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10 media moments and controversies that defined 2025

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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset . Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions . Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper . Trace Gallagher: This year's resolution is for the'naughty nightly news' Chicago mayor endorses'Abolish ICE' snowplow name NYT writer downplays MN fraud scandal investigation from'politicized' DOJ CBS News correspondent claims Supreme Court corruption narrative is'patently false' Sanders rails against AI, says'science-fiction fear' of it running the world not an outrageous idea Pelosi says she didn't intend to tear up Trump's 2020 State of the Union speech MS NOW guest praises Trump's'unconventional' approach to foreign policy (1) LA Mayor Karen Bass says it's'sad' to see Latinos joining the Border Patrol Santa is'PACKING HEAT' during a traffic stop Joe Rogan roasts'crazy' White House plaques installed by Trump Jimmy Kimmel criticized for'ridiculous' Christmas message Jimmy Kimmel jabs at Trump on Christmas: 'Tyranny is booming' CBS News defends pulling '60 Minutes' story'Jesus Crown of Thorns' season 2 is available to watch now on Fox Nation Kimmel says'tyranny is booming' under Trump in UK Christmas message Sunday Morning Futures anchor Maria Bartiromo looks back at her 2025 interviews with President Donald Trump as he laid out his agenda on the border, the economy, energy and foreign policy heading into 2026. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles!


Big Tech bent the knee for Trump in 2025

Engadget

Tech companies may have lost their moral standing, but at least they added shareholder value. Elon Musk holds up a chainsaw onstage during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., February 20, 2025. Sure, we've seen millions poured into lobbying and other means of influence during every presidency, but the last two years set a whole new bar. Business leaders, including those from almost every Big Tech company, stepped over themselves to prove fealty to Donald Trump's second administration. It's easy to see why: Their kowtowing was meant to secure regulatory favors, gain tax and tariff advantages and avoid Trump's ire.



During WWII, the U.S. government censored the weather

Popular Science

During WWII, the U.S. government censored the weather Even baseball rain delays went unexplained. A World War II poster, created for the War Production Board around 1942-1943, declares "Weather is a weapon." Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The call went out from WREC's studios in downtown Memphis at 6:57 p.m. Central War Time: Doctors and nurses were urgently needed in communities south and west of the city. That was all the information the station was allowed to provide, despite the ongoing threat.


OASIS: Harnessing Diffusion Adversarial Network for Ocean Salinity Imputation using Sparse Drifter Trajectories

Li, Bo, Feng, Yingqi, Jin, Ming, Zheng, Xin, Tang, Yufei, Cherubin, Laurent, Liew, Alan Wee-Chung, Wang, Can, Lu, Qinghua, Yao, Jingwei, Pan, Shirui, Zhang, Hong, Zhu, Xingquan

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Ocean salinity plays a vital role in circulation, climate, and marine ecosystems, yet its measurement is often sparse, irregular, and noisy, especially in drifter-based datasets. Traditional approaches, such as remote sensing and optimal interpolation, rely on linearity and stationarity, and are limited by cloud cover, sensor drift, and low satellite revisit rates. While machine learning models offer flexibility, they often fail under severe sparsity and lack principled ways to incorporate physical covariates without specialized sensors. In this paper, we introduce the OceAn Salinity Imputation System (OASIS), a novel diffusion adversarial framework designed to address these challenges.


Multi-Modal Drift Forecasting of Leeway Objects via Navier-Stokes-Guided CNN and Sequence-to-Sequence Attention-Based Models

Adesunkanmi, Rahmat K., Brandt, Alexander W., Deylami, Masoud, Echeverri, Gustavo A. Giraldo, Karbasian, Hamidreza, Alaeddini, Adel

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Accurately predicting the drift (displacement) of leeway objects in maritime environments remains a critical challenge, particularly in time-sensitive scenarios such as search and rescue operations. In this study, we propose a multi-modal machine learning framework that integrates Sentence Transformer embeddings with attention-based sequence-to-sequence architectures to predict the drift of leeway objects in water. We begin by experimentally collecting environmental and physical data, including water current and wind velocities, object mass, and surface area, for five distinct leeway objects. Using simulated data from a Navier-Stokes-based model to train a convolutional neural network on geometrical image representations, we estimate drag and lift coefficients of the leeway objects. These coefficients are then used to derive the net forces responsible for driving the objects' motion. The resulting time series, comprising physical forces, environmental velocities, and object-specific features, combined with textual descriptions encoded via a language model, are inputs to attention-based sequence-to-sequence long-short-term memory and Transformer models, to predict future drift trajectories. We evaluate the framework across multiple time horizons ($1$, $3$, $5$, and $10$ seconds) and assess its generalization across different objects. We compare our approach against a fitted physics-based model and traditional machine learning methods, including recurrent neural networks and temporal convolutional neural networks. Our results show that these multi-modal models perform comparably to traditional models while also enabling longer-term forecasting in place of single-step prediction. Overall, our findings demonstrate the ability of a multi-modal modeling strategy to provide accurate and adaptable predictions of leeway object drift in dynamic maritime conditions.


