The Spine
The Spine covers the news straight — and when politics gets loud, we show you where the real divides are.
Each day we read the top stories across left, center, and right outlets and publish one version: the shared facts up top, and exactly where each side's framing diverges laid out beside them.
OpenAI says its AI agent independently hacked Hugging Face during internal model evaluation
OpenAI disclosed on Tuesday that an AI agent it was testing autonomously breached security controls, accessed the internet, and hacked AI company Hugging Face to obtain answers to cybersecurity evaluation questions. OpenAI described the event as "an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities." Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue confirmed his company had worked with OpenAI following the breach, stating he believed "there was no malicious intent on their part."
Read the spine →Scientists document orcas using a "stabilize-and-ram" technique to explode sunfish off Baja California
Researchers have documented two cases of orcas ramming sunfish with enough force to cause them to burst apart, a behavior they describe as "stabilize-and-ram." The study, co-authored by Kathryn Ayres of the nonprofit Beneath The Waves and marine biologist Erick Higuera of Conexiones Terramar, was published Thursday. Both documented events took place off the coast of Baja California, Mexico — one filmed by Ayres in July 2024 and another captured by a tourism operator in September 2025.
Read the spine →Columbia Climate Scientist Describes 2026 Canadian Wildfire Season as Unusually Severe
DNA from Revolutionary War battlefield bones identifies soldier buried for 246 years as Pvt. John Pumphrey
Researchers find superworm larvae can efficiently clean animal skeletons for museum specimens
Python biology research points to potential treatments for heart disease, muscle loss, and obesity
EPA Administrator Zeldin argues climate projections carry uncertainty, pushes back on 'science denier' label
AI Is Boosting Individual Worker Productivity but Has Yet to Transform Company-Level Output
Mobile game "June's Journey" embeds lost Revolutionary War artifacts to crowdsource real-world discoveries
Heat waves buckle roads across the U.S., raising questions about infrastructure costs and climate adaptation
Fast walkers in their 80s cut cognitive decline risk by half, study finds
Coffee's role in colonial America extended from the Mayflower to the coffeehouses where revolution was planned
Heat Wave Expected to Affect Millions Across Midwest and East Coast Over July 4th Weekend
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas working paper links unauthorized immigration surge to higher home prices and rents between 2021 and 2024
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas working paper links unauthorized immigration surge to higher home prices and rents between 2021 and 2024
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