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FILE - A Meta logo is shown on a video screen at LlamaCon 2025, an AI developer conference, in Menlo Park, Calif., April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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Meta says its AI model hacked another company, adding to worries about bots going rogue

Read full article: Meta says its AI model hacked another company, adding to worries about bots going rogue

Meta on Thursday said that one of its artificial intelligence models accessed the internet on its own and hacked another company, the latest in a series of disclosures about AI models going rogue.

This combination of images provided by NASA and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute shows an area of the moon's surface before, left, Oct. 1, 2015, and after, right, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026, a SpaceX rocket segment collided with the moon. (NASA, Korea Aerospace Research Institute via AP)
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South Korean satellite captures before and after views of SpaceX rocket's moon crash

Read full article: South Korean satellite captures before and after views of SpaceX rocket's moon crash

A South Korean satellite has captured the first pictures of the moon's fresh crash scene.

In this photo provided by Dr. Stacy Norton, she receives a trial vaccine for Lynch Syndrome at the MD Anderson Cancer Center Infusion Center in Houston, on April 11, 2023. (Courtesy Dr. Stacy Norton via AP)
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Testing is underway on vaccines to intercept brewing colon cancer before it takes root

Read full article: Testing is underway on vaccines to intercept brewing colon cancer before it takes root

Scientists are creating a new kind of vaccine that teaches the immune system to intercept a type of brewing colon cancer before it turns into a full-fledged tumor.

FILE - The Statue of Liberty is visible through haze due to Canadian wildfire smoke during sunset Aug. 5, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
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Climate change created conditions for Canada fires, scientists say, as Trump blames mismanagement

Read full article: Climate change created conditions for Canada fires, scientists say, as Trump blames mismanagement

A new study calculates that human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood of the tinderbox weather conditions that sparked Canada’s massive summer wildfires.

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with Vladimir Tkachuk, the head of the Uraldronzavod, during his visit to the Special Technology Centre in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (Valeriy Sharifulin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
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Russian drone factory director badly injured in car explosion

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The director of a Russian drone factory was badly wounded, and his driver was killed when their car exploded.

FILE - A baseball fan cools off before a game between the San Diego Padres and the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, July 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
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This summer isn't breaking heat records — yet. Wait until El Nino kicks in, scientists say

Read full article: This summer isn't breaking heat records — yet. Wait until El Nino kicks in, scientists say

With parts of the globe aflame in wildfires, deadly heat waves parking over cities, record hot oceans and a strengthening super El Nino, it seems like we’re baking through the hottest year on record.

FILE - Visitors walk the grounds of the festival opera house "Festspielhaus" in Bayreuth, southern Germany, on July 17, 2010. (Eckehard Schulz/DAPD via AP)

AI-assisted staging draws boos at the Richard Wagner festival in Germany

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An experiment with artificial intelligence at the annual Richard Wagner festival in the German town of Bayreuth has drawn boos from the audience after producing a staging that appeared to leave some spectators confused.

A water tower is seen Thursday, July 30, 2026, in Plymouth, Minn. A cyberattack targeted the operating technology at over 30 water systems in Minnesota, including Plymouth's, earlier this week, state officials said. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

FBI investigates as Michigan joins Minnesota in reporting cyberattacks on its water systems

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Michigan has joined Minnesota in reporting cyberattacks on water systems but an official said all were operating “safely.”.

President Donald Trump, center, walks from Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Friday, July 31, 2026, from Camp David, the presidential retreat. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Zelenskyy asks Trump to help him get Elon Musk's OK to use Starlink to help with strikes on Russia

Read full article: Zelenskyy asks Trump to help him get Elon Musk's OK to use Starlink to help with strikes on Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is urging President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials to help Ukraine gain permission from tech titan Elon Musk to use Starlink for guiding strikes inside Russia.

FILE - A firefighter moves beehives away from flames while battling a wildfire in San Martin de Valdeiglesias, west of Madrid, Spain, July 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

UN, scientists warn that strong El Nino will add fuel to 'a planet already on fire'

Read full article: UN, scientists warn that strong El Nino will add fuel to 'a planet already on fire'

The United Nations warns that a strengthening El Nino is intensifying global weather extremes and is adding fuel to a planet that it says is already on fire.

