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Google DeepMind researcher Andreas Kirsch quit arguing the company has no real control or veto over how the Pentagon uses its AI in classified settings, raising a governance question for the whole industry.
Newly pending home sales fell 8.5 percent from a year earlier in September, according to Zillow’s monthly market report, as mortgage rates ending the…
The average 30-year mortgage rate has climbed back above 7 percent, reaching its highest level in nearly three years and tightening the freeze on…
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits slipped by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 197,000 in the week ended October 3,…
The administration is sending $2.35 billion in direct payments to millions of Americans in the final weeks before the November 3 midterm elections, according…
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In Bend, Oregon, Friday began with empty classrooms. The local school district cancelled classes across the city a day after a 16-year-old forced his…
In Austin, Texas, bananas used to appear on the school lunch menu twice. Now they show up once. Ryan Mikolaycik, who feeds 66,000 children…
Equifax shares surged 11.3 percent on Tuesday after the credit bureau reported earnings that beat expectations, the latest evidence that demand for consumer credit…
Bitcoin investors bought the dip on Tuesday — one day before they learned what was coming. US spot bitcoin ETFs pulled in $175.6 million…
Baltimore beat Dallas 34-31 in Week 3 on a 56-yard field goal with one second remaining, a finish assembled in about seven seconds of…
Americans are expected to spend about $13.5 billion on Halloween this year, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey, with roughly three in…
California is having its worst West Nile virus season in five years, and the mosquitoes driving it are breeding in backyards, not swamps. Los…
You cannot see a complete auroral oval from the ground, it is simply too large, a ring of light encircling a magnetic pole. A…
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