Meta on Thursday released the weights for Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter AI model that the company says can run on two Apple Mac Studio computers instead of in a data center.

15 Oct 2026 20:38 ✍️ RSS THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Ukraine attacked a Russian oil refinery Thursday, abandoning a brief truce involving energy-related targets that it said Moscow did not heed, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he felt betrayed by U.S. President Donald Trump.

15 Oct 2026 19:17 ✍️ RSS THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Microsoft co-founder BILL GATES is preparing to sharply expand his campaign for tougher AI safeguards, personally pressing business leaders and weighing a major commitment of his resources.

15 Oct 2026 18:44 ✍️ RSS THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Six propellers whir to life, lifting a drone above a field somewhere in Ukraine. A weighted stretcher secured to its frame simulates a wounded soldier in body armor.

15 Oct 2026 18:05 ✍️ RSS THE WASHINGTON TIMES

At least eight states are suing artificial intelligence giant OpenAI, saying the company's popular chatbot model violated state consumer protection laws by hurting children and deceiving adults.

15 Oct 2026 18:04 ✍️ RSS THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Romanian authorities launched search and rescue operations off the Black Sea coast Thursday after a drone struck a ship which then caught fire, the latest in a spate of strikes that has raised fears that Russia's war in Ukraine is spreading.

15 Oct 2026 17:12 ✍️ RSS THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A refrigerator-size satellite carrying four Google AI chips reached orbit Oct. 1. It is the first flight test of Google's plan to someday run artificial intelligence data centers in space.

15 Oct 2026 11:30 ✍️ RSS THE WASHINGTON TIMES