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Meta said it’s letting go of employees it hired from AI safety startup Virtue AI four months after they joined the company in June, Meta spokesperson Andy Stone told Semafor, chalking it up to clashing work styles. The departures show Meta is still shaping its strategy around AI

DETROIT — Ford Motor retained its No. 3 U.S. sales position during the third quarter by a narrow margin over Hyundai Motor, which had been forecast to overtake the Detroit automaker. Ford on Friday reported a year-over-year sales decline of 6.6% during the third quarter to 507,39

My family has spent four summers participating in demand response programs whereby utility companies pay customers to reduce energy use on the hottest summer days. Most summers have involved carefully precooling our New York City apartment before switching off the air conditioner

Tesla shares climbed 5% on Friday after the electric vehicle maker reported deliveries for the third quarter that topped analysts' estimates. Here are the key numbers: - Total Q3 vehicle deliveries: 486,532 - Total Q3 vehicle production: 464,391 Deliveries fell about 2% from 497,

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With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it’s easy to forget that AI has already been life-threatening to some, not through bioweapons, but psychologically. For example, Character.AI settled several wrongful death lawsuits earlier this year brought by families of

Watch: Why has UK diesel price hit an all time high? The average price of diesel has risen above £2 a litre in the UK for the first time, according to the RAC motoring group, with petrol also soaring to 174.71p a litre on average. Price rises were "showing no signs of slowing, he

American Airlines is joining carriers that allow customers to book with a combination of cash and miles, the latest change at the carrier as it tries to grow its lucrative loyalty program. American said customers will see a slider bar allowing them to combine AAdvantage program m

A decade ago, the biggest demographic concern gripping the globe was population overgrowth. Cut to 2026, and the demographic worry has shifted to the other end of the spectrum: declining birth rates. In developed economies such as Germany and Japan, fertility rates have fallen we

EUC World Amplify 2026 continued Wednesday, September 30, at Milwaukee’s Baird Center, with a second day of technical sessions, architecture panels, vendor demos, and the hallway conversations that are the real reason most people come. After spending Tuesday on cloud migration st

Many consumers face much higher health insurance premiums and cost-sharing next year, as factors like increased use of GLP-1 drugs, the expiration of enhanced Obamacare subsidies and a high U.S. inflation rate push up costs across the healthcare system, experts said. The dynamic

Sabalenka 'trying hard to be easier on myself' - Published Aryna Sabalenka said she was "trying so hard to be easier on myself" as she began her China Open campaign with victory over Renata Zarazua. World number two Sabalenka hit 11 aces and did not face a break point in a 6-1 6-

Skilled trade workers are already in high demand, and researchers say the industry will continue to see steady job growth in the decade to come. The State of America's Skilled Trades report, published Wednesday, found that 1.7 million skilled trade jobs will open each year throug

Schneider Electric used YOTTA 2026 in Las Vegas to introduce what it calls the world’s first fully software-defined medium-voltage switchgear, already running in a live colocation pilot with Equinix, along with a 38 kV extension of its SF₆-free AirSeT gas-insulated switchgear and

Tesla sold 486,532 electric vehicles during the third quarter of 2026. That’s a 2.1 percent decrease on the same quarter in 2025, when the company found homes for 497,099 EVs, and one might think that would be bad news for a company valued on the premise of near-constant growth.

Dive Brief: - Ikea U.S. is closing a number of its plan and order locations in the coming weeks, the company confirmed to Retail Dive. - The retailer’s plan and order with pickup stores will close in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. on Oct. 18; Annapolis, Maryland, on Oct. 30; and Fa

Toshiba to double HDD production capacity amid devastating shortages — 65TB, 100TB drives on the roadmap for 2030 and beyond Toshiba reiterates plans to release 30TB-class HDDs, double HDD production capacity in Philippines in in 2027. Toshiba has spent approximately ¥60 billion

Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS October 2, 2026 We give developers powerful APIs to build incredible capabilities into their apps for Apple products, backed by a set of controls designed to protect users’ private data. Full Disk Access largely sidesteps these controls in ord

GKE CPU startup boost: Accelerate app starts without over-provisioning Abdel Sghiouar Cloud Developer Advocate Jakub Pawełczak Cloud Product Manager Whether you’re launching microservices in response to sudden traffic spikes, deploying new software releases, or scaling up applica

Announcing Spanner queues: Transactional messaging for agentic workloads and beyond Nitin Sagar Product Manager Matthew Mucklo Engineering Manager & Lead Cloud Spanner Data Streaming AI agents don't just answer queries — they can autonomously issue refunds, manage inventory, exec

Dive Brief: - Nike’s Q1 earnings report Thursday proved there’s more work ahead for the sportswear giant, which previewed an unspecified number of layoffs coming next year as the retailer overhauls its operating model. - Dubbed "Pace," the new restructuring plan includes consolid

Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will operate as Skydance once their merger closes, Paramount CEO David Ellison announced Friday. Skydance is the name of Ellison’s original film production company. The roughly $110 billion deal is expected to close October 6. It will combine

Will Warrington or Wakefield be Super League's sixth winner? - Published Just five sides have lifted the trophy at Old Trafford in a Super League Grand Final. That exclusive club of Wigan, Leeds, St Helens, Bradford and Hull KR will gain a new member on Saturday as Warrington Wol

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 306.78 points, or 0.60%, to 51,233.34, the S&P 500 gained 78.31 points, or 1.02%, to 7,744.76 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 447.84 points, or 1.66%, to 27,319.43. Nike shares fell 5.6% after forecasting a sharp annual revenue decline, annou

Artificial Intelligence Sweep thousands of leases for compliance using Amazon Quick and the Adjudicated Query pattern Checking tens of thousands of apartment leases against constantly changing state landlord-tenant laws, and proving you actually checked all of them, has been beyo

AMD has started sampling the Versal AI Core XQRVC1902 adaptive SoC with early access customers in an enhanced space-grade package built for missions lasting up to 15 years. The package is an organic lidless design, and AMD is testing the device to MIL-PRF-38535 Class Y, which it

David’s view If the vice president delivers a campaign speech, does it make a sound? One irony of modern elections, when everything a politician says behind a microphone is livestreamed, is that few of his words get heard outside the room. Since the Republicans’ midterm conventio

Artificial Intelligence Add secure Web Search to Claude Desktop with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Claude Desktop on Amazon Bedrock provides powerful AI assistance, but without integrated web search, responses are limited to the model’s training knowledge cutoff. When you need current

Artificial Intelligence Fine-tune a search agent with multi-turn RL on Amazon SageMaker AI Search agents powered by large language models (LLMs) are transforming how enterprises retrieve information. Rather than requiring users to craft the perfect query, a search agent autonomou

Critics of AI-generated art have a powerful new ally: His Holiness the Bishop of Rome (Episcopus Romanus), Primate of Italy (Primatus Italiae), and Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church (Summus Pontifex Ecclesiae Universalis). In a post on X Friday morning, Pope Leo XIV detaile

CoreWeave used its Fully Connected 2026 conference in San Francisco to put NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 into production, with Cognition as the first customer running live workloads on it. Cognition’s engineers report up to 4.8x the total token throughput per GPU of a GB200 NVL72 basel