Good morning. AstraZeneca’s AI strategy has moved well past the exploration phase as upskilling employees became a priority. The biopharmaceutical giant has now certified more than 17,000 of its employees in AI competencies, Aradhana Sarin, CFO of AstraZeneca, told me. The program mandates that all staff above a certain grade reach at least a silver-level…
OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman apologized to a Canadian community for failing to alert police about a mass shooter’s conversations with its chatbot. Authorities said Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, killed eight people including schoolchildren in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, before taking her own life in February. “I am deeply sorry that we did not alert…
WASHINGTON — President Trump was preparing to take the stage at the White House Correspondents’ Assn. dinner Saturday night, eager — by his own account — to “let it rip” before a room of Washington’s elite and reporters he has spent years calling the enemy of the people. Then shots were heard. Secret Service agents rushed him…
WASHINGTON — When families flocked to Yosemite National Park during their recent spring breaks, some met two-hour waits at the entrance gates. At a lakeside spot in the North Cascades in Washington state, there hasn’t been enough staff to open the visitors center. And in Death Valley, water was shut off at two campgrounds. National parks staff…
Tourist spending in Los Angeles fell for the first time since the pandemic last year as wildfires, ICE raids and trade tensions discouraged people from visiting. Direct travel spending in 2025 was slightly below the previous year in Los Angeles County, according to an economic impact report this week from Visit California. That’s a step…
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday that her government was never informed that CIA agents would be participating in the raid of a clandestine drug lab, an incident that comes amid growing tension between the U.S. and Mexico on how to battle cartels. According to sources familiar with the operation, the incident involved four…
Former Fox News host and ex-Trump advocate Tucker Carlson is feeling remorse for the role he and others played in publicly promoting Donald Trump as a candidate and as the president. “In very small ways, but in real ways, you and me and millions of people like us are the reason this is happening right…
HAVANA — A decade ago this spring, President Obama stepped off Air Force One at José Martí International Airport — the first time a U.S. leader had touched ground in Cuba since Fidel Castro’s communist revolution. More than half a century of Cold War hostilities were thawing. The U.S. had relaxed travel restrictions to the island, and…
Judge Troy Nunley was fed up. Federal immigration officials had once again flouted his authority by keeping a man locked up in a California City detention center after Nunley ordered him released. When he was finally set free, the man was booted onto the street with no passport, driver’s license or other personal effects. The…
The proprietor of Los Angeles’ legendary Clifton’s has given up on reopening the shuttered venue. It’s just too difficult to do business in downtown’s historic core, he says. Andrew Meieran bought Clifton’s on Broadway in 2010 and poured more than $14 million into repairs, renovations and upgrades, adding additional bar and restaurant spaces in the…