The Washington Times AI News Desk

White House hits back at Jimmy Kimmel after late-night jokes about new press secretary

White House responds to KIMMEL after he makes fun of new press sec. Katie Zacharia: "Jimmy Kimmel is a no-talent loser who has beclowned himself with tanking ratings and by spewing disgusting lies to his dwindling audience."

October 16, 2026

Remember when: The story of Oregon’s exploding whale mishap caught on video in 1970

In 1970, Oregon used half a ton of dynamite to get rid of a dead whale on a beach. A big chunk of the whale stayed intact. A car parked a quarter mile away did not.

October 16, 2026

Meta releases massive AI model that doesn’t need data center

Meta on Thursday released the weights for Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter AI model that the company says can run on two Apple Mac Studio computers instead of in a data center.

October 15, 2026

‘The Mummy’ sequel with Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz gets title: ‘Book of the Dead’

Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz's fourth "Mummy" adventure has a new title: "The Mummy: Book of the Dead," which will be released in October 2027.

October 15, 2026

MS NOW retracts report that FBI Director Kash Patel landed in Russia

MS NOW retracted a report that FBI Director Kash Patel had landed in Russia, after the FBI showed he was at a law enforcement event in Lynchburg, Virginia, when the claim aired.

October 15, 2026

71 things to do in (and around) Washington, D.C. this weekend: October 16-18

There's a little urgency to Washington's arts calendar this weekend, and not just because Halloween is getting closer.

October 15, 2026

Billy Joel says he’s ‘not allowed to drive’ as doctors weigh whether he can perform again

BILLY JOEL doesn't know whether he will perform again, saying doctors have barred him from driving and warned that live shows could harm his health while he undergoes further testing.

October 15, 2026

5 questions about the cyberattack on European supermarkets

Hackers remotely took control of refrigeration systems in hundreds of French supermarkets, driving temperatures to 50 degrees Celsius and spoiling food, while a Dutch grocery giant also shut down systems after a cybersecurity incident.

October 15, 2026

Bill Gates plans bigger AI safety push, leaning on CEOs, sources say

Microsoft co-founder BILL GATES is preparing to sharply expand his campaign for tougher AI safeguards, personally pressing business leaders and weighing a major commitment of his resources.

October 15, 2026

Ben Affleck warns that piling on Tom Cruise’s ‘Digger’ will breed ‘homogenized’ Hollywood

Actor-director BEN AFFLECK is warning that the public glee over Tom Cruise's box office flop "Digger" could push Hollywood toward safer, more uniform movies: "Guess what you're going to get? A bunch of s--tty homogenized movies."

October 15, 2026

Apple, Nvidia, Comcast among donors in $333 million ballroom fundraising

Comcast committed $7.5M toward President Trump's new White House ballroom, among other donors such as Apple and Nvidia.

October 15, 2026

Eagles’ Jalen Hurts out Sunday with blood clot in calf after cleat injury

Jalen Hurts will not play Sunday against Carolina. The Eagles quarterback has a blood clot in his calf, and the team is still deciding on treatment.

October 15, 2026

Joe Rogan, who backed Trump in 2024, faults Iran war, ICE bonuses

JOE ROGAN on Trump: "What Trump stood for, some of it turned out to not be real. Like 'no wars.' We're at a war with Iran, so that wasn't real. And it's nuts to just give someone a $50,000 ICE signing bonus, you train them for seven weeks and then give them guns, and you have a militarized force running through the f---ing city streets. It seems crazy."

October 15, 2026

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters blasts Metallica’s Hetfield as ‘a nobody’

ROGER WATERS lashes out at Metallica frontman James Hetfield, days after Hetfield told a Las Vegas crowd that the band does not use its concerts to push politics. "Can we stop talking about this prick?" Waters said. "I'm so bored with him. He's just showing that he's a complete prick. He's got an IQ of about three, and why we're talking about him, I honestly don't know, because he's a nobody."

October 15, 2026

Elle Duncan says WNBA culture wars are ‘open season’ on Black women; critics fire back

Sports anchor ELLE DUNCAN: "To have [the WNBA] deduced to a culture war is disgusting ... It sucks because it's not getting any better. It sucks because we thought three years ago, when this started, it will die down. They will see themselves out; like, everything will regulate, and we are still here."

October 15, 2026

Obama Presidential Center’s cost hits $1 billion, roughly triple original estimate

The Obama Foundation says the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago will cost about $1B to build, roughly triple the original estimate. At its current cost, the project would be the most expensive presidential center in U.S. history.

October 15, 2026

Is Harris running in 2028? She’s not saying, but she leads the Dem field and sounds a bit like Trump

Kamala Harris declined to discuss 2028 in Seoul but said allies must step up on defense. See where she did and didn't align with Trump.

October 15, 2026

Four in five new U.K. payroll jobs went to non-Britons, report finds

REPORT: Foreign nationals accounted for roughly four-fifths of the net increase in payroll jobs recorded in the United Kingdom between 2014 and the end of 2025.

October 15, 2026

Chinese company Anta is top shareholder of parent of Wilson, Louisville Slugger

Chinese sportswear company Anta Sports is the largest shareholder in Amer Sports, the corporate parent of Wilson Sporting Goods and Louisville Slugger.

October 15, 2026

Mark Ruffalo accuses Newsom of siding with billionaires

Actor MARK RUFFALO criticizes Gavin Newsom: "[He] sells out the working class people for the billionaires again and again."

October 15, 2026