WebDancer: Towards Autonomous Information Seeking Agency

Wu, Jialong, Li, Baixuan, Fang, Runnan, Yin, Wenbiao, Zhang, Liwen, Tao, Zhengwei, Zhang, Dingchu, Xi, Zekun, Fu, Gang, Jiang, Yong, Xie, Pengjun, Huang, Fei, Zhou, Jingren

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Addressing intricate real-world problems necessitates in-depth information seeking and multi-step reasoning. Recent progress in agentic systems, exemplified by Deep Research, underscores the potential for autonomous multi-step research. In this work, we present a cohesive paradigm for building end-to-end agentic information seeking agents from a data-centric and training-stage perspective. Our approach consists of four key stages: (1) browsing data construction, (2) trajectories sampling, (3) supervised fine-tuning for effective cold start, and (4) reinforcement learning for enhanced generalisation. We instantiate this framework in a web agent based on the ReAct, WebDancer. Empirical evaluations on the challenging information seeking benchmarks, GAIA and WebWalkerQA, demonstrate the strong performance of WebDancer, achieving considerable results and highlighting the efficacy of our training paradigm. Further analysis of agent training provides valuable insights and actionable, systematic pathways for developing more capable agentic models. The codes and demo will be released in https://github.com/Alibaba-NLP/WebAgent.


Storm Surge in Color: RGB-Encoded Physics-Aware Deep Learning for Storm Surge Forecasting

Zhao, Jinpai, Cerrone, Albert, Valseth, Eirik, Westerink, Leendert, Dawson, Clint

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Storm surge forecasting plays a crucial role in coastal disaster preparedness, yet existing machine learning approaches often suffer from limited spatial resolution, reliance on coastal station data, and poor generalization. Moreover, many prior models operate directly on unstructured spatial data, making them incompatible with modern deep learning architectures. In this work, we introduce a novel approach that projects unstructured water elevation fields onto structured Red Green Blue (RGB)-encoded image representations, enabling the application of Convolutional Long Short Term Memory (ConvLSTM) networks for end-to-end spatiotemporal surge forecasting. Our model further integrates ground-truth wind fields as dynamic conditioning signals and topo-bathymetry as a static input, capturing physically meaningful drivers of surge evolution. Evaluated on a large-scale dataset of synthetic storms in the Gulf of Mexico, our method demonstrates robust 48-hour forecasting performance across multiple regions along the Texas coast and exhibits strong spatial extensibility to other coastal areas. By combining structured representation, physically grounded forcings, and scalable deep learning, this study advances the frontier of storm surge forecasting in usability, adaptability, and interpretability.


Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Vessel Trajectory Prediction: Learning Time-Discretized Kinematic Dynamics via Finite Differences

Alam, Md Mahbub, Soares, Amilcar, Rodrigues-Jr, José F., Spadon, Gabriel

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Accurate vessel trajectory prediction is crucial for navigational safety, route optimization, traffic management, search and rescue operations, and autonomous navigation. Traditional data-driven models lack real-world physical constraints, leading to forecasts that disobey vessel motion dynamics, such as in scenarios with limited or noisy data where sudden course changes or speed variations occur due to external factors. To address this limitation, we propose a Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) approach for trajectory prediction that integrates a streamlined kinematic model for vessel motion into the neural network training process via a first- and second-order, finite difference physics-based loss function. This loss function, discretized using the first-order forward Euler method, Heun's second-order approximation, and refined with a midpoint approximation based on Taylor series expansion, enforces fidelity to fundamental physical principles by penalizing deviations from expected kinematic behavior. We evaluated PINN using real-world AIS datasets that cover diverse maritime conditions and compared it with state-of-the-art models. Our results demonstrate that the proposed method reduces average displacement errors by up to 32% across models and datasets while maintaining physical consistency. These results enhance model reliability and adherence to mission-critical maritime activities, where precision translates into better situational awareness in the oceans.


The Gleeful Cruelty of the White House X Account

The Atlantic - Technology

On March 18, the official White House account on X posted two photographs of Virginia Basora-Gonzalez, a woman who was arrested earlier this month by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The post described her as a "previously deported alien felon convicted of fentanyl trafficking," and celebrated her capture as a win for the administration. In one photograph, Basora-Gonzalez is shown handcuffed and weeping in a public parking lot. The White House account posted about Basora-Gonzalez again yesterday--this time, rendering her capture in the animated style of the beloved Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, who co-founded the animation company Studio Ghibli. Presumably, whoever runs the account had used ChatGPT, which has been going viral this week for an update to its advanced "4o" model that enables it to transform photographs in the style of popular art, among other things.