Author: Rahul M

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors that the newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs is focused on building AI models that can self-improve—meaning they can learn from themselves without as much human input. The remarks came during a second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday.“At some level, [it’s] not just going to be learning from people, because you want to build something that is fundamentally smarter than people,” Zuckerberg said. “So…you’re going to develop a way for it to improve itself. That is a very fundamental thing that’s going to have broad implications for how we build products and how we run the…

Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Pamela Anderson’s comeback continues in 2025 with a major role in the Liam Neeson-led reboot of the “Naked Gun” franchise. That’s not long after a Netflix documentary, “Pamela: A Love Story,” dropped some major bombshells, while 2024’s “The Last Showgirl” earned Anderson a Golden Globe nomination for best actress. Anderson and Neeson are also reportedly now a couple, having begun dating while filming “The Naked Gun.”  Of course, it’s a long way from the mid-1990s, when Anderson was bouncing around in a skimpy bathing suit as lifeguard Casey on “Baywatch”…

From JD Vance’s dinnertime Bieber to Sam Altman’s Shazaming of incredibly popular hit songs, a website claiming to have published the Spotify listening habits of members of the Trump administration, tech leaders, and journalists is making the rounds.“We’ve been scraping their accounts since summer 2024. Playlists, live listening feed, everything. We know what songs they played, when, and how many times,” the Panama Playlists site reads, alleging, “With a little sleuthing, I could say with near-certainty: Yep, this is them.”Are all of the accounts real? At this point, it’s hard to tell. The accounts listed have not been independently verified…

US President Donald Trump just dealt another blow to the embattled ecommerce industry, which is still reeling from sweeping tariffs Trump announced in the spring. On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order widening the impact of those tariffs and making it more expensive for Americans to buy foreign products on sites like eBay, Etsy, and Amazon.The order eliminates the so-called “de minimis” provision, a longstanding policy that allowed people in the US to import packages valued at less than $800 from anywhere in the world duty-free. Those packages will now be subject to the same country-specific tariffs as larger shipments,…

TORONTO (AP) — Canada will recognize a Palestinian state in September, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Wednesday, the latest in a series of symbolic announcements that are part of a broader global shift against Israel’s policies in Gaza.Carney convened a Cabinet meeting to discuss the situation in the battered Palestinian territory. He said it came after he discussed the crisis with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer who announced a similar move on Tuesday. Leaders are under mounting pressure over the issue as scenes of hunger in Gaza have horrified so many across the world. “The level of human suffering…

“The Fantastic Four: First Steps” blew everyone away at the box office during its opening weekend, but that comes with a heavy asterisk. For a more detailed explanation of how the superhero film’s box office performance can be both good and bad, check out Looper’s video above about the financial situation concerning “First Steps” and what it could mean for the future of superhero movies’ ability to make money.  Despite great reviews for “First Steps,” including our own, the film points to a worrying trend. Overall, it earned $117 million domestically and a global haul of…

Marvel Studios After making Marvel Cinematic Universe fans wait for years, the Fantastic Four have finally arrived in this franchise (albeit on a parallel Earth). “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” provides an unabashedly outlandish reintroduction (including setting everything in a retro-futuristic world) of Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman (Vanessa Kirby), Johnny Storm/The Human Torch (Joseph Quinn) and Ben Grimm/The Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach). The story chronicles Sue Storm gearing up for the birth of her first child, as well as the impending arrival of planet-gobbler Galactus (Ralph Ineson).…

TORONTO — Measles cases in Canada have far surpassed those in the United States as health officials in Alberta, a western province that has become a hot spot for the outbreak, have urged the premier to declare a public health emergency to stave off infections. Canada’s public health agency has recorded about 4,200 measles cases this year, more than three times as many as the 1,300 cases recorded in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The CDC has also ranked Canada among the top 10 countries with the highest number of measles cases. It is…

In that same Entertainment Weekly interview, which was conducted back in April 2025, Zach Cregger explained that “Weapons” owes a considerable debt to Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 epic “Magnolia,” which boasted an all-star cast and helped coronate Anderson as one of the best American directors. Still, that doesn’t give audiences much to go on, which is exactly what Cregger was hoping for. “Weapons” is, as far as we know without seeing the movie, about a bunch of kids who disappear from their homes in the middle of the night and all happen to be in local teacher Justine Grandy’s (Julia…

In one of the most extreme environments on Earth—the Large Hadron Collider—normal electronics fail almost instantly. But engineers at Columbia University have created custom microchips that not only survive the collider’s intense radiation but play a pivotal role in unlocking the secrets of the universe. These chips digitize the electrical whispers of particle collisions, helping […]