A faked AI-generated image of an explosion near the Pentagon on May 22 actually moved the stock market. While it may be the first AI image to do so, it’s not the first time fake news has led to serious financial damages. Here are five times fake reports caused real dips in the stock market…

The United States has reportedly reached a “confidential agreement” with South Korea to coordinate the transfer of hundreds of thousands of artillery rounds to Ukraine. According to the Wall Street Journal, South Korea will deliver the rounds to the U.S., who will in turn bring them to Ukraine, a move aimed at supplying Kyiv for its…

China has a new ambassador to the United States. His name is Xie Feng. He spent time in Washington earlier in his career, and was most recently the vice foreign minister in charge of overseeing policy toward the U.S. Both China and the U.S. hope Xie’s experience will help improve diplomatic relations between the two…

According to war game simulations run by a team of Chinese military planners, hypersonic weapons would destroy the largest and most expensive vessel in the U.S. Navy with “certainty.” In a series of more than 20 digitally simulated battles, Chinese forces sank the USS Gerald R. Ford and its accompanying carrier battle group using a…

The FBI should never have launched a full investigation into collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election, according to special counsel John Durham in a report compiled over three years and released on May 15. In the report, Durham wrote, “We conclude that the [Justice] Department and FBI failed to uphold their…