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‘Godfather of AI’ explains how humanity could end: Even without a bad actor, AI ‘may derive subgoals that cause it to want to get rid of people’ "But at present, their main concern is not our well-being. Their main concern is to achieve whatever goal you give them."

OpenAI says its AI agents escaped a secure ‘sandbox’ again last weekend and is pausing training for a second time The company is again looking to improve its test controls after a Sept. 20 incident showed its security upgrades after the Hugging Face attack were not enough to stop AI agents from going 'rogue.'

After Iran makes new offer to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Trump posts a map on social media calling it the ‘Trump Strait’ Iran’s pitch to President Donald Trump said a quick deal might help him in the midterm elections in November.

ICE raids in states that voted heavily for Trump are causing meatpackers to lose millions in revenue, and even Republican lawmakers are speaking out Meatpacking industry groups raised concerns Friday that recent heightened immigration operations in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma have caused employees to miss work.

New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable for over 43 million violations of consumer protection law—and Meta could owe over $200 billion in penalties The jury also found Facebook misled the public about investigations into third-party app developers that harvest user data following the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

China and the U.S. agree to set up a new AI safety channel and vow to keep working on pledge to cut tariffs on $30 billion worth of goods The White House said China agreed to import at least 10 million metric tons of coal from the U.S. in 2027 and 2028.

How social media remade the luxury watch market A new generation of younger collectors are discovering vintage Cartiers, Pateks, and Vacherons online.

Citi CEO Jane Fraser swears by Warren Buffett’s golden rule for dealing with conflict at work: ‘Never, ever respond to that email in anger’ Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser says Warren Buffett gave her two rules for handling conflict at work. The first? "You can always call them an a--hole tomorrow."

Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary doesn’t care if you work from your basement. He just wants to know if you can ‘execute’ Companies forcing workers back to the office are potentially giving up their best talent, he said.

The $40 trillion U.S. national debt is smaller than Japan’s relative to its economy—but economist warns America is still ‘the world’s largest debtor’ “Japan’s debt dynamics are fundamentally different from those of the United States … Japan is the world’s largest creditor nation. The U.S. is the world’s largest debtor.”