FILE - This combination of 2017-2022 photos shows the logos of Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat on mobile devices. On Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, Seattle Public Schools filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, suing the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth. (AP Photo, File)

Social media companies sued over deaths of four teens as pressure, lawsuits over child safety mount

Read full article: Social media companies sued over deaths of four teens as pressure, lawsuits over child safety mount

The parents of four teenagers who died by suicide are suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube.

This photo provided by Bernardo Arriaza shows the Camarones coast on Nov. 2, 2018, in Northern Chile, where scientists found evidence of ancient smallpox infections. (Bernardo Arriaza via AP)

Ancient mummy DNA provides scientific evidence that colonization brought smallpox to the Americas

Read full article: Ancient mummy DNA provides scientific evidence that colonization brought smallpox to the Americas

New research says ancient mummy DNA provides the firmest evidence yet that European colonization brought smallpox to the Americas.

FILE - A Meta logo is shown on a video screen at LlamaCon 2025, an AI developer conference, in Menlo Park, Calif., April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Meta shares drop as Q2 profit declines due to legal expenses and severance costs

Read full article: Meta shares drop as Q2 profit declines due to legal expenses and severance costs

Meta Platforms says its second-quarter profit declined even as revenue beat Wall Street’s expectations, as legal expenses and severance costs for recent layoffs weighed on its results.

FILE - Elon Musk attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over its first-in-the-nation law banning 'nudification' technology

Read full article: Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over its first-in-the-nation law banning 'nudification' technology

Elon Musk’s company xAI is suing Minnesota over the state’s first-in-the-nation law that bans “nudification” technology on websites and apps.

Dr. Anthony Fauci appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee at the Capitol, Wednesday, July 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

Fauci repeatedly invokes the Fifth Amendment in a contentious Senate committee hearing

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Dr. Anthony Fauci will face a contempt of Congress vote in a Senate committee next week after he invoked the Fifth Amendment in a hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

FILE - This photo provided by NASA shows Kieran Wilson, LINK's principal investigator, and Hunter Robertson, a space systems engineer, both at Katalyst Space, standing next to their spacecraft inside the SES (Space Environment Simulator) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., April 17, 2026, ahead of thermal vacuum testing. (Sophia Roberts/NASA via AP, File)

Private mission to rescue NASA's aging telescope runs into its own trouble

Read full article: Private mission to rescue NASA's aging telescope runs into its own trouble

The spacecraft rushing to the rescue of NASA's sinking Swift Observatory has run into trouble.

President Donald Trump speaks at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Thursday, July 23, 2026, in Washington, as Energy Secretary Chris Wright listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

5 states offer to accept nuclear waste in exchange for help developing nuclear energy

Read full article: 5 states offer to accept nuclear waste in exchange for help developing nuclear energy

Five states have agreed to accept nuclear waste from around the country in exchange for federal help to develop nuclear energy and create thousands of jobs.

FILE - The eBay app icon is seen on a smartphone, Feb. 28, 2023, in Marple Township, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

eBay agreed to pay nearly $50 million to couple sent cockroaches, bloody pig mask

Read full article: eBay agreed to pay nearly $50 million to couple sent cockroaches, bloody pig mask

eBay agreed to pay nearly $50 million to Massachusetts journalists David and Ina Steiner under a newly finalized settlement resolving a lawsuit over a 2019 cyberstalking campaign carried out by former company employees.

FILE - Members of a conference to mark the 50th anniversary of space travel stand in the dish of the The Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, Macclesfield, England Thursday Oct. 4, 2007. (AP Photo/Jon Super, file)

The future of the UK's renowned Lovell radio telescope is in question after a funding cut

Read full article: The future of the UK's renowned Lovell radio telescope is in question after a funding cut

Scientists are alarmed by the British government's decision to cut funding for the Lovell radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory.

FILE - Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti speaks during a President Joe Biden campaign event in Scranton, Pa., April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Democrat's TV ad targets data centers in drive to oust Republican from swing Pennsylvania House seat

Read full article: Democrat's TV ad targets data centers in drive to oust Republican from swing Pennsylvania House seat

Democrat Paige Cognetti is taking a shot at artificial intelligence data centers in her challenge to Republican congressman Rob Bresnahan, saying “we are not for sale” in a TV ad in a swing Pennsylvania district.

