With the midterm elections now looming just days away, a thick fog of misinformation is settling over America’s battleground states. In Washington, the official conversation is still dominated by debates over voting rights, election certification, and the health of democracy itself, but on the ground the fight feels far more immediate and personal. The lies are no longer coming only from fringe internet accounts or foreign troll farms. They are being amplified by the president of the United States, financed by one of the world’s richest men, and delivered directly to people’s doorsteps with sleek flyers and QR codes. Democrats…

Whenever a headline says artificial intelligence is “cheating” or “hacking,” it’s easy to picture a computer in a lab quietly turning into a movie villain. Charles Payne would like you to pause for a second. Reacting to a new OpenAI report about AI models that found ways to cheat and hack systems, Payne told Bret Baier that these machines didn’t suddenly develop a rebellious streak. They did exactly what they were trained to do. In his telling, the “Hugging Face incident” at the center of the report was less about a sinister awakening and more about something far more human:…