Satellite Imagery Appears To Show Damage At US Airbase In Kuwait After Iranian Attack

OpenAI Valuation Doubts Loom As Softbank Scales Back Margin Loan SoftBank Group's abrupt scaling back of a planned $10 billion margin loan backed by its roughly 13% stake in OpenAI - now targeting as little as $6 billion - reveals deepening lender unease over the AI giant’s $852 billion post-money valuation set in March 2026. The move follows earlier $40 billion bridge financing and comes amid reports that OpenAI missed internal revenue and weekly-active-user targets earlier this year. While the loan itself is SoftBank’s problem, the episode carries real risks for OpenAI. The...

Massachusetts Dems Advance Bill To Limit How Far You Can Drive In Your Own Car Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Massachusetts lawmakers are barreling ahead with a bill that would force the state to slash the total miles residents drive, all under the banner of cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The proposal, Senate Bill S.2246, doesn’t slap a hard cap on your daily commute… yet – but it orders the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) to set binding goals for reducing statewide vehicle miles traveled (VMT). It also creates a new government council tasked with pushing...

Tit-For-Tat: China Hits Back At US With Tighter Drone Export Controls Sino-US relations are showing renewed signs of deterioration ahead of President Xi Jinping's expected visit to the US in late September. Beijing is retaliating against a series of recent U.S. trade restrictions. The Financial Times reports that the Commerce Ministry is set to review exports of drones, critical components, and related dual-use technologies on a "case-by-case basis." The report did not mention the exact details. The ministry also barred Chinese companies from dealing with Applied DNA Sciences and five other U.S....