Chris Christie claimed Sen. Lindsey Graham privately criticizes President Donald Trump despite publicly praising him, during a Friday appearance on "Real Time with Bill Maher."

Microsoft is dramatically increasing the price of the Xbox Series X and Series S as well as new games and accessories. The Series S will start at 380, up from 300, while the Series X will begin at 550, a 100 increase on its previous price. The company is also increasing the prices of pretty much all its first-party products and peripherals. A basic controller will now cost 65. Microsoft is also increasing pricing in Europe, UK, Australia and many other countries.

The BBC announced a new addition to its Maestro series of masterclasses, featuring its first posthumous teacher, Agatha Christie, presenting her writing tips in 4K video. The best-selling author of literature in human history teaches an 11-lesson course on writing mysteries, and the BBC seems very aware of the issues circling AI, which provokes a mix of intrigue and, honestly, wariness. Christie, who died in 1976, has had her likeness composited through a blend of licensed images, limited footage and past audio recordings. That data has been blended with actor Vivien Keene, who'performs' the words of Christie on video. This is a more cautious approach.

In early 2025, Augmented Intelligence - Christie's first AI art auction - drew criticism for showcasing a controversial genre. Amid wider legal uncertainty, artists voiced concerns over data mining practices, notably with respect to copyright. The backlash could be viewed as a microcosm of AI's contested position in the creative economy. Touching on the auction's presentation, reception, and results, this paper explores how, among social dissonance, machine learning finds its place in the artworld. Foregrounding responsible innovation, the paper provides a balanced perspective that champions creators' rights and brings nuance to this polarised debate. With a focus on exhibition design, it centres framing, which refers to the way a piece is presented to influence consumer perception. Context plays a central role in shaping our understanding of how good, valuable, and even ethical an artwork is. In this regard, Augmented Intelligence situates AI art within a surprisingly traditional framework, leveraging hallmarks of "high art" to establish the genre's cultural credibility. Generative AI has a clear economic dimension, converging questions of artistic merit with those of monetary worth. Scholarship on ways of seeing, or framing, could substantively inform the interpretation and evaluation of creative outputs, including assessments of their aesthetic and commercial value.

Thousands of artists are urging the auction house Christie's to cancel a sale of art created with artificial intelligence, claiming the technology behind the works is committing "mass theft". The Augmented Intelligence auction has been described by Christie's as the first AI-dedicated sale by a major auctioneer and features 20 lots with prices ranging from 10,000 to 250,000 for works by artists including Refik Andanol and the late AI art pioneer Harold Cohen. A lettter calling for the auction to be scrapped has received 3,000 signatures, including from Karla Ortiz and Kelly McKernan, who are suing AI companies over claims that the firms' image generation tools have used their work without permission. These models, and the companies behind them, exploit human artists, using their work without permission or payment to build commercial AI products that compete with them." Calling on Christie's to cancel the auction, which starts on 20 February, it adds: "Your support of these models, and the people who use them, rewards and further incentivizes AI companies' mass theft of human artists' work." The British composer Ed Newton-Rex, a key figure in the campaign by creative professionals for protection of their work and a signatory to the letter, said at least nine of the works appearing in the auction appeared to have used models trained on artists' work. However, other pieces in the auction do not appear to have used such models. A spokesperson for Christie's said that "in most cases" the AI used to create art in the auction had been trained on the artists' "own inputs". "The artists represented in this sale all have strong, existing multidisciplinary art practices, some recognised in leading museum collections.

New Jersey State Sen. Jon Bramnick joins'Cavuto Live' to discuss his call for a limited state of emergency over unanswered questions about alleged drone sightings. President-elect Trump on Saturday seized on the mysterious drone controversy in New Jersey to mock one-time ally turned nemesis Chris Christie. The president-elect, who will take office in just over a month, shared an artificially generated meme of the former New Jersey governor eating McDonald's with more McDonald's meals being delivered by drones, mocking his weight on Truth Social and X. Christie endorsed Trump in 2016 but was later axed as the head of his transition team. Last year, Christie had a short-lived presidential campaign for the 2024 election during which he called Trump a "coward" and a "puppet of Putin," but he dropped out in January. President-elect Trump on Saturday seized on the mysterious drone controversy in New Jersey to mock one-time ally Chris Christie.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday announced a series of new measures he wants the newly expanded Democrat-led Legislature to adopt, including allowing 16-year-olds to vote in school board elections, reducing medical debt, expanding affordable housing and launching an artificial intelligence "moonshot." Murphy delivered his sixth state of the state address before a joint legislative session in the ornate Assembly chamber where Democrats picked up six seats in the November election. Murphy also reiterated calls he's made since his reelection in 2021 to further ease property taxes and expand free pre-K, among the measures that he says make the state "stronger and fairer."

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tore into GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy one day after the first primary debate in Milwaukee, arguing the entrepreneur's answers showed he has "absolutely no idea what he's talking about." Christie and Ramaswamy sparred over several issues during the two-hour debate from the United States' role in funding the war in Ukraine to supporting former President Donald Trump if he's convicted. Trump praised Ramaswamy's debate performance on his social media site Truth Social. Ramaswamy also praised Trump on stage as the "best president of the 21st century." "Well, I'm stunned that as I was talking about Donald Trump and all the ways that he's let down our party and our country, that he [Trump] didn't mention me as a winner of the debate last night," Christie said Thursday on "Your World."

On Wednesday night in Milwaukee, eight Republicans trailing Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential primary gathered for the cycle's first debate and, with a clear and united voice, denounced one man: Vivek Ramaswamy. With Trump running away with the race and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis behind him in a clear (if tenuous) second, it was somehow the 38-year-old Ramaswamy who took the most direct hits. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's was likely the most memorable: After two of Ramaswamy's high-energy, relentlessly locquacious answers, Christie described him as "a guy who sounds like ChatGPT." Former vice president Mike Pence made a glaringly condescending reference to Ramaswamy "learning on the job," to which the crowd responded with a deserved oooooh. The Super PAC that supports DeSantis called Ramaswamy a fraud on Twitter, while you can see former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's opinion of him expressed nonverbally above.

In his afterword to the short murder mystery Death of an Author, the writer Stephen Marche invokes a concept called Moravec's paradox. Hans Moravec, a robotics scientist, observed that tasks human beings find challenging, such as playing chess, are easy for computers, while many of the actions human beings effortlessly perform without conscious thought, such as perception or oriented movement through space, are extremely difficult for the machines. Moravec's paradox is a useful way to think about the surprising ways that Death of an Author, described by its publisher as a "groundbreaking experiment" in artificial intelligence, succeeds. Jacob Weisberg, the head of podcast production company Pushkin Industries (and a former Slate editor in chief), asked Marche, a journalist who writes about artificial intelligence, to make Death of an Author earlier this year. The goal was a novella whose text was to be 95 percent computer-generated.