Alberta Separatists Say They Have Enough Signatures To Force Referendum On Leaving Canada

Meta To Lay Off Hundreds Of Workers Today As AI Pivot Accelerates Meta Platforms is laying off a few hundred employees today as its workforce restructuring continues, following years of terrible metaverse bets and overhiring during the Covid era. Reports of another round of layoffs surfaced earlier this month, and just last week, Meta shut down Horizon Worlds, its virtual reality social network for Quest headsets. The Information reports that a few hundred employees will be let go today as part of the company's effort to reposition itself in the AI...

Cory Booker Blasts Party, Says Democrats 'Failed This Moment', And Calls For New Leaders Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) appeared on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday morning and delivered a scathing rebuke of his own party, saying it has “failed this moment.”  Booker was on the show to promote his new book, and host Kristen Welker read a passage from it in which he argues that political coalitions can’t succeed if they exclude people based on “purity tests” or demand total agreement on every issue.  In his book, he wrote, “We cannot cancel...

Iran Threatens "Complete And Utter Annihilation" Of OpenAI's $30BN Stargate Data Center In Abu Dhabi In a move that may well have been sponsored by Dario Amodei or Elon Musk, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a clear public warning to the US that any damage inflicted on Iran’s power infrastructure will be met with decisive retaliation. Specifically, IRGC spokesperson Brigadier General Ebrahim Zolfaghari threatened the “complete and utter annihilation” of U.S. and Israeli facilities, with Stargate's $30 billion "hidden" AI datacenter in Abu Dhabi singled out as a...