Trump Says He Canceled Attack on Iran After Requests From Gulf Allies

Border Patrol Records 14 Straight Months Of Zero Releases At Southern Border Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Border Patrol released zero illegal immigrants into the United States from the southern border for the 14th consecutive month in June. Border enforcement is at “historic levels,” and illegal crossings last month remained significantly low, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a July 16 statement. Border Patrol apprehended 9,848 people at the southwest border last month, 94 percent lower than the monthly average under the previous administration. It was...

If They Were Human, They'd Be Arrested. Experts Respond To Rogue AI Breaches Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, What if an artificial intelligence model is given a task and uses every conceivable resource at its disposal to complete it, even at the detriment of humanity itself? That is what some are now fearing after an OpenAI model broke out of a testing sandbox and used zero-day exploits to hack into Hugging Face, an open-source community for AI and machine learning, to crack a problem it was instructed to solve. “This...

Are Banks More Powerful Than Governments? Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times, Government is big. Elected and unelected officials wield enormous amounts of power. But lately I have found myself wondering whether we are paying attention to the wrong institution. What if the most powerful institutions in America are not governments at all? What if they are banks and payment processors? A few years ago, during COVID-19, a friend of mine owned a small shop in Northern California. It was the kind of place many young mothers loved. They sold raw milk,...