OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand Tuesday in Elon Musk’s high-profile lawsuit against Altman’s company. Altman defended the company against Musk’s allegations that OpenAI betrayed its founding mission by becoming a for-profit entity. New York Times tech reporter Natallie Rocha joins CBS News to discuss.
Washington — As inflation rose to its highest rate in years and CBS News polling shows high prices at the pump are causing financial strain for many Americans, President Trump told reporters Tuesday, “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation” as a motivation for negotiations with Iranand said he is only concerned with preventing Iran …
CANNES, France (AP) — The 79th Cannes Film Festival launched on Tuesday, marking the start of 12 days of nonstop premieres that will culminate May 23 with the presentation of the prestigious Palme d’Or. Here are five things that happened on Cannes’ opening day: Peter Jackson received an honorary Palme d’Or The French Riviera festival …
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: The Washington Post on Trump’s second tariff defeat The Trump administration is trying to pick up the pieces of its global tariff agenda after a major Supreme Court rebuke this term. That might not be as easy as administration officials hoped, judging by Thursday’s ruling …
BISHKEK, May 12 (Reuters) – Kyrgyzstan authorities have charged eight people, including powerful ex-security chief Kamchybek Tashiev, with plotting to seize power from President Sadyr Japarov, who has consolidated power in the historically volatile central Asian country. Tashiev had ruled the former Soviet republic of 7 million in a de facto tandem with Japarov since …
Watch: Van Hollen and Patel spar over FBI firings – CBS News Watch CBS News Sen. Chris Van Hollen and FBI director Kash Patel had a second tense exchange Tuesday during Patel’s testimony before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, this time over the firing of FBI agents.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Sexual violence was systematic, widespread and integral to the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks and their aftermath, a new report by an Israeli nonprofit has found. The report, titled “Silenced No More,” was published Tuesday by the Civil Commission, an independent group that documents and researches gender-based violence by Hamas after …
May 12 (Reuters) – Iran’s foreign ministry on Tuesday condemned Kuwait’s arrest of four people it said were affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, saying they were on maritime patrol and entered the Gulf country’s territorial waters due to “disruption in their navigation.” The ministry rejected Kuwait’s statements saying that Iran was planning “hostile actions” against …
The global oil supply shock stemming from the Iran was is scorching U.S. motorists and other consumers, new federal data makes clear. Higher energy prices accounted for 40% of the total jump in inflation in April, when the Consumer Price Index surged at an annual rate of 3.8% — the fastest increase in nearly three …
Nearly one in four Americans says they think the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last month was staged, according to a new survey. It highlights the degree to which people who are increasingly mistrustful of institutions turn to conspiracy theories. The person detained in the April 25 attack, Cole Tomas Allen, pleaded not …