"I think they kind of turned their brains off." Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. By the time the three hikers called for help from a rocky face on Mount Shasta in Northern California, they'd made a series of bad decisions. They didn't bring enough food, and they'd overestimated their fitness. Instead of turning back in late afternoon when they hadn't yet reached the top, they summited at 7:30 p.m. and had to descend in the dark.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are raking in millions from the AI boom. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. During an October 15 debate debate between Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and her Democratic challenger, Troy Jackson, a curiously apologetic heckler piped up. "Senator Collins, I'm so sorry to interrupt, but I'm terrified," the person shouted. "This is obviously one of Troy's supporters," Collins said.

The AI giant's new filing calls the promise a "revocable," nonbinding "expression" that depends on market conditions. Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, speaks at the Viva Technology conference in Paris, France, May 22, 2024. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. The AI giant Anthropic disclosed its initial public offering filing with the SEC on Monday in what is expected to become one of the largest stock debuts in history. The offering is set to take place around the middle of November.

Some AI tools now make financial decisions on their own, bankers say--raising frightening security risks. A robot catches a falling $100 bill during an Are You Faster Than a Robot? Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Leading US banks have reportedly found unapproved AI agents operating inside customer accounts on users' behalf, sometimes acting independent of their instructions. In response, many institutions are resorting to blocking the tools or rethinking their security policies.

"Americans deserve a Congress that works for them, not for special interests or personal portfolios," the Florida Republican said in 2025. Then the federal contracts started rolling in. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. "Americans deserve a Congress that works for them, not for special interests or personal portfolios," Luna said in a press release, explaining the procedural move called a discharge petition. Her legislative maneuver didn't succeed in getting the Restore Trust in Congress Act to the House floor for a vote; it didn't receive enough signatures.

It's the most startling cybersecurity vulnerability found by AI yet. It won't be the last. Some sites were affected by similar outages today when they were taken offline after a critical cybersecurity vulnerability was announced. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Newly announced vulnerabilities could affect broad swathes of the internet after being discovered by teams of cybersecurity professionals--with heavy AI assistance.

Anthropic and Elon Musk's SpaceX have committed billions of dollars in stocks to benefit the public all while dodging accountability. The Hyperloop track failed to materialize and was dismantled in 2022. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Elon Musk's SpaceX and AI giant Anthropic have said they will give billions of dollars in shares to the public as general sentiment around the technology's economic and societal consequences continues to plummet. "Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America," Musk posted on X on Monday.

Men are disproportionately likely to be approached as AI experts, Harvard researchers found. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. As our tech overlords continue pumping more resources into AI development and innovation-- responsibly, of course --they're facing a massive trust gap: the people they want to use the tech keep asking who the technology is actually for. Is it for those who clamor for a surveillance state? Is it meant to help us compete with other nations?

Drone Strikes Didn't Take Out a Russian Bot Farm, But We Were Primed to Believe It A viral rumor illustrates people's hunger to make sense of the division we see online. Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to journalists after meeting with the German chancellor in Kyiv on October 4. Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform/Zuma Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. On Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that a Ukrainian bombing strike on Yandex's data centers, a large Russian technology company, had led to a sudden decrease in bot activity online. "When our strikes reached Yandex's data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms," Zelenskyy declared, speaking at the opening of the Warsaw Security Forum. There was, he added, "less hate, less division, and fewer provocations because there were fewer bots. And it's pretty clear where those bots were coming from."

Tech firms are giving big to a White House AI science program amid the destruction of institutions like the NIH. President Trump presents the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk during an event at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., October 8, 2026. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. "We tamed electricity, invented the light bulb, developed the airplane, harnessed the atom, unleashed the power of personal computers, created the Internet, pioneered superintelligence, and invented almost everything else of genius and great importance anywhere in the world," President Donald Trump boasted on Thursday . "We will always be on top. There is nobody that can compete with us."