Oct 16 (Reuters) – Anthropic representatives have quietly pitched Capitol Hill lawmakers on a draft bill to regulate frontier AI safety and security, Politico reported on Friday, citing three people with knowledge of the efforts. The bill would let the government block a model’s release or use only
Oct 16 (Reuters) – Fans can expect a clash of two defensive powerhouses when the WNBA Finals kick off on Saturday between the Dream and the Golden State Valkyries, with Angel Reese ready to deliver after a career-best season for Atlanta. The two sides accounted for six of the WNBA’s 10 All-Defensive
(Bangkok, Thailand) — There are no hints yet at future Federal Reserve interest rate hikes. Fed chair Kevin Warsh said today at the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank that he’s not in the business of predicting what the central bank will do. Some Fed governors have spe
Oct 16 (Reuters) – SoftBank Group is considering an acquisition of Allied Universal in a deal that could value the US security services provider at about $18 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. • Allied Universal provides security staffing for business
The American Federation of Government Employees has endorsed six Illinois candidates for the U.S. House ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
WARSAW, Oct 16 (Reuters) – US defence firm Anduril could eventually manufacture its newly unveiled Steelfin interceptor missiles in Europe, a company executive said this week, as governments aim to expand air-defence production after global conflicts highlighted shortages of interceptor missiles. “I
Illinois' unemployment rate dropped to 4.6 percent in September, its third straight monthly decline, even as payroll jobs fell slightly, state employment officials said.
By Vidya Ranganathan and Aditya Soni LONDON/BENGALURU, Oct 16 (Reuters) – Loss-making and deeply indebted US cloud company CoreWeave became an easy target this week for investors concerned about an artificial intelligence bubble. Its selloff, though, has greater significance for markets than its siz
Illinois Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth joined a bicameral coalition pressing Education Secretary Linda McMahon over what they call an illegal reallocation of funding meant for minority-serving institutions.
Oct 16 (Reuters) – CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator and entities linked to him have sold nearly $1 billion of stock, mostly under prearranged trading plans, since the AI cloud company’s IPO in March last year, according to regulatory filings. The sales began about two months after the stock hit a reco
By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) – A federal judge in Manhattan has rejected a joint request by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Gemini, a cryptocurrency exchange founded by twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, to undo a $5 million settlement from the Biden admini
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) – A record-breaking $3.3 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to a power plant in Georgia’s Monroe County could potentially benefit data centers in the state, the agency’s head of rural development said in an interview with Reuters. The ad
By Jody Godoy and David Shepardson Oct 16 (Reuters) – Chinese online retailer Temu has agreed to settle data privacy claims raised by Texas and will restrict how it handles personal data from shoppers in the state, according to documents made public Friday. Temu faces several lawsuits from US states
By Harshita Mary Varghese Oct 16 (Reuters) – SpaceX called its recent multibillion-dollar purchase of US airwaves a critical step towards building a mobile network, but constructing a true rival to major American carriers will require a terrestrial network and likely years of work and billions more.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth joined 31 lawmakers in a letter demanding answers from the CDC director on vaccine policy, measles death reporting and delayed vaccine access.
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources will pause chronic wasting disease public meetings across northern and central Illinois this fall while it revises its program, and will offer voluntary mail-in testing kits for hunters.
Ameren says it is putting $10 million in additional funding into programs that help income-eligible customers, small businesses, nonprofits and veterans manage their energy bills.
By Sam Tabahriti LONDON, Oct 16 (Reuters) – A surge in octopus numbers in British waters due to unusually warm seas is presenting fishermen with an interesting new catch — albeit one that’s devouring one of their usual staples. The value of British octopus exports rose to £12.8 million ($17 million)
WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) – A new government task force on AI used its inaugural meeting to set up protocols, a risk study and various committees, Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton told CNBC on Friday, a day after gathering in Washington. Clayton leads the group, which Trump has dubbe
By Francesco Canepa, Leika Kihara and Rae Wee BANGKOK, Oct 16 (Reuters) – The artificial intelligence boom is setting off a global race for money, forcing central bankers to contemplate a future in which interest rates stay higher and governments need to tighten their belts after an era of largesse.
Hadassah Opens Medical Center in Cyprus, Plans Hospital Near Nicosia By The Media Line Staff Jerusalem-based Hadassah Medical Center formally inaugurated a medical facility in Limassol, Cyprus, on Thursday, October 15, expanding its services beyond Israel through cooperation with Cypriot partners an
(SRN NEWS)- Nidal Hassan is scheduled to be put to death in December for murdering 13 people at Ford Hood in 2009 and the Defense Department had planned to provide a livestream. The decision sparked a firestorm of controversy with leading clergymen and others divided on whether or not such a present
(SRN NEWS)- The duo accuses the nation’s largest abortion business of pressuring them into unwanted abortions. The proposed class-action suit seeks to represent a lot more women against Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Planned Parenthood North Central States. The plaintif
(SRN NEWS)-They say they are getting unsolicited text messages from a transgender organization offering a “back to school toolkit” designed to form gay-gay-straight alliance clubs, get teachers to “honor your name and pronouns” and file LGBT complaints against the schools. State lawmakers are callin
Oct 16 (Reuters) – Michael Saylor’s Strategy faces potential removal from MSCI’s global equity indexes under new rules adopted on Thursday, threatening billions of dollars in passive investment in the bitcoin buyer. Shares of Strategy, the world’s biggest corporate bitcoin holder and a constituent o
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, Oct 16 (Reuters) – Stumbles in the market-leading AI trade are set to test investor confidence in the rally in the coming week as Wall Street focuses on quarterly results due from key players including Meta Platforms. AI-linked stocks, central to the bull market that jus
By Suzanne McGee and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island/NEW YORK, Oct 16 (Reuters) – A sharp decline in CoreWeave’s bonds this week is emerging as a test of investors’ willingness to keep financing the massive buildout of AI infrastructure, as rising borrowing costs and scrutiny of de
By Daren Butler and Bulent Usta IZTUZU BEACH, Turkey, Oct 16 (Reuters) – Under a moonlit sky, turtle hatchlings emerge from the sand on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast and scramble towards the sea, taking part in an ancient natural cycle that scientists say is increasingly being shaped by climate chang
By Selena Li BANGKOK, Oct 16 (Reuters) – Stablecoin issuer Circle is making a major push to enter about 40 emerging and developing countries around the world as blockchain adoption is expected to scale up significantly, the company’s CEO and chairman Jeremy Allaire told Reuters. “We’re kind of going
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) – Astronomers for the first time have identified a green star, documenting a dense stellar remnant called a white dwarf that became a ghostly shade of chartreuse after ingesting rocky debris from planets that once had orbited it. A star’s color typically i
