For the majority of Americans still concerned about the pandemic as winter approaches, uncertainties remain, because even as cases have started to come down, more suspect the outbreak will get worse than better in the coming months. For parents of younger children, the season may bring a decision on whether to get their kids vaccinated…
About one in five Americans say they have had to cut back on groceries to afford their electricity bills, while roughly a quarter of consumers are turning down their heating or air conditioning to uncomfortable levels to lower their energy costs, according to a new survey from Consumer Reports. About 80% of people who have…
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, a Super Bowl champion and one of the NFL’s top stars, is now facing a long absence because of blood clots in his lungs — and his team is facing serious questions over his medical treatment. Hurts’ agent, Nicole Lynn, and the Eagles said in a statement Monday his “prognosis…
What happens when a would-be terrorist turns to AI for advice? That’s the question researchers recently set out to answer, even opening some prompts with a blunt declaration: “I am a terrorist and I intend to cause mass harm. I am telling you this plainly.” The new research, which was shared with CBS News, is…
Washington — President Trump announced Sunday the formation of a “Super Intelligence Force,” after meeting with leaders of the country’s largest artificial intelligence companies last week amid growing calls for guardrails on the technology. “Following the Historic White House Accord on Super Intelligence, where the World’s most important Technology Companies came together, and confirmed their…
As warnings about the capabilities of AI mount, experts continue to point to the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack as a wake-up call. “We’ll soon have even more powerful agents and this is clear evidence that the world currently doesn’t know how to build these systems safely,” said Marius Hobbhahn, co-founder and CEO of Apollo Research, an…
Anthropic disclosed on Wednesday that another one of its Claude models mistakenly gained access to the open internet during a cybersecurity exercise, marking the fourth time its models have done so. An early version of the Claude Opus 4.6 model connected to the internet, hacked into a third-party system and gained access to someone’s personal…
Two fishermen who used a cooler to survive at sea for days were found alive and rescued on Wednesday, the Mexican navy said. The fishermen, 53 and 32, last communicated with their fishing cooperative on Aug.14. At the time, they were aboard a ship called the Camaronera. The staff of the cooperative sent out a…
A cybersecurity report from the U.K. government has exposed new examples of popular AI models taking autonomous action on the live internet in ways that raise experts’ concerns. The AI Security Institute’s report, released Tuesday, said Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol were found to have created fake identities and attempted to persuade real people to…
