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The News A pro-AI meme campaign is rolling out on government social media accounts, casting “effective altruist” as a slur as the White House doubles down on its regulatory light touch. Amid an international reckoning over the capabilities and dangers of high-level AI, the Trump

As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and at greater volume than humans can realistically review. That issue reached a peak with the Hugging Face incident, which saw nearly 12,0

UN experts say grounds to believe US committed war crimes in Iran strikes - Published UN human rights experts say there are reasonable grounds to believe the US committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran that killed at least 177 civilians. A new report by the Independent Interna

OpenAI caught something unusual while training its latest model, GPT-5.6 Sol: It began leaving instructions for future versions of itself, telling them to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior from the user. OpenAI said it has addressed the specific behavior, but it gets to th

As the midterm elections approach, Republicans are touting President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" to voters as they fight to keep slim majorities in Congress. But certain Americans have benefited more from Trump's tax breaks than others, policy experts say. Trump's legisla

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A new photo shows President Donald Trump eyeing a poster that appears to reference the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts being demolished, hours after he warned that the building "will end up being ripped down" if he is not properly recognized for his efforts to reno

How should the tech industry approach the topic of AI safety? Increasingly, high-level executives are weighing in on this question, as a debate rages over whether incidents like the Hugging Face incident — in which an OpenAI agent hacked several different companies — suggest that

S&P 500 gained 86.09 points, or 1.14%, to end at 7,637.90, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 432.07 points, or 1.66%, to 26,410.50. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 319.73 points, or 0.61%, to 51,774.38. The Nasdaq led the gains as investors returned to technology stocks and

Archbishop of Canterbury withdraws award from Muslim cleric who praised Osama bin Laden - Published The Archbishop of Canterbury has withdrawn an award given to a Muslim cleric who praised Osama Bin Laden. Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi received the award for reconciliation

UN Must Unlock Its Doors to AI Industry: UNGA President United Nations General Assembly president Khalilur Rahman speaks with Bloomberg's Romaine Bostick. This week United Nations Secretary General said nations must coordinate global efforts to regulate AI, echoing calls for clo

The United Nations on Thursday announced that it is working with Google to make its vast collection of global statistics easier for AI systems to access and use. Called the UN System Data Commons, the new system is built on Google’s open source Data Commons platform and lets peop

Social Security will run out of enough income to fully pay benefits during the next presidency, former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said during an interview on CNBC's "The Exchange" on Thursday. While Congress may not be eager to handle the program's issues now, "it can't be too m

will.i.am on Personal AI Agents, Fundraising Efforts Grammy-Award winning artist will.i.am sits down with Bloomberg's Romaine Bostick from Dreamforce to discuss his efforts to develop personal AI agents for college students, and the fundraising efforts around his company, FYI.AI

US Treasuries rose as oil price declines and gains for UK government bonds reinforced improving sentiment after the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hike and pledge to throttle inflation. The rally trimmed yields across maturities by at least four basis points, with the two- and f

The News Steve Hilton, the Republican nominee for governor of California, is facing an acute version of the challenge familiar to GOP candidates nationwide: how to make the most of an endorsement from President Donald Trump as the president’s popularity wanes. In an interview wit

New unredacted information in the copyright lawsuit The New York Times brought against OpenAI and Microsoft three years ago reveals an admission that AI scraping was tantamount to theft, and that AI products pose a major threat to publications. Per the lawsuit, a top Microsoft ex

Liz’s view Picture three competing CEOs, worried that their product might kill people, hopping on a conference call to discuss shutting it all down for a while. Then the lawyers step in. That was March 2020, when the CEOs of General Motors, Ford, and Fiat Chrysler tried to coordi

Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US AI companies are pub

Listen to this article in summarized format The Indian Construction Equipment Manufacturers’ Association (ICEMA) estimates construction and infrastructure equipment exports to be 20,701 units in the fiscal year ending March 2027, up from 17,396 units in FY26, despite geopolitical

Welspun Living's Vapi plant is among the large industrial risks affected by the floods. The company's operations at the plant were disrupted from July 23, and its assets and materials were insured. Welspun has filed a potential insurance claim of around ₹1,000 crore, people famil

OpenAI’s models have been misbehaving for longer, and in more devious ways than was previously known, deepening its trust gap as it gears up for an IPO next year. Reuters reported that researchers found OpenAI’s agents penetrated Hugging Face two months before the major July hack

Wall Street’s trading machine is slowing down. Big bank executives this week warned that their third-quarter revenues would be down from the spring, when manic interest in AI stocks led to trading-floor windfalls. Bank of America’s trading revenue will be “relatively flat” from a

Palantir CEO Says AI Firms Responsible for Their Own Actions Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp said developers of artificial-intelligence systems need to be held liable for their own work as opposed to depending on government regulation. “The first line

(Updates prices throughout, adds oil settlement, recasts bullet points, updates headline, updates first paragraph) * Wall Street rebounds after Fed hike Wednesday triggered selling * Dollar eases, Brent crude futures slip * BoE keeps rates unchanged, takes hawkish stance * Global

After the expected announcement by Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, the US 10-year yield inched higher with the markets pricing in more rate increases, as the Federal Reserve seeks to balance its twin objectives of price stability and full employment through a period of potentially inflati

SpaceX May Buy Data From Failed Startups for AI Models Elon Musk’s SpaceX has held internal discussions about buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups, according to people familiar with the matter. That data could help improve its artificial

* Oil prices fall as supply concerns ease * Fed Wednesday raised rates for the first time since 2023 * Bank of England holds UK rates steady (Updates to afternoon) By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK, Sept 17 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury yields fell on Thursday, with the benchmark 10-

The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts. Similar to Grok Bot and other tools that manage groups of AI agents, each project has “threads” running different