Dozens of robots took on more than 3,000 steps up one of China’s most famous peaks Monday, many carrying eggs and watermelons in a race organizers billed as a test of real-world machine endurance, state media showed. For hundreds of years, Mount Tai — the tallest peak in China’s eastern Shandong province — was an…
Anthropic filed for an initial public offering on Monday, bringing the maker of artificial intelligence platform Claude a step closer to its highly anticipated public market debut and providing a key test for the rapidly emerging AI sector. In the filing, Anthropic outlined its vision for a future profoundly shaped by AI, touting the technology’s…
The Justice Department is investigating whether the major TV networks, including CBS, violated antitrust laws after they briefly suspended the television press pool system in response to President Trump’s decision last month to ban three news organizations from the White House. “Members of the television press pool have boycotted covering White House events,” Justice Department…
The U.S. Senate candidates in Texas could hardly be more different: James Talarico, a former seminarian turned Democratic state lawmaker who speaks in calm cadences about love and empathy, and Ken Paxton, the pugnacious Republican state attorney general who speaks about a refusal to compromise. They share an enemy, though. They dislike social media’s effects…
An AI model downloaded over 3 billion times and used by U.S. firms like Airbnb and Uber is embedded with China-friendly narratives and programmed for censorship, new research shows. Qwen, a freely available model made by Chinese conglomerate Alibaba, doesn’t acknowledge the violent suppression of protests in Hong Kong in 2019 or Tiananmen Square in…
Sen. Josh Hawley is unveiling legislation Wednesday to establish guardrails for Flock cameras and other artificial intelligence-powered surveillance technology, CBS News has learned. The bill, dubbed the Stop Flock Abuse Act, would regulate automated license plate readers (ALPR) by imposing stricter limits on data, security and search functions. The cameras, which have become a popular…
Backpack has been crowned the 2026 Fat Bear Week champion, beating out a fellow offspring of a former Fat Bear Week winner. Voters were split between bear 910 and 89 Backpack in the final round of the weeklong contest to see who is the chunkiest bear at Katmai National Park & Preserve in Alaska. Backpack…
Washington — The U.S. Army Reserve is examining whether it can provide the military’s Southern Command with police forces, medical personnel and other support units within the next four months, according to an internal Army message reviewed by CBS News. Though the message makes no reference to Cuba, the request is for continued military planning…
The bond market is flashing red. The yield on the 30-year Treasury note reached 5.44% on Wednesday, its highest level since 2004, before slipping slightly on Thursday morning. The 10-year Treasury, which influences mortgage rates, briefly neared 5.15% on Thursday morning, a level it last reached in 2001. Yields had already risen amid concerns about inflation…
Hong Kong — It was 11 years ago that Chinese President Xi Jinping last visited the U.S. capital, for a 2015 White House meeting with then-President Barack Obama. As he returns for a meeting on Thursday with President Trump, both Xi and China’s role in the world have changed dramatically. China is now regarded as America’s…
