'I literally think this is going to be it for me': Hiker recounts grizzly bear encounter in Canada Creature dubbed'Syracuse Figure' spotted in New York: Is it Bigfoot or an elderly skinny-dipper? Taylor Sheridan's Landman faces lengthy wait as season 3 production timeline revealed Man in trouble for using robot vacuum to record wife's affair, friends with benefits lease up & hall pass wins Country music star Riley Green keeps cooking with new single'That's Just Me' from upcoming album Internet reacts to Georgia schoolteacher's groundbreaking invention, the'fart corner' Rockstar finally releases statement regarding'Grand Theft Auto VI' leaks, leaving fans even more confused Let's look back on the best moments (read: crashes) from the World Humanoid Robot Games Liam Neeson and Zachary Levi lead ex-CIA heist in Tehran in new trailer for'The Fix' First preview drops for'Brothers' as'True Detective' stars reunite on Apple TV this September Lowe's partners with tech, auto leaders to address skilled labor shortage Investment expert sells Microsoft: Here's WHY Alabama AG Marshall accuses Dems of obstructing ballot safeguards: 'This is about securing elections' Bessent vows to'asphyxiate' Iranian regime IPOS ARE DYING: Can the SEC make them GREAT AGAIN? Attorney blasts Robinson defense for alleging Charlie Kirk said'hateful' things Frank Siller honors fallen FDNY brother with memoir'Let Us Do Good' Bessent says US sanctions will'asphyxiate' the Iranian regime Tom Homan says ICE is'breaking records' with migrant arrests Wildlife naturalist Casey Anderson reacts to dramatic footage of a bison charging a child at Yellowstone National Park. Anderson warns tourists about the extreme dangers of approaching large animals, urging visitors to maintain a safe distance of at least twenty-five yards. The incident sparks fresh warnings from park officials as visitors continue to ignore safety guidelines.

Plus: China-linked hackers have hit Taiwan in an "unprecedented" AI attack How we picked 35 of the world's top young scientists and engineers On September 8, will reveal its 2026 list of Innovators Under 35, recognizing 35 young people from around the world who are doing groundbreaking scientific work and building clever technical fixes for sticky problems. By finding the top young innovators globally and learning what they're focused on in their work, we aim to give readers a sense of what advances to expect in the years to come. As a newsroom, we also use this exercise to help us spot rising talent and get to know some of the best early-career researchers in the fields that we cover. This year, we received 550 nominations. Find out how we whittled them down to 35 of the young innovators shaping the future of technology, and check out last year's list. How the "censorship-industrial complex" is changing the internet and US policy I first heard the term "censorship-industrial complex" on April 15, 2025.

Plus: Anthropic says its AI models hacked external organizations during testing. Montana's plan to become an experimental medical hub just pushed forward As of this week in Montana, biotech companies whose drugs have been through preliminary testing--sometimes in as few as 10 healthy people--can pay $12,500 to apply to a newly established review board for approval. Once its treatment is rubber-stamped, the company can sell it via experimental treatment clinics, the first of which is likely to be up and running around the end of this year. Montana's latest right-to-try legislation is unique. Access to drugs is theoretically available to anyone who gives informed consent and can pay. Read our story to learn about where this may all be headed.

First discovered 20 years ago, the rare fossil combo reveals a Cretaceous meal in the making. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A rare dinosaur fossil on display at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, tells a gory story. The skull from a large plant-eating has a tooth lodged into it, indicating that it may have met its final moments as a meal. The tooth in question belongs to one of the most famous dinosaurs on earth-- .

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Bison are an enduring and iconic symbol of North America's vast Great Plains. The large mammals have been hunted for thousands of years, and were almost driven into extinction in the late 1800s. Over thousands of years, bison hunters used different sites, but why they abandoned hunting grounds has been an archaeological mystery. For the Bergstrom site in present-day Montana, climate change may have been to blame.

The news: A bill that allows clinics to sell unproven treatments has been passed in Montana. Under the legislation, doctors can apply for a license to open an experimental treatment clinic and recommend and sell therapies not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to their patients. Why it matters: Once it's signed by the governor, the law will be the most expansive in the country in allowing access to drugs that have not been fully tested. The bill allows for any drug produced in the state to be sold in it, providing it has been through phase I clinical trials--but these trials do not determine if the drug is effective. The big picture: The bill was drafted and lobbied for by people interested in extending human lifespans.

Reasoning abilities of LLMs have been a key focus in recent years. One challenging reasoning domain with interesting nuances is legal reasoning, which requires careful application of rules, and precedents while balancing deductive and analogical reasoning, and conflicts between rules. Although there have been a few works on using LLMs for legal reasoning, their focus has been on overall accuracy. In this paper, we dig deeper to do a step-by-step analysis and figure out where they commit errors. We use the college-level Multiple Choice Question-Answering (MCQA) task from the \textit{Civil Procedure} dataset and propose a new error taxonomy derived from initial manual analysis of reasoning chains with respect to several LLMs, including two objective measures: soundness and correctness scores. We then develop an LLM-based automated evaluation framework to identify reasoning errors and evaluate the performance of LLMs. The computation of soundness and correctness on the dataset using the auto-evaluator framework reveals several interesting insights. Furthermore, we show that incorporating the error taxonomy as feedback in popular prompting techniques marginally increases LLM performance. Our work will also serve as an evaluation framework that can be used in detailed error analysis of reasoning chains for logic-intensive complex tasks.

The first time that Terry Vandenbos watched a bear run from a drone, on a spring day two years ago, he was chasing the animal himself. After he saw the grizzly cross a road near his property, the Montana rancher hopped on his all-terrain vehicle, planning to scare it away from his cattle if needed. But the bear began sprinting away when he was still far from it, looking over its shoulder as it ran, and Vandenbos looked up too; overhead, a small drone was following the bear, its four propellers emitting a high-pitched whine as it sent the animal towards a nearby lake. "I don't think I need to be here," Vandenbos remembers thinking. The bear never touched his cows.

Everyone is talking about AI, it seems. But if you feel overwhelmed or uncertain about what the hell people are talking about, don't worry. Melissa Heikkilä, our senior AI reporter, asked some of the best journalists in the business to share their top tips on how to talk about AI with confidence. Given that they spend their days obsessing over the tech, listening to AI folks and then translating what they say into clear, relatable language with important context, it's fair to say they know a thing or two about what they're talking about. Read the full story to learn the seven things you ought to pay particular attention to when talking about AI.

Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) is delivering the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. Founded in 2017 by experts in the self-driving industry, Aurora is revolutionizing transportation – making it safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient than ever before. Its flagship product, the Aurora Driver, is a platform that brings together software, hardware, and data services, to autonomously operate passenger vehicles, light commercial vehicles, and heavy-duty trucks. Aurora is partnered with industry leaders across the transportation ecosystem including Toyota, Volvo, PACCAR, Uber, Uber Freight, FedEx, and U.S. Xpress. Aurora tests its vehicles in the Bay Area, Pittsburgh, and Texas and has offices in those areas as well as in Bozeman, MT; Seattle, WA; Louisville, CO; and Detroit, MI.