11+ hour, 2+ min ago   (298+ words) A manager at a Wendy's in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, lost her job after a video surfaced showing a neurodivergent employee tied to kitchen equipment. The clip has reopened a police case that was closed almost as soon as it started, and…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (831+ words) Mexico and the United States are preparing for a fourth round of trade talks in Washington as both sides seek progress before the Nov. 3 U.S. midterm elections, with automotive rules, tariffs and supply-chain policy among the key issues. The talks are…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (803+ words) Meta's Muse reached No. 2 on the U.S. App Store within two days of launch, but the ranking makes the app look bigger than its early download numbers suggest. "Muse has been downloaded north of 83,000 times on iOS in the United States,…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (683+ words) California has enacted two new laws aimed at AI products used by children, but they regulate very different things. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 867 and SB 1119, known as Adam's Law, on September 10. SB 867 places a temporary moratorium on manufacturing or…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1016+ words) U.S. consumer prices rose 3.4% in August from a year earlier, matching the July annual rate, while the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers increased 0.4% on a seasonally adjusted basis from July, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The monthly…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (765+ words) Wipro says its AI initiatives have generated productivity equivalent to the work of around 20,000 employees, but the company has not eliminated 20,000 jobs as a result. "The capacity equivalent of 20,000 people has been freed up through productivity gains and redeployed across…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (634+ words) Anthropic said scientists had used its Claude AI in sensitive biological research that the company believed could be applied to weapons development. The work included gain-of-function virus research and experiments involving pathogens considered capable of causing a pandemic. Threat to…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (870+ words) Brent crude climbed above $100 per barrel on Wednesday, due to the worsening of U.S.-Iran hostilities and the fact that attacks on energy infrastructure and shipping had increased fears of disruptions to global oil supplies. The price of Brent reached $101.21 per…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (721+ words) Jacob Coxon is 27, and until this week his job was training AI models. On Tuesday night, he quit and posted a seven-part thread on X explaining why. The post has since been viewed tens of millions of times. Coxon spent…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (722+ words) President Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to issue a $5,000 payment to every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans retain control of both chambers of Congress in the November midterm elections, announcing the Republican Party's first-ever midterm convention in Dallas on Sept. 9. Trump presented…...