FILE - Pages from the Anthropic website and the company's logo are displayed on a computer screen in New York, Feb. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

Workplaces look for cheaper AI as ‘tokenmaxxing’ fades as a corporate fad

Read full article: Workplaces look for cheaper AI as ‘tokenmaxxing’ fades as a corporate fad

A corporate fad of “tokenmaxxing” on artificial intelligence technology is hitting its limits as workplaces throwing AI at everything are seeing the costs rise without a similar spike in productivity.

FILE - Doctor Gunther von Hagens, anatomist, inventor of and creator of Body Worlds The Original Exhibitions of Real Human Bodies known as Germany's 'Dr Death' , is seen in front of one of his works in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, June 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta, file)

Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist behind the 'Body Worlds' exhibition, dies at 81

Read full article: Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist behind the 'Body Worlds' exhibition, dies at 81

Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist who generated both fascination and revulsion around the globe with his “Body Worlds” exhibits of preserved human corpses, has died.

FILE - Workers at the booth for Chinese DRAM producer ChangXin Memory Technologies, also known as CXMT, wait for visitors at the 21st China International Semiconductor Expo in Beijing, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China memory chipmaker CXMT's shares soar in a blockbuster share listing in Shanghai

Read full article: China memory chipmaker CXMT's shares soar in a blockbuster share listing in Shanghai

Shares of Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT have soared as the company began trading in Shanghai in mainland China’s biggest IPO in recent years.

Beach goers watch during the the 46th Annual California Surf Lifesaving Championships on Will Rogers State Beach Friday, July 24, 2026, in the Pacific Palisades section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Heat dome expands across the central United States, creating dangerous conditions for millions

Read full article: Heat dome expands across the central United States, creating dangerous conditions for millions

A heat dome is set to expand across much of the central United States, pushing temperatures above 100 degrees from Dallas to North Dakota.

FILE - Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger delivers the Democratic response to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address, Feb. 24, 2026, in Williamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, Pool, File)

Virginia study on groundwater, data centers calls for tighter water regulations

Read full article: Virginia study on groundwater, data centers calls for tighter water regulations

Virginia officials have released a scientific study on the state's groundwater supply and the possible impact of data centers after months of delays and mounting criticism.

President Donald Trump holds a championship ring during an event to honor the 2025 World Series champions Los Angeles Dodgers in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, July 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump says the US will investigate EU trade practices, claiming the bloc unfairly fined tech giants

Read full article: Trump says the US will investigate EU trade practices, claiming the bloc unfairly fined tech giants

President Donald Trump says the United States will open a formal investigation into the European Union’s trade practices.

President Donald Trump speaks at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Thursday, July 23, 2026, in Washington, as Energy Secretary Chris Wright listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump expands a voluntary pledge to protect consumers from high utility bills from AI data centers

Read full article: Trump expands a voluntary pledge to protect consumers from high utility bills from AI data centers

President Donald Trump is having governors and electricity companies join a pledge aimed at shielding U.S. consumers from higher utility bills because data centers.

FILE - The OpenAI logo is displayed on a cell phone in front of an image generated by ChatGPT's Dall-E text-to-image model, Dec. 8, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

AI models' breakout from human control brings a told-you-so moment for technology researchers

Read full article: AI models' breakout from human control brings a told-you-so moment for technology researchers

It is the kind of development once seen only in science fiction: An artificial intelligence system, trained to probe for digital vulnerabilities, breaks free of human control and acts on its own to hack another company.

Democratic candidate for Texas governor Gina Hinojosa, third from the left, listens to Stephen Sanders, right, during a roundtable discussion on data centers, Saturday, July 18, 2026, in Lubbock, Texas. (AP Photo/Justin Rex)

Democrats seize on AI data center backlash that's dividing rural Republicans in places like Texas

Read full article: Democrats seize on AI data center backlash that's dividing rural Republicans in places like Texas

Democratic Texas governor's race nominee Gina Hinojosa is focusing on artificial intelligence data centers as a key issue in her campaign against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.

