Biden

A scion of the politically connected and wealthy Pritzker family who was slated to co-host a fundraiser for President Biden on Friday in Los Angeles was removed from invitations to the event after he was accused of unwanted sexual acts and sued for $25 million. Matthew Pritzker, 41, whose uncles started the Hyatt hotel chain, had been listed as a co-host on a November invite for Biden’s first fundraising appearance in Los Angeles since the end of the entertainment industry strikes. His cousin, Illinois Gov. J.B.…

Several groups mainly tackling climate change and disinformation said the Biden administration’s approach to artificial intelligence regulation does not respond to AI’s impact on the climate and how it can be used to spread disinformation. The groups sent a letter to the White House urging the Biden administration, including national climate advisor Ali Zaidi, to add more climate-centered policies in its AI executive order released earlier in October. Seventeen groups signed the letter, including Accountable Tech, Amazon…

In 2020, young voters broke turnout records — more than half of 18 to 29 year olds cast ballots, according to the U.S. Census Bureau — and those young voters broke, overwhelmingly, for Joe Biden. The question haunting Biden’s reelection campaign is whether that critical cohort of voters will show up again in 2024. According to a new survey from the Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, the campaign is right to be concerned.  The Harvard poll shows President Biden has a 15…

The Biden administration is no longer communicating with Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, about foreign election interference, the tech giant revealed in its quarterly threat report released Thursday.   Meta said the federal government stopped sharing information about foreign meddling efforts in July, the same month that a federal judge blocked administration officials from communicating with social media companies about content removal or restrictions. The ruling, which was later…

Voicemod, the real-time AI voice-changing app, is now letting anybody craft whatever kind of voice they want, though limited by a selection of preset baseline vocals.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedThe Voicemod app, first introduced last year, was a quaint program that let users modulate their vocals with AI based on a swathe of presets, such as “Morgan” to sound like professional life-narrator Morgan Freeman or “Mr. X” to seem like everybody’s (least) favorite Twitter owner if they too want to curse…

President Joe Biden issued a brief statement on Henry Kissinger‘s death on Thursday, a day after the former secretary of state died at the age of 100. “I’ll never forget the first time I met Dr. Kissinger. I was a young Senator, and he was Secretary of State —giving a briefing on the state of the world. Throughout our careers, we often disagreed. And often strongly,” Biden said in his statement. “But from that first briefing  — his fierce intellect and profound strategic focus was evident,” he continued.…

In a true American tradition, the First Lady is assigned with the responsibility of decorating the White House for the Holidays.As such, it is Jill Biden, the wife of US President Joe Biden, who has been tasked with the special job for the second year in a row.As a result, the 72-year-old educator unveiled on Monday (November 26) how she had transformed the president’s official residence with 98 Christmas trees, 72 wreaths, and 2.8 miles of ribbon.According to CNN, letters to Santa Claus have been installed to appear as…

Saturday Night Live opened with President Joe Biden (Mikey Day) welcoming “Chinese dignitary” Tian Tian (Bowen Yang), one of the three pandas that were transported from the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. to China earlier this month. “I’m honored to be here, but am I the only one that was surprised that the presidents of the two biggest economies in the world met, and everyone’s just like, ‘What’s up with the pandas?'” Yang said behind the presidential seal. “I mean, I get it. I’m hot, I’m smart, I’m alluringly…

Gather ‘round, weary shoppers, and rest with me for a moment beneath the veil of the celestial canopy, where stars twinkle like forgotten spells and the moon casts its silvery incantations upon the world. As the world around us transforms into a realm of holidays and merriment, I, a grizzled explorer of the online abyss, invite you to embark on a journey where the boundaries of conventional gifting are pushed to their limits.The Hunger Games Director Francis Lawrence on Adapting a PrequelIn a realm where memes and…

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Tesla CEO Elon Musk are some of the high-profile names who are expected join the dinner hosted for US President Joe Biden and…