August 11 2026 News

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out a vision Monday of what he said artificial intelligence can do for the world, imagining a future where everyone has their own, all-knowing AI agent that strives to improve all aspects of their lives. Zuckerberg detailed his ambitions for the technology in a 6,500-word essay published online, where he also outlined why he favors open-source AI technology, in which developers make key components accessible for anyone to examine, modify, and build upon.

Colombia has recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, the country’s Foreign Ministry announced on Monday. In a statement released on X/Twitter, the ministry stated that it recognizes Israeli control over the area as “an essential component of its national defense and its ability to protect and safeguard its citizens.”

Rescue workers and volunteers rushed to clear rubble as they searched for survivors in Colombia early Tuesday after the country was struck by its strongest earthquake on record. At least 169 people died and more than 600 were injured in the earthquake, according to a tally released Tuesday by the Association of Mayors. By Monday night, more than 2,700 people had been reported missing. Many families posted information about loved ones online, hoping for information about their fate. The 7.4-magnitude quake struck cities across Colombia’s western region shortly after 7:30 a.m. local time Monday, sending panicked residents onto the streets.

A far-left organization in Colombia has issued threats of an uprising following Monday’s massive earthquake in the nation. Through a series of statements posted on its website, the left-wing National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla organization is calling on the Colombian people to participate in a “protest” and “insurrection” against the current administration under Abelardo de la Espriella, the conservative president who took office on Friday. De la Espriella is recognized for his aggressive stance toward illegal armed organizations operating within the country, having previously stated they must surrender or be designated “military targets.”

Simeon Chandra, a 35-year-old driver, lost his car insurance after his insurer objected to two “Jesus loves you” phrases written in tape along the side of his vehicle. He warns that the decision pushes Christian expression to the margins of public life. British car insurance provider GoSkippy told him it had “declined the modification” and demanded photographic evidence that the stickers had been removed, according to the Christian Legal Centre, which is helping support his case.

Italian archaeologists have discovered a previously unidentified, nearly 4,000-year-old “Tomb of the Giants,” or “Giant’s Tomb,” at Carrarzu Iddia in central-western Sardinia. The researchers behind the historic discovery said the new structure is part of a larger group of ancient, ‘enigmatic’ burial complexes on the island known as Giant’s Tombs erected by the Nuragic civilization as collective burial sites beginning around 1800 B.C. due to their megalithic structure.

In the latest sign of the bot takeover, Time magazine has begun serving ads specifically aimed at AI agents. As Digiday reports, it’s an effort to adapt to a new reality governed by the tech. Their promise to would-be clients: by optimizing ads for the bots, brands could be made more visible to AI chatbots and show up in more responses. The publication started stripping down its webpages last month from HTML to markdown — text-only versions, which live in parallel to the user-facing pages — that are easier for AI agents to ingest. Alongside these new pages, the company is using AI to generate agent ads, which are formatted as FAQs that include a brand’s information and messaging, according to Digiday, and are labeled as “sponsored content.”

In an exclusive interview published Friday on Channel 12 News, Marla Maples, Donald Trump’s second ex-wife, revealed intimate details about the president’s spiritual practices, disclosing that Trump carries mystical Jewish texts with him at all times. “He carries with him the Book of Pinchas, the Book of Zohar, in Aramaic. He puts it over his heart, inside, for protection and healing,” Maples told interviewer Yonatan Reguer. The Zohar is the foundational text of Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism, and Pinchas is the specific portion of the Torah addressed in mystical tradition.

NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the man who replaced the Fauci-Collins machine, has unloaded on Anthony Fauci for privately fretting about miscarriage risks from the COVID shots while publicly telling pregnant women everything was fine. Newly released texts from Fauci’s government phone, dumped by Sens. Ron Johnson and Rand Paul, show the former NIAID chief warning colleagues in January 2021 that the cytokine storm and fever from the second dose of the mRNA vaccine “theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.” Days later, Fauci was on a JAMA livestream claiming the FDA had found “thus far no red flags” for pregnant women.