1+ hour ago   (493+ words) An AI agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 has fired a human employee at an experimental San Francisco store after repeated lateness, in what its creators describe as the first known case of an AI boss taking such action. An…...

3+ hour, 40+ min ago   (50+ words) SAFEPAL-DATA BREACH/:Crypto wallet provider SafePal discloses data breach affecting nearly 40,000 users' order information Aug 16 (Reuters) - Cryptocurrency wallet provider SafePal on Thursday disclosed a data breach that involved unauthorized access to about 39,798 customers' order information, including personal details such as…...

12+ hour, 11+ min ago   (238+ words) Panaji, Aug 16 (PTI) Proving that artificial intelligence can find goofy solutions to routine problems, a Goa-based man used ChatGPT to resolve every temple visitor's challenge: finding one specific pair of shoes in a sea of footwear. Shubhang Borkar turned his…...

15+ hour, 11+ min ago   (248+ words) Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has pushed back against claims that regulating artificial intelligence would inevitably concentrate power in the hands of a few companies and governments, arguing that carefully designed rules could instead constrain frontier AI firms while giving smaller…...

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23+ hour, 40+ min ago   (250+ words) (Bloomberg) -- Pacific storm Lala strengthened into a hurricane as it edged closer to Hawaii’s Big Island, where it will make possible landfall on Saturday, the US National Hurricane Center said. Lala’s top winds reached 75 miles (121 kilometers) per hour, up from…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (279+ words) Elon Musk has announced that X will increase the visibility of government demands seeking the removal or restriction of content on the platform. The move is part of a broader effort to provide greater transparency over content moderation, recommendation systems…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (281+ words) (Bloomberg) -- More than 160,000 homes and businesses are still without electricity across Indiana after powerful storms brought record flooding, forcing residents to flee their homes, closing roads and snarling rail traffic. Another round of heavy rain will sweep not only the…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (80+ words) Earthquake Today: Another massive 6.9-magnitude quake jolts Indonesia hours after 7.7-magnitude tremor kills 38 (This is a developing story. More to come) Garvit Bhirani is a journalist based in Gurugram. He is a Deputy Chief Content Producer at LiveMint, where he…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (438+ words) A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia on Saturday, killing at least 38 people and triggering dozens of aftershocks, officials said. Rescue teams in the port town of Maumere earlier recovered 20 bodies, while six people were injured and two others…...