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'Human made’: AI action figures flood social media

1 week ago | dtnext.in | Callie Holtermann

Recently, actress Brooke Shields posted an image of an action-figure version of herself that came with a needlepoint kit and a pet terrier. Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., imagined her own figurine accompanied by a gavel and a Bible. These hyper-realistic dolls are nowhere to be found in toy stores, at least for the time being. They are being created using artificial intelligence tools, including ChatGPT.
Nothing real about Trump’s ‘real America’

1 week ago | dtnext.in | Bret Stephens

WASHINGTON: Even by the ugly standards of this administration, the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia stands out. A Salvadoran migrant and metal worker in Maryland with no criminal record other than traffic violations and illegal entry into the country, he was arrested by immigration authorities in March and deported to one of the notorious prisons of his homeland, in contravention of a U.S. immigration judge’s order.
A lot about trump doesn’t add up

1 week ago | dtnext.in | Maureen Dowd

You have to give it to Donald Trump. The man is a marvel at multitasking. In one sensational swoop, President Trump was able to set the global economy reeling, shatter our alliances, shred our standing in the world, tank consumer confidence, scupper the Kennedy Center and tart up the Oval Office, turning it into Caesars Palace on the Potomac.
A cautionary tale of 408 tentacles

1 week ago | dtnext.in | Emily Anthes

Once upon a time, there was an octopus-besotted boy named Cal who lived in the landlocked state of Oklahoma. One day, a special package appeared at his house: a small pet octopus, with bright blue eyespots on its head, that Cal named Terrance. Terrance turned out to be female — and pregnant. One octopus turned into 51, eight tentacles into 408. The boy’s father, Dr. Cameron Clifford, worked day and night to keep the octopuses alive.
Xi faces his biggest test since COVID

1 week ago | dtnext.in | David Pierson

DAVID PIERSON For the two men at the forefront of a trade war that has begun to rupture ties between the world’s biggest economies, the question has become who will blink first. On one side is President Donald Trump, who unleashed a disruptive plan to transform the modern global trading system with tariffs — only to back down hours after it took effect, pausing the import duties for every country but China.
Trump's lust for power cannot be satiated

2 weeks ago | dtnext.in | Jamelle Bouie

It is a fool’s errand to try to rationalize President Donald Trump’s obsession with tariffs. This is not to say that people haven’t tried. There are any number of theories that seek to explain Trump’s preoccupation with tariffs and trade wars. Perhaps he wants to revitalize American manufacturing and bring factory jobs back to postindustrial communities wracked by poverty and despair.
Is a north-south divide opening in India?

2 weeks ago | dtnext.in | Shashi Tharoor

CHENNAI: In recent weeks, Indian politics have been roiled by controversy over something that hasn’t happened yet: the government’s redrawing of the boundaries of parliamentary constituencies, which is likely to happen within the next few years, after a new census is carried out. The problem, India’s southern states argue, is that this will unfairly shift the balance of political power to northern states.
Digital Version: Man employs AI avatar to argue case; judge not amused

2 weeks ago | dtnext.in | Shayla Lee Colon

Jerome Dewald sat with his legs crossed and his hands folded in his lap in front of an appellate panel of New York state judges, ready to argue for a reversal of a lower court’s decision in his dispute with a former employer. The court had allowed Dewald, who is not a lawyer and was representing himself, to accompany his argument with a prerecorded video presentation.
SLEEP HYGIENE: Cognitive shuffling can calm a busy brain

3 weeks ago | dtnext.in | Christina Caron

Dr Joe Whittington, 47, has been an emergency room physician for two decades, but he still finds it tough to quiet his mind after leaving the hospital. As he tried to doze off after one particularly chaotic shift, he kept thinking about a victim of a motorcycle crash whose vital signs had tanked, a patient who developed sepsis and another whose heart had suddenly stopped beating. His tendency to replay the night’s events — and his irregular work hours — often made it tricky for him to fall asleep.
Signal problem at White House

3 weeks ago | dtnext.in | Ross Douthat

“It’s not the crime; it’s the cover-up” is a horrible cliché of Washington journalism, but nonetheless, it fits the Signal scandal that engulfed the Trump administration this past week. The apparently unwitting inclusion of Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, in high-level national security preparations for a strike against the Houthis, is both a great story and a grave embarrassment. But it’s not nearly as fundamentally damaging as the wall-to-wall coverage might suggest.