President Trump’s plan to let A.I. companies police themselves comes amid mounting examples that they are failing to put safeguards on the technology.President Trump embraces Elon Musk while standing with other tech leaders outside the White House on Tuesday.
Senate Democrats blocked a measure that would encourage, but not require, states to protect consumers from power rate hikes tied to data center growth, and had no limits on A.I. use or deployment.New homes encircle a park at Vista Del Norte Estates as construction progresses on the Meta artificial i
Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, said internally that the super PAC, Leading the Future, had become a “distraction” for the A.I. company.Greg Brockman, center, OpenAI’s president, and his wife, Anna.
A seating chart of the meeting illustrated growing divisions within the artificial intelligence industry and how it is viewed by the White House.Some of the biggest proponents of aggressive regulation were relegated to the far reaches of the table, which sat 34 people at the luncheon.
Also, a Kelvin wave is heading to California. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.The FlyDubai plane at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv today.
A routine flight turned terrifying when a violent altercation broke out inside the cockpit and the aircraft dropped 17,000 feet in two minutes. Passengers subdued a knife-wielding attacker.Passengers from FlyDubai Flight 1073 at the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Airport in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, on Wedn
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said one of the pilots may have been attempting to crash the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. The plane landed in Saudi Arabia and all passengers were safe.A FlyDubai jet at Dubai International Airport on Tuesday.
A Republican measure to limit, but not bar, congressional stock trading faltered in the Senate as Democrats thwarted a G.O.P. bid to show progress on an issue that has rankled voters.Stock trading by members of Congress has become a politically toxic issue for both parties, one that they are trying
Xavier Becerra, a Democrat who served in the Biden administration, will debate Steve Hilton, a Republican former talk show host, in what’s likely to be their only face-off before the election.Xavier Becerra, left, and Steve Hilton will appear in their only scheduled debate on Wednesday night on CNN.
The defense secretary returned to culture-war themes and used coarse and offensive terms to describe people he believes have no place in the military.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is the public face of the Trump administration’s deeply unpopular war against Iran.
With their university under fire in the wake of a sexual assault lawsuit, students are having difficult conversations about Greek life, campus rituals and the possibility for lasting changes.Media outlets have descended on the Cornell campus in recent days after the district attorney announced he is
The national organization of the Chi Phi fraternity at the center of a Cornell University sexual assault lawsuit explained publicly for the first time how it handled the episode.The Chi Phi fraternity house at Cornell University.
In a small Idaho town, a young mother is accused of killing her young twins. She blames the childhood vaccines they received.Andrea Shaw appeared in court via video feed in July.
A new report by the Federal Reserve’s independent inspector general concluded that a nearly $2.5 billion construction project was poorly managed but made no referrals to the U.S. attorney general.Renovations to the Federal Reserve became a flashpoint between President Trump and Jerome H. Powell befo
Judge Patrick J. Schiltz had warned that the administration’s actions “created a grave threat to the rule of law.” The attorney general accused him of “obvious bias.”Judge Patrick Schiltz said he was “acting well within the ethical rules that apply to federal judges in speaking to The New York Times
The lawsuit, brought by Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, tests the reach of the Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause.Senator Marsha Blackburn’s lawsuit seeks a declaration that Jack Smith, the former special counsel, conspired to violate her rights during an investigation into Donald J. Tr
An enormous pulse of wave energy will soon reach Southern California and continue north, raising sea levels by half a foot and increasing threats from swells and tides.A wave crashes into a sea wall protecting beachfront homes in Long Beach, Ca., where a boardwalk was damaged by Hurricane Marie.
Texas had a dry summer, and rain on Wednesday could run off the arid ground like water on concrete.Vehicles navigating a road after torrential rains moved through the Phoenix area on Tuesday.
Christa Pike tortured and murdered a classmate in 1995. She had been set to die on Wednesday, the first woman executed in the state in 200 years.Christa Pike attended a hearing in Knox County Criminal Court in August via a video hookup.
100 Zeros, a collaboration between Google and Range Media Partners, aims to give the tech giant a foothold in movies, TV and emerging forms of entertainment.Jonathan Zepp, left, Google’s head of entertainment content and platforms, and Peter Micelli, chief executive of Range Media Partners, at Googl
Many immigrants without green cards will no longer be eligible for the health insurance program for low-income people.Farahzad Sediqi is set to lose Medicaid, which helps cover her treatment for multiple sclerosis, a disorder of the central nervous system that can cause paralysis and seizures.
Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.Yehonatan Ovadia, center, at a demonstration against Israel in New York this year. He is in federal immigration detention because of a protest h
Salah Sarsour, a vocal supporter of Palestinian rights who leads the state’s largest Islamic group, says the case is politically motivated and plans to appeal the decision.Salah Sarsour, president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, shortly after his release from a county jail in Indiana in June.
How could so little have changed?
