Day: July 18, 2023

RFK’s antisemitic conspiracy theory adds to long list of falsehoods

7:01 am July 18, 2023

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been getting a whole lot of media attention. He’s got the name, he’s engulfed by controversy and he gives journalists what they need – the illusion of a presidential contest on the Democratic side. But the press isn’t taking him seriously. If that were the case, he’d be out of […]

New dementia drug ‘has given me hope’: Alzheimer’s patients reveal their stories

7:00 am July 18, 2023

The first new Alzheimer’s treatment in 20 years was given full FDA approval earlier this month — and now two patients who participated in the clinical trials have spoken about their personal experience with the drug to Fox News Digital. Lecanemab, sold under the brand name Leqembi, works by reducing amyloid plaques in the brain, […]

Pentagon’s AI plan must include offense and defense under House-passed bill: ‘DOD has to catch up’

6:00 am July 18, 2023

The House last week passed a defense policy bill that strongly encourages the Pentagon to use artificial intelligence to its advantage, but also requires defense officials to examine how America’s national security infrastructure may be vulnerable to AI systems deployed by China, Russia and other adversaries. Rep. Marc Molinaro, R-N.Y., pushed to include language in […]

Weather researchers unleash fleet of drones that sail directly into eye of hurricane

6:00 am July 18, 2023

A high-tech sailing drone was deployed onto the Atlantic Ocean near Charleston, South Carolina, this past weekend to collect weather data directly from wicked hurricanes. The autonomous ocean drone, known as a saildrone, was redeployed by California-based company Saildrone Inc., which designs and operates autonomous ocean drones, in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]

United States and China are taking opposite approaches to AI

6:00 am July 18, 2023

China and the United States are taking opposite approaches to governing artificial intelligence, and the contrast has big implications for both their global competition and the safety of their citizens. China has built a robust AI domestic regulatory system in public/commercial spaces but does not regulate AI use in the military, which is the opposite […]