President-elect Donald Trump wants to create an Iron Dome missile shield over the United States. Can this really be happening without our government's knowledge. Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, shoot them down!!!" he wrote Friday on Truth Social. Couldn't agree more, except please don't get your shotgun out of the closet and start rooting around for a box of shells. It's illegal to interfere with any aircraft in flight, manned or unmanned. Maybe its deer season where you live, but alas, it is never drone season. Right now, statutes limit even the military's ability to intercept drones in the U.S. America's got a drone problem. Some drones are legal and no threat to you and me. Some are flown by drug cartels dropping off fentanyl in San Diego. Gen. Greg Guillot, Commander, U.S. Northern Command, told the Senate more than 1,000 drones per month cross the southern border. Other drones belong to the police, or to the military. Don't forget the NYPD has 110 drone operators qualified by the FAA. I also expect some of the drone sightings connect to military experiments and operations. Map showing some of the places where mystery drones have been spotted in Northeastern USA in December 2024. But without question, the U.S. is vulnerable to a national security threat from drones in a way we've never experienced before. While many U.S. military installations have anti-drone systems, the rest of the country doesn't. A new plan for countering drones in U.S. airspace should be top priority for President-elect Trump's incoming Cabinet: Homeland Security, Defense, and Transportation, with the FAA. Find a conference table at Mar-a-Lago and get key Cabinet nominees Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth and Sean Duffy started now. What worries me is the pattern emerging of sightings of multiple drones, operating at low altitude, with persistent and coordinated overwatch, near military bases and critical infrastructure. Of course, New Jersey has a lot of cool stuff: the aircraft carrier electromagnetic catapult test infrastructure, Picatinny Arsenal, Naval Weapons Site Earle, which stores and loads munitions for the Navy's Atlantic fleet. While the New Jersey sightings date from Nov. 20, drone incidents started years ago. Back in 2017, an Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighter encountered a drone over the runway while landing at Langley AFB in Virginia. Yeah, I can see why the Chinese might want a close-up view of the engine intakes and stealth panel seals on that. In California, drones regularly drop inside the fences at the sprawling factories in Palmdale that build top secret military planes like the B-21 stealth bomber. "Some of it, I'm pretty sure, is our adversaries.

White House national security spokesman John Kirby addressed the sightings of'drones' over New Jersey's skies, denying that any evidence suggests a foreign adversary is responsible. An uptick in alleged drone sightings along the East Coast touched off a flurry of panicked calls for investigation on Friday from residents and state lawmakers, even as public officials stress the aircraft in question are, in fact, being flown lawfully, and a retired port authority aviation expert tells Fox News Digital that fears are overblown. The drone complaints began pouring in last month in New Jersey, where witnesses and residents first began reporting drone sightings off of coastal areas, including off of Cape May, a scenic town located outside of Atlantic City. More recently, lawmakers in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Maryland have reported new alleged drone sightings in their home states, with some witnesses alleging the aircraft in question have been the "size of cars" or seen flying above sensitive infrastructure or in restricted airspace. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, told reporters on Friday he had written to President Biden to share his concerns about the fresh reports of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) sightings in New Jersey airspace, and called for more federal resources to investigate the issue.

Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich speaks with White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby about the mysterious drones in the Garden State on'The Story.' A U.S. Senator from Connecticut said the mysterious drones spotted recently flying over states in the mid-Atlantic region should be "shot down, if necessary." In an interview on Capitol Hill Thursday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said intelligence analysis is needed on the drones and the U.S. must act "more aggressively" against the sightings that have been reported. "We should be doing some very smart intelligence analysis and take them out of the skies, especially if they're flying over airports or military bases," the senator said. "They should be shot down, if necessary, because they're flying over sensitive areas."

White House National Security spokesman John Kirby addressed the sightings of "drones" over New Jersey's skies, denying that any evidence suggests a foreign adversary is responsible. White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby claimed Thursday that many of the purported drone sightings spotted over New Jersey for the past several weeks are actually lawfully operated manned aircraft. "We have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or a public safety threat, or have a foreign nexus," Kirby told reporters at the daily White House press briefing. "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI are investigating these sightings, and they're working closely with state and local law enforcement to provide resources using numerous detection methods to better understand their origin." "Using very sophisticated electronic detection technologies provided by federal authorities, we have not been able to, and neither have state or local law enforcement authorities, corroborate any of the reported visual sightings," Kirby said.

