U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks during a Turning Point USA event at Akins Ford Arena at the Classic Center on April 14, 2026 in Athens, Georgia. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images President Donald Trump this month sent Vice President JD Vance to Hungary to boost its embattled prime minister and then to Pakistan for peace talks with Iran in hopes of ending the war the U.S. and Israel started. Both...
U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks during a Turning Point USA event at Akins Ford Arena at the Classic Center on April 14, 2026 in Athens, Georgia. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images President Donald Trump this month sent Vice President JD Vance to Hungary to boost its embattled prime minister and then to Pakistan for peace talks with Iran in hopes of ending the war the U.S. and Israel started. Both trips ended with highly visible setbacks and some awkward moments, leading to questions about whether Vance's political star is still rising or if he's being saddled with some of the administration's heaviest burdens. Vance became the face of the U.S. delegation that last weekend failed to clinch a peace deal with Iran after a marathon 21-hour negotiating session in Islamabad. Tehran would not affirmatively commit to not seeking a nuclear weapon, Vance said. The talks generated an unusual split-screen : As Vance delivered the news from the Pakistani capital that "we have not reached an agreement" with Iran, Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were photographed together at a UFC fight in Miami. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and UFC CEO and President Dana White during UFC 327 at Kaseya Center on April 11, 2026 in Miami, Florida. Julia Demaree Nikhinson | Getty Images "I think Trump is likely to play the two of them, and other candidates including [Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis, as kind of a real-life 'Apprentice' show," Marc Short, former chief of staff to Trump's first-term VP Mike Pence , said in a phone interview. Vance on Monday defended the Iran trip as worthwhile, telling Fox News, "I wouldn't just say that things went wrong. I also think things went right." "We made a lot of progress" and laid out Trump's terms for a deal, Vance said, while noting the rarity of U.S. and Iranian leaders meeting at such a high level. A source familiar with the negotiations in Pakistan told CNBC on condition of anonymity to discuss the private t...
Codex can control apps on your desktop like Tic Tac Toe. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is beefing up its agentic coding and development system Codex with a suite of updates that let it use your computer, generate images, and remember from past experiences. Codex will now be able to operate desktop apps on your computer, OpenAI says in a blog post announcing the update. It can work in the background, mean...
Codex can control apps on your desktop like Tic Tac Toe. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is beefing up its agentic coding and development system Codex with a suite of updates that let it use your computer, generate images, and remember from past experiences. Codex will now be able to operate desktop apps on your computer, OpenAI says in a blog post announcing the update. It can work in the background, meaning it won't interfere with your own work in other apps, and multiple agents can work in parallel. For developers, OpenAI says "this is helpful for testing and iterating on frontend changes, testing apps, or working in apps that don't expose an API." The feature will start rolling out to Codex desktop app users signe … Read the full story at The Verge.
Google is upgrading AI Mode in Chrome with a new feature that will allow you to open links to sources alongside your chat. Now, instead of automatically opening a new tab, clicking a source will open the website side by side with AI Mode, allowing you to ask follow-up questions about what's on the page. Launched last year, AI Mode is the chatbot-like search feature that lives within a tab on the l...
Google is upgrading AI Mode in Chrome with a new feature that will allow you to open links to sources alongside your chat. Now, instead of automatically opening a new tab, clicking a source will open the website side by side with AI Mode, allowing you to ask follow-up questions about what's on the page. Launched last year, AI Mode is the chatbot-like search feature that lives within a tab on the left side of Google's search engine. Google has added several new features to the tool over the past year, including the ability to generate images of outfits and decor based on your descriptions, visualize your travel plans , and find restaurant res … Read the full story at The Verge.
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A shoe company just announced it was transforming to an AI firm and the stock jumped 630%. If that sentence makes you uneasy, you’re paying attention. Allbirds, the struggling footwear brand, rebranded itself “New Bird AI” and announced plans to acquire “high-performance, low-latency AI compute hardware.” The company had no existing AI operations when it ... A Shoe Company Rebranded as an AI Firm ...
A shoe company just announced it was transforming to an AI firm and the stock jumped 630%. If that sentence makes you uneasy, you’re paying attention. Allbirds, the struggling footwear brand, rebranded itself “New Bird AI” and announced plans to acquire “high-performance, low-latency AI compute hardware.” The company had no existing AI operations when it ... A Shoe Company Rebranded as an AI Firm and the Stock Jumped 630%. One Analyst Says That’s a Bubble Warning
Google began rolling out "personal intelligence" in Gemini early this year , giving AI subscribers the option of a more customized experience when using the company's chatbot. Today, it's using personal intelligence to tie its image-generation model to Google Photos . If you opt in, generated images will have access to your photos and associated labels to simplify prompts and produce more accurate...
Google began rolling out "personal intelligence" in Gemini early this year , giving AI subscribers the option of a more customized experience when using the company's chatbot. Today, it's using personal intelligence to tie its image-generation model to Google Photos . If you opt in, generated images will have access to your photos and associated labels to simplify prompts and produce more accurate AI images. This change essentially streamlines an existing workflow. Google's Nano Banana 2 is among the best AI image generators available, and it was already possible to feed it images of yourself or others to use as context for creating new AI content. Adding personal intelligence to the mix makes that process smoother by turning the image bot loose on the content of your photos, if indeed that's something you want to do. It is generally true that adding more personal data to an AI prompt results in a better output. Google offers a few examples of how connecting Nano Banana to Photos can help in this way. You won't have to pack as much context into your prompts—you can just refer to "my family" or "my dog" to let the robot find useful images in your Photos library. Read full article Comments