Hollywood has seen breakout stars, overnight sensations, and viral phenoms, but nothing quite like AI actress Tilly Norwood. In just a few months, she’s gone from an obscure digital experiment to one of the most...

A 39-year-old Austrian man has been charged with manslaughter after his 33-year-old girlfriend froze to death during a winter ascent on Grossglockner — a case prosecutors say goes beyond tragic misfortune and raises urgent questions...

Sightings of F-18 fighter jets across New Jersey on Sunday sparked widespread speculation, from talk of an unannounced visit by former President Donald Trump to concerns about a national security drill. Residents filmed multiple aircraft...

Human language is changing—and this time, the shift isn’t coming from pop culture, politics, or generational slang. It’s coming from AI. A new study from the Max Planck Institute finds that people are increasingly adopting...

A 520-million-year-old fossil discovery in China is reshaping what scientists know about the earliest ancestors of today’s arthropods. The fossil, Youti yuanshi, contains a miniature brain, nerves, digestive glands, and traces of a circulatory system—all...

A billionaire challenge has ignited global curiosity: the CEO of Columbia Sportswear says he will give away his multibillion-dollar company to anyone who can prove that Earth is flat. This bizarre yet cleverly calibrated announcement...

Tensions between China and Japan have surged again, raising the question dominating Asia-Pacific security circles: Are the region’s two largest powers drifting toward conflict? In the past month alone, radar-lock accusations, new military construction, and...

TL;DR Hubble has captured a striking new photo of 3I/ATLAS—the third confirmed interstellar object to visit our solar system—revealing a massive teardrop-shaped halo and an unusual “anti-tail” stretching sunward. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb says this...

TL;DR Elon Musk is escalating his feud with the European Union after regulators fined X €120 million under the Digital Services Act. Calling the penalty “insane” and “bullshit,” Musk argued the EU should be dismantled...

The New York Times has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Perplexity, an AI search start-up whose user base and influence have expanded rapidly over the past year. This is the second major legal action...