Silicon Valley's power brokers spent the past year currying favor with President Trump. Two deadly shootings in Minneapolis are now exposing the price of that bargain. It was November 12, 2016, four days after Donald Trump won his first presidential election. Aside from a few outliers (looking at you, Peter Thiel), almost everyone in the tech world was shocked and appalled. At a conference I attended that Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it was " a pretty crazy idea " to think that his company had anything to do with the outcome.

Police have arrested a 27-year-old male host on suspicion of violating the amusement business law by using a dating app to solicit female customers to a host club in Tokyo. The arrest marked the first crackdown in the country on cases involving soliciting customers to restaurants and pubs through dating apps, according to the capital's Metropolitan Police Department. The suspect, Takuto Takeoka, remained silent during questioning, people familiar with the investigation said. Takeoka allegedly contacted two women, ages 27 and 28, through a matching app between May and July last year while posing as an information technology industry professional. He then promised them romantic relationships, later disclosed his job and urged them to come to his host club, where male companions entertain women, in the Kabukicho district in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.

The achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is dependent upon strategic resource distribution. We propose a causal discovery framework using Panel Vector Autoregression, along with both country-specific fixed effects and PCMCI+ conditional independence testing on 168 countries (2000-2025) to develop the first complete causal architecture of SDG dependencies. Utilizing 8 strategically chosen SDGs, we identify a distributed causal network (i.e., no single 'hub' SDG), with 10 statistically significant Granger-causal relationships identified as 11 unique direct effects. Education to Inequality is identified as the most statistically significant direct relationship (r = -0.599; p < 0.05), while effect magnitude significantly varies depending on income levels (e.g., high-income: r = -0.65; lower-middle-income: r = -0.06; non-significant). We also reject the idea that there exists a single 'keystone' SDG. Additionally, we offer a proposed tiered priority framework for the SDGs namely, identifying upstream drivers (Education, Growth), enabling goals (Institutions, Energy), and downstream outcomes (Poverty, Health). Therefore, we conclude that effective SDG acceleration can be accomplished through coordinated multi-dimensional intervention(s), and that single-goal sequential strategies are insufficient.

Amazon discovered a'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from The company's reports were inactionable, according to a child safety organization. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it received more than 1 million reports of AI-related child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in 2025. The vast majority of that content was reported by Amazon, which found the material in its training data, according to an investigation by . In addition, Amazon said only that it obtained the inappropriate content from external sources used to train its AI services and claimed it could not provide any further details about where the CSAM came from. This is really an outlier, Fallon McNulty, executive director of NCMEC's CyberTipline, told . The CyberTipline is where many types of US-based companies are legally required to report suspected CSAM.

Music publishers sue Anthropic for $3 billion over'flagrant piracy' The suit accuses the company of illegally downloading 20,000 songs to train Claude. A group of music publishers led by Concord Music Group and Universal Music Group Anthropic, . These songs were then allegedly fed into the chatbot Claude for training purposes. There are some iconic tunes named by Universal in the suit, including tracks by The Rolling Stones, Neil Diamond and Elton John, among many others. Concord is an independent publisher that handles artists like Common, Killer Mike and Korn.

Luigi Mangione trial date dispute emerges as defense calls Manhattan DA's proposed July 1 start date "unrealistic" due to conflicting federal trial in Brian Thompson case.

Trump Admin's Plans for $500 Million USIP Building May Violate Court Order, Say Former Workers The State Department is poised to take over a building DOGE seized from the US Institute of Peace, former staffers claim--possibly for Donald Trump's "Board of Peace." Last year, the Trump administration and members of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) forcibly took over the US Institute of Peace (USIP), an independent nonprofit. Since then, the organization's fired board and employees have been fighting to regain control of the USIP building in Washington, DC and for the reinstatement of their jobs in a drawn-out court battle. Now, in a letter sent to the Department of Justice (DOJ), representatives for the USIP's fired board and employees argue that the administration is violating a court-issued stay by making physical changes to the building and, to their understanding, moving ahead with new agreements. Specifically, the letter asks for information on whether the State Department has signed an agreement to use the building for the "Board of Peace," a new international organization under the personal lifetime control of President Donald Trump that seeks to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza.

Go to a small liberal-arts college if you can. I n the waning heat of last summer, freshly back in my office at a major research university, I found myself considering the higher-education hellscape that had lately descended upon the nation. I'd spent months reporting on the Trump administration's attacks on universities for, speaking with dozens of administrators, faculty, and students about the billions of dollars in cuts to public funding for research and the resulting collapse of " college life ."At Initially, I surveyed the situation from the safe distance of a journalist who happens to also be a career professor and university administrator. I saw myself as an envoy between America's college campuses and its citizens, telling the stories of the people whose lives had been shattered by these transformations. By the summer, though, that safe distance had collapsed back on me.

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. A body-worn camera shows the perspective of LAPD officers when arresting a suspect. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . LAPD officials are proposing changes to the department's data retention policy, seeking to purge millions of old records.

South Korea has launched what it calls'world-first' laws aimed at regulating artificial intelligence. South Korea has launched what it calls'world-first' laws aimed at regulating artificial intelligence. South Korea's'world-first' AI laws face pushback amid bid to become leading tech power The laws have been criticised by tech startups, which say they go too far, and civil society groups, which say they don't go far enough S outh Korea has embarked on a foray into the regulation of AI, launching what has been billed as the most comprehensive set of laws anywhere in the world, that could prove a model for other countries, but the new legislation has already encountered pushback. The laws, which will force companies to label AI-generated content, have been criticised by local tech startups, which say they go too far, and civil society groups, which say they don't go far enough. The AI basic act, which took effect on Thursday last week, comes amid growing global unease over artificially created media and automated decision-making, as governments struggle to keep pace with rapidly advancing technologies.