President-elect Donald Trump says Tom Homan, his former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, will serve as "border czar" in his incoming administration.

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The Lone Star State is home to millions of undocumented residents and members of mixed-status families critical to the state’s economic success, yet Texas leaders are cheering on Trump anyway.

Dropbox is letting go 20% of its workforce as the cloud company undergoes what CEO Drew Houston calls a “transitional period.” In a letter to staff, Houston said that the reduction in headcount would impact 528 people. “As CEO, I take full responsibility…

CBS News polling has shown immigration policy to be been one of the top issues for voters this election cycle. Former President Donald Trump says he plans to address it by conducting the largest mass deportation in U.S. history if reelected. CBS News immigration and politics reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez has more on what we know about Trump's mass deportation plans and how he intends to carry them out.

Saudi Aramco’s venture arm has earmarked $100 million to invest in artificial intelligence startups as it looks to accelerate Saudi Arabia’s push to become a more competitive force in global AI.

Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay, according to research released Friday.

Google-funded Character.AI added guardrails, but grieving mom wants a recall.

Hurricane Oscar made landfall on Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas and is forecast to strike in eastern Cuba on Sunday afternoon, the US National Hurricane Center said.

AI search engine Perplexity is in fundraising talks and hopes to raise around $500 million at an $8 billion valuation, according to the Wall Street Journal. If a deal happens with those terms, it would more than double Perplexity’s valuation from its $3…

Midjourney is planning to release an upgraded web tool that’ll let users edit any uploaded images from the web using Midjourney’s generative AI. The upgraded tool, which Midjourney CEO David Holtz said will be released “early next week,” will also allow…

Tropical Storm Nadine neared Belize with flooding rains, while a second system, Oscar, spun up near the Turks and Caicos Islands, sparking warnings across Cuba and the Bahamas.

Anthropic, the AI vendor second in size only to OpenAI, has a powerful family of generative AI models called Claude. These models can perform a range of tasks, from captioning images and writing emails to solving math and coding challenges. With…

The ubiquitous convenience store owed its recent revenue drops to inflation, declining cigarette sales and a shift in palates toward fresh food and specialty drinks.

Immigration remains at the forefront of the 2024 presidential election, with both candidates taking a tougher stance. Harris supports bipartisan legislation scuttled earlier this year by Trump's oppos...

ByteDance’s TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees, mainly in Malaysia, according to Reuters. The cuts come as the social network is increasingly turning to AI for content moderation. Although TikTok did not provide the exact number, it said that less…

France wants faster implementation of new EU migration rules, interior minister says

AI is spamming up job applications. 404 Media’s Jason Koebler writes about how he used a free tool, AI Hawk, to apply for 17 jobs in an hour while working a restaurant shift — only stopping when he’d reached 2,843. The tool automatically entered Koebler’s…

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The storm is expected to produce a devasting surge along Florida’s west coast, which could include the Tampa Bay area. Some decrease in strength is forecast ahead of landfall.

A highly skilled group of Chinese government-linked hackers has in the last several months infiltrated multiple US telecommunications firms in a likely search for sensitive information bearing on nati...

Two people displayed symptoms of the Marburg virus, which has a mortality rate of 88 percent.

At Williamsburg Pizza in New York, there is only one cryptocurrency you can use to pay for your pie: Dogecoin.