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For months, the loudest voices in artificial intelligence—including OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei—warned that entry-level white-collar jobs were headed for extinction. In recent weeks, both have walked back those statements.And according to Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S.,...

When Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother was abducted in Arizona earlier this year, the FBI issued an unusual warning: in the age of AI, even a proof-of-life video can’t be trusted. A kidnapper now needs little more than a LinkedIn...

Less than two months after the Trump administration rolled out its electronic tariff refund platform, it is now threatening to bring the operation to a standstill.The administration said on Friday it plans to appeal a federal judge’s order that...

A rapid series of administrative, staffing and policy changes the Social Security Administration underwent early on in the second Trump administration are making it much harder to get disability benefits that millions of Americans rely...

Data is the oil of the AI boom—and the startup Mecka AI hopes to tap the vast reservoir of hand gestures, walking gaits, and immense collection of humanity’s physical motions to better train our future overlords: robots. So-called “embodied” AI...

Additional contributions by Haohsiang Ko, Chris Campbell and Annalee Mather.The location and route of the tunnel system for the hydropower dam are indicative, as official designs have not been made public. While the route shown is approximate, it follows...

Graham Platner’s wife called the media reports that her husband had previously exchanged sexually explicit text messages with several women “shameful” over the weekend, the latest controversy to hit the Maine Democrat’s whirlwind Senate campaign.Platner, an oyster farmer and...

Former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell used one of his first major public appearances since leaving office to defend independent institutions while accepting an award Sunday honoring his efforts to preserve the central bank’s independence.Speaking at the John F. Kennedy Presidential...

China has quietly emerged as the global oil market’s stealthy swing consumer, potentially holding off doomsday a while longer.For months, investors wondered why crude oil prices failed to reach worst-case scenarios, even as a fifth of the world’s supply...