Artificial General Intelligence--machines that can learn and perform any cognitive task that a human can--has long been relegated to the realm of science fiction. But recent developments show that AGI is no longer a distant speculation; it's an impending reality that demands our immediate attention. On Sept. 17, during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing titled "Oversight of AI: Insiders' Perspectives," whistleblowers from leading AI companies sounded the alarm on the rapid advancement toward AGI and the glaring lack of oversight. Helen Toner, a former board member of OpenAI and director of strategy at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, testified that, "The biggest disconnect that I see between AI insider perspectives and public perceptions of AI companies is when it comes to the idea of artificial general intelligence." She continued that leading AI companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are "treating building AGI as an entirely serious goal."

Brownian motion, also known as Wiener process, is one of the most important and widely studied stochastic processes in both probability theory and mathematical physics. Originally observed in the erratic movement of pollen grains suspended in water by the botanist Robert Brown, it was later rigorously formalized by Norbert Wiener in the early 20th century. Brownian motion serves as a cornerstone in the modeling of various random phenomena, ranging from financial markets to the diffusion of particles in fluids. This manuscript provides a comprehensive overview of the key concepts, properties, and applications of Brownian motion. The exploration begins with a formal definition of Brownian motion and its fundamental properties, such as stationary independent increments and the Gaussian distribution of the process.

Verifiable generation requires large language models (LLMs) to cite source documents supporting their outputs, thereby improve output transparency and trustworthiness. Yet, previous work mainly targets the generation of sentence-level citations, lacking specificity about which parts of a sentence are backed by the cited sources. This work studies verifiable generation with subsentence-level fine-grained citations for more precise location of generated content supported by the cited sources. We first present a dataset, SCiFi, comprising 10K Wikipedia paragraphs with subsentence-level citations. Each paragraph is paired with a set of candidate source documents for citation and a query that triggers the generation of the paragraph content. On SCiFi, we evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art LLMs and strategies for processing long documents designed for these models. Our experiment results reveals key factors that could enhance the quality of citations, including the expansion of the source documents' context accessible to the models and the implementation of specialized model tuning.

Do AI companies need to pay for the training data that powers their generative AI systems? The question is hotly contested in Silicon Valley and in a wave of lawsuits levied against tech behemoths like Meta, Google, and OpenAI. In Washington, DC, though, there seems to be a growing consensus that the tech giants need to cough up. Today, at a Senate hearing on AI's impact on journalism, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle agreed that OpenAI and others should pay media outlets for using their work in AI projects. "It's not only morally right," said Richard Blumenthal, the Democrat who chairs the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law that held the hearing.

Heritage Foundation tech policy research associate Jake Denton joined'Fox & Friends First' to discuss growing concerns surrounding the political implications of artificial intelligence. AI's breakthrough into popular culture, marked by chatbot tools like ChatGPT, has turned this technology into a battleground for culture warriors. However, equating artificial intelligence or AI with social media platforms could cost us significant advances in healthcare, transportation and global leadership in technology. Over the past decade, politicians have developed a playbook for scoring political points by criticizing social media. Democrats have focused on the spread of misinformation and disinformation, while Republicans have raised concerns about perceived bias against conservative views.

Center for A.I. Safety Director Dan Hendrycks explains concerns about how the rapid growth of artificial intelligence could impact society. The U.S. Senate will host its first members-only briefing on Artificial Intelligence this week amid security and election concerns. "Tomorrow, the Senate will convene the first-ever Senators-only briefing on Artificial Intelligence," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tweeted Monday evening. Domestically, the rapidly evolving technology is being developed and utilized by companies across various industries -- to wide appeal and much fanfare. The proliferation of these AI applications, however, has prompted some concern for the 2024 presidential election as lawmakers and experts warn "deep fakes" and other AI uses could hurt political accountability and disrupt election integrity.