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How could so little have changed?
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Nearly a century ago, John Maynard Keynes predicted technology would revolutionize how we live and work. To find out what he would think of our current A.I. moment, a Princeton economist brought back the legendary thinker using the technology.
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A Republican measure to limit, but not bar, congressional stock trading faltered in the Senate as Democrats thwarted a G.O.P. bid to show progress on an issue that has rankled voters.
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Judge Patrick J. Schiltz had warned that the administration’s actions “created a grave threat to the rule of law.” The attorney general accused him of “obvious bias.”
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The lawsuit, brought by Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, tests the reach of the Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause.
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In his ruling, Judge Vernon D. Oliver cited public statements from the bureau’s director that hurt the agency’s case in court.
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The lawsuit filed by Louisiana, Alabama and Arkansas to the Supreme Court escalates the battle between states that outlaw abortion and those that support nationwide access by mail.
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The judge also ordered the Justice Department to privately show the court the contested document, which blesses the disputed killings at sea.
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Epic’s engineers deployed an Anthropic tool that exposed security risks that could allow undetected access to millions of patient records.
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The agency will examine whether A.I. labs have broken federal laws prohibiting companies from unfair and deceptive practices.
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For safety reasons, Gemini 4 Argon will initially be available only to some companies and organizations focused on cybersecurity defense before it is more widely released, Google said.
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In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Republican and Democratic senators struck a deal to vote on the largest overhaul of federal energy and environmental rules in decades.
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Midrange drones have degraded some Russian electronic-warfare systems and hobbled 300 vessels.
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Data centers could consume as much as 12% of the nation’s electricity by 2028.
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The industry that previously fell in love with job titles like “digital ninja” and “storyteller” has become fascinated with its latest newly minted function: the marketing engineer.
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Evidence keeps coming that investment and growth are picking up.
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission is scheduled to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station on October 1. The Dragon could reach the orbiting laboratory in just 7 hours and 50 minutes, making it the fastest U.S. spacecraft journey to the ISS in history.
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Astronomers have found strong evidence that some mysterious, minutes-long X-ray flashes are produced when two neutron stars collide and create a magnetar. One record-setting event glowed in X-rays for nearly 10 minutes, potentially opening a new way to find these extreme cosmic mergers.
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NASA’s Curiosity rover marked 5,000 Martian days by capturing morning and afternoon views that were blended into a striking Mars “postcard.” The panorama shows Curiosity, its tracks, and the enormous landscape surrounding Mount Sharp and Gale Crater.
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A huge genomic and fossil study suggests bats first evolved in Europe around 65 to 60 million years ago before spreading across the globe. The findings also indicate that flight and echolocation emerged near the beginning of bat evolution, potentially helping explain how bats became one of the most successful mammal groups on Earth.
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Marine heatwaves may be only the most intense part of much longer warming events, with elevated temperatures sometimes lingering for months. Researchers found that conventional measurements underestimate total heat exposure by more than 150% on average, potentially overlooking a major source of stress on marine ecosystems.
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Don't worry. Actual astronauts aren't out of a job. The post NASA wants to send humanoid robots to the moon appeared first on Popular Science .
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Mount Vesuvius’ famous 79 CE eruption has given scientists a remarkably precise benchmark for dating events deep in Earth’s past. The improved technique could sharpen the timelines of volcanic eruptions, asteroid impacts, extinctions, and other major moments in geological history.
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A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that Elon Musk will co-lead a government project to study the future of warfare, marking the SpaceX CEO’s first return to government since he ran the chaotic, so-called “department of government efficiency”, or Doge. Musk will be joined by Palmer Luckey, CEO of the defense tech company Anduril, and Newt Gingrich, the former Republican speaker of the House. A defense department press release on the effort, called Project Meridian, described its goal as “identifying the capabilities required to achieve absolute technological dominance on the next-generation battlefield”. The project will run for 120 days and culminate in an unclassified public report of its recommendations. Continue reading...
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Security service says academics should stop working with and taking grants from firm backed by Chinese intelligence MI5 China alert will send chill through UK’s cash-strapped universities MI5 has issued a rare public warning to UK universities that China’s intelligence service is using a front company to pay for research by UK academics and steal the secrets of hi-tech projects. Britain’s domestic security service said researchers and academics should cease work with the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI), sometimes also known as the China Academy of General Technology (CAGT). Additional reporting by Helena Horton Continue reading...
