Day: January 29, 2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to face the Senate for a two-day confirmation hearing beginning Wednesday in a bid to become the leader of the Department of Health and Human Services.

President-elect Donald Trump‘s pick for secretary of the nation’s top health agency, Kennedy has been a controversial choice to head the HHS, which oversees agencies handling food and drug safety, disease epidemics and health insurance. Kennedy, 71, has faced pushback over his promotion of unfounded claims about vaccines and some have questioned his views on abortion.

Kennedy is set to testify in Senate hearings Wednesday and Thursday, but just one of those committees will vote to determine if his nomination goes before the full Senate for a vote.

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American service personnel have been told that relying on the Chinese-developed AI model raises security and ethical concerns

The US Navy has barred its sailors from using the artificial intelligence model from the Chinese company DeepSeek, CNBC reported on Tuesday.

In an email sent to service personnel on Friday, the Navy warned that DeepSeek’s R1 model had been forbidden “for any work-related tasks or personal use.”

The Chinese AI should be avoided because of the “potential security and ethical concerns associated with the model’s origin and usage,” the message explained.

The Hangzhou-based start-up DeepSeek released its AI Assistant app earlier this month, and by this week it had become the most downloaded free app on the US Apple App Store, surpassing its American rival, OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Later in the day, a US Navy spokesperson confirmed the authenticity of the email to CNBC.

US Navy bans DeepSeek, citing national security concerns.

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The Smolensk Region has come under a mass drone attack, according to the regional leader

Multiple Ukrainian drones have targeted civilian infrastructure in Russia’s Smolensk Region, and at least one unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was reportedly intercepted near a nuclear power facility, regional Governor Vasily Anokhin said on Wednesday morning.

Russian air defense and electronic warfare systems engaged several hostile targets during a “mass drone attack” on civilian facilities across different districts of the Smolensk Region, Anokhin wrote on Telegram.

“According to preliminary information, one of the drones was shot down during an attempted attack on a nuclear power facility,” Anokhin stated, without naming the facility. Some reports indicate that debris fell near the Smolenskaya Nuclear Power Plant.

Kiev attempted to target Russian nuclear facility – governor

The Smolensk Region has come under a mass drone attack, according to the regional leader

Multiple Ukrainian drones have targeted civilian infrastructure in Russia’s Smolensk Region, and at least one unmanned aerial… pic.twitter.com/3yJOS19WdL

— Mark Brewer (@theapril29th) January 29, 2025

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