6, Elliotte, 4, and Bennett, 2. "Taylor Swift holding Kylie Kelce's daughter at the Chiefs game is too wholesome," one X user replied. Another shared, "tia taytay," with a bunch of crying emojis. A third said, "So cute!! She picked her right up..!!" The singer wasn't the…...

3+ min ago (61+ words) Inflation is down but consumers still aren't feeling great about the economy. Inflation is down but consumers still aren't feeling great about the economy. NTD's Chris Beers unpacks the situation with Vance Ginn, former economic advisor to the Office of Budget and Management during President Donald Trump's first term; and Fergus Hodgson, author of "Financial Sovereignty for Canadians....

3+ min ago (160+ words) All employees of Kakao have been ordered to work from home after it received a bomb threat at its headquarters in Pangyo, Gyeonggi Province, industry sources said Monday. Kakao has reported to the police the bomb threat, which came through the company's customer service center earlier in the day, the sources said without further elaborating. "As we prioritize employee safety above all else, we transitioned all staff to work remotely," an official from Kakao said. The office of Kakao located in Pangyo, Gyeonggi Province / Yonhap All employees of Kakao have been ordered to work from home after it received a bomb threat at its headquarters in Pangyo, Gyeonggi Province, industry sources said Monday Kakao has reported to the police the bomb threat, which came through the company's customer service center earlier in the day, the sources said without further elaborating…...

4+ min ago (255+ words) Gemini continues to flex on reasoning fronts, dominating GPT-5.2 in fresh benchmarks and signaling shifting leadership from Google. Meanwhile, in a stunning upset, video app giant Zoom unveiled a state-of-the-art model hitting 48% on Humanity's Last Exam (HLE), a benchmark not on anyone's radar for the conferencing leader'proof that AI breakthroughs are infiltrating even non-core players. Echoing efficiency trends, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas announced that Comet Assistant compute will migrate to fast, lightweight models, potentially runnable locally, optimizing for speed and edge deployment amid rising agent demands. The model race shows no signs of plateauing, with next week packed: OpenAI dropping two image models and a polished, more powerful GPT-5.2 post-Christmas; Gemini unleashing Gemini 3 Flash'rumored superior to Gemini 2.5 Pro with massive market ripple effects; xAI's Grok 420 Blaze; and Anthropic's Claude Opus XXL. "There is no wall, only exponentials," as one observer put…...

4+ min ago (253+ words) I appreciate his honesty. It is one metric fuck ton of money, which means we have to make two metric fuck tons of money to make a profit. I have no doubt in my mind that this movie will make money. The question is, does it make enough money to justify doing it again? This, of course, all begs one question: what will James Cameron do with his franchise if Fire and Ash doesn't make enough money. Well, he told CinemaBlend that he's ready to make the fourth and fifth films. Cameron also told Matthew Belloni, however, that should the box office returns not work in his favor this time, he's prepared to conclude the story of Jake Sully and his family: I've been in Avatar land for 20 years. Actually, 30 years because I wrote it in "95, but I wasn't working…...

5+ min ago (116+ words) The free, family-friendly event featured hot chocolate and cookies, stuffed animals, police and fire vehicles, and a visit from Santa Claus. FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - The Allen County Sheriff's Department and West Central Fire District partnered for a community holiday celebration on Sunday. From 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., community members were invited to the West Central Fire District's Aboite Center Road location for "Lights, Sirens & Sleigh Bells'. The free, family-friendly event featured hot chocolate and cookies, stuffed animals, police and fire vehicles, and a visit from Santa Claus. There will be two more "Lights, Sirens & Sleigh Bells' events this year. Details for those can be found below:...

5+ min ago (87+ words) You can do hard things." That's the title of the latest children's book by Fortune 500 director turned children's author, Terry Aslin. You can do hard things." That's the title of the latest children's book by Fortune 500 director turned children's author, Terry Aslin. His book tells the story of a teacher named Miss Emma and her family, and reminds us about the importance of courage and kindness. Terry joins us now in-studio to chat about his new book....