Union members, parents and teachers joined the demonstrations, broadening the student-led protest movement that has closed hundreds of French high schools since late September.

ALT: Turning Red: Mei's Emotional Outburst

Neuroscientific advances follow a pattern of visualizing the brain, measuring its function and then controlling it. Optogenetics may lead to a new era of medical treatment.

Superintelligence in the wrong hands can become “super dangerous,” the SoftBank Group chief said.

Public outrage over the eviction of an 87-year-old woman has put Spain's progressive government under immense pressure to tackle the nation's entrenched housing cost crisis.

Representative to acknowledge company has ‘more work to do to rebuild trust with the Australian people’ as ABC says copyright laws do not need changing * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast OpenAI will use an appearance before a parliamentary committee to apologise again to Australia about the hack on Medicare last month, on the same day media and entertainment organisations argue weakening Australian copyright law for AI model training would leave artists as “roadkill”. Ahead of an appearance before the joint parliamentary committee hearing on artificial intelligence in Sydney on Tuesday afternoon, OpenAI released its opening statement in which the company apologises for its AI agents attacking a number of Australian government websites in June. The multibillion-dollar company notified the government via an email to a public-facing address three months after the breach. Continue reading...

ALT: Brain Hurts

US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded for their work.

The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.

Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.

The sound of air raid sirens and explosions rang out in Ukraine's capital Kyiv on Sunday as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived for a visit to show support for President Volodymyr Zelensky amid e...

Let’s just come right out and say it: the Republicans couldn’t do a better job of tanking the midterms if they were doing it on purpose.Is it possible they are? Or have they just inherited their president’s gift for doing the worst imaginable thing at the worst imaginable time?I’m talking about the ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on a climate case that could make or break efforts to stop rising temperatures before they reach the point of no return. Our planet is hotter than it has ever been, at any time, in the entire history of modern civilization.The six warmest years o...

Donald Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI technology while simultaneously demanding the company cooperate with the government for six months.

The family members of two Fox News journalists killed while covering the war in Ukraine are suing the network, saying it put getting the story ahead of its people.

Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act,  data center projects in rural areas could be eligible for major tax benefits starting next year. Some hyperscalers do not seem eager to take the free cash.

Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.

“It’s going to be gnarly for a little while.”

Ted Cruz blasts JD Vance as ‘insecure,’ says he’s focused on helping GOP win midterms politi.co/4i12a0r

Democrats are performing strongly in five reliably Republican states where they are trying to flip Senate seats to win control of the chamber, new New York Times/Siena polls found.

The Florida Department of Education released its first comprehensive rewrite of science learning standards in nearly two decades, with the last one adopted in 2008.

Pike survived two doses of lethal injection drugs, her attorneys say. This is Tennessee’s second failed execution attempt this year.

Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.

The new question, included on a draft version of the primary tax form, comes as part of an anti-immigrant turn at an agency that long prioritized tax administration.

A similar surge last year resulted in undervetted officers initially being let in and then removed as the agency skipped basic checks for new recruits.

We’ve taken a look at a few of the claims made by the Prime Minister during his keynote speech in Liverpool.

An independent commission found Man City arranged ‘sham’ commercial deals with a number of its sponsors.

Smith, who in 2022 led investigations into Trump and secured two indictments, said he made decisions in the case "without regard” for Trump’s “political association activities, beliefs, or candidacy i...

See how groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled major money into the fight for control of Congress.

David Flippo, who has reported funneling nearly $2.5 million to his campaigns, has repeatedly failed to file financial disclosure forms since 2023.

The use of Narcan jumped 51% last year, while overdose deaths remain far above levels in 2021, when the state restricted physical mail to stop the smuggling of prison contraband.

The company’s researchers raised questions about the security of the model, known as GPT-6.1 Astra.

The Readout LOUD is going international this week with a dispatch from Shanghai, along with notes on the FDA's Overton era.

“Arguing over whether someone died ‘with’ or ‘of’ a disease gets us stuck on the last thing that happened.” write two Unbiased Science scientists.

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Our evaluation of how 77 AI system variants respond to simulated users experiencing suicidal ideation, psychosis, and mania, covering 14 mental health-relevant behaviors.

University of Oregon researchers have a new study that says the mobile crisis counseling service CAHOOTS — Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets — diverted far more calls from the Eugene Police Department than first thought.

OpenAI AI Agents Incident Reporting Meity: The rise of autonomous AI agents poses new security challenges, highlighting the need for mandatory incident reporting to address the risks and ensure respon...

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."