A federal court in Oakland, California, has become a new trial of the century. There, the case of Elon Musk against Sam Altman is being heard over the dispute about the existential meaning of OpenAI, the company that popularized the use of artificial intelligence with ChatGPT just over three years ago, an oral hearing that has the potential to reconfigure the AI industry.
French mountain guides Mathéo Jacquemoud (35 years old) and Samuel Equy (29 years old) set a new speed record this Saturday for the round trip between Chamonix and the summit of Mont Blanc, at an altitude of 4,806 meters. The duo completed the route on foot and on skis in 4 hours, 41 minutes, and 24 seconds, improving by two minutes the record held by Italian William Boffelli since the end of May 2025.
The U.S. Department of Justice has secured a second indictment from a grand jury against former FBI Director James Comey, this time for an Instagram post that was criticized by allies of President Donald Trump, according to media reports this Tuesday.
The United States Department of State is preparing to launch new exclusive and limited passports featuring the image of US President Donald Trump, in addition to his signature in golden letters.
Junts inflicted a double defeat of enormous political significance on the Government in Congress this Tuesday by joining its votes with those of PP and Vox to overturn, with only a few minutes’ separation, two of the most sensitive initiatives of the legislature. These were the housing decree promoted by Sumar and the investment consortium agreed between ERC and the PSC to strengthen the Generalitat’s participation in state investments in Catalonia. The setback hits the coalition hard on the eve of the Andalusian campaign, with polls already very adverse for the left against Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla’s PP, which aims to revalidate its absolute majority.
Thousands of drones, missiles, and sea mines have disrupted the perfect oil and gas export business that the Persian Gulf enjoyed, which seeks to recalibrate its alliances while the vital Strait of Hormuz remains blocked by the United States and Iran.
When the National Court judge Manuel García Castellón concluded the investigation into Operation Kitchen, he put in black and white that “dysfunctions and irregularities in the management and control” of the reserved funds were evident, which had led to the financing of the “intrinsically illegal police operation” [to steal documentation from the former treasurer of the Popular Party Luis Bárcenas that could affect the party].
Rosa Peral, the media-savvy inmate protagonist of the Urban Guard crime, allegedly devised a plan to assault one of the prison officials who guarded her module, according to Diari de Tarragona and confirmed by La Vanguardia.
The Minister of Education and Vocational Training, Esther Niubó, ruled out this Tuesday that the pilot plan to deploy six plainclothes police officers in Catalan schools to reduce conflicts is due to “security problems” in the educational centers of the territory.
A team of 21 Sherpas has finished equipping, this morning, a route through the Khumbu Icefall to Everest Camp 1 which, according to news from Nepal, avoids exposing expedition members to the serac. In this way, the more than 400 people from all over the world, and a similar number of Sherpas, could begin acclimatization rounds in the coming days, ascending to the high camps as they are set up. The news has been received as a balm by the companies and their clients, after days of tension and nervousness due to the threat of the unstable ice mass, in the middle of high season.