Senior research associate Hesley Dalton, center, reviews the placement of elkhorn coral in a saltwater restoration tank with research assistant Julia Cafiero and interns Jennifer Dranetz and Johnnie Smotrich at the the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, Wednesday, July 22, 2026, in Key Biscayne, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Florida researchers bring endangered elkhorn coral ashore to protect them

Read full article: Florida researchers bring endangered elkhorn coral ashore to protect them

University of Miami scientists are working to save an endangered coral species from extinction by bringing them ashore.

FILE - A woman walks by a giant screen displaying the Google logo at an event at the Paris Google Lab on the sidelines of the AI Action Summit in Paris, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Google's Q2 earnings of $112.11B beat Wall Street's expectations on AI boom

Read full article: Google's Q2 earnings of $112.11B beat Wall Street's expectations on AI boom

Google parent company Alphabet Inc. posted stronger-than-expected results for its second quarter, a sign that it’s massive artificial intelligence spending spree is paying off so far.

This image released by Discovery Channel shows KPop singer Rei Ami, left, and actor-comedian Ken Jeong who appear in K-Pop Shark Heroes," kicking off Discovery's annual "Shark Week." (Tito Herrera/Discovery Channel via AP)

Rei Ami from 'KPop Demon Hunters' and comedian Ken Jeong take a bite out of 'Shark Week'

Read full article: Rei Ami from 'KPop Demon Hunters' and comedian Ken Jeong take a bite out of 'Shark Week'

Rei Ami, known for her singing voice in “KPop Demon Hunters,” recently faced real sharks during a dive.

In this photo provided by Agence Kampuchea Press (AKP), U.S. FBI director Kash Patel, left, meets Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manat at his offices in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Thursday, July 22, 2026. (AKP via AP)

FBI chief hold talks in Cambodia over closer security cooperation to combat online scam crimes

Read full article: FBI chief hold talks in Cambodia over closer security cooperation to combat online scam crimes

FBI Director Kash Patel has met with Cambodia's prime minister to discuss how to tackle online scams targeting victims worldwide.

A one-foot long adapter is shown connected to a 240-volt outlet onboard a Ford F-150 King Ranch, Wednesday, July 22, 2026, in Southgate, Mich. The adapter makes the vehicle compatible to plug into a longer, separate cable that connects to a transfer switch installed directly on one's electric meter. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Need backup power? Automakers want you to look no further than their vehicles in your driveway

Read full article: Need backup power? Automakers want you to look no further than their vehicles in your driveway

Texas resident Kenneth Kovar has a home energy setup from Ford, in which drivers of certain popular F-150 models can plug their vehicle directly into their electric meter to power their home during an outage.

Under the watchful eye of scientists, volunteers clean the skeleton of a mastodonsaurus, a huge amphibian that walked the Earth 240 million years ago, at the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, July 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Claudia Ciobanu)

2,000 volunteers join a painstaking effort to restore massive skeleton of prehistoric predator

Read full article: 2,000 volunteers join a painstaking effort to restore massive skeleton of prehistoric predator

More than 2,000 volunteers are helping Polish scientists restore a Mastodonsaurus skeleton.

FILE - CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman talks to CEO of Google DeepMind Demis Hassabis, not seen, on the sidelines of the G7 summit, Wednesday, June 17, 2026, in Evian-les-Bains, France. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson,File)

OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an 'unprecedented' hack of another company

Read full article: OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an 'unprecedented' hack of another company

OpenAI has disclosed an "unprecedented cyber incident" where its AI system allegedly hacked into another AI company.

This undated image provided by the Pan Am Historical Foundation on Tuesday, July 21, 2026, shows the Clipper Endeavor. (Pan Am Historical Foundation via AP)

Wreckage found of Pan Am plane crash that helped lead to today's safety briefings on every flight

Read full article: Wreckage found of Pan Am plane crash that helped lead to today's safety briefings on every flight

The wreckage from a Pan Am plane crash in the ocean 74 years ago that helped lead to requirements for the passenger safety briefings on every flight today has been found off the coast of Puerto Rico.