“Please” and “Thank you” to ChatGPT: Small words, big costs Recently Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, made headlines when he acknowledged that courteously saying “please” and “thank you” to AI…

Core thesis. Across these papers, Infoton proposes that today’s computing model wastes vast amounts of energy because the byte/bit abstraction expends power on “empty” states (zeros) and on mathematically inefficient…

A Louisiana family is preparing to file a federal lawsuit against the Lafourche Parish School District after a 13-year-old girl was expelled for hitting a male classmate she says created…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The U.S. Mint in Philadelphia struck its final circulating penny Wednesday, officially ending the nation’s longest-running coin denomination after more than 230 years of production. President Donald…

The House Oversight Committee’s Democratic members on Wednesday released several previously unseen emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s personal correspondence, drawing renewed public attention to his alleged network of influence and his…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the appeal of Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the…

Visa and Mastercard have agreed to a revised $38 billion settlement with U.S. merchants, aiming to resolve a two-decade antitrust dispute over so-called swipe fees—charges businesses pay every time customers…

The Trump administration returned to the Supreme Court seeking to keep full November SNAP payments frozen during the shutdown, despite multiple lower-court rulings directing the government to pay full benefits.…

On November 10, 2025, Trump issued “full, complete and unconditional” pardons to at least 77 individuals tied to his effort to overturn the 2020 election results, including prominent allies such…

On Friday, U.S. airlines began canceling hundreds of flights after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered a phased reduction in domestic flight capacity due to a worsening air traffic controller…