2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (284+ words) A Senate subcommittee is investigating OpenAI's handling of the hacking of Hugging Face in July as concerns about the potential dangers posed by AI continue to grow. Senator Josh Hawley, the chairman of the Senate's Subcommittee on Disaster Management, sent…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (739+ words) Meta has launched Muse, a personal AI agent that can send emails, book travel, shop online and carry out other tasks on a user's behalf. The company says Muse can continue working in the background and return when it needs…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (173+ words) NASA's Artemis II moon astronauts will join a very exclusive club next week. President Donald Trump will award those spaceflyers the Congressional Space Medal of Honor next Friday (Aug. 28) at Johnson Space Center in Houston to recognize their historic journey…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (257+ words) Fewer people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, another sign that layoffs remain low and that most Americans enjoy job security. The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claims dropped to 206,000 last week from a revised 212,000 the week before. Claims…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (525+ words) Police in Omaha have used electric shock gloves on at least two students, sparking outrage from parents, students and school board members who say they were never told the weapons had been deployed in schools. In Omaha, 29 of 34 school resource…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (459+ words) A 10-year U.S. Treasury bond now pays more income than 118 of America’s biggest companies. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA), Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) are all on that list. Nvidia makes the point fastest....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (476+ words) Economist Mohamed El-Erian said the U.S. Treasury Department’s surprise move to double its bond buybacks this week is a short-term fix that does nothing to address the root causes of soaring long-term interest rates and the federal government’s mounting debt and…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (326+ words) NASA said on Wednesday a $30 million mission to save its Swift space telescope had failed after the rescue spacecraft could not be controlled. The unprecedented effort aimed to use a robot to move Swift into a higher orbit. The satellite…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (618+ words) Retail investors who spent years enthusiastically buying technology dips are not walking away from the artificial intelligence boom. But new trading data suggests they are becoming considerably more careful about how much risk they are willing to take. According to…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (392+ words) Stocks edged up on Wednesday after the Treasury Department said it will increase buyback options for longer-term bonds. The S&P 500 climbed 0.22%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average did so 0.22%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained 0.16%. Yields on longer-term U.S. debt declined…...