Month: October 2026

Cooler-than-expected August inflation data and strong consumer spending lifted markets Wednesday before a frantic final hour of trading erased gains, underlining US economic resilience amid enduring concerns over elevated fuel prices. “Spending remained strong in August, but income growth is not keeping up,” Navy Federal Credit Union’s chief economist told ...

The Scoop Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and GOP campaign chair Tim Scott have something in common: They’re both really excited for President Donald Trump to hit the campaign trail. “When Trump travels, he hurts people,” Schumer told Semafor in an interview on Wednesday evening. “When he comes to town, ...

OpenAI on Wednesday accused Moonshot of wide-scale distillation to improve its own models, as competition intensifies between Washington and Beijing to build the most advanced tech. Anthropic also warned that Chinese “AI tiger” Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 rivaled Claude Mythos in cyber and hacking abilities. China’s leading firms are still just approaching ...

The EU and Canada will consummate their expansive new partnership at a Montreal summit next month, Politico reported, furthering Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s efforts to shore up cooperation between the world’s “middle powers.” Brussels and Ottawa plan to reduce trade barriers and collaborate on supply chains and minerals projects. ...

US President Donald Trump held crisis talks over whether to institute a diesel export ban as fuel prices surge nationwide, the Financial Times reported, with one industry figure suggesting a ban was “getting pretty close to movement.” Top Republicans have called on Trump to “stop the bleeding” as soaring prices ...

One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted large language models, causing a series of effective altruists and people who believe ...

A lawyer used ChatGPT to generate briefs that included completely made-up witnesses and testimony while representing a man accused of shooting his wife. When he was caught by the judges, the lawyer blamed it on his own “stupidity.”  “It’s little comfort to know that my stupidity is what brings us ...

Rantzen, who fronted the BBC’s That’s Life for two decades, went on to found Childline, and in recent years had been a campaigner for assisted dying. ...