2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (892+ words) Anthropic said Thursday it has blocked efforts by bad actors to use its artificial intelligence models for malicious activity such as cyberattacks, surveillance, and research that could have led to biological weapons. As AI models grow more powerful, elaborate cyberattacks…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (33+ words) MCLEAN, Va. (AP) — The average rate on a 30-year mortgage rose to 6.76% this week, Freddie Mac says, the highest level in over 14 months. - National Grains higher, livestock mixed 1 hour ago...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (468+ words) NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie, a U.S. citizen for the past decade, is to receive a literary honor reserved for the elite of American writers — a National Book Award medal for lifetime achievement. “Although I lived here for many, many years…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (336+ words) Scientists from the German Aerospace Center’s Institute of Space Research reported Thursday that Mercury’s shrinkage may be 30% greater than previously believed — a loss in diameter of as much as 14 miles (23 kilometers). That’s significant for a planet barely 3,000 miles (4,900 kilometers) across....

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (600+ words) California has long been farm country, and its oceans soon could be, too. State coastal officials voted Wednesday to allow a plan to build the United States’ largest kelp farm 6 miles (10 kilometers) off the Southern California coast to move forward…...

4+ day, 42+ min ago   (770+ words) Unemployed and $1,300 in debt, he can no longer afford the bus fare from his suburb or the books he needs to keep studying — even at a tuition-free university that has helped generations of Argentines climb into the middle class. He’s…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (721+ words) But climate warming is dismantling the picture at alarming speed. “We weep for our mountain, the way it’s changing. It hits us in the gut,” said Stéphane Bozon, a deputy mayor in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, a French town at the foot of…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (313+ words) Audible best-sellers for the week ending September 4: 1. This Is Me by Hayden Panettiere, narrated by the author (Grand Central Publishing) 2. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins, narrated by the author (Audible Studios) 3. Stop Letting Everything Affect You by Daniel…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (408+ words) Three 2-month-old Sumatran tiger cubs received identification microchips and their first vaccinations Tuesday at a zoo near Athens, as part of a global effort to build a backup population. The Sumatran tiger, classified as critically endangered, is found only on…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1217+ words) (CNN) — One company has a simple-sounding plan to help save the planet: take a food additive and the mineral that makes eggshells hard, produce tiny particles out of them, spray them into the atmosphere and cool the world. Stardust Solutions,…...