Is Iran imposing a toll to allow oil traffic through Hormuz? | US-Israeli war against Iran
Middle East oil exports have risen above levels seen before the start of the US-Israeli war with Iran in February, despite Tehran’s attempts to block the Strait of Hormuz and attack shipping. The region’s crude exports exceeded pre-war levels…
Disease devastates WA ferry system; Ferguson urges workers to return Tuesday | Washington State Standard
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson told frustrated union ferry workers he expected “all ships on all routes” to be in service Tuesday morning as a member work stoppage crippled much of the nation’s largest ferry system on Monday. Thirteen of…
Raleigh-area wedding photography company ordered to pay nearly $1.7 million :: WRAL.com
A Raleigh-area wedding photography business will have to pay nearly $1.7 million after consumers reported hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses for services they said were never provided. A judge on Monday sided with the North Carolina attorney…
Cerebras stock climbs after OpenAI CEO Altman hails ‘close partner’
Cerebras (CBRS) stock rose 9% on Monday after OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) CEO Sam Altman reaffirmed the AI lab’s partnership with the AI chipmaker. “Cerebras is a close partner,” Altman posted on X, “and we have a deep commitment that pushes the…
‘This is not the right way to solve these problems’: Ferguson expects ferry service to resume tomorrow due to engineer’s apparent sick leave
Chaos gripped Washington State Ferries (WSF) Monday morning, with major ferry routes canceled and thousands of passengers stranded amid what appears to be a widespread sick leave by ferry engineers. Dockworkers told KIRO Newsradio that the cancellations…
Third-quarter Lucid shipments fall 7% as production plunges 38%
Lucid (LCID) delivered 3,806 vehicles in the third quarter, down 7% from last year. It built just 2,954, a 38% reduction from the previous quarter and its lowest production since early 2025. The automaker says it’s on purpose. New CEO Silvio Napoli…
Sam Altman says benefits of AI justify accepting risks for public access
Scott Kupor, vice chair of the AI Task Force, analyzes President Donald Trump’s recently established AI Task Force at the White House. They detail regulatory oversight, congressional concerns, and the impact of artificial intelligence on the…
TikTok rolls out AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout
TikTok on Monday announced the launch of an AI shopping assistant and a new in-app payment feature that allows users to purchase directly from brands. TikTok describes its new shopping assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users…
Will AI kill you? -Jesse Singal
Jesse Singal is a contributing writer to The dispatchco-host of Blocked and reported podcast, and the author of Single minded bulletin. Former editor and general writer at New York Reviewhis work has appeared in media outlets like the New York Times, The…
Reflection launches Beam, an open AI model to compete with Chinese models at lower computational cost
Reflection AI officially unveils Beam, its first open, frontier AI model. The two-year-old Brooklyn-based startup claims that Beam matches the performance of leading Chinese open models on advanced reasoning benchmarks at significantly lower costs, a…