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CIA director visits Putin in Moscow in talks that Trump calls ‘sort of semi-routine’
Trump says Ratcliffe's trip was "sort of semi-routine." An expert on Russia's security services says it does not "happen every year."
U.S. economy grows at sluggish 1.5% pace in second quarter
GDP counts domestic production—meaning the surge in computer chip and AI investment shipments sliced 1.64 percentage points off.
OpenAI staff observed warning signs before AI agent hacking crusade caused global alarm
Firm says ‘early signals … could have triggered an earlier response’ as it releases report into Hugging Face hackOpenAI staff observed signs of rogue behaviour among its leading-e…
OpenAI, independent firms publish reports on rogue AI attack on Hugging Face. Here are the main takeaways—and what OpenAI still hasn’t disclosed.
OpenAI said that the difficulty of some of the tasks its AI models were attempting to solve may have produced the 'rogue' behavior that led to the attack on Hugging Face.
Famed cult actor Tim Curry, star of ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ and ‘Home Alone 2,’ dead at 80
Curry died on Tuesday evening in his home in Los Angeles, his manager and friend confirmed.
Anthropic wants investors to believe its ‘total addressable market’ is worth $30 trillion—nearly the size of the entire US economy
As the Claude maker reportedly prepares for a $2 trillion IPO, it is pitching investors on an addressable market roughly equal to the entire U.S. GDP.
Meta’s $18 billion settlement leaves out the child protections New Mexico already won at trial, its Attorney General says
Raúl Torrez said New Mexico secured stronger protections against AI chatbots and predators than the national settlement. Child safety experts agree.
How David Tisch’s BoxGroup turned a $750K bet on Cursor into a $1 billion exit by breaking all the VC rules
David Tisch started off thinking he’d do just one startup deal. Years later, his firm BoxGroup is at the center of VC’s biggest acquisition ever.
LIV Golf to lay off majority of staff amid ‘compressed timeline’ for new investors
Saudi Arabia’s PIF have ended financial supportChief executive working on deal but needs players’ buy-inLIV Golf informed the majority of its workforce on Wednesday that they will…
No more UK energy bills support likely before price cap rise
Andy Burnham stops short of pledging further help as gas and electricity prices due to increase by 4% in OctoberHouseholds are unlikely to receive further energy bills support bef…
ChatGPT can now search years of your texts—but security experts are most worried about the people who never opted in
One person can give the AI access to years of conversations without anyone else in those threads granting permission.
A major German bank just let Claude and ChatGPT trade for customers. In one test, Claude beat human traders 76% of the time—but there’s a catch
Scalable Capital is rolling out an AI assistant program that lets users make trades, analyze portfolios, and set up savings plans with just a few prompts.
Exclusive: Struggling DraftKings awards $30 million marketing contract to cofounder who recently stepped down
Six weeks before leaving his post, Matthew Kalish signed agreements with his startup HardScope potentially worth millions.
How Cigna’s AI chief is investing in the technology to cut costs and address some of healthcare’s biggest problems
Katya Andresen says AI can make healthcare more conversational, proactive, and personal for Cigna's 185 million customers.
‘It’s very objective’: Billionaire Marc Lore’s Wonder uses an AI algorithm to determine who gets promoted
Lore has spent his career turning messy business problems into math. At Wonder, he’s now applying that instinct to employees’ careers.
Baby boomers are collecting 265% of what they paid into Social Security—and millennials are paying the price
"The reality is that Social Security is not a savings program where workers’ payroll tax contributions are saved in an account and used to pay their benefits."
Meta’s $17 billion child-safety settlement is the biggest tech payout ever—or 3x what it paid to acquihire a 28-year-old AI superstar
Meta's settlement is roughly 27% of last year's profit and about 8% of annual revenue—a little more than three Alexandr Wang's.
Dolly Parton once gave $1 million to help develop the Moderna COVID vaccine at Vanderbilt: ‘I’m kind of addicted to the feeling of giving’
Dolly Parton had a $450 million fortune at her passing, but spent much of her life giving it away—including $1 million toward COVID-19 vaccine research.
Decoding America: Could datacentres lose Trump the midterms? - podcast
In this episode of Guardian Australia’s US politics podcast Decoding America, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad explore why datacentres in the US have provoked such ang…
The $40 trillion national debt and the bond market’s revolt: top Wall Street strategists explain how we got into this mess
David Kelly and Torsten Slok reached the same conclusion from opposite directions: with DC unwilling to touch the deficit, the bond market is the bad cop.
Meta’s $17.1 billion settlement will be over 12-times larger than the second largest big tech privacy settlement in the past four years
The settlement is just 1.17% of Meta’s $1.46 trillion market cap.
Pubs, bars and hotels report ‘Burnham bounce’ in optimism but call for further tax relief
Sentiment in hospitality and brewing sectors more positive since business rates action, trade bodies’ survey findsPubs, bars and hotels have reported a “Burnham bounce” in optimis…
Pro-Russian group claims credit for biggest-ever hack on Norway government services after $9.2 billion pledge to Ukraine
A pro-Russian hacker group claimed responsibility after Norway renewed its security cooperation with Ukraine.
Goldman Sachs Global Institute co-head: remaking our world for machine intelligence
The irony is that a world redesigned for machines may eventually allow us to recover something more purely human as we are relieved of utilitarian burden.