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Investigators in Tucson, Arizona, have released critical new surveillance evidence in the search for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of TODAY show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie. FBI Director Kash Patel shared images and video of an unidentified, armed individual seen tampering with home security cameras on the morning of February 1, the day Guthrie was reported missing. The footage, recovered from backend data by the FB...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has solidified her power with a landslide victory in a snap election, sending the Nikkei 225 to a record high with a 3.9 percent jump. Takaichi, often called Japan's Iron Lady, plans to leverage this mandate for significant tax cuts and a bolstered military presence in the Asia-Pacific region. In the United States, a high-stakes negotiation is unfolding as funding for the Department o...

In this episode of Model Behavior, we analyze a pivotal week for the AI industry. Anthropic's release of Claude Opus 4.6 signals a shift toward coordinated agentic workflows and advanced security auditing, while OpenAI counters with its Frontier platform and self-improving Codex model. We also examine the staggering $650-700 billion capital expenditure forecasts from Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft, and what this mas...

Third-party risk management has long been a bottleneck for enterprise security, relying on static questionnaires that fail to keep pace with dynamic threats. Lema AI, a startup founded in 2023, is challenging this status quo with an agentic AI platform designed to automate and accelerate vendor risk assessments. Having just secured $24 million in funding, the company aims to move enterprises away from manual spreadsheets t...

Today on Buzz, the K-pop world is in a frenzy as BLACKPINK announces their third mini-album, DEADLINE, breaking pre-save records within minutes of the visual poster drop. We also celebrate ROSE’s 29th birthday, reflecting on her record-shattering year with 'APT' and her historic Grammy nominations. Beyond the charts, we look at the emergency protests in Japan against PM Takaichi’s constitutional revisions and a rare parlia...

Global financial markets reached unprecedented milestones this week as gold futures climbed above $5,000 per troy ounce, signaling intense safe-haven demand amid geopolitical shifts. In Tokyo, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi secured a decisive mandate in snap parliamentary elections, promising to double Japan's defense spending and pursue constitutional reform. This political stability pushed the Nikkei 225 to record highs, ...

February 10 stands as a remarkable date in history, defined by the power of individual voices to create lasting change and the evolution of technology. In 1943, Vesta Stoudt, an Illinois factory worker, wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt with a revolutionary idea for waterproof cloth tape to protect soldiers, leading to the birth of duct tape. Decades later, the intersection of humanity and technology was further tes...

Today's episode of Buzz explores the bombshell revelation that Donald Trump contacted Palm Beach police in 2006 to blow the whistle on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. This newly released evidence has taken social media by storm, shifting the long-standing discourse surrounding the Epstein files. We then move to the Magic Kingdom, where a performer's firing has ignited a debate over labor rights and corporate control...

In this high-velocity briefing, we dive into the shift from traditional malware to the manipulation of agentic AI ecosystems and trusted developer tools. Our team examines how OpenClaw and the newly discovered DockerDash vulnerabilities represent a new class of threats targeting autonomous AI agents. We also analyze the sheer scale of modern infrastructure attacks, specifically the record-setting 31.4 Tbps DDoS event and t...

The United States has established a critical June deadline for Ukraine and Russia to reach a peace agreement, marking a pivotal moment in the nearly four-year conflict. This diplomatic push includes a proposed summit in Miami, representing the first time such negotiations would take place on American soil. Meanwhile, global financial markets are reeling from what analysts call a SaaSpocalypse, as new automation tools from ...

Today on Buzz, we explore a digital landscape dominated by medical conspiracy theories and intense cultural divides. Following the U.S. exit from the World Health Organization, social media has been set ablaze with viral claims of suppressed cancer cures from countries like Vietnam and Spain, racking up tens of millions of views. We also dissect the Super Bowl LXI halftime showdown, where the internet split between Bad Bun...

Today on Stereo Current, we explore the return of the icons and the shifting architecture of the indie scene. From the provocative return of Peaches to the highly anticipated eighth album from Mitski, the landscape of 2026 is already being defined by emotional resonance and genre-blending defiance. We also look at the industry's response to AI, the rise of specialized streaming platforms like ROKK, and the massive financia...

On this episode of Stereo Current, Sloane Rivera and Julian Vance dive into a global array of new releases that balance heavy emotional weight with stunning sonic precision. We lead with the heart-wrenching orchestral work of Fons & the Chargers, whose new single serves as a monument to loss and love. The conversation shifts to the ‘era-shifting alchemy’ of Banipreet, a New York artist whose background spans everything...

Today on Stereo Current, we traverse the vast sonic landscape of Paul Hennessy, who has redefined the 'body of work' by releasing twelve full-length albums at once. Titled The Cost Of The Escape, this 144-song collection is less about a marketing stunt and more about an architectural exploration of time, loss, and the price of avoiding responsibility. We also pivot to the sharp, caffeinated energy of the Italian indie scen...

This week on Nerfed.ai, Vanessa Calderon and Marcus Shaw break down an industry-shaking week for Xbox and the total collapse of one of the most anticipated MMOs. Microsoft is reportedly taking the Master Chief to Sony’s camp with a Halo release on PS5 this summer, while the next generation of Xbox hardware is already eyeing a 2027 launch. Meanwhile, the Ashes of Creation saga goes from bad to worse as leadership abandons s...

TC-EP’s “For Real,” as covered by A&R Factory in a review by Amelia Vandergast, arrives steeped in tape-deck warmth and a saturation-rich lo-fi aesthetic. The write-up frames it as introspective hip-hop with a meditative flow—threading grime’s cheeky grit, ambient electronica’s dreamy lift, and Afrobeat’s tempered soul and vibrance. Sonically, the track is described through contrasts: rattling 808s set against the chor...

On February 8, 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was executed at Fotheringhay Castle, ending nearly two decades of imprisonment and the persistent political threat she posed to her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. This event, directly resulting from Mary's conviction in the Babington Plot, remains a seminal moment in the history of the British monarchy and the consolidation of Elizabethan power. Centuries later, on February 8, 1971, th...

Cloudflare's recent demonstration of Moltworker represents a significant step in decentralizing AI agent hosting by moving personal assistants directly to the network edge. By adapting Moltbot—an open-source project formerly known as Clawdbot—to the Cloudflare Developer Platform, the company aims to eliminate the need for dedicated local hardware or the manual management of virtual private servers. This episode explores th...

President Donald Trump re-posted a racist video/meme depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, then deleted it after backlash—while refusing to apologize and telling reporters he “didn’t make a mistake.” In this episode, we treat the event as a digital-risk and platform-governance case study: how high-reach accounts can rapidly amplify harmful content, why deletion doesn’t undo distribution, and what “rare reversal” mom...