Palantir cofounder says everything's going to be fine with AI: 'We're on top of it'

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Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale says everything is going to be fine.

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Everything's fine! Take it from the cofounder of Palantir.

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Donald Trump doubles down on support for united Ireland

Donald Trump has reiterated his support for Irish unification and brushed off Andy Burnham’s opposition to a referendum. “Everybody says that. Then things happen,” the US president said on Sunday of the British prime minister’s response.

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10 Rolls-Royces That Sold For Eye-Watering Prices At Auction - Jalopnik

A silver Rolls-Royce hood ornament sticks out above a silver grill and inlaid "RR" badge.

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There are expensive cars, and then there's a Rolls-Royce crossing an auction block with enough money attached to buy not just a house, but the kind of house that people who buy a Rolls-Royce at auction would consider. For this list, though, we're keeping the definition simple: these are cars that actually sold at public auction, not modern one-offs with enormous reported price tags, private transactions, or cars that merely carried ambitious estimates.

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7 Tips For Safely Walking Along A Highway (Especially At Night) - Jalopnik

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Probably the best advice anyone can give about walking along a busy highway, especially at night, is not to do it. That goes double for highways that are interstates or freeways. It's best to find an alternate route, preferably a quieter street or road with a sidewalk. But for the times when it may be unavoidable, and you decide that you have to walk along a highway, it's good to be aware of the risks involved.

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YouTuber runs onto the stage at Roblox Developers Conference shouting 'We deserve better,' gets tackled and ejected from show

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Over the last few days, Roblox's 2026 Developers Conference was held in San Jose, California, and one of Roblox CEO David Baszucki's on-stage introduction's hit something of a hitch. Roblox YouTuber Mathieo took to the stage shouting, "We deserve better, don't we deserve better," while revealing a shirt that read "Kids deserve better," until he was quickly tackled and escorted out.

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Kimi Antonelli takes maiden Spanish Grand Prix win that ‘Lando deserved’.

The 20-year-old Italian has extended his championship lead to 81 points after 14 rounds.

Kimi Antonelli has moved a mighty step closer to the Formula One title after winning the first Spanish Grand Prix held at Madrid’s new circuit with a slice of luck on the side.

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After more than 400 hours of Valheim in early access, I love the journey from naked adventurer to godly Viking now more than ever

Valheim - A vikining standing half naked in the grass
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Play This Right Now

Welcome to Play This Right Now, the site version of our weekly newsletter in which we celebrate a new game, update, or DLC that we think is well worth checking out. You can subscribe to the newsletter at the link if you want to get our thoughts about a new videogame happening direct to your inbox every Thursday.

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My partner and I split our lives between the US and Canada — and have no plans to pick just one place

The writer and her partner hold hands and pose in front of an outdoor stage in the grass in Chicago.

I feel like I can enjoy the best parts of the US and Canada.

Catherine Collins

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‘Union Town’ Review: Barbara Kopple’s Labor Rights Documentary Is Both Aptly Angry and Optimistically Community-Minded

Across the harrowing financial realities of late capitalism, an indisputable global fact is the injustices faced by countless workers who deliver everything we have come to rely on, from food orders to Amazon purchases. Despite their hard work under unideal, sometimes even unsafe conditions, it’s no secret that delivery staff have been barely compensated with dignified wages, a topic that Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple tackles in her fiery documentary “Union Town.” Focused on a variety of recent legal cases unfolding in New York, Kopple’s film is both aptly angry and optimistically community-minded in charting the fight of several Big Apple workforce groups: delivery staff, union leaders, Teamsters and others trying to bring about meaningful change to an increasingly corrupt system that leaves these hourly workers behind.

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‘Angh’ Cinematographer on How He Captured the Film’s Challenging Nighttime Sequences

Cinematographer Adam Pietkiewicz has been dealing with patchy internet over the past few days. He and his crew have been sailing on the Baltic Sea and have finally docked at an undisclosed location in northeastern Poland. In a few weeks, Pietkiewicz will attend the Toronto International Film Festival to accept the Variety TIFF Artisan Award for his work on the film “Angh,” about the last surviving chief of a village in India near the Burma border in the 1960s. While he has a number of shorts under his belt, this is only his second feature film.

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