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Kuala Lumpur plans to send a total of 5,000 Myanmar nationals back to the war-torn country despite persecution concerns Malaysia began sending back about 1,500 Myanmar nationals on Tuesday, the government confirmed, as it launched a scheme that rights groups say may endanger migrants and asylum seekers by returning them to the war-torn country. The group is the first of 5,000 Myanmar citizens that Kuala Lumpur says agreed to “voluntary” repatriation from detention centres amid a huge uptick in anti-migrant sentiment in Malaysia. Continue reading...
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The Middle East's oil exports have risen to about 80% of prewar levels, according to oil tracker Kpler, but prices have remained high. CBS News' Aaron Maclean has more.
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A White House meeting on AI regulation ended with tech leaders agreeing on an AI "constitution." Stuart Russell, president of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI, joins "The Daily Report" to break it down.
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The issue is one of several raised by an influential committee as debate about the BBC's future continues.
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Democratic governor sharply critical of Donald Trump for not passing comprehensive federal AI regulations Governor Gavin Newsom signed laws Wednesday aimed at protecting California workers from the threats of artificial intelligence , including potential job losses and workplace surveillance. The laws ban employers from using the technology to predict a worker’s emotional state by using their biometric data, require employers to send written notices to workers if AI is responsible for mass layoffs and ban employers from relying on AI to decide to fire someone. Continue reading...
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Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton can be heard in a leaked audio recording observing that President Trump's GOP midterms convention was politically harmful for the GOP. CBS News' Zak Hudak has more.
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Scientists say such rapid melting is no longer surprising given the pace of climate change.
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Iranian state media said the regime has received a full U.S. response to its proposal for a ceasefire and the phased reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
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Iran says it has received a U.S. counterproposal to the seven-day ceasefire plan that was rejected by the White House. CBS News' Olivia Rinaldi has more.
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Trump says the US may “blow up” Iran or strike a deal, insisting the standoff will end very soon one way or the other.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke on what he called "PT at the Pentagon" on the day the U.S. military announced the completion of its troop pullout from Iraq. Charlie D'Agata reports.
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The White House defended the Trump administration's use of taxpayer dollars for a series of TV ads promoting President Trump in the run-up to the midterm elections. Nancy Cordes reports.
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Beijing has cracked down on AI chatbots that can replicate human relationships. Experts are asking if this is the right thing to do.
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A federal judge on Tuesday ended federal monitoring of the Oakland Police Department after 23 years, capping the longest-running oversight of a police department in U.S. history.
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Mammoth deal has raised questions about corporate consolidation and editorial independence in media.
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A foreign policy speech by the Russian president will be keenly watched, but all signs point to the full-scale invasion continuing.
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Simple deterrents can slash the number of razorbills and guillemots being trapped underwater, two-year study shows Bird-shaped kites and a floating scarecrow are being tested to try to stop endangered seabirds drowning in fishing nets. Every year an estimated 95,000 diving birds, including razorbills and guillemots, are accidentally caught in nets off European coasts. Continue reading...
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Community-funded archaeological excavations of ‘really important’ sixth-century monastery also rewrite story of Lismore To the residents of the Scottish island of Lismore, population 190, history is never very far away. The tiny island near Oban in Argyll has no row of shops or even a pub – if islanders want to meet for a coffee, the only place to do so is in the lively Gaelic heritage centre that records the many centuries of community life on the island. This quiet place, documentary evidence records, was home to a monastic settlement in the sixth century AD, when missionaries from Ireland were first moving into northern Britain to spread Christianity. But apart from a few fragments of an early carved cross, there was almost nothing to see from this period of history. Continue reading...
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Switzerland's glaciers are disappearing at a record pace. More than 5% of their ice has vanished this year alone — threatening water supplies, ecosystems and communities across Europe.
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Democrats criticise bill as lacking 'teeth' and push for mandatory measures to address soaring electricity bills.
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In our news wrap Wednesday, the Federal Reserve's Inspector General found no criminal activity by former Chair Jerome Powell related to the renovation of the central bank's headquarters, Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon will cut the number of its generals and admirals by roughly 20% and Ukraine officials say Russian strikes killed at least seven people, including a child.
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The party says it would bring in new work requirements for young people claiming Universal Credit.
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The American Dream. The phrase has been a national ethos for generations. But what does it mean today, and how achievable is it? Judy Woodruff has a look for her series, Crossroads: America at 250.
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