Houthi missiles strike Riyadh's airport two days running
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- Good morning, and welcome to Hark News. Here's what the world got up to while you slept. First, the weather in New York. A high of 68 and a low of 54, with cloudy skies.
- The Houthis hit Saudi Arabia's main international airport twice on consecutive days, killing at least 12 people in what was the kingdom's deadliest attack in more than a decade. The rebels then told airlines and travelers to stay away from Saudi airports entirely, calling them a theatre of operations.
- A genuinely ugly weekend for transatlantic unity. Trump lifted sanctions on Russian oil, announced an "energy ceasefire" that neither side confirmed, called for Zelenskyy to be replaced, and per the Financial Times his officials threatened to block new weapons to Kyiv unless Ukraine stops hitting Russian refineries.
- The Justice Department is investigating whether ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC violated antitrust law when they briefly suspended pooled White House coverage after Trump banned several outlets. DOJ spokesperson Emily Covington framed the pause as a group boycott among commercial competitors, which can breach the Sherman Act.
- Pope Leo XIV told the crowd in St Peter's Square that doctors found a localized nodule on his lung, and he's going in for surgery to remove it.
- Hollywood's monster of the moment wears a founder's hoodie. Axios counts four films over the next two months built around Silicon Valley figures, Aaron Sorkin's Zuckerberg sequel, a four-hour Elon Musk documentary that drew legal threats from Musk's own team, an Elizabeth Holmes film, and a Sam Altman drama opening Christmas Day.
- Indian authorities released three leaders of the satirical Cockroach Janta Party on condition of no breach of peace for a year, after security forces detained thousands during youth-led protests over what demonstrators call a politically motivated purge of voter rolls benefiting Narendra Modi's party. The satirical outfit already forced the education minister's resignation in July.
- Christa Pike was discharged from the hospital and returned to prison, her lawyers said, ten days after Tennessee failed to execute her following two doses of a lethal drug. Governor Bill Lee canceled the state's final scheduled execution of 2026, and corrections commissioner Frank Strada resigned.
- The reopened investigation into alleged sexual assault by Cornell students now has two reviews running: New York Governor Kathy Hochul named Attorney General Letitia James special prosecutor, and Cornell tapped former acting US attorney general Sally Yates to lead an independent look at the school's handling.
- Google tested its medical chatbot AMIE with 98 patients before urgent-care appointments, having them describe symptoms over text so doctors walked in with a summary. Google says the doctor's eventual diagnosis appeared on AMIE's list of possibilities 90% of the time, with physicians monitoring every chat and supervisors catching one hallucination.
- OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens was meant to steer young users away from harmful content, but a Common Sense Media review found most of its protections didn't hold. Testers ran adolescent accounts through prompts about self-harm, disordered eating, psychosis and flirty role-play. Some got blocked, but crisis referrals and parent alerts largely never fired.
- Canberra will introduce its Duty of Digital Care bill Thursday, putting new responsibilities on tech companies for online harms, and communications minister Anika Wells told POLITICO she won't bow to US objections about free speech. Her line about algorithms pushing eating disorder content to a 14-year-old is the argument in one sentence.
- A Ukrainian drone attack knocked a Russian data center offline Sunday, part of a pattern of strikes on digital infrastructure from both sides that triggers outages far beyond the battlefield. Iranian strikes hit facilities in Bahrain and the UAE earlier this year.
- A Semafor analysis of closed captions preserved by the Internet Archive found more than half of data center mentions on Fox News over two years left viewers with a favorable impression, versus under 10% on CNN and 5% on MS NOW. Anthropic and OpenAI models scored each mention with the network name stripped out.
- The Neuron notes that Norway has floated a time-limited suspension on AI-powered glasses in some public spots, seaside, parks and school grounds included, over worries that wearers could quietly film people. It's only a proposal so far, not a law.
- There's a Financial Times report, carried in Semafor, that Nvidia has been discussing either buying Reflection AI or putting more money into it, a young American firm known for its open-weight models.
- Wall Street has noticed quantum computing, and the capital is compounding. The Commerce Department funneled $2 billion into nine firms including IBM and Rigetti for small stakes, enterprise clients spent more on quantum than governments did for the first time, and IonQ shares are up more than 300% since late 2024.
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