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Latest drone footage captures 'sophisticated' UFOs interacting with each other over New Jersey
The latest footage of bizarre drones in New Jersey captured several craft orbiting each other over Somerset County, while at least 12 counties have reported sightings. The video, released this week, shows three'mystery drones in the air' as two move extremely close as if they are interacting with each other and the third hovered for'about 15 minutes.' New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said Monday night that the drones are'very sophisticated, explaining: 'The minute we get eyes on them [the drones], they go dark.' 'I don't blame people for being frustrated,' Gov Murphy continued, adding that he had spent most of Sunday coordinating on the issue with both the White House and the US Department of Homeland Security in the hope of getting answers. He said that the state received 49 sighting reports on Sunday night alone, with hundreds of locals sharing experiences on social media platforms. On Monday, Picatinny Arsenal, the Army facility in Morris County, confirmed it has had 11 sightings of'UFOs' over in its airspace in recent weeks.
Chinese citizen charged with flying drone over key US military, NASA rocket launch base, taking photos
Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., opens up about the aerial systems spotted in the Garden State on'The Story.' A Chinese citizen living in Los Angeles allegedly flew a drone and took aerial images of Vandenberg Space Force Base last month, federal prosecutors said Monday. Yinpiao Zhou, 39, was arrested this week at the San Francisco International Airport prior to boarding a China-bound flight, the Justice Department said. He is charged with failure to register an aircraft not providing transportation and violation of national defense airspace. On Nov. 30, drone detections systems at the military installation in Santa Barbara County detected a drone flying over the base, prosecutors said.
Jets' Aaron Rodgers shares thoughts on drones flying over New Jersey: 'What the hell is that?'
Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers lives in New Jersey and has noticed the drones recently flying throughout the state. "Do you know what's been going on in Jersey lately? There's been some crazy things going on. There is some drones in the sky," Rodgers said during a recent appearance on "The Pat McAfee Show."
FBI leader says it's 'concerning' how little his agency knows about mysterious drones seen over New Jersey
Fox News contributor Brett Velicovich discusses House Subcommittee on Aerial Systems' role in investigating multiple sightings in the Garden State on'America Reports.' A top FBI leader revealed the agency knows concerningly little about the mysterious drones that have been seen hovering over New Jersey. Asked if Americans are "at risk," FBI Assistant Director of the Critical Incident Response Group Robert Wheeler told Congress: "There is nothing that is known that would lead me to say that, but we just don't know. Dozens of drones have been spotted flying near sensitive sites like a military research facility in recent weeks. The FBI has been investigating the incidents and has called on the public for additional information. According to Gov. Phil Murphy, there were 49 reports of drones on Sunday alone, mostly in Hunterdon County. The FBI assistant director's comments came during a joint hearing of two Homeland Security subcommittees on unmanned aerial systems. "We do not attribute that to an individual or a group yet.
Apparent UFO images leak from Pentagon's secret data retrieval program 'Immaculate Constellation'
An email containing incredible UFO images allegedly from US military UFO sightings has been leaked online by an anonymous source. The leaker claimed that they had accessed an alleged top secret UFO'data retrieval program' known as'Immaculate Constellation' -- made famous this past November in a blockbuster public hearing before Congress. The black-and-white images show ornately spiked'cruciform' UFOs, boomerang-shaped flying wings, a floating'hot' cube, traditional flying saucers and several other craft that look straight out of classic science fiction. The screengrabs are said to be from infrared and thermal camera footage taken by military'heads up displays,' but details were redacted to protect both sensitive US national security interests. These unsettling depictions of highly varied craft were first made public by Nathan Latvaitis, who runs a YouTube channel called'Strange Mysteries.'
How Cerebras boosted Meta's Llama to 'frontier model' performance
Cerebras used chain of thought at inference time to make a smaller AI model equal or better to a larger model. Cerebras Systems announced on Tuesday that it's made Meta Platforms's Llama perform as well in a small version as it does on a large version by adding the increasingly popular approach in generative artificial intelligence (AI) known as "chain of thought." The AI computer maker announced the advance at the start of the annual NeurIPS conference on AI. "This is a closed-source only capability, but we wanted to bring this capability to the most popular ecosystem, which is Llama," said James Wang, head of Cerebras's product marketing effort, in an interview with ZDNET. The project is the latest in a line of open-source projects Cerebras has done to demonstrate the capabilities of its purpose-built AI computer, the "CS-3," which it sells in competition with the status quo in AI -- GPU chips from the customary vendors, Nvidia and AMD. Also: DeepSeek challenges OpenAI's o1 in chain of thought - but it's missing a few links The company was able to train the Llama 3.1 open-source AI model that uses only 70 billion parameters to reach the same accuracy or better accuracy on various benchmark tests as the much larger 405-billion parameter version of Llama.
New Jersey drone sightings: Military analysts break down national security concerns, doubt hobbyists at play
Ken Gray, a former FBI agent and military analyst, told Fox News Digital he does not believe the New Jersey drone sightings are hobbyists, though it's unclear at this stage if they are a threat or not. New Jersey authorities have insisted that sightings of SUV-size drones for the past several weeks do not present a threat to public safety, but military analysts say the lack of clear answers from the government points to a larger problem. These large drones have been spotted over the skies of the Garden State with smaller, more rapidly maneuverable drones, resembling what's referred to as "drone motherships" that have been deployed in Ukraine, Russia and China, Fox News contributor Brett Velicovich said. The motherships launch smaller drones, which do not have the necessary range-antennas to carry them a further distance. That suggests, according to Velicovich, that a foreign adversary could be at play in New Jersey.
A.I. Is About to Get a Whole Lot Worse Under Trump
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Thursday evening, President-elect Donald Trump announced on his Truth Social platform that he would be appointing David O. Sacks--the "PayPal Mafia" alum, longtime venture capitalist, All-In Podcast co-host, Elon Musk pal, and rock-ribbed Silicon Valley conservative--as the "White House A.I. & Crypto Czar." In his statement, Trump wrote that "Sacks will focus on making America the clear global leader" in artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency, which he deemed to be "two areas critical to the future of American competitiveness." In addition, Sacks will "safeguard Free Speech online," "steer us away from Big Tech bias and censorship," and "lead the Presidential Council of Advisors for Science and Technology." For his first-ever Truth Social post, the incoming czar responded to Trump with gratitude and claimed that he "looks forward to advancing American competitiveness in these critical technologies."
Is this the end of Google? This new AI tool isn't just competing, it's winning
It feels like every time I read the news, someone has Google in their crosshairs. The US Department of Justice is considering breaking up the company, potentially splitting its search engine from Android, Chrome, and Google Play services. My mother didn't raise a snitch, but if I were Google, my defense would beโฆ. "But look at Apple and Amazon!" I would point across the room and everything.
AI's hype and antitrust problem is coming under scrutiny
Last Thursday, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Eric Schmitt introduced a bill aimed at stirring up more competition for Pentagon contracts awarded in AI and cloud computing. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle currently dominate those contracts. "The way that the big get bigger in AI is by sucking up everyone else's data and using it to train and expand their own systems," Warren told the Washington Post. The new bill would "require a competitive award process" for contracts, which would ban the use of "no-bid" awards by the Pentagon to companies for cloud services or AI foundation models. While Big Tech is hit with antitrust investigations--including the ongoing lawsuit against Google about its dominance in search, as well as a new investigation opened into Microsoft--regulators are also accusing AI companies of, well, just straight-up lying.