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James Earl Jones’s family allowed a “Fortnite” version of Darth Vader to use his voice. They probably didn’t expect it to start swearing at players.”Fortnite” added the Darth Vader character to the game on Friday. The character uses conversational AI to respond to questions from players, “Fortnite” maker Epic Games said in a blog post. Once a player recruits Darth Vader to their team, they can use a special button to let anyone on the team ask him questions.”Ask him all your pressing questions about the Force, the Galactic Empire… or you know, a good strat for the last Storm…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Transit’s train engineers reached a tentative deal Sunday to end their three-day strike that had halted service for some 100,000 daily riders, including routes to Newark airport and across the Hudson River to New York City. The union said its members would return to work on Tuesday, when trains would resume their regular schedules. The walkout that began Friday was the state’s first transit strike in over 40 years, forcing people who normally rely on New Jersey Transit to take buses, cars, taxis and boats instead or consider staying home. The main sticking point…

(Bloomberg) – The United Arab Emirates and Exxon Mobil Corp. agreed to expand the nation’s oil production capacity.  Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. will work with Exxon to boost capacity at the offshore Upper Zakum field, the UAE company said in a statement Friday. The site, where Japan’s Inpex Corp. is also a partner, currently can produce more than 1 million bpd. ADNOC didn’t specify the new target. Increasing capacity is a touchy subject for the UAE and its partners in OPEC+, which puts limits on output. The nation’s current cutbacks as part of OPEC+ policy leave some…

The Kingdom of Denmark took over the chairmanship of the Arctic Council on May 12, 2025, not in quiet succession, but in the midst of one of the most troubled geopolitical climates the Arctic has seen in decades. In a move as symbolic as it is strategic, Greenland’s Foreign Minister, Vivian Motzfeldt, assumed the role, showing a theatrical shift in the internal dynamics of the Danish Realm and asserting Greenland’s rising diplomatic weight on the global stage. Once a unique forum of consensus in an increasingly fractured world, the Arctic Council now finds itself exposed to the same geopolitical winds…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation between Erez Druk, the founder of Freed AI, an AI assistant for clinicians, and his wife, Dr. Gabi Meckler, a family physician. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.Gabi MecklerWhen I was in residency, I really began to feel the weight of notes.I would stay in the hospital until midnight, writing notes. You’d come home and still have notes to do. They were constant — a fact of life. Some people suffer. Some even quit.One day, my husband, Erez, asked me what would make my life easier. I jokingly said,…

Estonia redirects maritime traffic to prevent future incidents after Russia’s detention of the Green Admire oil tanker.Russia has detained a Greek oil tanker sailing under the Liberian flag as it left the Estonian port of Sillamae on a previously agreed route through Russian waters, the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs says. In a statement published on Sunday, the ministry added that the vessel, the Green Admire, was undertaking a navigational route established in a deal between Russia, Estonia and Finland. The Baltic nation will redirect traffic to and from Sillamea exclusively through Estonian waters to prevent similar incidents in the…

President Donald Trump went to the Gulf this week and struck some deals that AI companies in Silicon Valley are excited about.Lawmakers, on the other hand, are less excited.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called those critics “naive” in an X post on Saturday.”This was an extremely smart thing for you all to do and i’m sorry naive people are giving you grief,” Altman said on X, responding to David Sacks, Trump’s AI czar and a former PayPal executive.In his own X post, Sacks said he was “genuinely perplexed” how anyone could see Trump’s AI deals in the Gulf as anything but…

Lives may be at risk if ministers proceed with cuts to England’s languishing canal network, experts have said.The climate crisis and a lack of funding means ageing assets could flood entire towns and villages, an investigation for the parliamentary magazine the House has found.The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), which provides a quarter of funding for the Canal and River Trust (CRT), is understood to be facing cuts at the June spending review. Government funding cuts of hundreds of millions of pounds to the CRT, which manages most of the UK’s inland waterways, are already in the…

Malaysia is committed to reducing petrol subsidies in the second half of the year and is refining its plan as US tariffs darken the economic outlook. The government “will continue to assess inputs and feedback in refining details” of its fuel subsidy revamp as it actively engages with a wide range of stakeholders, a spokesperson at the Ministry of Finance said in response to questions from Bloomberg News. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim in October said that the government would cut subsidies on the most popular gasoline in mid-2025, a move that’s expected to save the government 8 billion ringgit ($1.9…

LONDON, Ky. (AP) — Residents in Kentucky and Missouri sifted through damage in tornado-stricken neighborhoods and remained on edge Sunday for more severe weather ahead after storms swept through parts of the Midwest and South and killed more than two dozen people.Kentucky was hardest hit as a devastating tornado damaged hundreds of homes, tossed vehicles and left many homeless. At least 19 people were killed, most of them in southeastern Laurel County. Meteorologists predicted a fresh “multi-day” mix of dangerous weather conditions across the nation’s midsection starting Sunday with heavy rains, thunderstorms and the possibility of more tornadoes, according to…