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Israeli forces have intercepted a flotilla of aid boats attempting to break the maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip, detaining crews in international waters near the southern Greek island of Crete. The incident occurred overnight on Wednesday into Thursday, according to activists.The Global Sumud Flotilla, which set sail from Barcelona earlier this month, aimed to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. Organisers said that more than 70 boats and 1,000 participants from across the globe were involved, with additional vessels…

If you read George Orwell’s classic political satire Animal Farm in seventh grade, you probably remember the basic contours of the plot: fed up with human rule, a group of well-intentioned barnyard animals set up their own egalitarian society, with disastrous results. Published in 1945, Animal Farm has a timeless (and, certainly, contemporarily relevant) message: It’s about how the impulse to retain power will always come at the expense of our basic morality.That message, however, seems to have been lost on most MAGA…

Education Secretary Linda McMahon had an embarrassing showing Tuesday during a Senate hearing, repeatedly giving incorrect information about her agency.Democrats grilled McMahon during an appropriations subcommittee hearing about her agency’s budget request. The Education Department has taken a major hit in President Donald Trump’s second term, as both he and McMahon have vowed to shut down the department and “return education to the states.” The agency’s overall budget reduces funding for the department by $4 billion, to…

While testifying on Thursday in federal court, Elon Musk seemed to indicate that his AI lab may have used OpenAI’s models to train xAI’s own. He touched upon the topic while sitting on the witness stand answering cross-examination questions from an OpenAI attorney amid his ongoing legal battle against the ChatGPT-maker.This is the exchange, as best as WIRED could capture it:OpenAI Lawyer William Savitt: Do you know what distillation is?Musk: It means to use one AI model to train another AI model.Savitt: Has xAI done that…