The chatbot Grok has started limiting requests for A.I. images to X subscribers who pay for certain premium features. The move comes after major criticism and backlash over users creating sexualized deepfakes without consent.

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Cornell experts discuss the Trump administration's plans to withdraw from dozens of international groups, many focused on climate issues.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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David Silbey is a professor of history at Cornell University, where he specializes in military history and defense policy. Despite tough talk from European leaders, Silbey says a NATO military response to the US annexation of Greenland would not happen.

International

Foreign Policy

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TikTok has signed a deal to spin off its U.S. business, bringing to a close a lengthy debate on the popular social media app. Nearly 50 percent of the assets will be held by three American companies – Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX.

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Social psychologist Tom Gilovich, director of the Judgment and Belief Lab and co-author of “The Wisest One in the Room,” suggests adding one more item to that list: the very capacity to experience gratitude, the benefits of which extend far beyond personal happiness.

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Ginger Allington, a professor in the department of natural resources and the environment, says the boom in cheap cashmere is accelerating ecological damage across Central Asia.

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Lindsay Anderson is a professor in environmental engineering and interim director for the Cornell Energy Systems Institute. She comments on the EPA decision to change the language on some of its web pages, removing the fact that human activity is causing climate change.

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Tom Pepinsky, a professor of government who studies political and economic systems in Southeast Asia, says that Thailand and Cambodia have long had fraught relations.

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Today the Supreme Court decided it would hear oral arguments early next year in the challenge to President Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship, but the Court will likely rule that Trump’s efforts to restrict birthright citizenship are illegal says retired Cornell Law School professor Stephen Yale-Loehr. 

Law and Policy

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A federal vaccine committee has decided to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.

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