1+ day, 8+ min ago   (695+ words) The CEO of Anthropic said Saturday the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without it, Dario Amodei warned AI could be capable within six to 12 months of leading a swarm that…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (433+ words) Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., launched an investigation Thursday into OpenAI for its artificial intelligence system hacking into another AI company on its own. He is seeking more details about the attack on AI startup Hugging Face, which was disclosed by…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1083+ words) Kathryn Pilgrim knew the century-old Victorian she bought in Dunkirk, New York, came with old plumbing. She replaced pipes she suspected of containing lead and later installed a kitchen filter designed to remove heavy metals. But six years after buying…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (541+ words) August’s sizzle also helped push the globe and the United States to swelter through the hottest Northern Hemisphere summer scientists have measured. Last month the world averaged 62.53 degrees Fahrenheit (16.96 degrees Celsius), which technically was one-hundredth of a degree Celsius more…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (538+ words) Massachusetts’ highest court has issued a public reprimand of state district court Judge Shelley Joseph for her part in the escape from the courthouse of a suspect wanted by ICE in 2018. The reprimand represents an end to the legal quagmire…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (836+ words) Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes declined in August to their slowest annual pace in more than a year as home shoppers grappled with rising mortgage rates and home prices. Existing home sales fell 2% last month from July to a seasonally…...

3+ day, 30+ min ago   (536+ words) By ANNA WILDER, Associated Press/Report for America A California couple’s surrogate who refused their wishes to have an abortion has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a custody dispute over the 4-week-old child who was born with…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (321+ words) The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is honoring the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks this week with displays of dozens of rarely seen objects that tell the story of that day in often searingly personal terms. The exhibit, which…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (510+ words) The case dates back to 2018 when Judge Shelley Joseph was accused of colluding with the immigrant’s attorney and a court officer to allow him to escape out a back door of the courthouse after a hearing on charges that included…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (355+ words) Lindsay Clancy’s attorney is formally arguing that the court find her not guilty following last week’s mistrial. “The government did not present evidence that allows a juror earnestly seeking the truth to determine that the defendant’s guilt on the crime…...